money

When I was 5 years old, the church gave everybody in the neighbourhood those little donation bags that said 'bread for the world' on them. The girl who distributed those bags told me that they were collecting for poor kids who had no money to buy bread. So it seemed only natural to me to snag a few slices of bread from my kitchen. I asked my cousin to do the same, then we'd go to the church together and gave the priest our bags that contained real bread! He had a good laugh before he explained that you were actually supposed to put money in those. And because I thought the money was going to kids, I figured they would only need play money, so I emptied the cashier of my doll supermarket, filled the back and took it back to the church. Little did I understand why the priest was still laughing at me!

Sunny

One day when I was very young my grandpa was going to the bank. He showed me his check, and explained it to me. I told him I wanted some money too. I got out my red crayon, and some paper. I tried my best to copy his check. I even put a line under my name. I gave it to my grandpa, and asked him to take it to the bank for me. He said it wouldn't work. He said it was a hot check. I thought about it for a while. Then I took out some more paper and my blue crayon. I copied the check again, and handed it to him. I told him it wasn't hot anymore it was cold because I used blue! It took him quite awhile to explain it to me.

Kelly

When I was about 7 I thought checks were special bills with no predetermined value. When you wanted to pay for something, you could turn a check into a bill for the specific amount of money you were paying by writing the amount on it. Very convenient, wasn't it? But then I thought about the person receiving the check and wondered if they were ever going to find a use for that specific amount of money.

Andrea

My mother told me that money was the dirtiest thing around. I decided it was because people kept it in their bums.

That belief lingered and when I was a cashier in HS I almost vomitted when someone handed me a damp dollar bill.

becka

When i was younger i got 2 dollars a week for allowance. my dad sometimes ran out of 1 dollar bills so he gave me a 5 and took 3 of mi dollars. that made me so angry. i didnt know much about money or math so i just thought my dad was stealing from me.

Sabrina

I remember not understaning why, when my parents paid for something with a credit card, the cashier gave the card back to them. I had thought a credit card was something like a plastic dollar bill.

Anon

When you are very poor you "can't make end's meat." End's meat is some sort of cheap very low quality meat.

Betty

I thought when I was a kid that people just went to the bank to get money, like it was simply a money source. I was always so confused as to why my parents would complain about having no money.

Gina

For the longest time (maybe until I was 10 or 11) I could have sworn that there was a 3 dollar bill. I thought I had remembered seeing one and then I never saw one again. I don't know why or where I thought I saw this, but it stuck with me.

Nick

I didn't know what it meant to be "filthy rich", so I decided that the difference between the rich people and us is that they don't have to eat their apples to the end, and would throw them away after the first bite.

Alice

I used to think when I was little that you had to actually make your money by cutting out pices of paper and use a pencil to draw the faces of the presidents. I thought this for many years until my mom told me about money and how i should save it up.

Ian Dezelan

When i was little and wanted to spend some money MUM
would say i could have anything i wanted, when our ship came IN. so i really believed we owned a ship

MARGARET

i used to always think that there was someonesiting ina little both behined the cash machine fedding money and cards in and out and i used to always worry about the man iinsed the tv-who was controling it-not having enogh food.

Anon

I used to think that cashback meant that the supermarket gave you free money back. So if your shopping was less than £50 you could get your shopping free and get some extra money on top.
It was only a few years ago that I was told that the money actually comes out from your account.

ts

I used to believe that the term "401(k)" reffered to how much money was in the account - $401,000. This belief was further strengthened when I saw an article talking about "how to stop your 401(k) from turning into a 200.5(k)."

Alex319