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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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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 why I haven't been getting my bank statements for the past couple of months. My parents have been hiding them from me, because they've been stealing from it. 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 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, after weeks of allowing my parents to borrow money, I got a check for $2000. I took it to the bank only to find out it was fake. FML
Today, I had to dig into my savings to help my parents pay for their divorce. FML
Today, I'm 36 years-old, living with my parents, in debt. My mom always wants to solve my problems by giving me money, which she later claims as "borrowed", so now I'm highly in debt with the bank… and her. 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, I found out that when my uncle died, he left me and the rest of my family £2000 each. Only my parents kept and spent my share on themselves. FML
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RPGod 0
That's horrible! How dare they! You should sue them when they get back on their feet.
yep_sucks 1
welcome to my life. my mother stole the 30k my grandparents gave me for sophomore year to 'pay off' her debts. i'm now 90k in debt after all the interest from the loan i had to take out.
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funnyfml 0
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First!
funnyfml 0
Thx, I will always remember that
voodootrucker 0
i guess your under 18 your money is their money did they say thanks ( f u punctuation nazis)
americayay 0
Agreed 49. Even if he earned it himself, while it may make them *****, it's still legally theirs if he's under 18. Especially if they're the one's who saved it, though. However, if he's older than that, he shouldn't have given them access.
Intellectualist 0
Sucks to be you. Ironic, parents are supposed to be responsible.
ragamuffin42 12
Unfortunately, responsible parents are pretty much non-existent.
Crazyjoe33 6
I'm lucky then
legendofdon 0
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YDI for letting your parents have access to your money.
cheesesoda 0
If he is a minor and opened that account under a certain age, his parents would have access to the account. You know, since he is/was a minor and all. Are you always this stupid?
mplsmech 0
How does a minor come across an amount of money large enough to be worth clearing out by his parent's to help pay their massive debt? Furthermore, and regardless of how they gained access, this kid needs to talk to the police. There was obviously some forging going on.
Dr_Pepper_fml 3
If you are a minor, you have no private property rights. PERIOD. I went through this exact same shit with my parents. This is also why minors cannot sign contracts and why their parents are responsible until their emancipation.
Bob343434 10
38- it's only $27.17, it's not enough to pay the debt, try rereading the FML
KrazyKatz3 26
That is what they have now....
RPGod 0
That's horrible! How dare they! You should sue them when they get back on their feet.
GreekYogurt 26
There's always one.
boredinjp 17
If you live independently, how come they know the details for your bank account? That's the fee for your lesson in independence.
Supermum43 0
Why could they access your bank account ??? If you let them then it's your own stuppid mistake and not FML
withsexyresults 0
YDI for being under 18. Raising a kid costs a few hundred thousand dollars. Did they take more than that?
tiancai 0
How the hell would someone under 18 have thousands of dollars in his bank account, unless that was his parents' money to begin with. But if he is over 18 and it's his own earned money, HDI for being retarded enough to use a shared bank account with his parents.
LilaBear 2
all those "this is how much it costs to raise a kid" estimations are BS. I guess it depends what country you live in, but in Australia, you get given so much money by the gov for having kids, that I have a friend with a 2yo and she reckons she hasn't spent a cent more on him than what the gov has given her. And most of the parents I talk to say kids are really not that expensive, you just have to learn to say 'no' and not buy brandname-everythings. You can't say YDI by suggesting he OWES his parents what it cost to raise him.
leisl14 0
If the parents weren't financially prepared for a child, why did they have one? Up until the kid is 16, the parents are responsible for providing all necessities.
littlecuntcats 6
Well you must have rich friends. Babies are expensive because they poop and pee all the time. Toddlers are constantly growing and need new clothes every time you blink. Kids are okay, but you still have to clothe and feed them. Teenagers are beyond expensive. They eat you out of house and home.
yep_sucks 1
welcome to my life. my mother stole the 30k my grandparents gave me for sophomore year to 'pay off' her debts. i'm now 90k in debt after all the interest from the loan i had to take out.
cheesesoda 0
Ouch. I guess parents actually respecting their kids is hard to come by. Fortunately, for me and my brother, my parents would never think twice about burdening us with their debt.
f_u_u_f_f 0
@ 28 I think you got a typo there. :-) (If your parents would never think twice, it means they would do it in a heartbeat!)
cheesesoda 0
Heh, yeah.
elfuzzo 0
The only way they'd have access to your account is if you're under 18 and still live at home, in which case the money you earn under their roof is theirs anyway. If you're over 18, they shouldn't have access to your account. Either way, YDI.
__no_one__ 0
Uh, you do know that you can work and receive gifts under 18, too? Either way, technically it's not theirs anymore once they give it to the kid. And if they were any decent, they'd have ASKED him before they took it, either way. I wouldn't sue, that's stupid, and if they are that deep in debt chances are you won't even get anything out of it. Also, suing one's parents is a definite way to butcher the family peace. If you don't want that, don't do it. Tell them they should have asked beforehand, and they should pay you back, especially if you needed that money for something.
viper0hr 7
So stealing from your family does not butcher family peace?
ifinishlast 0
or you could ask them to pay you back in time. you're parents are you're parents don't do that suing bullshit with then unless they treated you like shit or neglected you. if they provided food clothin shelter and a loving home for you then ask them to pay you as soon as they can.