ouch. theres some places that specialize in these repairs-not cheap-but if you dont want your mom to find out...........

Oh my god, one year off, the op is an idiot. That was sarcasm by the way.

Having been in quite a similar situation with a lamp, I can honestly say that you deserved it for not being more careful around an item so precious to your mom. Luckily, however, my broken lamp was a cheap-o one. Well, you live and you learn OP, but I still say YDI. Be more careful :)

YDI for not paying attention...however count yourself luck, if it were my mom she'd beat my ass till my eyes bled, take her payment in blood drops...

You're all talking about expensive lamps, and all I'm picturing is a glass genie lamp. Shit.

This FML bears a lot of resemblance to that epsisode of "Saved by the Bell" when Screech has a party and the bust of Elvis gets broken and 'the gang' has to find a replacement by the time his monther got home from vacation...I think I watched that show too much growing up. Ha ha.

Let's read into this a little more. Before she's back in three weeks? Maybe the OP had a party and broke it while her parents are gone? Probably not, but odds are it was her fault for breaking it, that wasn't included. I find it hard to believe she broke a lamp through no fault of her own in any way.

If it was a truly innocent mistake, like you were cleaning the house and it just happened to fall, then sucks for you. If you were running around like an idiot, had a party, etc... too bad, ydi. But, I can't even imagine your mother's reaction. I am so anti-materialism. But, some things, like a 90yo gorgeous (I assume, since a lot of them are) lamp, I *would* cry over.

Crying over the lamp eh? Obviously you're the very picture of anti-materialism.

ignoranus is not a word. You probably got it off urbandictionary.