money

I asked my aunt once where did money come from, and she told me that it came from a plant she had in her backyard. I was about 7 or 8 at the time, and i asked her where was it, so she prepared a plant with money covering it...Made us, my cousins and me, believe that until we were 10. I remember my friends asking to see the "money tree" we had at home (I grew up with my aunt and uncle).

Julia

When my sister and I were little we used to go and stay with our aunty who always gave us nice things to eat so when my sister heard my aunty say that she was going to buy some premuim bonds, she thought she heard 'creamium buns' and was really disappointed when they didn't turn up on the tea table. For years she was convinced that that was what she had said. Mind you she's forty and still claims that she goes to China every night to visit her friends so what can you say.

Anon

When I was little I thought that you could just go to a bank and get some money, there was a very nice person in there who would just give you some if you asked nicely. So when I asked mum for expensive things and said that we didn't have enough money or whatever, I couldn't understand why she wouldn't just go to the bank and get some!

Poor simple Katie

I had a friend who thought that when they gave you change at the cash register that they acutally changed the paper money magicly into coins.

Anon

When I was younger I used to believe that like if somthing was $12 then you would just give them a $1 and a $2 bill. Or if somthing was $91 then i would just give them a $9 bill and a $1 bill. Luckily I still don't believe that..

Tehswimmingcow

When I was four or so, I used to believe that you could use Monopoly Money to buy things. I remember "helping" my grandma pay for her items at the store with the money, and the cashier actually accepting it!

Mandy

When I was little, I always thought the Nasdaq was a bridge. To me, it sounded like the Verrizano or the Washington (I live near New York). I always heard on the radio "The Nasdaq is up/down", so natural I assumed it was a drawbridge.

Jessica

I used to think that when we bought something at the store and they gave us back change, it was bonus money to thank us for buying their product!

Anon

When I was in grade school we were learning about the Presidents. Well I knew the first one was George Washington (because he was on the $1 dollar bill)well I ALWAYS thought Abraham Lincoln was the second President(Because he's on the $5 dollar bill)so I also thought that the third president was Hamilton and so on and so forth... I had misunderstood my teacher. She must have said that Lincoln might have been the sencond most important president. I believed this until I was in late teens...

MS

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 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 thinking that since George Washinton was the first president, that's why he's on the one dollar bill. Lincoln is on the five, then he must have been the fifth president. Hamilton is on the ten, he must have been the tenth, etc.

Anon

When i was little i thought the tip you left at a restraunt was just my mom forgetting some money. So i would pick it up and keep it.Well i guess they thought we were mean people, not leaving them a tip and all.

summer

that if you rip a dollar coins come out

Anon

When I was kid I used to believe that I had to earn enough money to have one of everything that existed.

Anon

When I was eleven, I had a theory that there was exactly so much money in the world that you could pay for every single thing that exists on Earth. But there was a problem: while both the money and the things themselves were considered valuable, only the things had actual value - the value of money was only symbolic. So our economic system assumed that there was twice as much wealth in the world than there actually was. This made the system inherently unstable and created a need to devalue money and property. That was my explanation for inflation.

Martin

When my sister and I were little, we convinced our younger brother that nickles were worth more than dimes because they were bigger in size. My brother easily traded his dimes for our nickles (sometimes even more than one!). We made off with quite a bit of moola until we got caught! :)

Anon

I used to belive that at a "hole in the wall" bank there was a woman or man standing behind the wall pushing money through!

Sophie

i used to think that my dad literally "made money", like he went to a factory and painted it then brought it home

jen

After hearing the phrase "time is money" I used to believe that money and time were essentially the same thing. So since 60 seconds equaled one minute, I thought 60 cents were equal to a dollar.

T