money

When I was around three years old I accidentally tore a coupon in half. I thought for some reason that I wasted a huge sum of money and started crying and apologizing to my mom. I asked her if she still had enough money to help pay for me to college. When she explained to me what coupons were I felt better.

C

once when i was about 5 or 6 and i didnt kno math, my mom would take me to the grocery store and pay in cash and i would think ' wow! youre getting more money than you started with!'

hershiekissiz

When I was little I believed that as long as you have checks you had money- when my dad would pull out his checkbook I would tell him he was rich!

Lacey

When my sister was a freshman in college, my mom called her to tell her her checking account was overdrawn. My sister didn't know what that meant and my mother said, "It means you don't have any more money!" My sister countered, "Yes I do! I still have a whole box of checks!"

Marc

I talked my brother into "trading" stacks of money. The stacks I was giving him were all pennies but they were much larger than the stacks he gave me (of only quarters and dimes). I convinced him that the penny stacks were worth more.

Evil Sister

I thought a Debit card was actually called a Debt card.

Kilgore

A friend of mine seemed to think that 100 pence was worth £6.

Richard Davies

I used to believe that when a bank paid you interest on the money in your bank account, that whenever the bank employees looked at your money they had to give you some more because they were interest-ed!

Rick

i used to find cash machines fascinating when i was younger and asked my grandmother where the money came from (bless her she was about 80) she genuinely believed there was a man behind the machine handing notes through the slot! the funny thing is she would'nt believe anything else...no matter what....ah bless i still chuckle thinking of that

faz786

I used to think that when you bought something, the tax couldn't be more than $1 ... I guess it made sense, because nothing I bought was ever much more than a dollar, so the tax was always less.

Ian MacLatchie

i used to believe that when someone was payed under the table the money was actually handed to them under the table so no one saw. i still picture this whenever i hear someone say it

amber

my dad used to tell me that nickles were worth more then a dime cause they were bigger

brittany

when my daughter was about 12, i found out that
she thought if you wrote a check for something it
wasn't really spending money. same with credit
cards. if you don't pay with actual currency, it's
free!

thursday jane

I used to spend a lot of time with my Grandmother and one time we were at the store and I asked if we could go somewhere else after that and she said no because she did not have any money and I said "Well, you have all that paper in your wallet, why not just use that!" I was talking about her checks. I thought at that you could just write checks and that was your money. I didn't connect the fact that it was your money that you were using out of the bank!

Christina Cervantes

I used to think that when you bought a checkbook you could use as much money as you wanted out of it. I thought they must be really expensive if you could spend as much as you wanted..lol

Dan

that if you rip a dollar coins come out

Anon

Once my friend and I were eating lunch together in the school cafeteria, and I got a can of juice. It said ME 5 cents. Well my friend apparently thought that ME was the abbreviation for Michigan even though it doesn't contain an E. She said, "That's not fair, it costs 5 cents to get it in Michigan but it costs 50 cents (I can't remember the actually price at school) to get it in Connecticut and everywhere else?" I tried to correct her but she didn't listen.

Mind you this was in 6TH GRADE!

Emmy

When I went to Spain when I was 7, I thought their currency was potatoes. It was pesetas.

Helen W