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
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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.

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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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I'm not sure money would even burn in an oven considering it's not a fire it is just convection heat. The only way it could burn is if it was on the metal grates or the parts that produce the heat

OP explained it was sitting on the element. Also if the temperature inside the oven exceeds 451F it was combust. That's the flash point of the paper.

cynthianicole95 9

Wow. You completely deserve it for being so careless and stupid with that much money.

Wow. He deserves it for putting it in there in the first place :/

I wouldn't know. I ended up smashing the casserole on Huck's head in rage. It did look good though.

Hey domestic violence is unacceptable despite any stupid ideas. He worked hard on that casserole

why couldn't you just put it in a rip in the carpet or in a less flammable hiding spot

Are you the "Unsinkable Molly Brown?" If not, I would suggest you rent that and watch it.

How did he NOT see the money while putting the casserole in the oven? I mean.. It's an oven: there's not a lot of hiding places in there.

Dustmop 18