When my parents told me that money didn't grow on trees I always thought I'd plant some and prove them wrong. But I always wanted to buy a toy or some candy with any money I was given, so I never tried to plant any money.

Lee

already at the age of five i was disgusted by the lack of fairness and logic in the grown-up world.
f.ex. i had discovered that a lotery ticket did not guarantee getting anything, although you had paid for it!
so i organised a little lotery in my street with free tickets and prizes for every ticket:)
i had to part with many of my toys this way, but thought i had showed the world how things should be done...

oioi

When I was quite young, I was sure the
Dow Jones Av. was actually the Dodge owned.
I did not know the difference until I saw
it in print.

William Dee Campbell

When I was a child, I saw in a cartoon how people put some coins in the earth, and after a certain period a tree who produced money grew on this place. I was amazed about the idea that you could become rich in this way. So I tried the same, but unfortunately without success...

Claudio

When I was little, I loved to toss money into wishing wells. I believed that when people tossed their money, they all wished for money and thats why there was always so many coins in the well. One day, I decided I would go home and use one of my mother's pots. I placed the pot in the garage along with some water and threw a couple of coins in the water, wishing for more money. Each day, I woke up hoping that my wish would come true, however, the well never grew any money for me. After a while, I gave up. I was puzzled.

Karen

When I was young I used to believe that every time you made a purchase, you got change back regardless of the amount of money given. I never could figure out how those candy machines where you put the coin in and turn the knob were smart enough to know how much change to give!

Meg

I told my four year old daughter that the picture of George Washington on the dollar bill was her baby picture. So far she still believes it and will tell anyone wheneve she sees a dollar.

kroe6

When I was little, I used to believe that if I shredded up dollar bills, that I would have more money. After all, there were tons of dollar bill laying around, so didn't that mean I had more bills? WRONG!!

Anon

I thought that change was just the clerk giving you back the exact amount of money you'd handed over. I thought it was a ritual formality thing, and I never saw the point.

Anon

When I was 5, I asked my mom if we could go shopping and she said that we didn't have enough money. So, I just said "Then, let's go to the bank!" Little did I know, the bank is not a place that just has an endless supply of money that they just hand out to whoever wants it.

bank of infinite money

When I was about six years old I figured out that a penny was worth a cent because it had one cent's worth of copper in it. A nickel had five cents' worth of nickel, a dime had ten cents' worth of silver, etc.

Dollar bills I decided were worth a dollar because the printing process was so expensive.

Anon

I used to think that you can get as much money as you like at a bank for free. I could not understand why shops could not give things away for free, but required one to visit a bank first.

Anon

I used to think that you always got change, no matter what. I remember standing by the ice cream truck impatiently waiting for my (non-existant) change.

money

When I was around three years old I accidentally tore a coupon in half. I thought for some reason that I wasted a huge sum of money and started crying and apologizing to my mom. I asked her if she still had enough money to help pay for me to college. When she explained to me what coupons were I felt better.

C

When I was 6-7 years old, I used to think that a penny costed a dollar, so I walked to a liquor store (by myself. it was next to my house), with some pennies to buy a starburst. I took a starburst packet and gave it to the cashier guy with my pennies, but he said it wasn't enough. I was really bummed out.

susan

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

When I was really little (like 5 or so), I used to believe that the beaver on the Canadian 5 cent coin was a bonnett - I took me a few years to figure out that it was actually a beaver. How silly is that?

Anon

When I was young I used to think that some special selected pennies went through an old penny machine that spray painted them green and chipped the edges.

Hannah Wolfe

I thought money came from banks, that they literally made it in back, lol, and would give it to people who filled out those little slips of paper at the desk or used an ATM. I knew there was some kind of code you'd break to get it... of course this was way, way before I got a checking acct, PIN number (my code! lol!) and a job (my money!) Good times.

Angry Sar

I used to believe that there was a tree in every house hidden somewhere that grew BANK NOTES and every time we needed money ,dad just had to pick it up in his secret location!

J@M & $uG@r