Whenever I heard my dad telling my mum that he was going to 'withdraw' some money, I used to think that he was going to an art competition to 'draw' a picture of money and if he won he would get the real money. I alway used to ask him if he wanted to borrow my water colors.

Miser

I used to believe all the money I put in the bank, I would eventually be able to withdrawl again. Therefore, I put all my special commemorative coins in the coin rolls with my dad thinking that I would get them back again when I was older.

Anon

I used to believe that the money I deposited into the bank would go into a special box with my name on it that stored the same exact bills that I gave the bank.

Pamela

I used to think the logo for The National Lottery in the UK was not of a hand with crossed fingers, but some kind of weird-looking, sinister fish.

K

When I was a child I used to believe that a coin was better value than a note. When I had got some note I always asked mother to exchange note to coin.
My mother was laughing at me then exchanged ten cent coin to ten euro note. zzz...

Lee

I used to believe that all the money in the world was your money and no one else's. So for example I used to get a pound coin every week for pocket money. I'd go and spend it and then the next week I thought my parent's had gone and got the same pound coin from the sweet shop and I was getting exactly the same pound coin as before. Now I'm older I realise that I was completely wrong and infact the amount of people that pound coin has belonged to b4 u is astonishing!

Hoola

As I began getting an allowance, I realized that a lot of kids my age didn't get allowance or didn't get as much as I did (I got about $3).

So one day I went to the toy store, picked out the toy I wanted and put twenty dollars on the counter (I'd been saving up). After seeing that I was hardly tall enough to reach the counter, the clerk laughed and complimented my stick-to-it-tiveness (as in he was happy that I child my age was mature enough to think about saving money).

I bought the toy and thought about what he had said. I deducted that I was rich because I was sticky. This arroused a mixed reaction in my mind and I decided to take baths more often, but to make sure my hands were sticky so I could hold onto my money.

Marshmello Da Strawberry Cow

When I was little, I thought you could get money at a store because I would see the woman behind the till giving my mother change. If my mother said I couldn't have something because we didn't have enough money I would say 'but we can just buy some money at the shop like you always do'.

Layla

I used to believe that money was free and you could just go to the bank when you need some. Every time someone said they needed money I was like "HELLO!?!? Just go to the BANK!" People laughed and I didn't get it...I just got mad at them for laughing at me.

free money

I didn't know what it meant to be "filthy rich", so I decided that the difference between the rich people and us is that they don't have to eat their apples to the end, and would throw them away after the first bite.

Alice

When I was younger, my sister and I would accompany my mother to the bank quite often. We believed money was hidden all over the bank lobby, we just needed to find it. We were especially certain money would be placed in the garbage bin in the island where deposit slips are filled out. We checked there every time.

Sploxy

I used to believe that insurance was an extremely unfortunate group of people who had to pay when bad things happened to you and do all the paperwork and that you were assigned 3 or 4 people to do so. I was also afraid of getting picked to be one.

Hollie --

When I was a young kid I used to believe that the best way to make money was to buy something. Everytime my mum took me to the shop and brought something she always got money! (little did I know it was just change.....)There was always the alternative of the magical hole in the wall that dispenses all the money one desired (or an atm...)

Bec

I thought that when you bought things with cash the shop assistant always gave you some back - didn't understand what change (i.e. the difference) was.

Kat

i used to think 1 million dollars was all the money in the world

Matt

I thought that the vault in a bank was the place where all the cash was placed, not the safety deposit boxes. I never understood when I saw that the tellers had cash in their cash drawers, and when I deposited money the tellers would not take the cash into the vault.

Watching movies about bank robberies where the main goal of the robbers is to get into the vault confused me.

Matt Thiel

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

i used to believe that cars cost $100 (aus) and houses cost $1000- haha i wish!

schmoo

I REMEMBER MY PARENTS WOULD SAY THEY WOULD GET PAID UNDER THE TABLE, UNTILL I WAS ABOUT 11 I THOUGHT IT MENT THEY WOULD GO UNDER THE TABEL AND GET HANDED THE MONEY I ASKED MY MOM TO PAY ME UNDER THE TABLE BUT IT DIDN'T WORK

MRTOPHAT102

I used to think that if you went to the bank and said "I need money!", they would give you as much money as you needed, no questions asked, as long as you paid them back! Boy, if the world only worked that way! ;)

Nikki