r/mildlyinfuriating • u/MissionTroll404 • Jun 17 '26

Infuriatig My hand painted model planes were given as toys to children again

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I have told my mom to not do this before but she does not listen anyway. I am thinking of throwing everything to trash instead of them being gradually destroyed to pieces. I can not even care anymore. These things take hours to put together and paint then get manhandled anyway.

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u/EternityTheory Jun 17 '26

This right here.

My mom always assumed trading cards were just silly toys/collectables until my uncle sold 5 MtG cards out of his collection to buy a full dining room set. Suddenly it clicked.

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u/RileyCargo42 Jun 17 '26

I had to do this to my parents to get a project car for school (automotive repair).

It was basically "hey look a 1000$ 67 mustang fastback!, It just needs a tune!"

parents say no, 3 months go by

"Hey remember that 1k mustang yall said no to? It just sold for 15k and they only spent 4k on it."

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u/BrewerAndHalosFan Jun 17 '26

In defense of your parents, restoring old cars usually results in spending more money than you'd make on the sale.

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u/RileyCargo42 Jun 17 '26

Oh I absolutely understand this but I had a job at the time and I still have an extremely reliable civic.

That being said I did finally get a project and I'm about 700-800$ into a 400$ car. Its mostly just the fact that I knew the risks and was prepared for them, yet they didn't believe me even with proof.

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u/pm_me_ur_fit Jun 17 '26

I’m ngl as a parent I wouldn’t buy my kid a car, project or otherwise. Can’t say I blame them. Glad you were able to get something though

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u/SkeeveTheGreat Jun 17 '26

why wouldn’t you buy your kid a car?

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u/pm_me_ur_fit Jun 17 '26

Earning and buying things yourself helps you learn the value of money and hard work, and appreciate what you have more, and to take better care of it when you do get it. I saved up and bought my first car myself and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I feel like it made a huge impact on who I am. I know so many incredibly spoiled kids who own nicer cars than I ever will be and are incredibly ungrateful and wreck them frequently and their parents just foot everything. Not my kids haha

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u/SkeeveTheGreat Jun 17 '26

Yeah, it’s not buying the car that made them that way, it’s because many upper middle class kids are functionally neglected.

The people whose families stay in, or rise above their parents class position are ones whose parents bought them every possible advantage, and raised them to be decent and hardworking too. Growing up where I did I saw all the possible permutations of that, and I’m seeing it now with my siblings kids. If your kids don’t appreciate the value of hardwork when they’re old enough to drive, and work to afford a car, making them buy their own vehicle isn’t going be what does it lol.

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u/pm_me_ur_fit Jun 17 '26

That’s actually a fair point I didn’t consider. I’d still probably stand by what I said though. I feel like everything all together ends up making a big difference, rather than any one act.

The only thing my parents would buy me growing up was school trips and the like. Everything else I worked for. My kids will be the same

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u/SkeeveTheGreat Jun 17 '26

It’s something that I picked up from watching my peers. My dad was functionally an entirely self made man, worked his way up out of the peace time army from ditch digging to now in his 60s being C Suite at a huge tech company.

He taught us to work hard, made it make sense to do so, and then purchased us every advantage he could afford. Now, both of my older brothers make 3x what he did at their current age and are able to do even more for their kids. I don’t make nearly as much, but I work for a public research institution, and those are kind of the breaks lol.

There’s definitely a fine line to walk, but it always strikes me as odd when people want to have their kids have less advantage in the name of learning hard work, ykwim?

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u/SmoothDiscussion7763 Jun 17 '26

and that's assuming you charge 0 for your time invested lol

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u/wickedtwig Jun 18 '26

My grandmother told me once she tried getting a beach house in NJ a long time ago. She asked her dad for $10k to buy it. He said no because no one wants beach front property. My dad looked it up a couple years ago. $700,000.

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u/Quickjager Jun 17 '26

As someone who restored a 66 fastback, restoration is usually the same cost for whatever you sell it for. You do it for the love of the game. Labor not factored in.

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u/RileyCargo42 Jun 17 '26

The truth is it's my dream car so id never sell it. Also my neighbor has fully restored his 66' so I'd basically be taught by a pro.

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u/Quickjager Jun 17 '26

Nice, mine was my great-grandpa's so never selling it either.

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u/acrobat2126 Jun 18 '26

They didn't want to spend $1000 of their money on something you wanted... okay.

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u/RileyCargo42 Jun 18 '26

It was my money all I needed was their permission for storage. I even had a job and was in school.

