Today, I had to listen to fellow classmates whine about selling one of their many houses, while I can barely afford to pay for a $100 textbook. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I went to the local used books store to sell all my college textbooks. I spent several hundred dollars on them in total. I ended up walking out of the shop a pathetic $3.50 richer. FML
Today, I bought my very first college textbook. I received a stack of hole-punched papers. My $195 "book" isn’t even bound together. FML
Today, I had to spend all of my money on textbooks even though my refrigerator is empty. Starving and frustrated, I called home to ask for money for groceries. My mom told me I could afford to skip a few meals. FML
Today, I bought a textbook for my college class. Not only is the £150 book only sold by our teacher, it turned out to be a piece of shit that he obviously wrote, printed, and stapled together at home. When I went to the faculty about it, I was told it's all perfectly legal, and to drop it. FML
Today, I can’t even find a place to rent. Every place has dozens of applications, with several offering well over asking price. I just graduated from college. FML
Today, I started at a new college. I bought my textbooks and went to my first class only to find out that they changed my schedule without telling me. I'd already opened the book. I could not get $200 back. FML
Today, I'm in a US college. I could've gone into a trade or internship, but no one listened. Now, while my parents brag to their friends that their child has a degree, I'll probably be spending the rest of life in crippling debt, sleeping on the side of the road, and begging strangers for table scraps. FML
Today, at my job as a fourth grade teacher, I realized that most of my students have far nicer and more expensive phones than I can afford. FML
Today, after I just bought a house that is pretty good and suits all our needs for space, my in-laws moved in because they ran into financial troubles. Guess who is stuck with all the extra expenditures? FML
Today, I told my roommates they have to go get jobs, because I can't afford to support them or their bad habits any more. They responded by pawning all my DVDs for cash to buy cigarettes. FML
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Top comments
JMichael 26
Stay in college OP, and someday you could be one of those many people.
EternalTime 7
Those books will one day earn you a house
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Comments (113)
liaRawr 9
Money doesn't make you happy
Rainbow_dumpster 28
Try buying the house of your dreams.
jenn1808 16
Contrary to popular belief, on a large scale the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor. It's highly unlikely that the average person can become a self made millionaire with multiple homes and limitless wealth. College is a baseline requirement these days, just to keep your head above water in the job market. If anybody could be wealthy if they put their minds to it do you really think only 1% of people would have that life style? On the plus side, it's really true that money can't buy happiness. I was a poor kid at a rich Ivy college, and my filthy rich roommates were just as stressed and lost as anyone.
andrewcpu 8
it's ok... trust me I'm the doctor
roserose777 9
I totally understand
lvg_fml 10
Don't you hate when you tell people I don't have the money for "whatever" and they say "it's only $100 " and you have a negative amount in your checking account My life story
SkyGuy32 17
One of my classmates was complaining that someone insulted his private jet.
wynnona 17
Oh them rich bitches.
tvwrestler98 14
I go to a high school in Temecula. I have to hear people whine about their new car while I have none. I'm a sophomore.
Slimbo305 11
Ask him to hook you up with a job OP. Its rough out here!!!
djPanda 8
Yet u can afford a smart phone :P
Mira Lux 26
You don't know if OP has a smartphone. I'm not typing this from a smartphone, I'm typing this from a laptop.