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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/No-Elk-1596 on 2023-10-06 16:02:42.

I was doing a major clean up of my room yesterday and I called my mom to ask where the cleaning supplies were and told her what I was doing. I threw out a bunch of old junk, including old folders from my old school work. After 5 hours of cleaning, I was satisfied at how my room turned out. All the garbage I threw away got picked up by the garbage truck the next morning and my mom came to my room and asked where my orange folder was, I told her that I threw it away. She went outside to see if the garbage was still there, it was not. She said “you fucking idiot, why didn’t you tell me”. I was shocked and asked what happened. She told me that she had over $2,000 in there in cash. First we looked everywhere in the house in hopes that the orange folder wasn’t thrown, we couldn’t find it. Now she’s accusing me of stealing the money and using the clean up as an excuse, which is definitely not true. She’s making me pay that money back now, already went to the atm with my bank card and withdrew the $1,200 I had in there and told me that she’s going to garnish my wages from work (make like $300/month there), and is denying me dinner for 3 months. AITA? She hid the money in my folder and is now accusing me of theft. How the heck would I have known? I have dozens of folders and I didn’t check a single one because I only had my grade school crap in there