money

When I was about 5 years old my brother and sister had me believe that pennies were made of gold so that I would trade my quartes dimes and nickles for pennies

Ryan

I used to believe that bank withdrawal slips could be used as money, but only adults could use them. I would try VERY hard to write neatly on them, so it looked like adult writing. I was never too gready, I usually wrote them out for $5, because that would buy me heaps of mixed lollies at the school canteen.

Ness R.

I used to think of all prices in terms of age. So, $100 for, say, a house was VERY expensive, because if someone were 100 years old, he/she would be VERY old! If my parents wouldn't buy me some small trinket because it was too expensive, I'd argue, "but it's only $5!" thinking that a 5-year-old is pretty young!

Samantha from California

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

I believed that if you wanted to buy something, but didn't have enough money, the kind shopkeeper would give you enough "change" so that you could afford it. It is a shame that I only ever tested this theory when buying lollies, instead of trying it out to buy a porsche!

Gisela

When I was 9 years old I thought "several" was a synonym for seven that people used for no real reason. I also thought of a "fortune" as 40 dollars because I couldnt imagine anyone having more money than that.

Soap

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 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

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 used to believe that ATMs actually printed out the money fresh every time.

Kitty B

I used to believe that when I grew up I would never have to pay for anything with cash...I would just use a check. Writing a check totally took the place of cash.

Lisa Holdbrook

I used to think (back in the forties) that when my mother used her charge card at the local department store it meant that she didn't have to
pay. When I was very small, I thought that when a gas station attendant washed the windshield that he was putting in the gas.

Ruth Rabin

When I was little, I used to think that when someone went bankrupt, a robber went into their bank and stole their money. I always wondered why my Grandpa told me not to go bankrupt if it was out of my control.

Jake

I used to not get how they could figure out the odds of winning the lottery ahead of time, as how could they know how many people would buy tickets? (this was before I knew about how combinatorics and the like worked.)

Kimothy

that people in shops gave you 'change' if you didn't quite have enough money to pay.

suzy

I always heard that 4 quarters made up a dollar, so I thought if you laid 4 quarters end to end, they would just meld together and make a paper dollar.

Fettboy

My mum told me that if you caught the bubles on top of your cup of tea with a spoon and drank them you would get rich-it's very hard to do -I'm still trying!

Ann Williams

When i was younger i used to believe that monopoly money was real and used to try and spend it in shops and at the ice cream van much to my mothers embarressment !!

Sara

I used to think that the bills you deposited in the bank were the same bills you got back later -- until I was about 15 years old!

Anon

my dad convinced me that gambling machines had little hands which came out the money return bit and stole all your cash. i was terrified of them for years. stoped me gambling though.

matty