My mum has thrown away over £150 worth of makeup and medication

My grandmother is the same, and has always been so. I knew her in her 40s when she wasn't elderly.
When my mother got married she came back after her honeymoon and asked the whereabouts of her reading glasses, the novel she was in the middle of reading and her heated rollers. "I threw them out." Said Nana. "I thought you didn't want them."
My heart would just sink if I ever realised I'd absent-mindedly left something at her house. You'd ring her up and she'd be doing this guilty/amused voice. She'd either blatantly say "Oh it's gone in the bin." Or she'd say "Er, yeaah, I'll just get it." and I'd say "Is it in the bin, covered in dinner??" and she'd just laugh. She just wanted everything gone and dealt with. No thought for its value or worth.

Strange post 🙄

I agree! Of course the bin bags won’t have been pleasant in this heat but I think youve led a very sheltered life if that’s your most disgusting experience so far. I find it very hard thst it took you two hours to go through the rubbish thst had accumulated since the bin was emptied on Thursday unless there are about 10 people in your parents’ house. Im not surprised that the pouch has gone manky, but any medication that is in its foil packaging can be sprayed with disinfectant and washed, as can the lipsticks. I think the OP might be a bit prone to exaggerating 😆😆

It's not Fun House with Pat Sharp - a bin bag full of nasty, rotting food waste and other manky slops can't easily be ripped open and tipped everywhere to look through. You have to carefully and slowly comb through the slime with your fingers, trying not to retch at every stage.

Quite! Anyone saying they’d be ok with this is either lying, stupid, or at best careless about their own heath 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

I'm a bit perplexed at the number of posts which are hostile to the OP. 😕 Why so unsympathetic when she is the victim of her mother's behaviour? I don't get it.

And then, every time you're applying lipstick to help you feel confident that you're looking your best, you can just close your eyes and luxuriate in the arcadian thought of all of that manky chicken goo and liquefied potato peelings being smeared into your face and enhancing how you personally present yourself to the world.........

Why should she? Make her mum do it. She was the one chucking stuff out that didn't belong to her 🤬

TWO hours? How much rubbish do your mum and dad create in three days? Even if their bins are only collected every two weeks there can't be more than about four bags and surely it would have been in the last bin bag to be placed in the wheelie bin? So one bin bag, maybe two minutes to open it, shake it and see the contents and fish your make up bag out?

I agree, I can be a bit haphazard and scatty at times but I have never done this!

Do it, OP!

See how funny she finds it!

This is really, really odd behaviour!

I'm sorry, OP - I can't get past this. Why would anyone do that do what was clearly NOT rubbish?

I think she needs to compensate you in some way, at least partially. After you kindly lent her the anti-histamines too! Silly cow.

i wouldn’t be doing it either. It’s roasting; it would be very unpleasant and possibly a health hazard

Apologies, missed the update.

I still struggle to believe looking through a bin was the most disgusting experience of your life! I think you've been lucky if that's true!

How can everything be ruined? Just give the outside of the casing a wash, surely, and pop the pouch through the washer?

Did you read her update? She did get it out. The disgusting liquified rotted food waste has seeped in through the fabric of the pouch. All contents ruined. Fairly predictable outcome and the mother thinks the whole thing is funny.

Strange for her to throw it away, but equally strange for you not to get it out of the bin tbh. Food waste will be in bin liners, and your make up is in a pouch, in their own containers.

You must have more money than me, I'd want it back!

The OP's mother should have already ordered replacements to save her daughter that disgusting task. It was her fault and she's well-off.

Once those items are in a bin full of food waste, they are gone. I wouldn't want to replace £150 of lipsticks either but I have tons of others so I wouldn't need to go out and replace a few lost ones. In any case, my stance was that the mother should pay for the replacement. Has she been asked?

The point was to save spending £150 replacing everything. You must be pretty comfortably off if you don't see why someone might need to do that, but surely you are able to understand that not everyone is as well off as you, and that £150 is a lot of money to many people?!

My mother is equally remiss with my belongings, OP - but definitely not wealthy enough to be so blasé!
Commenting in solidarity - its hurtful when people don't respect your things...

Aside from all of the rest, I'm astonished that the only reason OP got the pouch out in the first place was to supply something that her mum needed.

If OP had just shown the same lack of care and disdain as her mum does for her, she would just have not bothered to help and would still have her belongings safe.

In fact, a more direct equivalent would be that she would be sitting there chuckling at how badly her mum was suffering from hay fever, whilst knowing all along that she had some tablets for it in her bag that would help her a lot with the symptoms, but just reckoned it was much funnier to see her suffering instead.

I can't believe you went in the bin. A couple of hours?! What was the point? For a few lipsticks and paracetamol?! I hope it wasn't the peer pressure from people in this thread. People here are batshit.

I have kids. I would still find digging through heat rotted food waste worse than dealing with my own kids excrement or bodily fluids

And before anyone replies to this post about the food waste (yet again), the OPs parents don’t have a separate food waste collection so yes their bin will have been a disgusting cesspool

Im not normally one for revenge but I agree with this! It doesnt seem like anything else will get through to your selfish mother, OP

You obv don’t have kids if a few min in a bin is the most disgusting exp of your life

Surely the lipsticks are ok as in casings