money

when I was a kid,I used to believe that the word "million" means; a big corn bag filled with coins,

ecko25

The BIG cheque in the charity show is real!

peekay

i used to believe that when we recieve change after buy something was for the next time we have changes to pay for our shopping. people used to be so nice...

turrinho (P)

When I was little I used to think that there was a person in the ATM machine handing out money.

Krista

I thought that I had 5 coins in my box (one dime and four pennies), I thought that was the same as 5 dollars

A. Nonymous

When I was about 5 or 6, my dad would take the family bowling. and seeing how there's people playing billiards in the bowling allie sometimes.. i was SO interested in that. So, i would walk over to the table and see a shiney dollar sitting on the table (people waiting for they're turn, claiming that they're next). So, i would take the dollar.. and the next one and the next one, until i got like 10 dollars. I walked over to the vending machine, and i would go back to my mom with a whole bunch of candy. my mom immediately freaked out "WHERE'D YOU GET THAT!" asking my dad if he gave me money for that. i simply explained i found the money on the pool table, and bought candy with it. my mom (embarassed as heck) went over and had to re-pay the pool players. Man, i wish life was that easy again =).

Stephie.

I used to think that the Night Safe outside a bank did what the cash machine, or "hole in the wall", does: that you could stick a note in it (presumably with your name and bank details) and get money out. Thus, I was ahead of my time, as I was a small child in the late 1970s/early ‘80s, in the days before "holes in the wall"!

Alan

When I was six year old, I believed him when my Daddy told me that nickels were worth more than dimes, because they were larger in size.

Pamela Gay

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

I'm from New Zealand, so when I first saw "In God We Trust" on a U.S. penny I misread it as "Ingodwe Trust". I thought it must have been a Nigerian charity of some sort........

Tim

when I was about 3 I thought that eating money would make me rich. :P I'd steal 100 dollar bills from my mom and ate them. I never got rich....lol

Katie

i thought that no matter what u bought you always were supposed to get change back, well i once bought a movie with the money my dad gave me and turned out it was exactly 5 dollars, i remeber just standing there waiting for my change and the cashier looking at me weird, and my dad pulling me aside and explaing money, but i still didnt understand and threw a fit when i didnt get my change and realized i had spent all my money.

crysssstal

My Dad told me when i was about 5 that there was a little man behind the ATM that took your card and handed you the cash. He described it to me as kinda like the guy who lives in the top of our garage to open and close the garage door.

Calvin

When I was seven, my parents took my brother and I on a trip. At the hotel we stayed in, there was this incredible fountain, and upon closer inspection, we saw the fountain had money at the bottom of it! Pennies, dimes, quarters! My brother and I thought we were rich!We reached into the fountain and started scooping up the money. It was then my mother told me that each coin was somebody's wish and if I took the coins their wishes wouldn't come true. So reluctantly, we put the money back in the water. I remember being surprised other people weren't trying to take the coins too. Maybe they already knew they were other people's wishes!

Cathy F.

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 believe that the "Poorhouse" was a real BIG, ugly house that whole families had to go live in together when they couldn't pay their bills.

Kathy

After watching charity adverts and hearing of all the poor people in the world, I thought up the idea of 'making more money'.
Not to thing this will cause choas and everything will be of zero value...I can dream.

Matt T, UK

I used to think that all countries had the same money as the United States, because the only currency I knew about was the united states, I never knew about the other countries and that made me believe that the currency was the same in poland, japan, germany, etc.

Caitlin

My dad told me that "no money down" meant that if you dropped your money, the store would get to keep it, like as in finders-keepers.

Belle

I thought that you either don't have insurance or you have Blue Cross Blue Shield. No other.

MD Caruso