Food and Money: Broke - FML

Broke

By Anonymous - 23/01/2012 14:19 - United States

Today, school tuition has taken up so much of my paycheck that the only thing I had to eat for dinner was applesauce. FML

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By Anonymous - 23/02/2011 16:04 - United States

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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By malnourishedstudent - 08/06/2016 08:38 - United States - Palm Coast

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

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By Geezum Crow - 06/12/2018 17:30

Today, I found out my school's financial aid had a "misunderstanding" of my finances, I can no longer afford to pay half of my bills or pay for Christmas. FML

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By anon - 13/05/2009 17:39 - United States

Today, I graduated from college and my parents gave me an apple. Not the computer, the fruit. FML

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By FoodNeeded - 25/08/2016 02:24 - Russian Federation - Moscow

Today, for breakfast, I made a butter sandwich. I'm that broke. FML

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Lunch Special

By Luisa - 09/01/2020 01:00

Today, we have nearly no food in the house. My husband went shopping with the kids and returned with a sack of tomatoes. Time to make lunch. FML

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By Anonymous - 29/08/2009 00:59 - United States

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

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By mom - 26/04/2018 15:00

Today, after it appeared my daughter was throwing away any vegetables in her school lunch, I packed her all vegetables so she would have to eat at least one. Nope! She threw them out and complained to school that "mommy doesn't feed" her. I got a call from the school. FML

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By Anonymous - 07/11/2023 10:00

Today, I’m so hungry. My parents only get food for my sister and I’ve been surviving on cheese sticks for the past week. I only have one left. I don’t get paid until next week. I’m so scared I’m gonna faint at the wheel instead of at home, where I’m usually able to sit down and get some water before I do. FML

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Hangry

By Broke as hell - 07/04/2020 23:00

Today, after being robbed last week, I had no money to go to the store for food. Instead, my dinner consisted of two Tums chewables in tropical fruit flavors. After not eating all day, I thought they actually tasted pretty good. FML

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Top comments

TheFirstSamurai 18

Monday 23 January 2012 18:58

You need to increase your sauce of income somehow.

Pelreskovich 11

Monday 23 January 2012 19:00

Garnish your Ramen noodles with it. Ramen is ******* delicious. Years of food for pocket change!

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Birdy1492 4

Monday 23 January 2012 20:00

At least you had that..... Imagine if all you had was mustard.

islander03 5

Monday 23 January 2012 20:11

i think the time has come to shove your pride aside and visit your local foodbank. Unless you enjoy eating liquified snacks for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

RoseCrystal 17

Monday 23 January 2012 20:26

well at least it will keep the doctor away. save money on medical bills.

EduJav321 24

Monday 23 January 2012 20:27

Well... Time to work the streets

ChessBoxing 0

Monday 23 January 2012 20:33

When life gives you apples, give the damn apples back!

mama2b3 20

Monday 23 January 2012 21:04

Better than ramen in my opinion.

alival 12

Tuesday 24 January 2012 1:17

No way Ramen kicks ass

seafoam11 8

Tuesday 24 January 2012 5:02

Ramen "kicks ass" because it has like 10,000 grams of sodium. Applesauce won't be as filling but at least it's not basically toxic.

BboyMarkieMark 3

Monday 23 January 2012 21:13

Dang... Maybe consider two jobs if you have time or get a job at a food place so at the end of your shift you can fix you something to eat

chilla4m3 6

Monday 23 January 2012 21:18

At least you had SOMETHING to eat. I usually don't have anything to eat for a while after I pay tuition.

ilove80smetal 8

Monday 23 January 2012 21:20

That sucks man. I just pray that your not taking some stupid ass course. Like history... God is history useless. "and in 1542 Columbus fou..." WE DON'T GIVE A ****! Lmfao.

mrnieto1894 0

Monday 23 January 2012 21:35

Once your successful in ur field of work, then you'll probably just look back on this and laugh. Keep ur head up

xStaciexLynnx 15

Monday 23 January 2012 23:13

Unless he's never successful. Then he'll just be back on FML again. "I ate applesauce for years to pay for college and now I'm working at McDonalds. FML."

seafoam11 8

Tuesday 24 January 2012 4:57

Sounds like the average person in the U.S.'s story these days.

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