Definition: In this task, you are given a Reddit post as a text. Your task is to generate a title for this text. The title should start with "TIFU by", followed by a situation that caused humor. The title should contain 7-12 words, ideally.
Input: Text: this did not happen today, happened last year, now bare with me this story is funny imo (time has a funny way to make things funny) and thought i'd share it with the fam here on reddit.


this happened last year my kids were 7 and 6 and as a single mother i really wanted to give them a great christmas this time around, as oppose to a bunch of 99 cents store toys to make it seem like they got alot. they are older now and know the difference, they ask for things by name instead of just pointing at the commercials on tv saying "i want that" (like they used to do), they know what they want now, they use an ipad in school for christ sake lol. 


now i have been a single mother since the 6 year old was born (7 now) and as a single mother my pay check was never all that it could be handling the house bills on my own but was gonna be no excuses this time around i was gonna get my kids the christmas they wanted and deserved. call it a second wind, a new motivation or something just lite a fire in my butt cause i felt great about myself once i made up my mind to do so. i went out got myself a second job and i even started working out to lose the baby fat (yeah i know not baby fat no more lol). i have been neglecting myself and was lonely in my personal life romantically speaking but all that was changing with this new attitude. this new attitude had me on a strict diet, working out, with a second job putting the kids toys away on layaway. things were getting done!


fast forward to the tifu day!, oh what a lovely day it started out to be. 4 months since i got this new attitude, 35lb ago, final payment made on my layaway's across the board. pick up day! im feeling great have all the toys in the car, on my way back to my apartment to wrap them up and put them under the tree wait for the kids to come home and see! 


i get home i light up a scented candle i always do and i was feeling great a lil too great i decided to let my will cave (120+ days on a diet) and to treat myself to a snack a dessert so i decided to bake me a cheesecake (my favorite), i whip it all up put it in the oven to bake and meanwhile i start to wrap up the gifts. i almost done my last one matter of fact got the rest of the christmas gifts under the tree already and there is alot of them (yay) when i think damn the cheese cake, i run to check on it putting the wrapping paper on the divider next to the candle. i pull the cheesecake out and the towel slips completely off when i was adjust my grip on the pan and my entire fingers hit the raw hot pan and i jerk/throw the cheesecake to the counter (out of pain) where it knocked over the wrapping paper and must of pushed the candle to the edge but must of been barely balancing cause it was still on the divider (from my angle pov it looked fine). 

i run to the restroom to attend to my burn put cool water and neosporin was a nasty burn (it blistered up later on) when i come out of the rest room it was an inferno! the divider was on fire, the christmas tree was on fire, the presents, the cabinets on top everything appeared to be on fire. i panic don't know what to do i start screaming trying to throw water on the fire out of a drinking water gallon lol then i remember my upstairs neighbors so i run out to warn them but nobody was home (thank god), i run and break the glass to the fire extinguisher outside and try to put it out, i must of blacked out or something cause next thing i remember the firefighters were in my apartment and i was outside talking to the police etc. 


i call my mom so she can pick up the kids from the bus stop so they dont have to see this, after a few days they let me back in to shift through what made it, the room was fine, everything was fine except the kitchen, living room and the christmas tree and all the present were toast except one, the last one i didnt get to wrap cause i had to get the damn cheesecake. whats funny about this is i was doing a song and dance when i was getting my cheesecake out (ima eat a cheesecake, ima eat a cheesecake) lol till i burned myself. so needless to say, last year my kids got a bunch of 99cents toys again (which they didnt even seem to mind tbh), but this year is the comeback year! no cravings of anykind on no diets and i promise cheesecake will be bought from the store this time around. i tell you at the time i was devastated heart broken felt like a huge failure and that i let my kids down everything low as low one can be but today i cant help but laugh at the entire thing i am just grateful no one got hurt. sorry so long.

TIFU I Burned Christmas Down Because I am A Fat Ass LOL!