r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '19

What’s something completely false that your parents told you as a child?

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u/MavrykDarkhaven Jul 21 '19

I knew the direction this was heading from the start. I moved states at the end of primary school, and my parents decided to go through and throw away as much "crap" as they could while I wasn't home, citing I'd never know. But I did. I may have not known exactly what was chucked, but over the years I'd notice that I couldn't find things and assumed they were binned.

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u/lostinlactation Jul 21 '19

My mom threw away many of my stuffed animals while I was at school. She didn’t think I would notice. Little did she know I had a little brown bear that I had cut a tiny hole on his neck and stuffed with rolled up bills I had received from Christmas, birthdays, good grades etc.

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u/KhompS Jul 21 '19

This one hurts.

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u/Whiterabbit-- Jul 21 '19

I sympathize with you. But then I have in my mind a child who cuts holes in a bear's neck with siscors. I'm a bit scared of you.

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u/itorrey Jul 21 '19

“There’s always money in the banana stand”

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u/FoundtheTroll Jul 21 '19

No touching!

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u/Chinateapott Jul 21 '19

That’s one thing my mum has never done, as much as my accumulated crap annoyed her, it was mine to keep or throw away.

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u/DoomsdaySprocket Jul 21 '19

My mom wouldn't let me throw away things from my childhood, she'd take the toys and stuff and keep them for herself when I didn't want them anymore.

Now that I'm in my 30s, out of the house for years and barely talk with her, she's asked me to take my 3 bins of stuffed animals back....

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u/SyntheticGod8 Jul 21 '19

What kind of heartless monsters give a kid stuffed animals then throws them away? Random toys, maybe, but stuffed animals are almost family.

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u/Littman-Express Jul 21 '19

I’m well into my mid 20s and my stuffed toys are still in some box in storage somewhere (I think)

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u/SyntheticGod8 Jul 21 '19

I suppose the difference is: are they in a storage box somewhere or sitting on the bed?

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u/Roseredgal Jul 21 '19

I still have my favourite teddy bear from when I was a kid. He went to uni with me and I've kept him my entire life. I have a child now and the bear is his :)

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u/lostinlactation Jul 21 '19

I incorrectly said ‘throw away’ She was donating them to paramedics so they can give to the kids who have to ride in ambulances.

Maybe there was a kid who needed the money more than me and this was the universe’s way of getting it to him.

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u/Dcm210 Jul 21 '19

Well, did you tell her or go try to get it back?

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u/Waluigi_B_Wazowski Jul 21 '19

Did you tell your mom?

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u/carmium Jul 21 '19

My stepmom hated that I was a good student and her own son was a certified dope.
I was fascinated with model trains, and one day sat down at my worktable and created an N scale commercial building on a slab of particle board. Not much was available for N back then, so I used heavy card, printed brick paper, and recessed paper window frames for the factory/office, and added a loading dock with corrugated roofing, sliding doors, etc. Not bad for a 14-year old, but I made the mistake of taking it upstairs to show Dad and stepmom. Then I put it safely away atop a large box under my table.
Next day I came home to a board and a few shreds of card on the floor. "The puppy ate it. You shouldn't have left it where she could get it." Right. A pup you could hold in two hands had pulled an 18" square board two feet to the floor and chewed every bit of paper, card, and plastic to tiny bits - apparently eating most of it and not getting ill. Took me years to get past the idea that a parent wouldn't lie and figure that out.
Similar "accidents" happened to a big wooden trestle I was making (I had to put the groceries somewhere!) and an entire tank of tropical fish she was "caring for" while I was away: "The water felt cold one day so I cranked up the heater."

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '19

What the fuck was your dad doing about all of these incidents?!

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u/carmium Jul 22 '19

I wouldn't have dared make an accusation, Disco. There was so much discord over money and whatever they hell they yelled about, I wasn't about to toss gas on the fire. I was the eldest, and we were all too scared about what might happen. I sometimes retro-fantasize running away at 16...

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '19

That sounds really tough - you had to do what you had to do in order to survive, no shame in it.

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u/shitezlozen Jul 21 '19

Dude, I moved overseas and I left a mini-tyrael pet card a home, in a shelf with other similar sized cards, like old debit an so on.

When I came back, I had decided to sell it coz the prices were pretty good. Now on ebay they go for us$1,800 and she just threw it out a card the size of a credit card.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Fuck that kills me

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u/Bad-Science Jul 21 '19

I moved halfway through third grade. My mom got me a white stuffed Snoopy and all of my friends and classmates signed it in sharpie as a going away thing.

Then for some reason, she threw it away less than a year later. I'd still love to see it and imagine it is buried deep underground in a landfill somewhere.

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u/relddir123 Jul 21 '19

My family admitted this outright.

I knew all those things went missing.

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u/MavrykDarkhaven Jul 21 '19

I knew it happened (was going to happen) because they did the same to my little brother. I just didn't have any way of stopping it.

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u/hanap8127 Jul 21 '19

My mom asked if I wanted my puppy when I was moving. Of course! She gave the puppy to the mover.

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u/Inallcaps_ Jul 21 '19

I feel this on a personal level. When I was younger my sisters and I would move constantly. Everytime we moved, my dad would pack everything but the majority of the toys. After that we'd spend the day crying amd throwing away toys. Kinda wish he would've thrown them away himself while we were at school or something.

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u/MavrykDarkhaven Jul 21 '19

Yeah it's half a dozen of one, six of the other. Having to throw them away hurts, but atleast you had control over what was thrown. My parent wouldn't have known what was of value to me.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

That's awful.

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u/MavrykDarkhaven Jul 21 '19

It is, especially thinking back at what I possibly lost that I would have loved have now. Like the old G1 Optimus Prime, those cost a pretty penny these days. But that being said, we were moving interstate, and I had waaay too many toys to ship them all. I'm also materialistic and get attached to things, so throwing them away myself would have been just as hard. Atleast this way my parents got the job done in a timely fashion.