I really hope your mom will give you all that money that you gave her towards your trip.

Well you're handling it better than I would, that's just ****** up.

At least you can see the bright side. You're a good and persistent kid. You'll go to Europe one day.

Wow OP that sucks, I mean the trip costs what between $1500 and $2000? You paid for $850 and your own spending money, your parents could have easily made a payment plan with the school, they had time to figure it out. If I were you OP, I wouldn't forgive your parents anytime soon, I don't mean guilt trip them, or sue them, but you have something over them, especially since they did technically steal money from you, yes you gave it to them, but they spent it on something other than it's intended purpose.

Wow I originally voted YDI because the way you made it sound the the original post is Mommy will take care of it all and all I have to do is pack a suitcase. The fact that you worked hard to earned your own money and did everything you thought you were suppose to and got bunred in the end is horrible. The next thing you should be saving up for is to move out of that house and away from your lying parents

This is awful. I'm so sorry this happened to you. It sounds like your parents don't take your feelings very seriously and that's a shame. Sadly, at least you learned you can't count on them over a trip and not something extremely important, like college or a job. Good luck, OP and watch your back. You deserve better from your parents than this, but you're clearly not going to get it.

your mom needs to give you ALL that money back. and it sounds like they owe you extra x-mas presents. >:c lying like that is NOT ok. like some other commenters already said, I'm surprised how well you seem to be handling it. I'd be flipping tables 'n stuff.

Yeah I know the feeling somewhat. When I was younger I had a plan to go on two trips with a school program. One was to Washington, my mom said she forgot the date and we 'missed' the required orientation. The second was Japan and we made it that time and I did all needed assignments and signatures and my mom tells me we don't have the money. She spent all of mine in the ban for something she can't remember. If it comes up in topic and somehow dies away or a parent never brings it up after all this stuff is being prepared, it means they were never really planning to do it. That or a 'We'll see.'

They owe you presents now! D:

that's really awful. how did she let you know you weren't going? just keep saving, you'll get there one day. does your mum have a side of the story or is she really just that thoughtless?

Sorry to hear a about what your mom did with the money. Hopefully she at least saved it up otherwise in a savings account for you, or plans to use it for you on another trip.

Sorry OP ,that blows. u seem to be handling it really well though. Make your parents give all your money back and 2 years worth of gifts as well. Its the least they can do, and you deserve t.

That's even worse of what your mother did to you

It's good, you're able to see a good side to this. I guess you have to talk it out with your mom, and maybe she can somehow make it up to you. Nobody should take their parents' money for granted. But a promise is a promise.

wow your mom sounds like pure evil.

Your mother is a bitch. By promising to partially pay for your trip, she made you give up two Christmases of gifts? And then she collects your portion of the payment, never pays for your tickets, and then lies to you about it so she can get you to stop reminding her? That's a parent of the year, right there.

Your parents are assholes! From reading this post, I can see that they were both in on it. I'm sorry you will miss your trip, but mostly I'm sorry that the trust you had toward your parents is broken. They had intentionally planned this out, took your money, and let you spend Christmas without gifts too. I would never do that to my kids. Even if I had asked them to give up their gifts, they still would have gotten something, just maybe not as extravagant. It's sad. I'm sorry OP. Hope you don't end up like them.

I wish your mom could see these comments. Sorry Op, but what a horrible person. Deprives you of Christmas and everything. Not that it's necessary but if it's tradition, that's pretty loose butthole

Oh my, that sucks that your mom would do something like that to you. Sorry to hear that OP but at least you get some of the money you saved up. That's a bonus :)

why do have a feeling your mom could have possibly kept the $850...

@197 Hmmmmmmmm... Could it be because she never ACTUALLY bought the tickets for OP even after they gave her their portion of the funding for the trip?

Wow OP, I'm really sorry that this happened to you. If I were you I'd print out this FML and all of the comments and leave it somewhere that she will find it. Maybe then she will see how badly she made you feel and how ****** up she is. I hope she "gets the hint " and makes it up to you.

Probably gifts for other people don't know just guessing here but that just plain is not right

okay, taking back my ydi

She gave you back every single penny you gave her for the trip? And are they at least making up Christmas this year? Since they didn't keep their end of the deal.

This made me more mad than it made you, OP, and nothing bad even happened to me.

Same way I feel, that ******* sucks

Quite impressed with how you're handling it. I would have gone mental, wanted to know where my money was and requesting two Christmases worth of presents this year because you missed last year entirely so you would be going to Europe. It seems spoilt and materialistic of me to say that but as you're not going, I think it's only fair. You held up your end of the bargain and your mom had more than enough chances to tell you. But my view is only third party, I can give my opinion but I may not be aware of the full story. I hope it somehow works out for you, op.

I can't wrap my head around why parents would do this. It seems downright malicious to me, and like they don't care of they ever want to have a real relationship with you. This is wrong on so many levels. I don't know how I would've reacted if my mom did this to me...maybe burn down the house. I wouldn't be ok with my parents for a very long time, and my trust with them would've been ruined. Don't let this one slide away easily.

I an so sorry OP :( what your parents did is not only completely cruel shellfish malicious and ****** up it's stealing, I thought this was a bad fml before I knew they not only backed out of a promise and lies to you but that they stole from you? This is practucally child abuse mental abuse at least. I'm sorry what they did is illegal and it might mean finishing off what's left of your jnbealthy relationship to demand your money back and take legal action if they refuse. I know it's hard to want to go against your parents because you love them even after they hurt you like that, and that's the saddest part I these cases all a kid wants is love so they forgive over and over things that should never be forgiven and even more ****** up most parents still think they are in the right. and the second you stand you for yourself armagedon is released

I'm literally seething just reading this. What a b-tch.

