Money: Today, I frantically told my parents that my bank account had...

By poor man - 26/11/2014 14:13 - United States - Fort Lauderdale

Today, I frantically told my parents that my bank account had no money. Turns out, they took the $1,600 I had saved up from a summer job and invested it in penny-stocks. I was grounded because they were "doing it for the family," and I'm being selfish. They also had lost it all in a matter of days. FML

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By armenta427 - 07/10/2009 04:12 - United States

Today, I found out that my parents are 28,000 dollars in debt and that my bank account has $27.17 in it. They took my money to help pay their debt. FML

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By Anonymous - 23/09/2013 02:56 - United States - San Francisco

Today, my mother asked me if she could borrow $200. Being the lovely daughter I am, I gave her my bank card to withdraw it herself. She gambled it away and maxed my bank account out. I had $1500 saved. FML

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By unitythemene - 04/07/2019 22:00

Today, I was worried because it's July and I still haven't found a summer job, despite applying to 50 places. It was fine, because I remembered my savings account. I told my parents. Instead of being relieved, they said they're going to take the money from me for being lazy, and using it for my tuition, despite promising to pay for it. FML

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By Bummer - 30/10/2009 02:00 - United States

Today, I found my checking and savings account to both read $0.00. My parents transferred all my money to theirs because "I'm irresponsible, and not fit to handle money." I'm a 3.8 college student and have a full-time job. They are currently unemployed. FML

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By ExtemelyBroke - 06/06/2009 02:24 - United States

Today, I checked my bank account that I've been saving money in since I was a kid for college. I have $100 left out of the $10,000 I had last month. Apparently my parents thought buying a pool and an HDTV for themselves was more important than my college education. FML

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By Anonymous - 07/05/2017 20:00

Today, I learned that my dad invested my entire college fund into some shady internet stock, despite my dire warnings about being careful. He told me not to worry as he'd done some research, and he guaranteed everything would be fine. Two hours later that same stock dropped almost 75%. FML

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By gonebabygone - 27/08/2009 06:58 - United States

Today, I discovered that my parents rooted through our house looking for junk to sell at a garage sale. They sold all of my books from my bookshelf. When I freaked, out my mom said 'well you never read them'. There was about $300 hidden between the pages of those books. They made $60. FML

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By Bobo - 11/10/2022 10:00

Today, my father stole the money I'd saved up by working and spent it all gambling. I'd saved it up for a year for a new car. FML

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By Ineedjustice03 - 25/03/2011 11:55 - Singapore

Today, I had to dig into my savings to help my parents pay for their divorce. FML

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By skiergal98 - 18/08/2019 02:00

Today, I found out why I haven't been getting my bank statements for the past couple of months. My parents have been hiding them from me, because they've been stealing from it. FML

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Wednesday 26 November 2014 18:26

How did they get access to your account? And doesn't the bank notify you when you take out a large amount of money? Your parents are ****** up and should be paying you back for their stupidity.

ahippienamedrae 10

Wednesday 26 November 2014 18:26

That sucks, OP. Maybe you can get them to pay you back eventually ):

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queenjordan777 3

Thursday 27 November 2014 2:35

I would run away

jd2013 5

Thursday 27 November 2014 3:34

That is extremely unfair, but a lot of the suggestions here - running away, damaging cars etc - would just make a bad situation worse. All you can do is learn from it and keep your money where they cannot get it in future. But well done for getting a Summer job and working so hard. You will go far and leave them way behind one day.

kitsune309 15

Thursday 27 November 2014 4:27

At risk of sounding as American as I am: Sue their asses!! That's illegal!

kitten_28 2

Thursday 27 November 2014 4:47

Omf I'd be so mad, man.

MrUnkn0wn 13

Thursday 27 November 2014 4:53

**** it dude, if i were you i would get a lawyer involved thats bullshit.

sest 4

Thursday 27 November 2014 6:08

Youre selfish for saving money that you earned and worked for? Great parents.

Imareth 10

Thursday 27 November 2014 6:15

Hrm. Don't know about where you are, but here if you're old enough to get a job, you're old enough to get your own bank account. Why did your parents have access to it to begin with? FYL for the loss, but YDI if you gave them access to your account.

tuxedoandex 28

Thursday 27 November 2014 7:23

This is why you don't let your parents into your bank account in any way, kids

ldonnahee 10

Thursday 27 November 2014 7:25

Sue their sorry asses!

Shade1982 20

Thursday 27 November 2014 10:18

That may not be as easy as you think. If op is underage, parents can potentially do whatever they want with their children's possessions (unless the child has been emancipated). If the parents also had official access to the account, that also gives them the right to use it for whatever they want. Like a joint checking account for example. A lot of things aren't specified in this post, which you do need to know before you can say something like that.