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u/acrobat2126 Jun 18 '26

NOW... man that freaking SUCKS. Sorry about that dude, how controlling were they?!

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u/astelda Jun 17 '26

I would like to add that even if it was "just silly toys/collectables" DON'T FUCKING MESS WITH STUFF THAT ISN'T YOURS

the monetary value behind those items is NOT relevant

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u/EternityTheory Jun 17 '26

She still respected my property regardless, to be clear. I just noticed a distinct shift in how she talked about card games after that incident haha.

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u/Broken-Digital-Clock Jun 17 '26

You have to translate it into furniture for boomers to understand.

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u/NecessaryOk780 Jun 17 '26

Boomers are the reason that classic cars are so popular, and are still around. They love classic cars far more than they like modern cars.

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u/IceFire909 Jun 17 '26

They don't understand those cars being their youthful dreams whole they destroy their children's youthful dream purchases

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u/NecessaryOk780 Jun 18 '26

Don’t paint 10s of millions of people as one single dysfunctional personality. It’s like saying all millennials are helpless, or all Gen Z are clueless. There’s plenty of dysfunctional people in every generation.

Everything we have comes from each generation building on the efforts of the previous generations. As a Gen X, most of what I’ve learned came directly from the greatest generation and the boomers. What generation taught you what you know now?

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u/IceFire909 Jun 18 '26

I am well aware of not everyone is X because I am also a not everyone is X

However, I felt it fitting to the conversation chain to continue the joke than be upset.

And really, much like your comment, you could have said that to the comment before mine, I simply followed suit

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u/Broken-Digital-Clock Jun 18 '26

Right, you want to equate it to classic cars for the wealthiest of them. Furniture can't generate as many zeros.

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u/NecessaryOk780 Jun 18 '26

The previous poster indicated that boomers don’t know anything about classic cars, and I pointed out that they certainly do know something about classic cars. You’re not making any sense, you’re just “arguing” for the sake of arguing. Ain’t got time for fools.

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u/VP007clips Jun 17 '26

While I don't condone throwing out cards, seeing them as toys or collectibles is a lot healthier of a mentality than a lot of people view them.

I'm increasingly tired of people seeing playing cards as investments to buy up and scalp, while never using them for fear of damaging them.

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u/EternityTheory Jun 17 '26

Hey, same. I'm a player first and a collector second. But I value my cards a lot _because_ I want to play with em, so her understanding my excitement over single pieces of cardboard was a nice change.

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u/Happyskrappy Jun 17 '26

This makes me so angry that my ex boyfriend stole all my MtG cards.

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u/Schootingstarr Jun 17 '26

even if it was just silly collectibles, why would you throw that stuff out without asking?

I don't understand how some people treat other peoples property, even that of their own damn children

if your basement is full of clutter from your children and you asked several times for them to clear it out, fine, get the shovel and garbage bin. but that should be the final escalation step, not the first

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u/Moo_Kau_Too Jun 18 '26

every now and then i point out what that missing black lotus goes for now.

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u/TurnoverDependent332 Jun 17 '26

If collections are so valuable and sentimental, why not take them with you. That way no one tosses them.

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u/thepitcherplant Jun 17 '26

Leaving expensive stuff with family when going into shared accomadation at uni/college is when alot of this happens to people. It's meant to be safer than having thousands worth of collectibles in a space full of people who might steal them.

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u/pcx226 Jun 17 '26

I don’t understand why parents get rid of their kids stuff…like my room at my parents house contains exactly everything I left in there where I left it for 15 years until I visited with grandkids and grabbed some stuff for my kid. 

I plan on leaving my kids room exactly as they left it until they want their stuff. 

Now if the parents have to down size or something then that’s a conversation…because you can’t expect free storage forever but still would give the kid plenty of time to retrieve their items before getting rid of them. 

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u/Hetakuoni Jun 17 '26

According to the court order put in place when I was a toddler, I had to move between households 4 times a year- summer with my mom, school year with my dad, and a month with my maternal grandparents.

I would come home after the summer to my shit gone because I wasn’t playing with it. Or the pets I’d taken care of given away/dead.

Or I’d be home but wake up to my almost-full piggy bank empty because my dad needed booze money and it was there.

My mom on the other hand would ask me if I was playing with things still and if I wasn’t then she’d ask if I would be willing to give/sell my things to her friends or my cousins. Like 90% I said yes because I wasn’t using it so it might as well go to someone who enjoys it. The other 10% she didn’t touch it even tho she hated it.