Today, I had to spend all of my money on textbooks even though my refrigerator is empty. Starving and frustrated, I called home to ask for money for groceries. My mom told me I could afford to skip a few meals. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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, school tuition has taken up so much of my paycheck that the only thing I had to eat for dinner was applesauce. FML
Today, I bought $250 worth of groceries and was feeling rather good about myself because it's the first time I've been able to do so in months. When I returned home I found my fridge/freezer broken. Most of the food I bought was dairy or frozen. FML
Today, I was hungry and I was trying to buy the cheapest burger at Wendy's, but I'm so broke that I had to call my friends to lend me some money. Ugh. FML
Today, I was so ashamed of being broke that instead of asking my parents for money, I snuck into their house while they were at work to steal some of their food. FML
Today, my mother told me how she managed to afford all of the expensive Christmas presents we got. She took out extra money when applying for my student loans. FML
Today, I left for college. I spent hundreds of dollars on clothes, bedding and other things. After packing my entire closet and everything else I needed, I left only to have to head back home. My dad forgot to pay the first semesters tuition. He said "Oh well, you would have failed out anyway." FML
Today, I decided I need help, so I confessed to my mother that I'm bulimic. After she looked it up online she started screaming at me for "Wasting food that I'm not paying for." FML
Today, my mom yelled at me because I refused to lend her money. The reason I won't lend her money? The last time I did, she and my dad went out and bought a Macbook and a new car instead of paying bills. Apparently, I'm being 'selfish' by keeping my own money and putting it towards university. FML
Today, I lived at home rent free, until now. According to my mother, I receive "too many packages" from online shopping, and now I need to "chip in." FML
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you_failed 15
That's evil!! D:
FajitaFreak 3
Your mom and dad brought you into this world. I don't understand the mentality that they don't owe you anything. Yes, you are sentient and capable of taking care of yourself most of the time, but everyone needs help now and again. You would not exist if not for your parents, which is a good thing when things are good in life, but ******* horrible when things go wrong. I've been homeless and starving and without hope. It's not something I'd wish on my worse enemy.
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HesJustTheBest 0
Food is for the weak. But if you can cough up some change, keep an eye out for these inexpensive items: Bread Processed Cheese Butter Make grilled cheese sandwiches (assuming you have access to a stove). Problem solved.
meh_meh_meh 2
Bread: 2.50 Processed Cheese: 2-4$ Butter: 2$ 8 dollars is a lot to people who have nothing.
Troll1 0
eat dick. lot of plumpa humpas out there waiting to give you some. such as your alcoholic father.
meowmeowwkitty 0
COUPONS! duh.
HesJustTheBest 0
If you're that broke that 8 dollars is alot of money to you then how the hell are you still paying for college (because student loans usually don't pay for everything). You must be one poor bastard meh_meh_meh.
steamywindow 0
get a job as a bus boy. free leftovers!
mightymart 5
hahaha better start using those books fast so you can finish school, get a job and buy some food!!
Doortje 30
Check out the dumpsters next to your local restaurant. You would not believe what great food you can find there. Just yesterday I found a big burrito. Sure, it was half-eaten and maybe a few days old, but once I got rid off the mold it was really tasty!
ulicksam 0
Welcome to college. You're no different than 90% of the students out there. It's always been like that. Some of us actually took a part-time job while studying up to 24 credits a semester. You might want to look into that.
ChibiChibi_fml 28
Why are you assuming she doesn't already have a job? It's possible that she does have a job and that just paying for the textbooks completely wiped out her paycheck. I know that when I worked part time I was only making around $300 each paycheck which doesn't mean a whole lot if you have $500 worth of textbooks to buy.
boatkicker 5
Exactly. I work 43 hours a week and I pissed away two and a half weeks worth of pay on my textbooks. Thank god I had some money saved up. It's the only thing that saved me.
ktbird 0
You guys apparently never figured out that there are cheaper ways to get books. eBay, international versions... Also if you aren't going to need the book day in and day out, you can sometimes get away with borrowing someone else's and copying down the problems or doing the same with one of the bookstore's books.
boatkicker 5
All but one of those were books I need daily (and that one had been on my list of books to buy sometime anyways. I had read parts of it before and wanted the whole thing) and none of them were bought new. Bought at the cheapest I could find them. Half came from ebay, two used from amazon sellers, and two were e-books.
Calyx_fml 22
You should have skipped some of the textbooks. Most of them you won't even read. Get them used on aamazon and spend 1/3 of the price.
valerioparis 2
Get a job and screw your family. they 're just not worth it from what you 've written...
SirEBC 7
You might want to place your verbs a little more strategically..
gkflower 0
^ lmao
AnagenisisZagus 13
Mommy is funny! :D
Troll1 0
until I blow my load.
amberita28 0
Maybe you shouldn't have wasted all that money on booze last weekend, fatty.
2010smhill2010 0
if op commits sucide after reading all of these mean and hurtful comments...yall can be charged with a crime...with that said op can be overweight do to medication or an injury...just be careful about wat u post..it will come back around and kick you in the balls
ChibiChibi_fml 28
No, no they can't because it's the OP's choice to read the comments on an FML she submitted. She submitted the FML knowing there was the possibility of hurtful comments. It's not like they are all stalking her on many different pages, such as facebook,just to leave cruel comments.
djrox11 0
how do you know it was booze? could be he/she has a serious cocaine problem
amberita28 0
Go hump a tree
MuchDance90s 0
if someone sexxed you, it'd be like humping a tree. you're such a dog, you must have some "bark". hehe just kidding you gorgeous princess
truthinlies 1
if someone gets suicidal because someone says something mean on the Internet they need to get the **** off the computer and do something else. it's natural for people to not care about people they don't know.
alexisxomontane 3
harah