History Main / ParentalSavingsSplurge

* On ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Monica expects her parents to help her out, financially, with her wedding to Chandler. Unfortunately, they already spent the money on a holiday house and remodelling the kitchen in their home. This was money ''they'' had initially earmarked for Monica's wedding, and they spent it because they decided Monica was never getting married - without talking to her.

* On ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Monica expects her parents to help her out, financially, with her wedding to Chandler. Unfortunately, they already spent the money on a holiday house for themselves. This was money ''they'' had initially earmarked for Monica's wedding, and they spent it because they decided Monica was never getting married -without talking to her.

* Played for massive drama in ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'': Arche was a gifted student mage who had to quit her studies to become a Worker (adventurers who take on less legal, but more rewarding jobs) to support her parents and sisters, which leads to her taking on the Nazarick job and dying horribly. The reason for this is that her parents have refused to realize that they were disgraced by the Emperor and continue their ConspicuousConsumption lifestyle (buying jewelry when even the next meal isn't a certainty), eventually selling her sisters into slavery where they both died of overwork. Even worse, the Nazarick raid was supposed to be OneLastJob, allowing her to take her sisters away and leave their family behind.

* One episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' involves a man who uses his forging skills to destroy the reputation of a church's patron saint, because his mentally ill mother basically gave away his possessions and their savings to them without his consent. [[spoiler: In a twist, he doesn't blame his mother for this, and relents when Goren makes it clear how devastated she'd be if the forged documents were accurate.]]

* On ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Monica expects her parents to help her out, financially, with her wedding to Chandler. Unfortunately, they already spent the money on a holiday house for themselves.

* In the original ''Webcomic/{{Newshounds}}'' Lorna at one point finds that her father had been repeatedly raiding her piggie banks, when she was little. He's a gambler with too many get-rich-quick schemes.

* In the original ''Webcomic/{{Newshounds}}'' Lorna at one point finds that her father had been repeatedly raiding her piggie banks, when she was little. He's a gambler

* In the original ''Webcomic/{{Newshounds}}'' Lorna at one point finds that her father had been repeatedly raiding her piggie banks, when she was little. He's a gambler with too many get-rich-quick schemes.

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* One episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' involves a man who uses his forging skills to destroy the reputation of a church's patron saint, because his mentally ill mother basically gave away his possessions and their savings to them without his consent. [[spoiler: In a twist, he doesn't blame his mother for this, and relents when Goren makes it clear how devastated she'd be if the forged documents were accurate.]]

* There's a RunningGag in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' where Timmy's parents frequently blow his college fund on frivolous things.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In "The Peanut Butter Kid", after Stewie becomes a child star, Peter and Lois start out by saving the money Stewie makes to pay for his college fund, but they soon devolve into pushy selfish [[StageMom Stage Parents]] and start spending the money on themselves.