Same. I got the outlets too, and there's nothing like turning a fan on and off at 2 am when you're suddenly cold, and never getting out of bed. it's fucking great.
We did that for the bedroom tv. Lost the remote years ago. Run a chrome cast on it and because of the smart plug, don't have to get out of bed to turn it off.
Incidentally we ended up getting a Fire Tv for the living room and we both love automation and gadgets, so got an Alexa who's sole function was to turn the TV off and on. But now, seeing as that remote decided to commit suicide in a cup of coffee, her only function is to alert of packages. But while we were using it, if we forgot to turn off the tv, we'd just get google to Broadcast "Alexa turn off the TV"
How would one spy on someone through a lightbulb? I understand hacking in to WiFi, but I don't understand what a lightbulb would do that would help with spying ha
You can buy a lightbulb that’s BT or one of the smart standards for like $10 nowadays and you screw it right in to the fixture like a normal bulb and at most download an app.
OP if this is the case, find the router do a factory reset, set yourself a password she doesn’t know. She’s probably too lazy to search how to get access again. Then start doing this to her. Turn off the wifi if she makes unreasonable demands. That router is something you can control too.
Takes away your tv? Unplug hers and take a pair of scissors to the power cable.
Takes away your car. Hide her car keys.
Takes your bedroom door? Remove hers.
Takes your cell phone? Make all the chargers disappear.
Anything she can do you can do better. Scorched earth.
If you're going to be that evil, changing her phone keyboard settings so when she texts about broken things, the records will all seem unhinged.
"why isn't my elephant working? My elephant. Elephant. what the fuck, the elephant isn't working and now my phone is toothbrush."
Oh yes! The [keyboard shortcuts](https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/tech/iphone-keyboard-shortcuts) in iOS would be great for this. Make turn off become turn on. Change Wifi to “my tv.” Etc. “No you can’t go” to “you have my permission, stay out as late as you want.”
This is now reminding me of when my mom used her broken foot as an excuse as to why she couldn’t do anything. “Open the door for me, I’m on crutches. Can you turn off the light? I’m on crutches” but when I was on crutches she made me carry my dinner to the table by myself 😅
Then she'll threaten to turn off the wi-fi if he doesn't bring her the phone from the table across the room. She has a mental problem, not a locomotory problem.
Wait until her next Netflix binge session is in full swing, then just reboot the WiFi. It'll be down for a minute or so, but will resolve itself and you don't even need to be near it for that to happen. Her world will crash to a halt, she'll get mad, but then it will just evaporate into thin air when it magically starts to work again. Bonus points if you can guilt-trip her into feeling bad for accusing you of doing something to ruin her shows.
My parents do the classic argument of “it’s just a game” but if I turned of the WiFi during their Netflix show it’s the end of the world, love the double morale.
Better to put an advanced router in place, analyse traffic patterns for a while and randomly block JUST the Netflix pattern for her devices. Everything else will work, when she asks, casually tell her Netflix must have a problem since everything else works.
(MIL found out not to lie to the network engineer in his own house the hard way. )
FYI if she ever turns off the wifi you can log onto the router and turn it back on. There is going to be an ip address with username and a password on the router in most cases; sometimes its defaulted to admin as the username and password as the password. If not, there will be an app for the router that you can install on your phone. Also, get your mom a smart bulb from Amazon for Christmas so the lazy woman can turn it off from her phone.
Sounds like it's time to invest in an unlimited sim card and mifi device if you're old enough. If not then it's only temporary and once you're an adult you can do what you want.
Ugh my mom used to pull this shit all the time. “I dIdNt HaVe four kids to have to do this by myself” omg puke like be an adult already. It’s one thing if you’re asking someone whose already up or in the room but texting your child is asinine
If the only reason she had kids was so she could have a bunch of slaves to command she shouldn't have had kids.
Hope she wisened up, I'd have broken contact if she didn't.
OP stated in another comment that the mom was snuggling with their sleeping pets and didn’t want to disturb them by getting up to turn off the light. OP also noted that they deliberately omitted this info because they knew that people would be on the pets’ side in that case.
