I used to think when my mom said "my check bounced" that an actual check was jumping off something, making a bouncing sound.

DM Strikes Again

i used to think nickel were work more than dime cause they were bigger

Anon

I really used to believe that money DID grow on trees

Kim

When I was little I believed that as long as you have checks you had money- when my dad would pull out his checkbook I would tell him he was rich!

Lacey

once when i was about 5 or 6 and i didnt kno math, my mom would take me to the grocery store and pay in cash and i would think ' wow! youre getting more money than you started with!'

hershiekissiz

I used to think all money paid for goods at shops went to charity.

Tim

I used to believe that whenever you took money out of the bank, you had to put the same amount of money back immediately. What the point of that would be, I have yet to figure out..

Anon

Pre school I used to believe that giving too much money in a shop resulted in receiving change. OK except that I also
thought that giving too little also resulted in receiving the difference in change!

born 1931

I'm not sure how old I was exactly but it was pretty young. I had a piece of wrapped up Christmas candy and I was playing with it. For some reason I was trying to sell it to all the adults. I started out with a dollar and my aunt said no. Then I said a penny and she said "That's way to expensive for me!" Obviously she was being sarcastic but for the longest time after that I though the less amount of money you had the more it was worth.

J-Dawg

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

Karianne

For the longest time (maybe until I was 10 or 11) I could have sworn that there was a 3 dollar bill. I thought I had remembered seeing one and then I never saw one again. I don't know why or where I thought I saw this, but it stuck with me.

Nick

When I was about 7 I thought checks were special bills with no predetermined value. When you wanted to pay for something, you could turn a check into a bill for the specific amount of money you were paying by writing the amount on it. Very convenient, wasn't it? But then I thought about the person receiving the check and wondered if they were ever going to find a use for that specific amount of money.

Andrea

i used to believe that every sheet of money worth the same. i mean i thought $1 note and $10 note both means $1.. before i could read.

Anon

I never understood the concept of working and getting paid, but I understood the concept of getting drinks refilled, and I used to think that parents did the same with their wallets they would spend money, and then type in how much they spent and that much would pop into their wallet, like when you get a drink refill you tell them what kind it was.

tommy

when my daughter was about 12, i found out that
she thought if you wrote a check for something it
wasn't really spending money. same with credit
cards. if you don't pay with actual currency, it's
free!

thursday jane

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.

One day I accidentally swallowed a penny (I don't know how). This didn't upset me until my aunt said my cousin swallowed a dime and because of that, she was 10x more valuable than me!

little_person

I used to think that "checks and balances" were some how related to balancing your check book. Actually, I believed this until 7th or 8th grade.

Jessy

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 a child at about 4 years young I used to believe that every time me and my Mom would go to the checkout at a store I thought that the person at the cash always gave you change no matter what the circumstances.

Zachary Craig