Sometimes parents make family rules to teach their kids a lesson, but when they’re the ones who suffer from the rules, they don’t want to deal with the consequences of their actions.

In today’s story, one man shares a rule his family made about doing laundry in their household.

He suffered from this rule and vowed to never let it happen again, but when his dad made a similar mistake, his dad really made sure it would never happen again.

Let’s see what happened.

Dryer finds are mine! 8 year old vs dad.

In eons past, I was once a youth.

Growing up my parents were pretty big on teaching their best and only child how to do things himself.

This, in parent speak, meant that I was taught chores very young- I have been helping do laundry, dishes, the lawn, and cleaning since early elementary school.

One laundry rule made this boy pretty angry.

We all took care of the laundry, doing everyone else’s along with ours when needed.

So, there were rules in place- Any change found in the dryer became the property of the person unloading the dryer.

8 Year old Bailey was extremely distraught one day to find that my fortune of TEN WHOLE DOLLARS had gone through the wash, and was claimed out of the dryer by my dad.

I. was. FURIOUS.

He decided to make sure that would never happen again.

I demanded back the $10, but my lovely dad reminded me of the rules, it was his to keep- fair game.

At this point I decided that I would be the only person to unload the dryer.

My parents were very pleasantly surprised that for months they never had to pull out the clothes and start the folding process (since I’d just grab the laundry and fold while binging Cartoon Network).

It worked to his advantage!

Eventually, what started as a desperate attempt to guard my various petty treasures gave way to the perfect opportunity for malicious compliance.

You see, this was the very early 2000s, my dad wasn’t yet keen on keeping all his cash on cards.

So he kept most of his money in cash.

On this particular day, he left $200 in his pocket, and, doing the laundry meant that it was mine!

ALL MINE!

I silently stuffed the cash in my tiny coin bank in my room, pleased with my lucrative haul.

His dad figured out what happened.

Eventually, my dad discovered that he was short a large sum of money and tore apart his office and bedroom looking for it, before he recalled that he had left it in his jeans pocket.

Despite my subtly, I was quickly confronted.

The rule was rescinded, and I was only allowed to keep $50, but again- to an 8 year old, this was a king’s ransom.

I had emerged, mostly victorious.

I think he should’ve been able to keep the $200.

Maybe change the rules for next time, but he earned that money by folding all the laundry.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.

This parent shares a story about laundry and allowance.

I completely agree with this comment.

This person had a similar experience but got to keep the money.

Same rule, different name.

His dad should’ve let him keep all the money.

It’s only fair.

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