My aunt told me when I was little that she had to have her appendix removed and it was full of fingernails & bubble gum, so don't ever chew your nails or swallow your gum. I believed her, so I never chewed my nails and panicked if I accidently swallowed my gum.

Wanda

when I was little, my dad told me that if I continued to bite my nails, they would have to remove one of my organs because it would have a ton of little nail bits embedded in it. Scared me, but didn't stop me..

jasonchic

when i was 6 or 7, i used to bite my nails. so one day my sister told me that a nail-tree would grow inside my stomach..! needless to say i believed her and stopped at once

erini

I used to believe that when you bit your fingernails a hand would grow in your stomach. And that when you ate the seed of a fruit that fruit would grow in your stomach. Needless to say, I didn't eat much fruit OR bite my fingernails!

Anon

I used to believe that if I bit my finger nails, a hand would grow in my stomach.

Anon

I used to bite my nails alot and my mom would be so disappointed in me so i put nail polish on to stop myself from biting my nails and i made the worst mess ever so when she got mad at me i was really confused and i said i was just trying to stop myself from biting when i taste the nasty flavor

Anon

I used to chew my fingernails until my older sister told me that I was eating my own bones, and I believed her.

Anon

I used to have a really bad habit of chewing my nails. My mom said that whenever you chewed them (and swallowed/ chewed them) it was cutting up your insides and eventually you'd die. To this day, I never chew my nails!

Eden

My preschool teacher told me that if you bit your nails and ate them(which at that time i think we all did) that you would get a big hole in your stomach.

Anon

My mom used to tell me that the dirt under my nails contained worm eggs. If I bit my nails i would get worms in my stomach!

Heather

When I was five, my twin brother Zack told me that if I ate my own toenails, a foot would grow in my stomach and yet... I still doubt him...

Cody Martin (Boston- Tipton Hotel)

when i was 6 my mom told me that if you bit your nails a hand would grow in your stomach

Anon

My mom used to tell me that if you bit your fingernails and ate it that you would get worms inside. It didn't stop me from biting my nails though.

wormy

my dad told me if i kept biteing my nails they will build up in my stomach, it diddnt help, i just stoped swllowing them. i have a weird thing, my nails have to be the same length every day, negative side is, they are too short to cut with a cutter, my teeth do the job well.

sam

when me and my sister were young, my mom painted our nails red and told us if we kept on biting our nails we would eat the nailpolish and die. my sisters nails are now really long and pretty, but i kept on biting mine and now they're still really messed up and short.

eylyana

i used to bite my nails down to the quick.. my mom told me that if i kept doing that i would get an infection and a lump would form under my arm and they'd have to cut my arm off..

kimber

My mom told me people who bit their nails became ugly. I thought my looks would change, that I would grow a hiddeus nose or something. I did not understand that she meant my hands would look ugly if i contined chewing my nails

Svante

someone once told me that if i kept biting my nails, they would stay in my somache and grow one big fingernail. sadly, that didn't help my habit

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