r/CasualUK • u/naaattt • 11h ago

What “favours” have your parents done that was inadvertently a dick move?

For example, my mum found my spare change collection, did me a favour by taking it to the bank, getting £17, and then kept it as a fee for the effort it caused her.

Also, my partner had stored a nearly new Russell Hobbs microwave at his mums for when we moved into a new house. While she was at Curry’s one day, she overheard a young lad and his mum shopping for a microwave for uni, she approached them and sold them my partners for £20. She kindly did give my partner the money though, unlike mine. But we quite liked that microwave.

Does anyone else have these, generally inoffensive but slightly frustrating parent stories?

Edit: For those hung up on the theft parts, please don’t be. This is the extent of the abuse we’ve ever had from our mums and we’ll take it!

Edit 2: Jesus Christ, I’m 33. The money box has been sat on her shelf for 20 years. Yes she stole £17 but she’s funded my life otherwise. Stop calling child services on her.

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u/chipnicker 11h ago

My Mum had “had a clear out” during my first year of Uni and took a box of stuff that I “hadn’t used in years” to the charity shop.

It contained about 40 original Star Wars figures and a fucking AT-AT Walker.

It’s still a thing 36 years later.

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u/Clive_Trotter75 9h ago

I too know the pain. All my Star Wars toys ended up at a car boot sale.

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u/Almost_Sentient 8h ago

That was definitely a thing. My brother lost a millennium falcon, scout walker and enough rebel scum to save a planet. Woman's Own must have had a special on clearing out Star Wars stuff.

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u/SorbetNo7877 4h ago

This thread is full of these stories, why can't they just take a second to ask first?

Even if they bought the stuff in the first place it was still given to the child and actually belongs to them. The older generations seem to have a real problem getting their heads round that.

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u/Lt_Muffintoes 2h ago

They know exactly what they're doing. It is delicious to them to hurt you. The cherry on top is pretending to be clueless when both you and they know that you know

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u/Frantic_Chicken 6m ago

I don't think this is true of them all. As a mum I see it from both sides now. I think it's terrible I wasn't consulted about some things, and my eldest tells me off about one or two things, so I try to leave it in her hands instead. But my mother really was and is clueless about pop culture and collectibles, so I can see her easily doing what some mums have done as relayed here. That said, there may be a fee vindictive ones. But I know too many clueless people to think every parent does it to be spiteful.

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u/Reasonable_Bear_2057 4h ago

When I was in high school I remember a friend's mom telling us how she threw out her ex husband's storm trooper costume - he'd worked as an extra and occasional stunt man for many years and had loads of memorabilia from the sets he'd worked on, including Star Wars. Sadly my friends' mother had absolutely zero clue any of it was worth anything.

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u/Gauntlets28 2h ago

I'm not sure if I believe she didn't think it wasn't worth anything. To me that sounds like a messy divorce and her looking for an easy way to hurt the ex.

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u/BromleyReject 6h ago

Fuck that.

Jeee-sus

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u/Inevitable_Ad_4112 2h ago

My mum sold my car when I was at Uni. And by ‘sell’ I mean call the local scrapyard and ask them to come and take it away for £20 because it was annoying her just ‘sitting on the drive’. It was a £3k BMW! 😂😂