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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

14natasha97 0

Saturday 11 June 2011 21:24

don't give your mother-in-law a key to your house..

YummyxBrownie 0

Saturday 11 June 2011 22:15

I feel so sorry for you .. smfh that's crazy .

actingchick9870 8

Saturday 11 June 2011 23:02

bitch

Skeptx 1

Saturday 11 June 2011 23:08

It stuns me that any parent would think it OK to destroy any item. Ditto to the idea that it's OK to "replace" items from someone's refrigerator etc. None of those actions are OK. Either the parent is mentally ill or is harboring unacknowledged anger.

duckys20 0

Saturday 11 June 2011 23:25

OMG Im so sorry for you both.. OP I sincerely hope your husband spoke to his mother about this and how totally and completely she has F-ED UP and how detrimentally important those papers were to your buisness! I know if it were me and my mother-in-law I would be SOO upset I wouldnt be able to talk to her about it I would ask my husband to considering its HIS mother and such a MAJOR breach of trust! I hope you have backups or other drafts and are able to finish in time :(

vbmg152 18

Saturday 11 June 2011 23:30

I would NEVER give my Mother in law or my Mother a key to my house!! I know what would happen! My Mother in law has hated me for 25 years! I bet she'd love to get in my house alone and set me up!

Flutist 3

Sunday 12 June 2011 19:27

That sounds like you have hated your mother-in-law for 25 years too. Being bitter doesn't solve anything. Sounds like you two should work out the problem or you should fix your own attitude so you are happier.

lovelyxx 0

Saturday 11 June 2011 23:44

Whatta bitch.

kcouture14 2

Sunday 12 June 2011 1:11

what a ass

mbrooks5110 0

Sunday 12 June 2011 2:30

Don't give people a key to your home.

Magnimus 4

Sunday 12 June 2011 4:25

When any relatives come over and try to do any cleaning, I watch them like a hawk. I also get shitfaced drunk and play grabass with them to make them uncomfortable, it works pretty good to keep them out of my stuff, and it's fun as well.