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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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)
suckstobeyou3 0
My dad did that. He said the money was for "college or emergencies". I guess that emergency was a vintage car that sits in the garage collecting dust. @57: OP never said they weren't paying for anything. 20k would pay for, what, a year? He could use that year to work to save up money to pay for the next 3 years. If the parents can help, then why not? The world is expensive.
B00_fml 0
Isn't it illegal to do that shit?
22jrdn55 15
how is it illegal? "_"
bipolaradhdfml 0
That's really ****** up.
jdannyl 0
Oh boo ******* hoo, why should they pay for you to go to college anyway? The majority of people who study never go into a graduate job. In Britain we pay for our own courses. Stop being such a lazy mooching ass and go to college anyway, if you really care then you'll do well and get a great job, making the debt worth it. Otherwise stop bitching and get your McDonalds application form now you waster.
delfinofrank 0
You live in Canada. Isn't college free up there?
22jrdn55 15
lol yeah evrything is free here. education, health, cars, free money, free food, yeah it rocks up here!
FMLable 0
Many necessities are free here, but post-secondary eduction is not. It is, however, significantly cheaper than in the US. One semester at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College (a division of Memorial University of Newfoundland, a provincial university) with 5 courses costs 1411$, including Student Union fees etc. If the OP searches around, they may not be able to go to their 1st choice college, but there are many affordable programs with reknown quality around the country.
leili 0
Lol!! Unfortunately, post-secondary is not free here. :
ElMundio87 0
only scottish citizens get free tuition. anyone else (including other members of the united kingdom, whose taxes pay for these establishments) have to pay the full amount. makes me sick.
ElMundio87 0
in russia, you pay the equivilent of £500 a year in tuition, and you get it free if you get good enough grades in school. my parents should have hothoused me to learn russian =.="
XOfiestypixie 0
The only place in the world that has free university for all right now is Finland. And that's only until 2010, I believe.