around the house

I used to believe that when someone was "moving" (to a new place) they would call the movers which had a giant knife to cut the house and transport it to a new location.

Juan Zermeno

I used to believe that when families moved, they just directly traded houses with the person whose house they were moving into. When I was disabused of this notion, I was still very confused as to where the other family went.

Ven

In middle school, when we got a new refrigerator, I thought that we had two kinds of water. Regular water and then "light" water. My mom was trying to lose weight and so I told her to drink the light water. I still get made fun of to this day.

Kyndra

When I was 5 I believed that if you plant a money plant the leaves would eventually turn into money. I would be careful while watering it to not get money wet.

Aparna

I used to think the ottoman was called the "autumin" because it was invented in autumn. I

Anon

I used to think that when you bought something off the internet you payed by taking apart the monitor and putting coins in.

Then when I found out that you used a credit card I thought that you had to put the credit card in the CD slot.

Mimi

Though she denies it today, my mother told my siblings and me that if we walked across a freshly waxed floor we would stick there forever. To this day, I still cringe slightly when I set my foot down for the first step.

Linda

When I was a little girl about 4 yrs old, I had (as most children do) the occasional accident in bed at night. The next morning, my mom would have to strip the covers and clean the vinyl mattress coverings with a water/vinegar solution. I thought I was such a lucky little girl because I had a 'water' bed. I told everyone until one day I heard my mom explaining the truth to my grandmother.

Elizabeth

I used to believe that if I could swing high enough on my swingset then I could swing up over the top of it and keep going around it in a loop. I tried, but could never do it. :)

Christiecat

I used to believe you could live down the back of the sofa...

Big Pete

my grandad used to tell me that if i put my fingers in plug sockets they'd bite me. i believed him and i thought that little people lived in there.

Brody Armstrong

When my Mum bought a new vacuum cleaner, the salesman told me that if she left it on for too long it would suck up the carpet and everything on it (including people) and so whenever it was used I'd always scream to my Mum to turn it off after a little while

Steve

I thought that monsters lived in my bedroom walls and would come and kidnap me.

The only way I could escape them was by being very loud whenever I walked into my bedroom as they were scared by loud noises and only came out during the day as they slept at night

Maud Flanders UK

When I was younger, I had a fascination with the light switch. I would flick the lights on and off as fast as I could until my mother got fed up and would tell me to stop. After a while of suffering through this pattern, my mom told me that if I continued, the electric company would get confused -- not knowing if we wanted our lights on or off. She claimed that they would then cut off our power. I immediately stopped my personal light show because I thought I would be the one responsible for our house not having any more electricity.

S

You know those little green electric boxes? the ones with the sticker that showed a man getting shocked? I thought that that was a monster that lived in there, and if I got to close to it he would eat me. My parents encouraged this belief so i wouldn't get hurt.

Anon

my parents didnt want me to stay up late as a little kid, so they told me that at midnight, all the chairs, tables, sofas, and all the furniture get legs and start running around blindly killing things (yes, i now realise how sadistic that sounds), anyway, it never worked, cause as soon as they went to sleep, i went back down to see if that really happend, and was disapointed every night when it didnt...ah well

Hom Garven

When I was little my Mum used to tell me to turn the TV off if I wasn't watching it, or turn the lights out if I wasn't using them because I wasting power and I always used to say to her "But how do THEY know I'm wasting power?". I thought you only got charged for electricity if you were actually wasting it, and so I wondered how they knew if I was wasting it or not, how did they know if I was actually watching the teley or not?Very confusing!

Toni

When i was young when i used to look into a cup and see a reflection i thought it was an actual face in the bottom of the cup that would apper and disappear

Zack Redstar

Growing up, I always thought that the piece of furniture that you put your clothes in was called a "Chester Drawers". I just figured that it was named after someone named Chester or something. Then one day when I was 21 years old, I was looking through a furniture ad in the newspaper when my eyes flew open wide, I looked at my best friend who was sitting there and I shouted, "Chest Of Drawers"! She looked very puzzled. After I explained, we both had a good laugh and whenever one of us sees a furniture ad like that, we joke that we should buy some of those "Chester Drawers"! hehee!

Debbie M.

When I was about 3, and in the middle of the night, I used to genuinely believe that the sound of my parents snoring and the location of their dresser against a sort of diaganol (sp) wall near the entrance to their closet, which was also at an odd angle, all conspired to mean there was a large cow that lived in the space by the dresser and the closet, and that it was making the loud snorting noise. I had just been moved to farm country in Iowa, and before that was aquainted with a cow in Florida, so there's a chance I felt very familiar with cows (lol). I did not have any thoughts about the cow in the daytime, and I was vaugely afraid of it at night- my bedroom was across a double-doored bathroom from my parens room, and when I woke up in the night, I liked to cross through the bathroom and go sleep with them. The trouble was, I always had to hesitate a little and cross quickly by the 'cow' before I could get in bed with them. How I explained the noise coming from them once in the bed I have absolutely no idea, nor when I realized this was snoring. There's a chance this somehow only happened once, but I have it vividly ingrained in my mind.

I had a rich imagination apparently. (Still do...oops.)

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