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
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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
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
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
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
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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)
xkitten 0
This sounds just like "my fake fiance" the movie. They spent their daughter's wedding money on landscaping. Then offered to pay for her wedding with money from the fund they were saving for their grandchildren's college.
drimpossible 0
In England you don't pay anything like the full amount. It is not free but everyone apart from foreign students is at least partially subsidized.
bananapie 0
Haha that really does suck. That's why I'm glad I live in Scotland where we get our tuition fees paid for by the government provided we go to a Scottish university and everyone is entitled to between something like £600-£3000 extra a year on top of that depending on their circumstances! No student debt for me!
mbergh22 0
stupid ass ******* parents should go to hell
the_commentator 0
That's it, I'm moving to Scotland.
amaethon 0
If it was an actual college fund (legally, that is), then you have legal rights. Your parents couldn't use the money for anything besides college (again, assuming that it's an educational trust fund), and thus they couldn't pay for the landscaping. You can get your money back (but I doubt that your parents would like it).
schatzelle 0
happened to me. so now i'm going to community college and am more determined than ever to get good grades. financial aid's helping me though.. and i'm working 3 jobs.. but it'll all be worth it when i transfer =)
rentmefor1day 0
yo deserve it, for attempting to go to college.... be a bum like most canadians
alwaysalady 0
I can top that. I was the first born child, and my dad was pretty disapointed that I was a girl, but started me a college fund anyway Then my brother was born. ANd he took my college fund away from me and gave it to my brother. So now Im fighting through community college and my brother is totally set, but the thing is , he isn't very smart
Willendorf 0
Dude, my parents did that, too. They decided to put a waterfall in their backyard, apparently more important than my college fund. FYL I'm sorry.
Essentials 0
get a ******* job and pay for it yourself. that's what student loans are for.
musiciangirl591 16
ohhhh yeah, so you can start 40+ grand in the hole before you begin your life!