around the house

I used to think that there were Indians living in my parents bedroom who could only be awoken by the sound of a flushing tiolet. So after going to the bathroom, I would wash my hands first then simultaneouls flush the toilet and open the door to run down the stairs. They would come running out with their bows and arrows but I was always to quick for them.

Overactive Imagination

I used to believe everything was alive, absolutly everything. Chairs, tables, carpet, even cooked vegetables. I used to cry when things broke or I had to throw out little things like paper or pencils. So I hoarded everything until my mom came in with this big garbage bag and cleaned everything up. To this day i still get upset when people throw around objects and sometimes (this is crazy) I still even talk to them.

Souf

I used to think that people only had house numbers (for their address) if they had children.

jm

over the summer, if i didn't go to camp and stayed at home my mom would make me clean up and wash dishes everyday. i'd keep the house clean but i could not stand washing dishes. so i'd fill up the wash tub with soap and water (plenty of bubbles so you can't see the bottom) and put a few clean dishes on the other side to make it appear as if i had washed and dried the dishes. she was proud of me every night.

leelee

My uncle once told me that little green men live inside a dish washing machine and clean your dishes when it is on. I would sit infront of the dishwasher till it's done to try and see the little green men, but as soon as I opened the door they would all go back into hiding.

Jacques

i used to believe that the label applied to pillow that read do not remove except by consumer penalty of law. meant that im would be arrested if it came off so every time my pillow case came off i would hurry and put it on so it wouldnt fall off, it was really worn from washing so i thought if it fell off it would be my fault.

debbie

My mum told me, when i was about 6 years old, that she had started a baby sitting circle. I took this to mean that she had invented the entire concept. Imagine how proud I was when the film "The Baby Sitter" was released.
I am still proud of my mum and still a little naive.

Joseph

My sister told me that there were little elves inside the bottom of the coffee maker that fueled a fire both to heat the coffee and light the little orange light on the coffee maker's panel.

Peg

I used to believe that if you left the hoover on the same spot on the carpet switched on for too long then it would suck up all the fluff and you'd get a bald spot on the carpet.

I would hoover like a maniac to make sure my mum wouldn't tell me off for ruining the lounge carpet...

Boo

When I was much younger, I used to believe that there were cameras in my living room, and they would watch my every movement. They didn't know that I knew about them, so whenever my mom or dad left me alone in the living room, I would act normal, only moving my eyes to search for the cameras. I never did find where they were hidden...
This stems from watching a show on bad babysitters, and how worried parents would hide "Nanny-Cams" to keep an eye on the sitter. For some reason I believed my parents wanted to keep an eye on me, in case I was bad.

Melissa

When i was young and i stayed with my gran i used to think there was monkeys on the roof, this is because there was wires hanging down which came half way down the window then bent up again making the shape of a monkeys tail.

Woody (scotland)

i used to believe in many frightening things at our flat, many of them lurking in my room at night, but i was never scared of the dining room: there, under the bench, where we put the plastic shopping bags, slept a friendly burglar. i was sure he wouldn't hurt me but on the contrary wake up when something was wrong and protect me from any evil!

Anon

I remember when I was 8 yrs old and just moved into our new home... My mother took me into the laundry room and showed me the red switch plate which was the emergency heat for the boiler... She told me that if I touched that and flicked the switch that the whole house would blow up!! Well I never touched that switch! p.s. I was always in trouble!! LOL

Joyce

I used to love playing on the carpet at the base of the large double glass doors leading out to the patio. One day, I discovered some large coins directly at the bottom of the long white drapes hanging over the clear bright windows. The dark shadows of the coins made me think they were worth plenty. It wasn't until high school that I finally decided (against my mother's wishes) to carefully disect one of those curtain seams and find out for sure just how much money was hidden at every curtain intersection. To my utter dismay, I encountered only large heavy plug nickles to add to my other list of relevant childhood treasures. To be sure, they didn't redeem for what I had encountered at the stored wand of belief.

However, I was delighted to cut open a tube of Stripe toothpaste to encounter just how the stripes emerged all from the same opening of the tube.!! That was pure delight.

Sylvie

i watched to much cartoons because i used to believe if you stuck a piece of metal in a light socket you could see your own bones like an x-ray...it did'nt work!!!

hi-desert dummy

I use to believe if I ran over the cord when vacumming it would explode I still cringe every time I accedently run it over

Kara

At about 4 years old, an old sink was removed from my bedroom and a small hole (about 5cm in diameter) was left in the floor. My mum infomed me that if I put my finger down the hole, I'd dissapear without a trace. I didn't go near it until I was about 8 despite the fact that it had been carpeted over by this point!

Roger