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
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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, my parents blew my entire college fund in their quest to finish building their replica Hobbit house in our back yard. 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, my sister finally broke down and told me that our dad gambled away of all my college savings, and I would have to pay for school the best way I can. They have known for months, and when I asked why nobody told me, the reply was, "You're a college boy, we thought you would figure it out." 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, I woke up and found that the tree in my front yard was gone. FML
Today, I found out that my dad has been trying to take money out of my savings account to pay for divorce fees and a hammock. 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 parents told me they're getting a divorce because of all the strain caused by me nearly dying in an accident. FML
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sasha_kay 4
Why did your parents have access to it in the first place if it's money YOU were saving. My parents can't go into my accounts.
Erin_VanDerWoods_fml 4
Your parents suck ! :(
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Comments (232)
perdix 31
Why are you being so disrespectful? Your parents have the wisdom to know that your "college money" would be better spent on a beach house than trying to hammer an education into that thick skull of yours. Always trust the wisdom of the ancients.
xavier1623 4
It certainly looks like someone was forced to suck dick at a tender young age to provide for his family's beach house. Stop sucking in life you little lower life-form. At least he did save up enough to enroll for college.
DocBastard 40
Uh...what? How did you derive that from Perdix's sarcastic comment? You're like a superhero who's able to leap to stupid conclusions in a single bound.
xavier1623 4
A skill maybe? And instead of doing things like that maybe he should show more sympathy in the first place yeah?
illmatic2 16
Seems like some people are having a real hard time detecting sarcasm today.
FMLattes 0
He's being sarcastic.
201Blackhawk 0
It's very hard for idiots to find sarcasm in its simplest form...spoken...do you really think their gonna find it in a post lol?
tfair85 2
Why is no one also questioning why they didn't have insurance on the Beach House?
psuedodragon 23
Probably because if they had to steal their kids college money then they couldn't actually afford the house, let alone the insurance on it.
bankrupt 15
Let this be a lesson to all. The first thing I did when I turned 18 was open up a new savings account with MY NAME ONLY on it and transferred all but $5 into it. It was worth paying the maintenance fee on the $5 account to fool my parents, since I couldn't close it without my dad's co-signature and then the jig would have been up. One day they called the dorms at my college, FURIOUS with me and demanding to know where all my money was. I asked them why they wanted to know and what they were doing checking my balance and for once, they were speechless. I found out from an aunt that they were planning to clean me out and put it toward an addition to their house.
Ugi 27
This is so ****** up. #37 - you did well but you shouldn't have to do that sort of thing. Why do people have children if they don't want to care for them? I have two little girls and I would never take anything of theirs or dream of expecting them to pay me. In fact, if I am ever going to get them out of my house, I know full well that I will have to pay for college and most likely a house deposit as well! If you have kids then you are responsible for looking after them. Parents tell their kids this about their pet rabbits and then don't do it themselves for their children! Taking college money is so stupid. If there was one thing that I might ask of my kids it's to take care of me in my dotage, should I make it that far, and a decent education is definitely a good investment for that. Your parents are irresponsible and the OP's re just stupid. And I'm ranting. Sorry.
bankrupt 15
Don't be sorry, Ugi. You are absolutely right. No one should grow up the way I did, waking up every morning wondering what was going to happen that day. Where was the attack coming from? A parent? My brother? A neighborhood girl who knew she could shove her foot up my ass and twist it because my mother helped her? What would it be? Would I be smacked around? Hair pulled? Food dumped on me? Shoved into a wall? Or just made fun of? Would I be blamed for something I was nowhere near? Given an impossible task so I could fail and be punished? Screwed over somehow? Or would it just be another day of my mom dishing off all the chores on me and sleeping or watching TV? I never knew what was coming, only that it would be bad. I don't think of it as growing up as much as it was surviving.
Red_Wing_Nut44 14
That's just horrible.
columbiancoffeei 6
**** that shit they wouldnt get a sinle penny from me what is wrong with them tell them to go to hell
psuedodragon 23
It sucks that so many people have such crappy parents. The account that I got opened when I was 5 or so was, of course, joint with my parents. I know they "borrowed" money from me when I was younger because of rough times, but now that I'm an adult there have been several times where I was in a bind and they just transferred money in for me. So having a joint account with your parents isn't necessarily a stupid thing to do, just risky. Moral of the story: cut OP some slack -not their fault that they trusted their parents and had that trust betrayed.
Adam1187 4
I would kill them, I'm sorry but I would.
dtm3 3
Your an idiot, sorry but you are.
MMachina1 0
If t was a lot of money I say sue! Lol!
structuredchaoz 4
If it was yours, they fail. If it was their money, they were smart to buy property in a low economy.
pip74205 9
Sue, press charges for Larceny.
BloodyMary666 24
Sue their asses!