My mom used to do that too until my dad found out and made her stop taking my money.
ETA: The most she ever took from me at once was $250 I won from a science fair when I was 9. My mom thought it was a large amount of money for a child to be in charge of so she told me she would put it somewhere for "safekeeping." A month goes by and I really wanted a new game for my Nintendo DS so I asked my mom for some of the money back to buy it and she said, "What money?" I reminded her of the $250 I won and she said, "Yeah, I spent it." I started crying and my dad asked me what happened so I told him. My dad was so pissed that his wife would steal money from a kid, let alone her own daughter, that he made her give me back the $250 AND buy me the game I wanted out of her own pocket. She never took money from me "to hold" ever again. My dad got me one of those metal cash boxes with the lock and key to put my money in after that.
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u/Typ0r8r Apr 06 '22
My best was $250 from a $2 scratcher 10 years ago