Ysd ruined an entire antique, circa 1860's, bedroom suite. Bed, dresser, night stands. She decided, in a manic state to polish it with an old English scratch cover for very dark wood. The problem is that the original color was light amber. She significantly changed the color and basically halved the worth of it. She was over 25 at the time and knew what changing the patina on antiques meant.

SS stole my mothers wedding ring from me alone with other jewelry. Ruined my sons bedroom furinture. Furiture that was past down to my son from his great grand father. This while my son was on deploment. Ss broke a very memorial item my kids kids gave me as a gift. And he threw rocks at the hood of my car just for the hell of it. I drive a really nice mucsle car.

Oh can I count that I feel like he stolem my marriage too? .

My skids ruined 2 laptops - including one brand new one - within a six month period of time. When I purchased a new one for myself for school - with my own damned money - I told them and FDH, right in the store, that they were not allowed to touch it, EVER, under any circumstances. The salesman told me I was mean. I told him to shut up and mind his own business if he wanted his commission check.

We purchased a lovely kitchen table and chairs at an unbelievable price when a local furniture company went out of business. It's very pretty and pulls the kitchen together perfectly. Skids scratched it within days of having it home. FDH sat them down and explained that they were not to play at the kitchen table - they have their bedrooms and the living room to build models, race cars, etc.

Another BIG scratch appeared within days.

FDH went ballistic on both of them. Neither fessed up so they both got treated as the guilty party. An accident when they didn't know better is one thing. But they had had this explained to them already and should have known better.

Skid1, who is the arguer and knows how to push every one of his dad's buttons, said "I don't understand why you're so upset, dad. Stop making such a big deal out of it."

FDH said "Well if you spent over a $1,000 on something and someone ruined it, you'd be pretty upset too."

Skid's response? Wait for it, it was amazing......

"Who told you to spend that much money? I need a new iphone, parts for my RC cars, and a new bed. You could have spent it on that."

:jawdrop:

I could see FDH turning into the Hulk before my very eyes.

No diggity, kid. You DO NOT get to tell an ADULT how to spend his hard earned money. I exited stage left as the fireworks began. LOL!

SS was passive aggressive (now that he is an adult he is just plain MEAN aggressive). I had just papered the hallway. Caught him peeling off pieces and leaving holes. I had just planted five apple trees. He mowed over them, claimed he "didn't see them". He weeded the flowers in my flower bed. Claimed they looked like "weeds". I had cabinet doors that were needing to be put back with new hinges and had stored them in the garage. He was asked to take the garbage down to the street. Guess what he made sure to put in with the garbage? These were solid oak with original punched tin...not something that could be reproduced. He "cleaned" the snow off my mother's car... with a snow shovel. And scraped it up to the point it had to be totally repainted. Claimed he "was just helping".

SD deleted all my photos from my computer. A month after my father passed away. Thankfully I keep back up discs with all the pics on them (I am paranoid of fire and the discs are easier to grab than the whole damn pc) But SD didn't know that. So she thought she had deleted all my family photos - was very pleased with herself.

My mahogany dining and coffee tables are scratched to hell.

The carpet in both their bedrooms - ok yes the carpet throughout needs replacing but they have trashed it completely in their rooms.

So many silly little things taken. Some turn up and some don't.

Oh - I had a set of three pretty little coloured glass antique perfume bottles. All have been mysteriously broken - 1 shattered beyond repair, one I think I can reglue the top bit back on and the base, and the other - well I will try but it will never be the same. Very sad. No proof but SD is the only kid who makes herself at home in our room and with MY stuff, she has a habit of sneaking through everyones things...

My "good" china - I worked really hard when I was younger; early 20's and bought this set piece by piece; an 8 place setting quality china - they just seem to "slip" out of their hands... Funny how my 8yo can manage to carry a plate to the sink EVERY night and never chip or shatter one, SS has broken 3 and chipped about 8 and SD just manages to chip them as she puts them in the sink...

So many stupid broken and lost things, mostly insignificant but some more meaningful and hurtful. IF I hadn't had backup discs of my pics I would have murdered the little bitch for that one though.