By Lucachoo - 22/09/2015 00:35 - United States - San Francisco

Today, my boyfriend cooked us a romantic dinner using the oven. The oven he recently hid $3,000 in for safekeeping. We essentially just spent thousands of dollars on a casserole. FML
I agree, your life sucks 22 862
You deserved it 12 588

Lucachoo tells us more.

So yeah, storing money in the oven is a terrible idea. My bf (we'll call him Huck because he's a dumbass) is a bit paranoid and insisted on hiding the money somewhere where burglars couldn't find it. I told him it was fine since our nearest neighbors are a couple miles away but he insisted so I just gave up. Didn't realize that idiot would hide the cash in the oven then have a huge brain fart and use the oven to cook. We aren't complete idiots though, we do keep our life savings in the bank. The reason Huck put money in the oven was because we live on a farm that's a bit distant from the nearest major bank. We keep some money on hand in case something breaks and we have to fix it or make repairs and such. It's quicker when we have the money on hand. Otherwise we'd have to spend a couple hours driving to the bank, buying supplies, then coming back. Also while money does burn at 451 degrees, 451 degrees is the auto-ignition point of paper (the temperature that paper catches fire without being exposed to an external flame). So if the air temperature was 451 degrees the money would have burned but Huck put the money at the bottom of the oven, right on top of the hot metal burner thingy (I don't know what it's called) and that metal thing gets red hot. But yeah, Huck realized his stupidity after the oven finished preheating and managed to save some of the money though a third of it still burned to some degree. I'm still pretty pissed regardless and kinda feel like shoving Huck into the oven as well. The fact that he was trying to be nice by cooking dinner is the only thing preventing me from completely going apeshit on him. The first thing I'm making him do is go to the bank and try to replace the money. And he will never be in charge of safekeeping money ever again.

Top comments

Well hiding money in an oven isn't a very good idea. Takes a whole new meaning to burning through cash.

exoticDeath 20

Why would you even THINK of hiding $3,000 in a oven? That's like withdrawing all the money in your savings account so you can have something to throw into the fire when you go camping.

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DrRO93 14

Why would you hide 3k in the oven? If anywhere it should be in the freezer

Sandman2015 12

I guess your boyfriend has never heard of a bank? Oh, and hiding something flammable in an oven is a terrible idea...

!?!? Who the hell hides money in an oven!?

There's always money in the banana stand.

*man loses his arm* See? This is what happens when you don't listen!

I've found that we have a lot of family that does it. we were never raised on this kinda thing, but my mom recently moved into a farm house with an ity bity kitchen. a lot of things she tried to store in the oven got ruined because my family wasn't used to it. everyone's raised different. for example, on a farm it's almost essential to store pots and pans in the oven. we melted a lot of plastic

money burns at 451 casserole are cooked at 375-400 so your money shouldn't have been burned at all

Why would anyone hid money in an oven? Especially that much too.

As number 56 stated this is a fake post. Recent studies show that paper don't catch fire till 440-450 degrees and guess what, money is not made of only paper in any country. This brings the average auto-ignite up to about 460 degrees.

well first of all #56 did not state this is a fake post, merely suggested OP's bf money shouldn't have burned. Second, you can't assume OP's bf cooked the casserole at EXACTLY a maximum of 400, for all we know he cooked them at 500 degrees. I hope you're not a detective, otherwise I feel sorry for all the innocent people you've thrown in jail.

My dad hid his in the microwave and caught it on fire but he got it replaced by his bank.

Yeah, if you can prove that it was $3,000, OP, that was destroyed, the bank will give it to you. The government needs to keep track of how much money is in circulation, which is why it's illegal to destroy money. For accidents, you tell the bank, the bank tells the gov't, and they log in the loss so they can print that much more for replacement.