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
Collection
Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Same thing different taste
Poof, gone!
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 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
Thievery
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 discovered my parents have spent my college fund because "2012 will happen" before I graduate. FML
Is that even legal?
Today, I discovered that my mom got my college fund in the divorce. I will never see that money again and now I can’t afford a four year school. FML
Today, I found out that I owe my college a little over $10,000. Why? Because, due to a slight misspelling of my name, the scholarship that I have been going insane trying to meet the requirements for is not actually giving me any funding. FML
Today, after months of living on five dollars a day for food in college, I found out my parents bought me an expensive meal plan and forgot to mention it. FML
Coincidence?
Today, I learned that the new granite countertop in my parents' house cost $12,000. Coincidentally, this is also the amount of money I would have needed to go to the college of my dreams instead of the cheaper school I currently attend. 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 discovered that when my parents offered to help me pay for college, what they really meant is they would get the forms for me to apply for student loans. FML
Top comments
rookitty 0
what the hell kind of parents do that??
barlessprison 16
What is with all these parents using up their kid's college fund or hiding college acceptance letters?? FYL & try a scholarship.
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Comments (226)
RJB 0
wow what douchebags.. least u have a nice lawn lol
blakehilli8 0
Second
danielrp34 7
You're 15th you dipshit.
Unregistered 0
hey guess what those "douchebags" put in that college fund and can do whatever they ******* want with it maybe if the OP wasnt lazy and got her own ******* job she could get a student loan and pay it off
Sessee 4
Why so defensive? It's not their money, they gave it to HIM (-cough- not HER). You don't give something to someone and take it back, especially if it's something as important as college, and all you want is a pretty lawn.
RJB 0
uh and how do you not know the college fund is his money HE saved up. Unless you are ******* the Op you do not know how he got the money.
jackkerouc9 0
This will teach you to mow the lawn! FYL Seriously
crap09 0
****! Now MyDrunk3 is on FML? First MLIA, NOW HERE?? GTFO SPAMMER NOOBS.
americayay 0
Assuming OP wasn't able to save up 20,000 by himself, it's THEIR money. They can do what they want with it. I'm not saying it's right, because I personally think parents should take more responsibility for their kids futures, but it's still the money THEY saved up. They definately should have told him sooner, though. If it's OP's money, that's a lawsuit if he's 18.
americayay 0
And 79, legally, the money is theirs if it's not solely in his name, which clearly it isn't or the lawn wouldn't look quite so nice right now. Morally it's ****** up. Legally, it's their right.
Darthbane2007 19
But the thing is, what's more important- A stupid lawn that can get landscaped anytime, or a chance at a college education that can last a lifetime?
scorpioserpent 1
Yeah it sucks. but it sounds like it was their money...if it was his, they wouldn't have access to it.
leaper66 12
I totally agree, morally it's just wrong. But I think if the money was in his name they wouldn't be able to take it away from him, so it was probably theirs. This is why I have an RESP, it's mine and my parents can't touch it. Even if they tried they would get heavily taxed if they did not use it on education.
bezach 0
and how do you asume? both sides are but remained best untold.
jayysampps 0
it's a HE because there's a ******* male symbol at the top right..dumbass.
rookitty 0
what the hell kind of parents do that??
StaticMatt 2
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Same parents that raised the money to begin with. The kid obviously wasn't worth the 20k for college at the time so they spent their money more wisely.
ProfessionalTrol_fml 14
208- hope you never have kids.. You sick freak
andy3_fml 0
sucks to be you!
barlessprison 16
What is with all these parents using up their kid's college fund or hiding college acceptance letters?? FYL & try a scholarship.
Mewtwo_fml 1
Any parent who hides their child's college acceptance letters should either be obliged to pay tuition + any and all expenses that child has for the entire time they're in college when they do get into one, or a flat sum of money equal to what those expenses would have been if it's too late for them to get into a college.
fawfulster 11
If only the UN knew tht kind of shit would happen. I say that this should be put in an extra article in the Children's Rights Declaration. Now that way those douchebags can be arrested.
blechblech 0
that sucks dump
Intoxicunt 6
$20,000 for landscaping? They're right, don't go to college. Be a landscaper!
22jrdn55 15
lmao
judgeymcjudge 0
Awesome comment is awesome. Intoxicunt FTW.
Intoxicunt 6
Thank you!
atvarela 0
No, don't go into landscaping. Leave that to the damn Mexicans.. (kidding)
Intoxicunt 6
Haha. Nah, they just steal their money. Kidding as well.
timtam24 0
god how stupid are your parents. I guess they never learnt the importance of getting an education
wbrycem 0
I guess not ... because if they had one, they probably wouldn't have taken their son's college money and spent it on landscaping haha
yokatta 0
So take some initiative and pay for college yourself, welcome to real life. But I agree I'd be pissed if I was under the impression that it was going to be taken care of and found out something like this.
XOfiestypixie 0
Although this could be from a couple months ago, they probably don't have the money to pay for college themselves, and even the chances of making enough money over the summer to cover tuition is pretty much impossible.
jet_fml 0
9: how do you know that he didn't pay for it himself? Of course it's unlikely that all 20k came from him, but most of my friends put some of their own money in their college funds. Regardless, you'd think that most parents would want their children to go to college. It's kind of a douche move to let him think he's going to college if he's actually not.
nc600 0
Then you take out loans if college is really for you. Most everyone I know did that. It made you really think about whether or not college was for you and generally made you unlikely to piss away the chance to learn something while you were there.
MoMoJones 0
lol
mrda 0
Your parents are useless. Fyl