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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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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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)
joemama13 0
Oh boo-freakin'-hoo, OP. Why don't you quit snorting your ritalin, get a job, and pay for college like REAL people do instead of relying on mommy and daddy. no wonder the coming generations are lazy and self-entitled - they haven't had to work for anything. It's a shame they wasted the money on landscaping, though. They should have taken a nice, celebratory empty-nest trip to Bora-Bora and waved to you while you're filling out your FAFSA form. Welcome to the real world. It sucks. Good luck.
Jose73 8
**** your ritalin joke. People's lives get ruined by diseases like that. I've met some brilliant, hardworking people who couldn't overcome the more debilitating forms of ADHD. You are the same as a person who points and laughs at a kid in a wheelchair. The excuse that it isn't as serious is the same as using the kid in a wheelchair to say its ok to laugh at the one in a cane. Truly, I hope karma teaches you a lesson with that soon. Maybe a child of yours will have to go through that struggle.
thesunshotme 0
FYL for having parents that don't give a shit about your education and would LIE to you about your college fund.
IAmHypnotoad 0
This post is the truth.
thesunshotme 0
To the people saying the OP should grow up and put himself through college: What makes this an FML is that his parents spent the money and told him afterwards. They should have told him beforehand so he could have prepared sufficiently. Instead, it came as a nasty shock. Plus, how do all of you know he's not paying for the rest of his tuition with his own money? 20K only buys a bit more than 1 year in state school. It's too bad that you had to pay for college in full, but there's nothing wrong with parents who want to help their kids out, especially if they have the means (which OP's parents probably do). If there are kids who have parents that love and care about their them enough to invest in their education, good for them. Jesus Christ. And OP, looks like you learned your lesson the hard way. I'm not saying YDI, but you should always have a plan B when it comes to important matters like this.
tamarra_fml 0
THE SAME THING IS HAPPENING TO ME RIGHT NOW OP. Yard reno: infinite College fund: -28347829
dzidziaud 5
At least you had a college fund. I sure don't.
Kinkysub 0
Thats totally messed up. If they were gonna spend it, they should have let you know so that you could start saving up for it and etc, instead of trying to convince you not to go and hiding it. Im paying my way thru college with no help, but I KNEW I would have to do that. And to the people saying YDI, no because he thought he would have some kind of help and be able to get thru at least one year of college. Thats ****** up in so many diffrent ways that his parents didnt care about him enough to not touch the money that was supposed to help him better himself.
Darthbane2007 19
People that say the OP deserves it need to think this over. &20,000 may not seem like much, but it was put into a college fund for the OP to use for college. I don't know what the cost of College is in canada, but in te USA, depending on which school you go to, on average $20,000 is enough to pay for 1 school year and a portion of the following year if you attend a in state school. The ****** up thing is that the parents decided to use their son's money for something as dumb as landscaping. THEN they try to persuade him not to attend college. And for those of you who tell the OP to get a job, who's to say he wasn't planning on doing that? He might have planned on getting a job, saving up all of his money to use once the $20,000 was used up..
Ace118 0
I get really annoyed by people complaining about college-fund-related things. In New Zealand, you always pay for your own university unless you have really rich parents. $20,000 seems really steep, uni fees in NZ are about US$3200. Is there no such thing as interest-free student loans in the US?
leaper66 12
In Canada it's around $5000 a year. The US' education system sucks, they charge ridiculous tuition that you could receive in Canada for 75% less. The quality of education is terrible, no wonder people don't understand they are over paying.
Frazzle_Dazzle 0
It sure paid off, by the looks of things. That was meant for #201. Why does FML always toss comment replies around like a hot potato?
kimono_fml 17
interest-free loan? in the US? That's hilarious
musiciangirl591 16
not really, they are really hard to find, trust me, as a person who spent the vast majority of last summer (when i wasn't working) trying to find such loans, they are few and far between
teen_in_training 0
I don't see why everyone is upset about a highpriced college.... my parents are stupid enough that costed 38,000$.... for a year in MIDDLE school
PugDelatorre 11
That's good dumbass. Their trying to give you a good education so they spent a shit load of money on you. God be grateful you little brat.
rosario_hates7 0
this sounds fake or u have some idiot parents