This made my heart sink just reading it! As an artist, I know the pain of losing your valuable work because of the ignorance of other people. My Mom threw away 7 notebooks worth of beautiful writing for a future comic book series just because they looked old, the pages were getting crinkly, and the ink was fading. I'd planned to retype up everything in those notebooks once I was no longer pulling my hair out about my High School finals. I can't remember over half of it. I really hope you called her out for this. That was inexcusable. Cleaning your house is fine, but anyone's work space should be left alone! I really hope your memory is better than mine in terms of recovering the storyline parts of your projects at least!

#29: I'm sorry you had a bad childhood, but not everybody hates their parents as much as you seem to. Also, good intentions are fine and all, but if you screw somebody over that much you really have to take responsibility. I hope your mom made it up to you somehow.

wait, she didn't know that you're an artist? she needs to get common sense =/

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This is why people shouldn't tidy other people's work space... What looks like a mess to one person is a logical filing system for another person. I clean my parents house and while I sometimes put things in the wrong place I never throw anything out except things like chocolate wrappers and crisp packets. It's not the place of the cleaner to throw things out.

Hirro, read the FML again....the Mom "Dropped by", implying that they have their own place and she has a spare key.

Yeah, #34 said it... how is it possible that your mum doesn't know what you do for a living?

wow man i really know how ya feel. I had a binder full of drawings from since i was 5. i kept bout everything i drew from age 5-14. I had some really crappy ones but they showed my art progress of over 9 years. my mom cleaned out almost everything but the most recent and best. 600+ pages and 9 years down the drain also before typing this up id spent 2 and a half hours drawing graffiti :O so yea i hope you can make it up :'(

Ouch!! Could you do a little dumpster diving to see if you can recover any of it? If the papers are crumpled, maybe you can try to reproduce them.

don't you just love when parent's do that :/