I used to think that of you ripped a dollar 100 pennies would fall out of the rip.

Glad I never tried it

I thought that a "student visa" meant to use a credit card while travelling.

Anon

I thought that a travel visa was a special credit card which was used for travelling

Anon

I used to think a penny was a lot of money. Thanks Mom

Carl F. Hendershot III

I used to believe that if I set up a bank account and paid in money, they would keep the money in a sort of locker and give it me back on request, not realising the money you pay in basically turns into a number on a piece of paper.

Matt T, UK

After watching charity adverts and hearing of all the poor people in the world, I thought up the idea of 'making more money'.
Not to thing this will cause choas and everything will be of zero value...I can dream.

Matt T, UK

When the State quarters were introduced back in 1999, I thought that the 50 State quarters was used only in a same State (i.e. if a quarter reads "New York" it could be used only in the state of New York or a quarter which reads "Massachusetts" could be only used in the State of Massachusetts.)

Anon

On my first holidays (I was about 4) my parents took me to Italy. I thought the Italians were very poor people because for 1 mark you could buy 1000 Italian Lire.

Stefan, Germany

When I was little and I saw the picture on the $1 bill I didn't know who it was. I knew the person had to be important, so I tried to think who the most important person in the world was. Finally I figured it out: the most important Person in the world was--GOD! So until I was about ten or so I thought the picture on the $1 bill was God. Even when I got older and knew better, it took me until I was sixteen or so to stop picturing Washington's picture on the bill while I was praying!

Darrell

I saw a sign by a lake that said "No littering - $300 fine" I asked my dad what "fine" meant. He said it meant that if no one saw you littering, you were "fine" and didn't have to pay.

Anon

When I was little I used to believe that there was a man sitting inside ATM machines giving you your money.

Kazza

When I was young, I thought coins were better than bills because they were shiny while paper money was ugly. Whenever I would get money in bills, I would exchange the bills with my cousins for coins. Finally, my parents found out and my cousins got in trouble.

Angela

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 used to believe that if you were broke that you could go to the bank and get money for free!

Karianne

when i was 3 i used to beleive dollars were paper so i i would color on them and my mom will put me on time out . then when i realized it was realy money i felt stupid lol.

Stephanie R. J.

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

L

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

That everything was free. You paid for nothing, money was just to look nice.

Blasia M