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)
hypnotoad04 2
You were probably gunna flunk out anyway. Besides hobbit houses are sweet. Save up ur own money and do it urself
GiraffeAquarium 7
Save up the money he won't have due to a lack of a college degree?
hypnotoad04 2
That's weird. I don't have a college degree and I make a shit ton of money
vanessa09865 23
And where do you live?
phorn84 13
Presumably OP is still under 18 or in high school, so unless he's emancipated, so still with the parents.
vanessa09865 23
I was asking where, as in the exact address so I can go live in their awesome parents Hobbit Hole
processengineer 9
put yourself through college...I did
thunderniron 22
Ahhhhhh the life of entitlement. Sux for you, great for your parents. It's their money.
RoboCunnilingus 23
YOU SHALL NOT PASS!
ginawater19 13
Just because your parents spent your college fund doesn't mean you're going to become a burger flipper. I'm going into college with no money and ill do just fine. Along with the rest of America. I say bravo to your parents for not spending their hard earned money on ypu
pattayarick 8
BUT....... How cool is THAT?
lysx84 24
I know, right! I wish my folks had a hobbit house, or a college fund. Though if they had saved money for my uni I'd have probably spent it on a hobbit house anyway...
iDumpo 7
That's some shitty parents
mattorama 15
YDI for your ridiculous sense of entitlement. Your parents spent their own money on what they wanted? Wow, what a couple of jerks!
hogman500 8
well I wouldn't call it completely ridiculous because, if they told him they were going to pay for his college then why would he not expect them to give him the money. People act like he was just expecting it they most likely told him and so why wouldn't he expect them not to spend it on an awesome hobbit house.
uncommentor 11
But... the people who act like "he was just expecting it" are making just as big of an assumption as the people acting like his parents told him it was his college funds....
hogman500 8
It is true it could have been either way. I was just starting that he wasn't necessarily just feeling like he was entitled to it he may well have been told he was going to receive it.
helloimclaudia 30
That really sucks. What I would do right now, is start working. Don't spend your money on silly little crap, save for your college. Your parents can't get to that money, so there is no way that they can spend it on their hobbit house!
phorn84 13
Just for the sake of clarity, please define "silly little crap". Because I worked 3 full time jobs for 10 years and I barely had money for rent or gas (I can't even begin to tell you how many times my electric was turned off for nonpayment) and didn't even have money for food most months. When I did start college I got fired by two of my jobs and taken down to part time by the other because they couldn't just call me in all hours of the day and night. Thankfully financial aid and loans are paying for school and I can shower at a friend's house. My job barely pays for gas to drive to and from work/school, so I can see how one might have trouble just working and saving up for college on short notice. It took me 10 years to realize that I would never have enough to do it, now I'm 28 taking classes with a bunch of 18 year olds. Honestly it's a little embarrassing attending your class reunion after being a solid 3.5 student and among the 5% without a college degree or a career.
uncommentor 11
.... if you worked 120 hours/week for 10 years and couldn't pay for gas, electricity, or food, you're doing something wrong. Or lying.