money

At age 5 I believed Monopoly money was real. I remember feeling stupid and embarassed when the the man at the corner shop laughed at me when I tried to buy sweets with it.

David

When I was very young I assumed adults bought money at stores. Since money was the only means which I knew of to make purchases, I deduced they bought money with money at a 1:1 ratio, which made no sense even then but seemed like the only rational possibility

smith,

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

Helen W

I used tho think that gas was only $4 and i would be like why are people so worried about gas prices. then one day i figured out it was per gallon and it was a huge discovery.

anon

I used to think that the pools was a swimming competition.

Matt

I once believed that the bank was where people went to pick up money, and it gave out infinite amounts of it. When I used to want toys, and my mom said she didn't have the money right then, I'd say "Well, we can just go to the bank and they'll give us some!"

Glenn

my bro used to belive there were smurfs in the atms passing out money

L

When i was about 5 or 6 my grandfather would take me and my brother to bury a penny. He told us that it would turn into a dollar, and what do you know, every time we went back a couple of days later, there would be a dollar. He really had us going for a couple of years.

Anon

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

When I was little around the age of 5, my sister took a trip to England, and brought back coins. One day I saw the coins laying on a desk in her room and I took them. That night my sister came in my room and saw her coins on my desk, she came up to me and was like "Those coins!! K.k! Do you know what they are? They will come and kill you!" This of course scared the hell out of me. I asked who was comming and she was like, "the pirates! They are going to come and get you! You stole their gold!" I started crying asking her how to stop them from killing me. She then told me that I had to make a boat, and put the coins in it then go outside and put the boat in the pool. So I went and made a paper boat and put the boat in the pool with the coins in it. Then the next day I went down to the pool, the boat was still floating I grabbed the boat, and in it was a rolled up letter I read it, and it said "next time Ill get you!" So ever since then I believed that if I took coins from ppl then Pirates would come and kill you. I believed that until 2nd grade when I told some kid that because he took a coin off the floor.

Kaite

When I was small and first heard about dollar stores I pictured a store where you could buy any money ( $20 bill, $10 bill, a quater, ect.) for a dollar. This makes no sense obviously and made me think adults were extremely stupid.

Anon

I used to believe that pennies functioned as dollars. My mom told me I needed seven dollars for the toy I wanted so I rushed and grabbed seven pennies. I swear I had enough.

Anon

I used to believe that 'bankruptcy" meant that you were actually going to rob a bank

Mindy

I used to think that everything sold for the exact price it cost to make it. I didn't comprehend that anyone would be aiming to make a profit on anything.

Sarah C.

When I was 4.Me and my dad were in the bank and he said he needed to get money out of his card.so I thought I'd save him the bother and I snapped his card,needles to say I didn't find any money.

Ben Murphy

My mom once gave me a box of old, unused checks, saying I could play with them. But I didn't want to play with them. I thought they were just like money and I wanted to use them for real. I thought that if only I knew how to fill them out, I could use them to buy things at the toy store. I thought about all the wonderful things I could buy if only I knew how to fill out checks.

Still poor

Growing up in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s, you couldn't turn on the television without seeing an ad from used car salesman Cal Worthington, a mildly colorful man whose idiosyncratic tic was including a different wild animal - say, a cheetah - in each ad. Anyway, I loved the guy.

In his ads, he'd abbreviate the prices of his cars, so for an asking price of $1,095, he'd say "ten ninety-five." Wow, I thought, you could get a car for 10 bucks! To me, this meant a) I had enough money in the piggy bank to buy a Ford Mustang even though I was seven-years-old, and b) our family was desperately poor, since Mom and Dad only had two cars worth, at most, 20 dollars.

Brian Moore

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

Kilgore

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

When I was little I used to believe that ATM's just gave you free money. Whenever my parents said "we can't buy that, we don't have money" , I would reply "why don't you just get some from the ATM??"

Anon