Today, my parents blew my entire college fund in their quest to finish building their replica Hobbit house in our back yard. FML
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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, 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, we started building our dream house. Next to my parents-in-law. FML
Today, I discovered my parents have spent my college fund because "2012 will happen" before I graduate. FML
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
Today, after 25 years of marriage, my parents decided to get a very nasty and extremely expensive divorce. Using my college tuition to pay for it. 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 had to dig into my savings to help my parents pay for their divorce. FML
Today, I bought my first house, blowing nearly all my savings on the deposit. I had left myself enough for just a couple of necessary bits of furniture. It turns out the previous owner completely stripped the house when he left, taking the oven and even the toilet with him, amongst other things. 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
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Ambient25 24
Time to grab a bat and pay that Hobbit house a visit.
swash984 22
Your parents are awesome for building that. Sucks they had to use your college funds though!
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Comments (215)
devilkazama 9
It's okay, you won't be needing it. You can't even spell backyard.
avapaige1234 19
Well, time to get to get ready for that interview at McDonald's!
TheChelseaSays 34
**** our lives......my parents would probably do the same thing.
Neopopulas 9
Its always so surprising when people get upset about their parents using their college fund. The idea that your parents save up their money to give to you so you can go to college and they chose to spend their money on their own thing. Maybe its a strongly American thing, because i'd never expect my parents to save up money to give to me.
fleur_de_fevrier_fml 22
Wow I still cannot get over the fact that people think kids shouldn't expect their parents to pay for their education or parents shouldn't spend "their" money on them. I guess that people who think like that are planning to pay their parents back for all the food, clothes and rent they didn't pay while growing up? When someone decides to have a child, it is their responsibility to give them all the help possible so they can have a good start in life. Education is part of it. If parents can afford to help their kids, taken into account that the kids are not lazy ad won't just be messing around, they should. My parents paid for my education and I didn't turn into some lazy helpless slob. I was not raised to think that I was entitled anything and that life was easy. When I was living alone while studying, I could look after myself with no problem and was not relying on anyone to do the cooking, washing, etc. Once I graduated, I moved abroad by myself, got a job and was fully independent from my first paycheck. I intend to give the same help to my future kids if I can afford it. I don't want to see them struggling or failing because they have to waste their time on a lame part-time job.
c0rpusdesign 6
Us New Zealanders are sorry for your loss ;)
simsgirlgem 25
To all those people saying OP shouldn't expect parents to pay if OP had a college fund that was meant for school not a damn hobbit house College is more important than a damn Hobbit house
phoneYuNOlisten 16
you should demand them to pay for your college
rhevenge 19
i wanna come see it! i would love to have one.
Darthbane2007 17
While it is correct that OP should not expect his/her parents to pay for education it is still a colossal dick move on the parents part to use money that was earlier set aside for their child's education and build a hobbit house....