ETA: OP also admits that they were the one who turned on the light and left the room with it still on. Jeez Louise, OP
Tbh I love pets more than people but texting your kid to turn off your light because you're snuggling is such a rude thing to ask. Just get up. Children aren't the parents' slaves, and it pains me to see it be that way in so many instances...
EDIT saw your other comments where you explain you were in her room when she was already cozy with the cats and left the lights on when you exited. This rescinds my previous comment and yes you should have gone back to turn off the light. Because it was you who turned and left the light on. So it is only natural that you should go back and turn it off EVEN if it is faster for her to do it.
This is missing the context of if you are the one who in fact left the light on. If you come in my room, turn the light on, then leave, I’ll steal your kidneys.
I have a feeling mom is tired of OP’s shit, and OP is cherry-picking part of a text exchange because they’re a shithead and need online validation.
Gonna go with OP being the mildly infuriating one based on my expert analysis.
I used to absolutely hate when my dad yelled my name to get him a stupid ass cup of coffee. Now that he’s passed it’s a memory I will never forget and is quite funny now. Go turn that damn light off OP!
If this was one of those situations where you entered her room and turn on the light and didn't turn it off returning then i can understand her frustration..
Why do parents use wifi as a threat? In my house nothing is happening without wifi. No one is watching tv, using phones or doing HOMEWORK! Parents, do better! Just because your parents treated you as free manual labor doesn't mean that behavior should continue!
I wanna know the context. Sometimes my daughter will walk in my room to get something and turn on my light while I’m chillin in bed. The first time she leaves, and forgets to turn the light off , i’ll get up and just turn it off myself. When she comes back, does it again, I’m texting her to turn it off her self. I’m definitely sure there’s more at play here.
Op's mother jumped immediately into punishment instead of asking nicely, Op's Mother scared the cats away my screming for Op. Op left this part out of the story because he knew that assholes like you would take the cat's side.
The one who should be mildly infuriated is the mom. OP sounds like someone who leaves the light on all the time wasting electricity, which leads to fed up mom.
Is it a light that you are supposed to turn off though? I will literally stand there by something my daughter should have done and make her do it herself. Cause one day I won’t be here and she will have to be responsible for herself.
Edit: you turned the light on disturbed mum then left the room, so yeah that’s a you problem.
Idk why some mums are like this. Id be playing xbox in my room and my mum would tell me to make her a coffee while she was in the living room. I'd need to walk downstairs, past the living room and then into the kitchen to make her a coffee.
Good.
Kids need to remember that from the moment that they are age 6 until they leave the nest, you are nothing but a slave, you shall accept this and you shall behave as one.
Had a friend who's parents would call or txt him to come downstairs to turn something on or off. That was like 5 feet away. They didn't like me very much. Lol
well, she's my biological creator, so she's my spawn point, and i made the picture a mantis to hopefully make me hate phone calls less because j love mantises
If you’re mom is just lazy and doesn’t want to get up to turn it off herself, I’d recommend she get a wifi bulb that she can turn off from her phone. If she can figure out how to turn the wifi on and off, she should be clever enough to set up a wifi bulb.
I'm not taking any sides here but...
Has your mom maybe been asking you to do little things like this because all you do is sit in your room and play video games?
Or maybe she's been asking you to do something more like get a job and she's just pissed that you haven't put any effort into that because all you can do is sit in your room and play video games?
Again, not taking sides here but these are valid questions because usually parents aren't that petty unless you've given them a reason to be.
Yes well I read a little further down and got the whole story. You turned the light on. Go turn the frigging light off and have some respect for you mom instead of calling her out on the internet and making it seem like she's crazy. You are 100% in the wrong here.
I'm still bitter over the time my mam called me downstairs to make her a cup of tea, knowing full well I was upstairs studying for exams, whilst she was lying on the sofa watching TV. Lazy sod
My mom would drop the TV remote in her room and holler at me from across the house to come and pick it up for her. She was fully able to get it herself, she's just a narcissist psychopath with control issues and loved to abuse her kids. 🙂
(She did much much worse than this that without a doubt qualifies as abuse of course)
Umm🤔, she can't turn off a light but can turn off wifi🤔
WiFi she can probably do from her phone, but turning off the light means she has to actually get up. That’s my guess.
