My Grandfather worked in an abitoir for more than 40 years and has 4 fingers and 1 thumb missing from the knuckle to show for it. When I was younger he would tell us that he lost his fingers by picking his nose, one day they had got stuck and just come off!

I never really believed him, after all how could someone with an average sized nose have 4 fingers and a thumb stuck up there! However, it didnt stop me from suggesting to my son who had started sticking his fingers up his nose to ask Grandpoppy how he lost his fingers :P

It didn't work for me, but hey

My older cousin told me that when you picked your nose, you'd actually pick a part of your brain. I didnt pick my nose after that...

Muge

My dad was a coal miner and when he used to catch me picking my nose he would say
"i'll swap you a black'un for a green 'un"
obviously due to his coal encrusted mucus

stevo

My Brother used to tell me that when I picked my nose I was actually picking brains, and that I got dumber every time. . .yeah, I beleaved him.

Wildman

my mom told not to pick my nose because if i fell i would poke my brain.

brent

My dad used to tell me that my nose would turn into a cauliflower if I continued to pick it. I HATED cauliflowers.

Veronika

When i was little i used to pick my nose and my dad told me that ear wax was boogers before they got to your nose. So, i tried ear wax and it tasted really bad (even compared to boogers) and i thought it was so gross that boogers used to taste like that that i stopped eating my boogers.

Anon

when i was little my mom told me that if you ate your boogies worms would grow inside your belly, it worked i never ate boogies ....

Anon

I used to believe that everybody's head, above their eyes, was full of boogers, and while you slept at night they slid down into your nose to replace the ones that got picked earlier.

Pete

When I was younger I had a pretty nasty cold and I was blowing my nose. My mom told me if I blew any harder I would blow my brains out right through my nose. I cried and cried and cried....she told me she didn't mean it like that, but to this day I can't stand blowing my nose lol.

Kalyn

When I was little I was told by a substitute teacher that inside bugars were tiny spiders, and if you ate them they lived in your stomach.

Anon

My mum used to tell me that if I picked my nose, I would poke my brain and I won't be as smart as I should be when I was older :)

Ellie

when I was a kid my neighbor told me if I picked my nose I would poke out my eye. I believe him.

Jane

I used to believe if you picked your nose, your brains would fall out your nose.

Anon

i used to believe that boggies are parts of fluff that fly in to your nose

natasha hawthorne

If you eat your boogers you'll get worms

Kit

When I was small, I used to think that eating boogars after brushing my teeth was bad, so I wiped them on the wall. My mom had to scrub them off the wall.

irishghillietoes

When I was little my dad told me that if I picked my nose my eye would fall out. I was petrified. It wasn't until like 10 years later when I was 14 or so that my mom finally told me he was kidding.

Rachel

When I was Younger about 5 years old or so, I got caught picking my nose, my mother and grandmother both told me If I kept picking my nose it would unscrew My eyes and they would fall out... I believed them for a while aswell lol

Jessica Manser

When I was about 6 or 7 years old my grandpa saw me picking my nose and eating it. He told me that every booger i ate was pieces of my brain and that i was going to end up eating all of my brains. It scared me because i thought i would eat all of my brains and be stupid. i didnt eat a booger since then.

Brooke