Reminds me of my class trip, I told my mom I wanted to go on a trip with our schools band (that I was in), and it would be XXX amount of dollars. I said I would raise money, and help all that I could. I said, "If your able to put $20 a week back for it, we should have the amount before the deadline". Little did my know, my controlling dad told her, "Why should she get to go on a nice trip, we aren't paying for it." I sold raffle tickets, worked in the concession stands during football games, and I was able to pay for almost half of the trip cost. I even signed up for a room, and baby sat for extra spending cash while I was gone. The week of the deadline came, and we got a phone call, "Hello, blah blah blah, you still owe XXX on your Florida trip, please make all blah blah blah by the deadline by this ____ day." I asked my mom when she was going to put in the money, since it was getting really close, and my dad pipped in, "You aren't going. We don't have the money too." Naturally, I freaked, I asked my mom what happened to the money she was putting back each week so I could go? I even gave up my birthday and Christmas for this trip. Again my dad answered, "I told her not to and we spent blah blah blah, and you don't deserve to go to Florida, and you're too young." I was bawling, and had to tell my friends I wasn't going. I worked my butt off for something, and they took it from me. (my mother had to call and tell the school to take my money I raised and put it to someone else). My mom wanted me to go, she wanted me to have fun. But instead that same week they sent me off to a church thing 2 states away for 7 days, where I was ignored and over all not cared for. I distinctly remember waking up alone, after falling asleep in a room with everyone watching tv. The tv was gone as well. My parents joined us the last 2 days, and I wanted my mom. I missed being actually cared about, fed, and talked too. I vowed to never go on another trip with my church, and the next 3 years my mom paid for me to go with my school (I still fund-raised). The best trips I've ever been on, and to this day, me and my dad have issues. You should never lie to your kids, and you should never let them work hard for something, and later claim they're too young. Especially if you plan on sending them some where, with more strangers, in almost the exact same distance, alone.

Wow you're mom is a bitch. Seriously i hate when parents lead you on on to make you believe that you're getting something when they know they have no intention of getting you it. I had a similar experience, though it was no where near as bad. A few years ago, my friends and i were planning on getting xbox's so that we could play online and such. So we told our parents and it all seemed good. I even said that it could be my only gift for all i care. I just wanted the xbox and nothing else. All throughout october, november and december my mom had me believing i was getting one. I was even showing her a few games that i thought looked cool and she would say she'll check them out. A week or two before christmas there was a box wrapped up under the tree that said "for your xbox". I thought that this could be a hdmi cable or a controller or something like that. This made me believe for sure that i was getting the xbox. We'll christmas comes along and the "for your xbox" gift turned out to be boxers with the xbox logo on them. I also didn't get the xbox. Instead i got a bunch of things i didn't ask for which all together cost more than the xbox. I don't understand parents sometimes. (I hope i don't sound like an ass or spoiled, because i'm pretty laid back. I don't even ask for anything for christmas anymore. I learned that if you have low expectations and don't ask for anything you can't be let down.) Also all my friends got there xbox's.

205, i know. It was supposed to be more on the sarcastic side but that obviously failed.

I would ask where the money went you gave them. There's no reason to just take it without reason.

Holy shit your dad is a total dick! **** him! I would never speak to him again.

She needs to give you back the money you gave her at least.....that's BS that you gave her money for it and then she didn't even sign you up....

At least your mom cared for you and you know she has your back. OP's parents were both in on it.

#156, My only question about your comment is: WHY

156. all my life my parents promised to buy me my first car and started a saving account for that and college. every penny I earned instead if buying candy or toys I'd out into there even when I was order and working babysitting and other jobs I was excited to save for college and to put towards my car. also I had a aunt who was well off and she's the one mostly responsible for raising me and when she died she left never a great deal of money which was automatically put into that saving account. I found out later that by parents had been siphoning off that account all along and at some point they emptied the account entirely and tried to hide it from me. they don't believe they did anything wrong since "technically " the account was opened by them and they needed the money although they still won't tell me what on. probably my sisters rehab and bail for my dad's repeated drunken arrests. oh and buying my older sister a car... while she was in rehab. then when I've asks for help paying for college, I'm going to comunity college since it's all I can afford without taking massive loans so is fairly cheap they refuse or get like if they loan me $100 I owe them my soul for it. and they say it's my fault because I was supposed to get scholarships since. was always top in my class and had a 4.0 so. they rationalize it also as in I shouldn't have.ever needed that money and it's my fault I did.

She's probably not going to.

Technically OP could sue. That's theft. I know I'm going to get people being like why would you sue your own parent? But just because they have birth to you and raised you does NOT mean they're untouchable, especially if they think it means they have immunity to do whatever the **** they want.

No, she didn't because, if her parents never gave her reason not to do so before, she believed them when they said it was paid for. Which is completely understandable. It's not her fault that they lied and stole her money. As for flights being rescheduled, I would think that it would come up in class since it was a school trip.

School trips definately don't work that way. There's no "ticket confirmation" cause everything is done through the school.

168- when its a school trip, the teacher tells you to be in the school parking lot at x time on x day, and that's all you need to know. You don't confirm flights or tickets or hotels or anything. All OP had to know was whether it was paid for, which (she thought) it was. So it's not her fault, and on top of missing her trip and losing all her hard earned money, her mother is a lying bitch. I'd say its definitely a FYL by far.