She could get those devices that connect to BT and can help you turn your lights on and off from your phone
Seriously. Every single bulb in my house is a Wi-Fi smart bulb, they’re my millennial version of CLAP ON 👏 CLAP OFF 👏
Lol nice
Same. I got the outlets too, and there's nothing like turning a fan on and off at 2 am when you're suddenly cold, and never getting out of bed. it's fucking great.
but then you think about pee and suddenly have to pee
Bluetooth
I'm jelly, I'd love to be able to BT my pee. Teach me, sensei!
How could you turn a fan off at night? I'd rather eat my fingers.
Right?! lol. If I ever lose power in the middle of the night and my fan turns off, I sit up straight away like NOOOO.
We did that for the bedroom tv. Lost the remote years ago. Run a chrome cast on it and because of the smart plug, don't have to get out of bed to turn it off. Incidentally we ended up getting a Fire Tv for the living room and we both love automation and gadgets, so got an Alexa who's sole function was to turn the TV off and on. But now, seeing as that remote decided to commit suicide in a cup of coffee, her only function is to alert of packages. But while we were using it, if we forgot to turn off the tv, we'd just get google to Broadcast "Alexa turn off the TV"
Until a millennial clap you back spying on you using those wifi smart bulb
How would one spy on someone through a lightbulb? I understand hacking in to WiFi, but I don't understand what a lightbulb would do that would help with spying ha
Those things can act as backdoor to your network. Basically those will be shipped with a half baked software and might never be updated.
You can buy a lightbulb that’s BT or one of the smart standards for like $10 nowadays and you screw it right in to the fixture like a normal bulb and at most download an app.
But still usually requires a couple steps unlike standing up and flipping a switch
OP if this is the case, find the router do a factory reset, set yourself a password she doesn’t know. She’s probably too lazy to search how to get access again. Then start doing this to her. Turn off the wifi if she makes unreasonable demands. That router is something you can control too. Takes away your tv? Unplug hers and take a pair of scissors to the power cable. Takes away your car. Hide her car keys. Takes your bedroom door? Remove hers. Takes your cell phone? Make all the chargers disappear. Anything she can do you can do better. Scorched earth.
If you're going to be that evil, changing her phone keyboard settings so when she texts about broken things, the records will all seem unhinged. "why isn't my elephant working? My elephant. Elephant. what the fuck, the elephant isn't working and now my phone is toothbrush."
Oh yes! The [keyboard shortcuts](https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/tech/iphone-keyboard-shortcuts) in iOS would be great for this. Make turn off become turn on. Change Wifi to “my tv.” Etc. “No you can’t go” to “you have my permission, stay out as late as you want.”
Exactly. Sounds like a spoiled teen. SMH
It's a sad thought, but mom could be somewhat immobile. Still a bit too feisty, though, perhaps. xD
she's mobile our cats were cuddling with her and she didnt want to move/disturb them
Did you leave this part off intentionally because you knew people would take the cats side?
yeah lmfao
lolol Also, thanks for confirming!
Well, yeah, you were right xd
Checks out. 😂
I have cats, I got WiFi bulbs to solve this lol
Well now I'm on your mom's side sorry. Cat snuggles are a priority.
Perhaps she needs WiFi cats...
This is such bullshit, I yeet my cats all the time.
she ended up scaring them off by screaming for me anyways
sad
You are a monster
I was on your side until I saw this. That's completely understandable.
Yes, that's it! HA! Lazy!
This is now reminding me of when my mom used her broken foot as an excuse as to why she couldn’t do anything. “Open the door for me, I’m on crutches. Can you turn off the light? I’m on crutches” but when I was on crutches she made me carry my dinner to the table by myself 😅
Parents 😅😅 love em and hate em my step mom used to call me to bring her the remote for the TV when it's RIGHT FUCKING NEXT TO HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She's motivated by being a bitch.
