Love them, hate them, but you can’t ignore them, yes, we’re talking about family members. Some days, they make life feel heavenly, but then there are those relatives who can make living together…well, a bit of a challenge.

Today, we dove headfirst into the r/mildlyinfuriating subreddit to hunt for those infamous family members who somehow manage to drive everyone a little crazy. From breaking the toilet and keeping it a secret to baking the wrong cake, these posts perfectly capture the small moments that make family life…infuriating. Keep scrolling, some of these stories might just remind you of a certain relative you know all too well.

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#1 My Mom Keeps Opening My Mail Even After I Told Her To Stop

Me and my friends from out of state made Amazon wishlists to buy Christmas gifts for each other. I woke up today to my mom scolding me for buying more stuff online (I’m trying to save for a car). I had no idea what she was talking about as I hadn’t ordered anything. She shows me the items she unboxed and I recognized them as things from my wishlist. The picture is how she left it on the table. My friends and I had planned on doing a group unwrapping call over Discord as soon as we’d all gotten our gifts so we could watch each other open stuff.

This isn’t the first time my mom has opened packages of mine, but I was especially upset because she’d ruined the surprise. She got mad whenever I told her again to stop opening my mail, claiming “she doesn’t check the labels on every single package that comes in.” I told her she should since there was more than one person living here, and she got even more mad.

#2 Everytime I Leave My Computer Unlocked Around My Younger Brother, This Happens

We share a room and if I forget to lock my computer, Kronk will, without fail become my wallpaper.

#3 Leave My Homemade Pizza Alone To Cool For 5 Minutes, Come Back To See One Of My Family Members Cut It

Decided to make a pizza from scratch told everybody to leave alone for 5 minutes and this is what I find. Someone send Inspector Gadget because I have a case on my hands.

#4 My Dad’s Currently Living With Me And Keeps Lowering My Thermostat And No, I Pay The Bills

#5 The Only Ingredient My Father Purchased For Our Potato Salad For Easter Dinner

No eggs, no celery, no herbs or onions. Only potato. Guess our family is having Potato Potalad.

#6 An Extended Family Member Broke The Toilet Seat While At A Gathering And Left Without Mentioning It To Anyone

#7 My $300 Handmade Japanese Knife I Brought Back From Kyoto, Used By My Mom To Butcher Raw Chicken Bones

#8 Just Preparing For A Visit From My Parents

I’ve been a responsible homeowner for more than 10 years. Dad can’t help but “help”.

#9 Someone From My Family Sprinkles Salt All Over My Bed Once In A While

I know someone might believe that it will cleanse me from demons or somethings, but holy hell, let me lay in my bed without salt on my mattress.

Also my parents didn’t believe me or gaslit me for a year. I thought I was going crazy.

#10 My Dad Broke My Car Door Handle And Didn’t Tell Me

So my dad’s car broke down so he’s been using mine to get to work since I don’t need it since my school is nearby. But I went with him to my aunt’s and when I drove it back I learned he did this, never mentioned it.

Also to add insult to injury he smokes in my car and in the past left bottles of vodka and beers in my car (along with lots of trash) even after repeatedly asking him to stop.

#11 Sister Destroyed 3D Puzzle That Took 3 Months To Make

#12 My Mom Threw Away The Covers Of My Books Because She Thinks They Look Better Without Them

They are literally being held together with tape, what part of that “looks better?” Also, why throw them away instead of just storing them somewhere?

#13 This Is Why I Hate Letting People Borrow Stuff

My mom borrowed my (nearly new) heels months ago and forgot them in her car. She found them like this today.

#14 My Future Sister-In-Law Infuriates Me So Much

#15 My Mom Burned All My Drawings

So I’ve been drawing and posting anime girls for a while now and my mom got mad about it. At least I still have previous photos. No drawing today though.

#16 My Little Brother Rearranged The Keys In Alphabetical Order

#17 I Hate My Little Brother

#18 My Dad Everytime

#19 Mom “Cleaned” My Room Again, Couldn’t Find My Moss For A Terrarium. 10 Minutes Later I Found The Container The Moss Was In

Mom claims she doesn’t know what happened to the 30 dollars worth of moss. I guess it grew legs and walked into the wonderlands.

#20 Teaching My Brother To Drive, He Forgot Which Pedal Was Which

#21 My Mom Trashed My Room Today

She drinks, takes lots of medication, and gets mad easily.

