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By Mirorbo - 11/06/2011 06:09 - United States

Today, my mother-in-law visited the house while my husband and I were at work. When we returned, we discovered she'd shredded and thrown away all the scribbled on papers sprawled on our messy desks. We're graphics designers. Those were rough sketches for about 14 different clients. FML

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By Kilika - 08/06/2009 00:17 - United States

Today, I came home and found my desk devoid of all paper. Turned out my mom dropped by and wanted to surprise me by cleaning up my work area. She threw away over 7 months worth of irreplaceable original sketches, notes and storylines, thinking they were worthless. My job is a full-time artist. FML

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Snooping

By ks0300 - 24/02/2010 05:47 - United States

Today, while visiting my in-laws, I went into their home office in search of a sheet of scrap paper. Instead, I found printed copies of every email and IM my husband and I had ever sent each other, including pictures. Highlighted and annotated by his mother. FML

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Art critic

By Anonymous - 09/08/2009 00:02 - United States

Today, my mom went snooping through my art bin to "clean out my old drawings". She found numerous nude pieces and accused me of selling porn. My mom mistook and threw out 57 anatomy practice sketches that I worked very very hard on, and ripped up the remainder of my drawings. FML

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By Immafail - 20/12/2016 18:32

Today, my mother decided to "help me" by throwing out the stack of papers on my desk. Unfortunately, those were all my notes for my final exams. FML

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By Photos - 20/02/2009 22:46 - United States

Today, after I got home from school I went to my room to find the maid had cleaned it, also to find a bag labeled "trash" it was all the sketches and paintings I had done in art class, which is my major plan for college. FML

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By Anonymous - 15/10/2013 20:52 - United Kingdom - Stretham

Today, my parents dropped by my new house, and my mother offered to tidy up for me while I was out. After they left, I noticed that her "tidying up" included throwing out all the pictures of my girlfriend and replacing them with pictures of herself. FML

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By Anonymous - 14/10/2017 20:00

Today, I offered to let my niece and brother stay at my apartment, as my brother was going through a rough divorce and had lost his job. After coming home from work, I found my niece had snapped all of my pencils and had ruined over ten years worth of artwork. FML

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By StillPissedOffAtIrony - 06/09/2014 17:25 - United States - Hialeah

Today, my mother yelled at me for not doing all of my homework. She got so mad, she tore up a drawing I'd spent over a week working on. That was my art homework. FML

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Call the police!

By ChangingTheLocks - 13/07/2019 12:30

Today, I came home after a long day at work to find the furniture in my living room had been rearranged by my mother-in-law. When asked how she got in, she told us she stole my husband's key and made herself a copy. She can now come here whenever she wants, unless I change the locks. FML

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Pleased to meet you

By Homeless without superbowl - 16/02/2023 16:00

Today, I got home and found all my things thrown out into the yard, including the stuff from my mancave, which I spent thousands of dollars on. Apparently, my girlfriend stopped for a visit while my wife was home. I’d stupidly given her a key. Turns out my wife called out sick today. FML

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Lythiaren 8

Saturday 11 June 2011 11:57

Make her pay for that shit. Seriously.

Mirorbo 26

Saturday 11 June 2011 12:01

Ah... it finally made it in. The young lady who controls this character account is the OP for this one. It happened a long time ago, but it still riles her up terribly. The locks have since been changed and little miss tidy-up-without-asking is not allowed to have a copy of the keys. Ever.

Comments

danx900 7

Saturday 11 June 2011 15:42

time to destroy her house.

dlohoh978 8

Saturday 11 June 2011 15:57

ydi because u should have scanned it

manda83 0

Saturday 11 June 2011 16:07

why does she have a key? you pretty much asked for this

HippyKat13 7

Saturday 11 June 2011 16:44

#55, shut the **** up. OP, i feel sorry that that happend to you, im an artist too (not a graphics, but still) and i would be so frustrated and angry. i hope she would finally realize what she did and why it was wrong.

lillypadyoo 0

Saturday 11 June 2011 17:23

that is a bitch ass move. screw her... she has no right to go into YOUR home like that anyways. I feel bad for youuuuuu.... CUSS HER OUT!

Clover2009 0

Saturday 11 June 2011 18:47

#74, I would hope that OP would be mature enough to not act like an immature sixteen year old and SPEAK with her mother in law, inform her that what she did wasn't right, and handle it like an adult. Instead of "cussing her out" like your dumbass would.

Mirorbo 26

Saturday 11 June 2011 19:25

Cuss her out? It's darlings like you who are making this society steadily decline. There's such a thing as confronting a situation like an adult rather than 'cussing her out' like an angry, hormonal teenager.

Flutist 3

Sunday 12 June 2011 19:15

Two wrongs do not make a right. You do not know Op's mother-in-law, she might have meant no harm, had a condition, or been a truly horrible person but you don't solve anything by yelling. You lose control of a situation and make it worse when you turn into a hormonal bugger and shout. There is no dignity and yelling at someone old, no matter how much you want to. Changing the locks, explaining to her what she did wrong and taking away house rights should solve the situation enough.

mikescotty 0

Saturday 11 June 2011 17:28

haha

zarden 0

Saturday 11 June 2011 17:41

oh my god I can sooo relate! We temporarily live in my in laws basement. When my husband and I left for our honeymoon, my evil wretched mother in law came down and went through all my drawers and closets and shelves and re did all my laundry and threw out stuff and reorganized my stuff. mine. not my husbands!

Freeze_fml 16

Saturday 11 June 2011 18:38

What a one trick Ponyta.

Mirorbo 26

Saturday 11 June 2011 18:58

Oi...

Flutist 3

Sunday 12 June 2011 19:22

What your mother-in-law did really chars my manders. It must have made you super Krabby. I know I would have Slowpoked her with a sharp object. Scy-ther's no way to cure old people of their stupidity? It's just Gastly what she did. I would make it Haunter for the rest of her life. I Ekans you solved the problem though? Pikachu can do it, I believe in you.