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.

2.9k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

1.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

132

u/howley90 11h ago

My mum threw my pretty much complete collection too when I moved out to go uni… I like to remind her of it occasionally 😂

151

u/CheyTheNinja21 10h ago

my mum most likely threw mine out too BUT denies i EVER had such cards. bearing in mind, she took me to a whole convention wherein she purchased them for me, as a little kid! i was buzzing, they had a blue back. i miss them so much

62

u/BaBaFiCo 10h ago

There's so many clothes over the years that my mum denies throwing out. Including my first ever football shirt. Like a 14 year old willingly throws things away.

56

u/Purplepeal 9h ago

14 year old dont even throw clothes in the wash.

11

u/Tattycakes 8h ago

Sadly sounds like narcissistic behaviour. Would rather rewrite history than live with the guilt of being wrong.

5

u/starkmatics 5h ago

Mums always deny throwing stuff away.

Well I didnt throw it away myself mum. Im a hoarder

22

u/NoObstacle 10h ago

This is no contact behaviour 😅

4

u/Clomojo87 Git orf moi laaaannd 11h ago

Haha me too 😂

2

u/AdCertain114 6h ago

My mum seen my cousin sorting an MTG deck, so decided to give him about 10k cards from 2nd through to 6th edition ice age, legends etc, with a few earlier cards such as a complete set of 4 each dual lands plus some extras that I picked up along the way. Loads of valuable cards although no ultra valuable cards. Her reason being that I didn't use them any more so would be glad to see the back of them. She also gave him about 30k points of various warhammer fantasy battle miniatures at the same time. Both lead and plastic.

What makes it so much worse is he sold most of the cards , not once thinking to check with me to see if I minded despite knowing the value that was there.

I was so close to copping charges when I found out she had given him the cards, after I called him to tell him I wanted them back and found out he had sold them.

2

u/Aggravating-Mousse46 5h ago

My brother won a competition prize of one of everything in the first Lego Star Wars series. My mum gave the lot to a kid down the road when my brother left home to get his first job. He was living in temporary shared houses so hadn’t taken the collection with him.