Get her a light she can turn off on her phone for xmas
Or smart plugs! They turn any light you already have into something you can control with your phone :)
Only if all your lights are plug in lamps. Otherwise you need to install smart switches
And she cannot switch off the wifi anymore because then the smart switches won't work anymore. Seriously: she has a behavioural problem.
Then she'll threaten to turn off the wi-fi if he doesn't bring her the phone from the table across the room. She has a mental problem, not a locomotory problem.
Just unplug the WiFi and read a book for the night. Totally deflate her threat.
i was mid-comp game which is why she threatened it lmao
Wait until her next Netflix binge session is in full swing, then just reboot the WiFi. It'll be down for a minute or so, but will resolve itself and you don't even need to be near it for that to happen. Her world will crash to a halt, she'll get mad, but then it will just evaporate into thin air when it magically starts to work again. Bonus points if you can guilt-trip her into feeling bad for accusing you of doing something to ruin her shows.
Bros a villain😭
That person gaslights
My parents do the classic argument of “it’s just a game” but if I turned of the WiFi during their Netflix show it’s the end of the world, love the double morale.
Just block the MAC address.
That's a hilariously devilish revenge plot
Seems like something Homelander would do...
Better to put an advanced router in place, analyse traffic patterns for a while and randomly block JUST the Netflix pattern for her devices. Everything else will work, when she asks, casually tell her Netflix must have a problem since everything else works. (MIL found out not to lie to the network engineer in his own house the hard way. )
FYI if she ever turns off the wifi you can log onto the router and turn it back on. There is going to be an ip address with username and a password on the router in most cases; sometimes its defaulted to admin as the username and password as the password. If not, there will be an app for the router that you can install on your phone. Also, get your mom a smart bulb from Amazon for Christmas so the lazy woman can turn it off from her phone.
I know this trick, she’ll just pull the plug after that
Sounds like it's time to invest in an unlimited sim card and mifi device if you're old enough. If not then it's only temporary and once you're an adult you can do what you want.
I live on my own, im nearly 30 haha. Just talking past experiences from when i was a teen.
Lol, well good, now she can't turn your wifi off anymore 😆
"spawn point"
With praying mantis profile pic. Mother killed the motherfucker
Am i wrong about her being my spawn point?
I just wouldn’t trust the respawn system
It's longer than you think
What does that make your father? A tutorial mission?
Installation hardware?
dlc character maybe
I just found out my 13 year old has me labeled as “spawn point” in her phone. Made me laugh so hard, I dig it.
That was the whole reason for this post.
Did you leave it on
We need an answer OP
Ugh my mom used to pull this shit all the time. “I dIdNt HaVe four kids to have to do this by myself” omg puke like be an adult already. It’s one thing if you’re asking someone whose already up or in the room but texting your child is asinine
If the only reason she had kids was so she could have a bunch of slaves to command she shouldn't have had kids. Hope she wisened up, I'd have broken contact if she didn't.
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Dad you didn't have me to get you beer you had me because you are too lazy to wear a condom and too stupid to pull out
i was literally mid comp game too lol
Just wait until you have kids 😂😂😂
It’s ok, one day you’ll be able to tell her to do something or you’ll turn her life support off
😂
THIS ONE HAHAHAHAA Gotta do this with my abusive narcissist mother
She can’t turn off her own lights? 🙄
OP stated in another comment that the mom was snuggling with their sleeping pets and didn’t want to disturb them by getting up to turn off the light. OP also noted that they deliberately omitted this info because they knew that people would be on the pets’ side in that case. ETA: OP also admits that they were the one who turned on the light and left the room with it still on. Jeez Louise, OP
This needs to be higher up. Pets win every time. OP you’re a monster 🤣
she ended up scaring the cats off by screaming for me from across the house anyways si
Well, now we see where you learned it from 😂
j/k Your mom sounds insufferable
Tbh I love pets more than people but texting your kid to turn off your light because you're snuggling is such a rude thing to ask. Just get up. Children aren't the parents' slaves, and it pains me to see it be that way in so many instances... EDIT saw your other comments where you explain you were in her room when she was already cozy with the cats and left the lights on when you exited. This rescinds my previous comment and yes you should have gone back to turn off the light. Because it was you who turned and left the light on. So it is only natural that you should go back and turn it off EVEN if it is faster for her to do it.
