When I was a little girl my Dad gave a friend and me a quarter. My friend put hers in her mouth and accidentally swallowed it. We went crying to my Dad and all he said was, "Don't worry, it'll all come out in the wash." It just so happened my Mom was washing clothes that day (using the old Maytag wringer washer). We followed her all day looking for that quarter and could never figure out how it would get from her stomach to the wash.

pperk

I used to call the ATM a "magic money machine" because I thought it just gave you as much money as you wanted at any time. Fortunately, I learned the dissapointing truth before I opened my first bank account.

Anon

i used to believe that when people used an ATM machine, they could ask for as much money as they wanted; there was no limit. I also believed that the ATM machine made the money inside.

When my dad went to the ATM machine, he used to take out ten or twenty dollars, and I always wondered why he never asked for more money so that we could be rich.

Rich grrl

When I was little I believed there was like a community of leprechaun like people small enough to fit in an ATM literally LIVING in the machine and who's main purpose in life was to hand grown ups the money. Of course I also believed that the ATM machine was an endless supply of money for my Momma!

Sarah

When housesare out up for sell it says that there like $225 or whatever and i thought that it would only cost 2hundred and 25 dollar cause i didnt know that it was in hundred thousands.

ttlklutz

I used to believe that when someone said they had a dollar, it was equal to a normal dollar (4 quarters). But when they said they had a buck, a buck was equal to 2 dollars (8 quarters).

Anon

As I grew up in Arizona, this seems reasonable. I found a 100 peso coin which someone had dropped while played on the monkey bars or some such thing. I believed the 100 pesos made me wealthy.

C.Holbrook

Growing up in upstate NY, I used to believe that Canadian coins, which are accepted as legal tender here (except by banks), were accepted all over the United States. I was kind of surprised and embarrassed when I was visiting relatives in Mississippi, handed over a Canadian quarter to pay for something and the checkout girl stood there staring at it and going, "What the heck is this?"

Anon

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

Carl F. Hendershot III

I used to think that all $1 and $2 coins were made of entirely gold because they are a yellowish color (they are made of mainly copper). I also thought that 5 cent, 10 cent, 20 cent and 50 cent coins were made of nothing but silver (they are actually a mixture of copper and nickel). I live in Australia by the way.

Mystery Man

I used to believe that when you deposited $$$ in an ATM, there was a network of tunnels that went directly to YOUR bank, no matter where in the country you were in relationship to your bank!!!

Anon

When I was small, I thought the big red commercial laundry trucks with roof racks full of laundry bags were armored cars transporting money. I wondered if bags of money ever fell off, and if I was lucky enough to find one, would I have to return it.

Roth

When I was a kid, I "knew" that when you needed money, you just went to the bank, stayed in line, and they gave it to you!

Guillermo L. (Mexico).

when i was little, my mom and i would go shopping and before we left she'd sometimes casually say that she didn't have any money, therefor i thought she meant our family had no money period, even though she just didnt have any cash.

Anon

when I was a kid,I used to believe that the word "million" means; a big corn bag filled with coins,

ecko25

The BIG cheque in the charity show is real!

peekay

i used to believe that when we recieve change after buy something was for the next time we have changes to pay for our shopping. people used to be so nice...

turrinho (P)

When I was little I used to think that there was a person in the ATM machine handing out money.

Krista

In the 8th grade we were having a class discussion about poverty and this one guy raises his hand and says "Why doesn't the gov. just print more money?" We're all like "huh?" And he continues all sure of himself "They have the machines to do it, why don't they just make more money?"

Ryan

I used to think that the Night Safe outside a bank did what the cash machine, or "hole in the wall", does: that you could stick a note in it (presumably with your name and bank details) and get money out. Thus, I was ahead of my time, as I was a small child in the late 1970s/early ‘80s, in the days before "holes in the wall"!

Alan