#22 My Mom Says We Dont Have Enough Money, But I Catch Her Giving Thousands Of Dollars Monthly To A Megachurch

#23 My Family Never Leaves The Washer Door Open

#24 My Little Brother Got My Playstation Account Suspended

#25 My Mom Spilled Our Detergent This Morning, And This Is What I Come Home From Work To

#26 Sister Wiped My 200 Hour Platinum Game Because She Was Angry With Me. To A New Adventure, I Guess

#27 My Sister Keeps Painting Food And Glueing Fake Eyelashes To Them

#28 My Dad Takes Bites Out Of Cookies And Other Treats To Claim Them For “Later”, And Doesn’t Eat Them Later Anyways

I’m probably seems stupid to complain about, but my family has asked him not to, but still does it, even does it to the last thing in the box. He doesn’t have to do that, either eat it all, or don’t eat it.

#29 Family Member Gave Us A Cubby House For Free. This Is How They Dropped It Off

#30 My Mom Ate All The Icing Off Of The Cake Because She “Didn’t Think Anyone Else Would Want Any Since It Was So Dry”

#31 My Mom Sold A Lot Of Items She Gifted Me Years Ago Because She Was In Debt (And Did Not Tell Me)

Just so crushing. I found out because she has Parkinson’s and ended up at the hospital with delirium. I had to go through her phone and figure out how in debt and screwed we are now and forever most likely.

#32 Brother Borrowed My Van For A Road Trip, Left With A Full Tank, Brought It Back Almost Empty

#33 Bought A New Car Last Week. Mother-In-Law Takes It For One Drive Last Night

#34 My Mom Ate My Clearly Labeled Food And Then Lied About It

I would like to start by saying I cook all the time. I also buy and share food all the time. She very rarely does either of those things, but whatever I can feed myself. She lets me stay rent free while I’m in college so I figure it works and I can pitch in that way. Anyways, this time I didn’t want to share so I very clearly labeled my food. I come home to eat the food I was looking forward to all day to find this is all she left me. She then tried to blame my grandpa. He has had three strokes and is 86 and does not eat that much. So I tell her I know good and well he did not eat it. I show her it was very clearly labeled “No”. She then lies again and says she didn’t see the label. There is no way she didn’t see the label.

#35 My Sister Put Her Dirty Clothes In The Hallway Three Days Ago

I have to walk over them to get to my room.

#36 Every Time My Dad Drives My Car, A New Scratch Appears

I just got home for my fiancée’s (I flew). My dad drove my car a few times during my trip just to make sure it didn’t sit still for too long in the cold. Needless to say this new scratch wasn’t here when I left. This isn’t the first time.

#37 Someone From My Family Cut The Cake Like That

#38 My Sister Bent The Plug Of My Overpriced Headphones

#39 My Father In Law Dropped Items Off At Our House After An Extended Family Trip

He got to ours place before us and, being in a rush, put our items in the garbage “to protect them from the rain.”

#40 I Let My Mom Live With Me And Everytime I Turn Down The Heat She Removes The Thermostat

#41 My Dad Complains That I Don’t Cook For Him. I Cook For Him. He Complains About The Food

His complaints for this were “too much sauce” and “too spicy”. He made me dump his 3/4 eaten bowl in the garbage and then went to eat some white bread with margarine.

#42 Mother And Stepfather Told Me “Take This Or You’ll Have Nothing To Sleep On”. Gave A Normal Mattress To My Stepfather’s Son And Didn’t Even Tell Me He’ll Be Coming

#43 How My Sister Uses My Center Console While She Borrows My Car. I Had Kept Important Stuff In There

#44 How My-23-Year Old Brother Thinks Is An Acceptable Way To Leave The Kitchen Table After The Family Asked Him To Clean It Up All Day

#45 My Little Brother Hammered My 1922 Lincoln Wheat Penny Into Oblivion

My little brother grabbed a hammer and the penny from my room, because he was mad at me for accidentally stepping on one of his toys and breaking it.

#46 Merry Christmas! I Got An Extremely Expensive Drone And My Sister’s Dog Broke It When Nobody Was Watching

#47 Last Year My Mom Made A Cake For My Birthday. I Turned 28

#48 My Sister Just Dumped A Bunch Of Food On My Bed

#49 Sister Washes Her Clothes With Mine And Ruins My Laundry

I intentionally wait to do my laundry on Sundays since 1) the rest of my family do theirs on Friday and Saturday, 2) I prefer to get my laundry done all together so I’m not waiting all day for everything to be ready, and 3) I know how to take care of my clothes. Everyone in the house knows this.

So I bring everything downstairs to wash as per usual, start my first load of laundry, and head back upstairs to clean out my room. When I came back downstairs when the laundry was done, I notice that the washing machine was more full than before.

My sister chooses to put her clothes in the wash. With my clothes still in there. I’m assuming she waited until I was upstairs and threw her clothes in there, but didn’t recognize that she had a pen in her clothes.

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