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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College Life
Packed lecture halls, a sketchy roommate and frat parties: welcome to college, the real thing.
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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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)
ozymandias_fml 0
'You' have been saving the money -- but your parents have access to it without your permission? You sure you didn't mean your parents have been saving money and you assumed it was for you?
markssh 0
Isn't this exactly like the, "Married with Children", episode where Bud had money saved for college and his parents spent it? Seems fishy...
MGW501 2
So, was it your money, or your parents money? Are you deluding yourself as to what's yours, as if it was yours, your parents would not have access to the money......... FYL for delusion.....
DankJemo 0
So, I am just going to throw this out there... Why the hell do your parents have access to your checking/Savings account? I mean, assuming it is actually your account, and it is in your name. It sounds like your parents owe you roughly 9,900 dollars... I'd charge them interest too, you know for being pieces of shit.
EatMyCrayonz 0
Woahh,, I'd be so pissed if that happened to me #38 so its alright to throw away there childs future then??
Uniquitous 1
YDI for giving anyone but yourself the authority to withdraw from the account.
LuckyCharms_fml 0
Um guys, if OP was a kid when they opened the account they needed someone else on the account with them. Banks don't give accounts to kids. I'm 17 and my grandmother cosigns on mine because I've had it for awhile. You're all idiots. FYL OP. My dad did something similar to that.
notyerpirate 0
dude that sucks because the account is probably in their names as well as yours, isn't it? I'd write them off after that, I'd probably never speak to them again.
mcrfreakx3 0
OMG, my parents told me I can't go to the college I want because 27k per year is too expensive, yet my dad just bought a 5k grill and a 3k tractor. Talk about priorities.
Allord 0
Use their credit cards to pay tuition