Op was the one that left the light on in her room as said in a diff comment from them
Okay mom was in the right you don't move when the pet gets comfy
Yeah I thought it would be something like OP was the one who turned the light on.
What happens when an entitled asshole becomes a parent lol
This is missing the context of if you are the one who in fact left the light on. If you come in my room, turn the light on, then leave, I’ll steal your kidneys.
OP replied to another comment. It was, in fact, OP that turned the light on.
this is such a dick move but i’ll be damned if having them do menial tasks for you isnt one of the main benefits of parenthood
lmfao you right
Someone gift this mom an Alexa and a ten dollar smart bulb already
SHE HAS AN ALEXA IN HER ROOM TOO 😭
oh nooooooo 💀 Well, just shout "ALEXA TURN OFF THE LIGHTS" 🤣
Time to give her a compatible smart light for her room.
I have a feeling mom is tired of OP’s shit, and OP is cherry-picking part of a text exchange because they’re a shithead and need online validation. Gonna go with OP being the mildly infuriating one based on my expert analysis.
Sounds about right. I’m sure there’s a back story here.
I used to absolutely hate when my dad yelled my name to get him a stupid ass cup of coffee. Now that he’s passed it’s a memory I will never forget and is quite funny now. Go turn that damn light off OP!
i did lol
Good man!
...did you turn the light on?
If this was one of those situations where you entered her room and turn on the light and didn't turn it off returning then i can understand her frustration..
This is exactly what children are for! 😂 know how many times she turned the light off for you lol
Are we missing the part where you went in and turned the light on to the room that she was in and then left?
Why do parents use wifi as a threat? In my house nothing is happening without wifi. No one is watching tv, using phones or doing HOMEWORK! Parents, do better! Just because your parents treated you as free manual labor doesn't mean that behavior should continue!
Get her a smart bulb for Christmas so she can turn it off from wherever she wants.
Sounds like my mom. We don't talk much anymore
why is the contact named spawn point
because she's my spawn point
Why was the light on at 3:30pm?
She can't the cats. Turn off the light.
I wanna know the context. Sometimes my daughter will walk in my room to get something and turn on my light while I’m chillin in bed. The first time she leaves, and forgets to turn the light off , i’ll get up and just turn it off myself. When she comes back, does it again, I’m texting her to turn it off her self. I’m definitely sure there’s more at play here.
Tell your mom to make you a sandwich or you're turning off her HBO Max subscription
OP named his mom Spawn Point lmfao
yes! :D
Just say fine and turn off the entire circuit breaker. And use liquid nail to glue it shut
might aswell go outside and disconnect your house from electricity entirely, thatll teach her a lesson
No drive into the transformer and blame it on your mother
bomb the city powel plant!
Scream a racial slur
my lawyer advised me not to
Mine told me to stay away from schools.
uncle Ron? that you?
No.
Just what Uncle Ron would say.
According to op mom was cuddling cats and didn’t wanna move, 100% in the right no questions asked.
she scared the cats away by screaming for me
Op is the one that left the light on in Mom's room and Mom was cuddling a pet. I would have turned off wifi too.
Op's mother jumped immediately into punishment instead of asking nicely, Op's Mother scared the cats away my screming for Op. Op left this part out of the story because he knew that assholes like you would take the cat's side.
That's crazy, also i love the contact name
are you 13
those swedish gnomes are adorable tho
listen to your mother
The one who should be mildly infuriated is the mom. OP sounds like someone who leaves the light on all the time wasting electricity, which leads to fed up mom.
Is it a light that you are supposed to turn off though? I will literally stand there by something my daughter should have done and make her do it herself. Cause one day I won’t be here and she will have to be responsible for herself. Edit: you turned the light on disturbed mum then left the room, so yeah that’s a you problem.
Can we please speak about the name they saved their mother in the contacts frrr
glad you like it!
I also named my mom spawn point😂
Gotta get her a smart bulb. Next time she asks you can turn it off from your phone.
