35 Spoiled Folks Online Share Their Moments Of Realizing How Different The Real World Really Is

Spending $50 on food a day is not normal. College girl got cut off from her parents (drinking and not going to class) and had to get a job. She put on Facebook about how she’s gonna go hungry and needs money. People offered her food and to make her dinner. She said “that’s okay I just need about $40 to get through the day I don’t like to grocery shop”.

if you’re wondering how she went through that much a day she always ate out at a restaurant and had Starbucks twice a day. Add in snacks and alcohol and there’s $40 in one day.

When my rich mother lost her high-end job and my father had to go into rehab. Suddenly I went from being totally set and carefree to having to start working while studying. Eventually I dropped out of college because the I couldn't handle the never ending school-work-sleep cycle, with literally zero free time and zero money (everything I earned covered just the most basic life expanses and tuition). I matured a lot during that year.

My friend will tell you (He's the son of a multimillionaire) it was when someone hit him in the face. Always on his best behavior after that stunt. He really thought just because he was the rich guy buying drinks, someone in the group wouldn't hit him from talking s**t

I realized that some people really struggle with money. I thought people didn't buy things they need (cars, appliances, clothes, a nice house) because they were really frugal and saving up. It's not even that I didn't know about poverty but I thought it was a third-world thing and that everyone in the US is pretty comfortable.

This didn't sink in until college. I'm terrified for after-college.

Dad worked for someone and that someone promised to sell him the company. When the day actually came, he sold the company to someone else and my dad quit his job. We were broke and I could no longer ask for things. We almost went bankrupt and nearly sold the house. Dad started his own company and we're still in debt. Haven't had enough money for anything and I have to make do with 12 bucks for a week or even 2 sometimes. I'm in college now and it's still the same. We live in Malaysia btw. I remember when I was 12, my dad was broke and we sat in a small stall to eat. He didn't have enough money to eat but promised me that we would have a life that's secure. I'm in college today and pretty thankful for that despite the lack of money, I tend to make do here and there.

When I lived on my own the first time. Cable, Internet, Utilities, Cell Phone, Health Insurance is $450 by itself. Throw in food, rent, haircuts, clothes, entertainment and you bankrupt. Forget having a car.

I never had a job until the age of 19. Up until this age I assumed people started working when they felt like it. As in, you wake up one day and say 'hey, you know what? I feel like working now. I'll go sign up to this company of my choice, and I'm going to choose to work this amount of hours per week.' Fast forward 3 years and due to parental abandonment I have no car, no education, will soon have no place to live, no licence and no work skills. Because I never had to

Got to college and my roommate washed his plastic silverware for reuse.

He'd never held an actual metal fork. Plastic was cheaper.

3rd grade I was being a little b***h to my mom and she, being the very Irish lady she is, lost her temper and started googling pictures of homeless kids from around the world to show me while screaming stuff like, "look at this girl, she sells bracelets to support her family!!!!". Not to say I became perfect overnight, but the realization that I was part of an upper-middle class family with happily married parents with no medical issues did start to sink in.

When the high school principals daughter who previously got away with all kinds of garbage behavior ( vandalism, dinking, major. bullying ) got caught vandalizing a lecture hall in uni she was unceremoniously dumped and banned. Parents whined for months on fb about their poor baby’s unfair treatment and the fact that her applications to other uni’s were being denied.

When I was removed from my parents and put through a year of foster hell. Sadly, my brother didn't get the same rude awakening I did.

Spez: We were in the same foster house, it's just he didn't fully grasp that the world doesn't revolve around him, while I mostly have. I'm still trying to fight off some demons from both eras.

When I was 18 and got arrested. I didn't get a ride back home. I went to jail.

First time I went a week living on beans and ramen because that's what was in the house and I didn't have any money I learned that in the real world, everything is not just handed to you.

I'm still a bit spoiled and I still have issues with prioritizing expenditures, but I'm much better than I was when I was 21.

When I was 30 and wanted a divorce and it didn't happen magically by writing a check to a lawyer.

My parents went bankrupt. Twice. Went from private school to having cars and the house repossessed. Yay.