Hardworking 19-year-old refuses to give ½ of her savings to her family after her mom outs that she has $4000 in the bank: ‘I was saving that money in case I move out’

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  Teen girl working on her schoolwork before her shift.

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• I got my first job when I was 15, and let me tell you, it wasn't until I was almost 20 that I saw a comma in my bank account. Money goes away far quicker than it comes in, and as a teenager, saving a few G's is no simple task. It's for this reason that this entire tale is so ironic, because a mother who claimed to care for her daughter's future was simultaneously sabotaging the years of hard work and diligence that her daughter sacrificed to get there. 

  However, this teen has a good head on her shoulders and decided that her family was fine without her help; it was her mother whose priorities needed to be straightened out. 

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• The mom only wanted the money once she saw for herself the number in her daughter's bank account. Green with envy, she truthfully wanted to spend that money herself, or at least save herself the expenses she already expected with the family funds. The greedy mother didn't expect that her daughter would refuse her, although she had every right to change her passwords and bank account routing numbers right then and there. 

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  Teen girl looking off into the horizon on a college campus.

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• The mother was acting more like a vicious landlord than a parent, and this daughter responded aptly. 

  Hopefully, the teen can use her savings to move out like she had planned, getting far away from the freeloading family members who expected to ride the coattails of her success. 

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