money

I thought panhandlers were called that because they carried around a pan and put all the money people gave them in it. For some reason, I didn't wonder why I never actually saw beggars carrying pans.

Darth Death

When I was younger, I always thought that when the bank held money for you, they put it in a little drawer for you until you wanted it.

I could never understand why it was that whatever bank my mum went to to get money, *her* drawer always used to be just beneath where the cashier sat... maybe she had a special account or something.

Jon

I bbelived that the process of "making money" was taking a dollar bill and ironig it.

anon

1 and 2 cent australian coins had just been phased out- and my sister conviced me that the rest of my money would be too- so we better spend it all on lollies

schmoo

When I was about 6, my dad told me that the stock market crashed. Needless to say, I was determined that this meant the stock market building rolled down a big hill and broke.

Brett

When I'd hear the announcer on the news report what the Dow Jones average was each day, I thought he was saying 'chairs' instead of 'shares.' So if the market was down, say, forty shares, I imagined a game of musical chairs, with someone taking away all these gray folding chairs in a big room.

queeneve

In Kindergarten, I used to believe that when you "borrowed" money, you had to pay back the same coins or bills you borrowed. In the 1960's, milk at school cost a nickel. Sometimes the teacher would suggest that a student who forgot his or her milk money "borrow" a nickel from someone else. But if the nickel went to the cafeteria to pay for the milk, how could you pay the same nickel back to the person you borrowed it from?

Vicki J.

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

When I was little I thought whenever cashiers gave you your change whenever you bought something, they were actually just giving you free money because they were just so grateful that you bought something from their store!

Anon

I used to believe that if you went to the bank, you can take out as much money as you want even if you don't have an account and you don't need to pay it back. I believed this until I was 12.

Nutty

I used to believe that for adults, your age was equal to your wage. 35 year olds make $35,000 a year, a 45 year old makes ten thousand more than that. In my family, the older someone was, the more money they seemed to have, so it made perfect sense. I finally realized that people's ages can be much smaller or larger than their wages. (No comment regarding how I'm doing!)

KMango

I used to think that there was a 'little man' inside cash machines, who counted the money and pushed it out. When a machine was out of order, it was because 'the man was having his dinner, having a sleep'etc

Paula Nugent

When I asked my Mum what Dad's job was she told me that he made money. For years I went around boasting that my Dad was rich cos he made the money and brought some home after he had made it.

Woody

I always thought that a bank kept your actual money in your own box. They weren't allowed to spend it, of course. So when you withdrew $5, it was the exact bill you put in. I got in quite a fight with my brother about that one...

Ashley

wen i was little...i thought that there was a little man inside the cash machine and he used to count up the money that had been requested and pass it 2 my mum/dad....this fascinated me for years...lol

Kat

When I was young (about 7) I would hear my parents talk about Liability Insurance. The whole time they discussed this I thought it was a great thing....buy this insurance and if you had a wreck you could lie about what really happened in the accident. Not until I was older and paying for my own insurance did I realize the truth. My mom thinks that story is so funny.

Alisia Newton

Up until I was about 9 years old, I thought whenever you paid for something, you could ask the cashier for however much change you wanted. Whenever my mom bought something and got her change, I'd ask her as we were leaving why she didn't ask for more money.

Alen

When I was little I used to believe that there was actually a little man in the ATM booths sitting there operating the money watching a small tv.

MONA

My mom was BIG into coupons when I was a kid. One time we went to the grocery store and she asked me what kind of cereal I wanted. When I told her, she said we didn't have a coupon for that kind. I guess I must have looked really disappointed, because she let me get it anyway. I was so shocked; I didn't think you were allowed to buy cereal without a coupon.

Anon

I used to believe that you weren't allowed to spend change. I bought something at this elementary school book sale and got change back and wanted to buy something else but thought I couldn't.

Smart Alec