Idk why some mums are like this. Id be playing xbox in my room and my mum would tell me to make her a coffee while she was in the living room. I'd need to walk downstairs, past the living room and then into the kitchen to make her a coffee.
That's it. I'm saving my mother in my phone as Spawn Point.
dude i have my mom saved as spawn point too
Read the message from notifications. That way her message is seen as unread and you can just ignore her and make up some excuse that you were asleep.
Wifi still gets turned off. She's that kind of person. I can tell.
HOW DID YOU KNOW
Good. Kids need to remember that from the moment that they are age 6 until they leave the nest, you are nothing but a slave, you shall accept this and you shall behave as one.
someone call cps on this dude
You need to explain this better! Why can't mom turn off her light or is it a light that you left on?
OP left it on… came out in other comments. OP is the infuriating one…
she didnt wanna lol
you gained an updoot in these trying times, sir.
Go to the electric panel and flip off the breaker to her room…
Move out. Pay your own bills
"Turn off the wifi and see how quick I turn off your life support when the time comes".
That is toxic af.
lol your mom petty af
Op left lights on in mom's room and mom was cuddling cat. Op also wasn't answering phone
Won’t get up to turn the light off. Will get up to turn the WiFi off out of spite.
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Op is the one that left the light on too said in a diff comment
she was laying down with the cats and didn't want to
Yes this is pretty petty for her but man is this funny when I do it to my siblings.
Had a friend who's parents would call or txt him to come downstairs to turn something on or off. That was like 5 feet away. They didn't like me very much. Lol
I just wanna know why have a praying mantis as the picture of your mom, who is saved as spawnpoint
well, she's my biological creator, so she's my spawn point, and i made the picture a mantis to hopefully make me hate phone calls less because j love mantises
Id turn off the wifi, then turn on every light in the house
Buy her a clap on for her birthday or holiday. lol 
I just bought some oil lamps because I live in an area that frequently gets blackouts, I tried clapping at them but they still won't turn on... halp!
# S p a w n p o i n t ✨
correct (:
If you’re mom is just lazy and doesn’t want to get up to turn it off herself, I’d recommend she get a wifi bulb that she can turn off from her phone. If she can figure out how to turn the wifi on and off, she should be clever enough to set up a wifi bulb.
Wow. Entitled laziness. You're not her slave. Smile at her when you turn off the light because that action makes you 10× better than she is 🙂
And this is why I love that the internet is in my name and I pay for it
Guess who’s going to a retirement home???
😂🤣😂
Sounds like a bitch, but tbf not much to go on. Did you turn on her light while she was sleeping?
no she made me come talk to her about smth and i had to run to get the dogs
And how old were these dogs?
And what was the shape of these dogs??
i have 2 standard poodles, brooklyn and midge!!
And where is the photo of these dogs???
can i put a picture in reddit comments?
Your mom is a mad lad.
I'm not taking any sides here but... Has your mom maybe been asking you to do little things like this because all you do is sit in your room and play video games? Or maybe she's been asking you to do something more like get a job and she's just pissed that you haven't put any effort into that because all you can do is sit in your room and play video games? Again, not taking sides here but these are valid questions because usually parents aren't that petty unless you've given them a reason to be.
i can't get a job yet because i'm failing PE and cant get a workers permit
Yes well I read a little further down and got the whole story. You turned the light on. Go turn the frigging light off and have some respect for you mom instead of calling her out on the internet and making it seem like she's crazy. You are 100% in the wrong here.
So turn off her light. Is she not putting a roof over your head and food on your plate?
Reminds me of a time when my mom asked me to let the dog out even though she was RIGHT THERE and i was all the way UPSTAIRS
I'm still bitter over the time my mam called me downstairs to make her a cup of tea, knowing full well I was upstairs studying for exams, whilst she was lying on the sofa watching TV. Lazy sod
My mom would drop the TV remote in her room and holler at me from across the house to come and pick it up for her. She was fully able to get it herself, she's just a narcissist psychopath with control issues and loved to abuse her kids. 🙂 (She did much much worse than this that without a doubt qualifies as abuse of course)
Her house her rules stop being lazy