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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I found out why my parents have been trying to convince me not to go to college this year. I also found out where the $20,000 they just spent on landscaping came from. My college fund. Which is now $0. FML
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
Today, my dad came home from Vegas. Today, my college savings account is down by $64,000. FML
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
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
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
Today, I found out my mom took around $2,500 from my savings account to pay off my sister's college tuition. She recently flunked out of her studies and won't be returning to college anyway. FML
Today, I found out that my parents used all of the college money I have been saving up for 8 years to buy a beach house. The reason they waited until now to tell me? A tree fell on it, and they need more money for repairs. FML
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
Today, I discovered my parents have spent my college fund because "2012 will happen" before I graduate. FML
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Top comments
FairFrozen 0
Sue. Sure, they're your parents, but God, being inconsiderate like that. It's your future.
kisekileia 0
That really ought to be illegal. You get screwed if your parents don't meet their financial aid obligations for your education, so there should be some legal requirement for your parents to meet those obligations.
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Comments (454)
heavenandhell 0
the FML never said it was specificly a college fund just a bank account like a savings account for college so the money could very well be his own
iDontFail_xD 0
#41, i have my own bank account and Im -13...
dyliumo 0
SUE
GothamKnight 0
That's completely ****** up.
icemage 0
Wow... What a waste of money, you could have went to college, made way more than 10k and then help your parents. Now sue them, go to college, then when they ask for help, don't respond! (unless they are dying).
OD4825 0
Sell the TV on eBay. Take anything else of value amounting to the original account value and sell it as well. If they try to stop you, tell them that they have to pay for college somehow.
thegiphtdOne 0
Your parents had no right to do that. FYL indeed.
danisawesomerthe 0
I don't think they can do that unless ur under 18, or 17 in some states, without ur signature
stxchickshortie 0
Well if was your money not your parents, when you go to their home for a holiday or something, say thanks for the gifts and then take the tv, and drain the pool (:
raisinlib 0
Buuullllshit! Sounds like my parents. I'mguessing their names were still on the account. That sucks!