I thought that I had 5 coins in my box (one dime and four pennies), I thought that was the same as 5 dollars

A. Nonymous

When I was six year old, I believed him when my Daddy told me that nickels were worth more than dimes, because they were larger in size.

Pamela Gay

When I was about 5 or 6, my dad would take the family bowling. and seeing how there's people playing billiards in the bowling allie sometimes.. i was SO interested in that. So, i would walk over to the table and see a shiney dollar sitting on the table (people waiting for they're turn, claiming that they're next). So, i would take the dollar.. and the next one and the next one, until i got like 10 dollars. I walked over to the vending machine, and i would go back to my mom with a whole bunch of candy. my mom immediately freaked out "WHERE'D YOU GET THAT!" asking my dad if he gave me money for that. i simply explained i found the money on the pool table, and bought candy with it. my mom (embarassed as heck) went over and had to re-pay the pool players. Man, i wish life was that easy again =).

Stephie.

I'm from New Zealand, so when I first saw "In God We Trust" on a U.S. penny I misread it as "Ingodwe Trust". I thought it must have been a Nigerian charity of some sort........

Tim

When I was seven, my parents took my brother and I on a trip. At the hotel we stayed in, there was this incredible fountain, and upon closer inspection, we saw the fountain had money at the bottom of it! Pennies, dimes, quarters! My brother and I thought we were rich!We reached into the fountain and started scooping up the money. It was then my mother told me that each coin was somebody's wish and if I took the coins their wishes wouldn't come true. So reluctantly, we put the money back in the water. I remember being surprised other people weren't trying to take the coins too. Maybe they already knew they were other people's wishes!

Cathy F.

when I was about 3 I thought that eating money would make me rich. :P I'd steal 100 dollar bills from my mom and ate them. I never got rich....lol

Katie

i used to always think that there was someonesiting ina little both behined the cash machine fedding money and cards in and out and i used to always worry about the man iinsed the tv-who was controling it-not having enogh food.

Anon

i thought that no matter what u bought you always were supposed to get change back, well i once bought a movie with the money my dad gave me and turned out it was exactly 5 dollars, i remeber just standing there waiting for my change and the cashier looking at me weird, and my dad pulling me aside and explaing money, but i still didnt understand and threw a fit when i didnt get my change and realized i had spent all my money.

crysssstal

Once my friend and I were eating lunch together in the school cafeteria, and I got a can of juice. It said ME 5 cents. Well my friend apparently thought that ME was the abbreviation for Michigan even though it doesn't contain an E. She said, "That's not fair, it costs 5 cents to get it in Michigan but it costs 50 cents (I can't remember the actually price at school) to get it in Connecticut and everywhere else?" I tried to correct her but she didn't listen.

Mind you this was in 6TH GRADE!

Emmy

I used to believe that the "Poorhouse" was a real BIG, ugly house that whole families had to go live in together when they couldn't pay their bills.

Kathy

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

I told a kid once that when you grow up you have to pay all sorts of taxes, like taxes on youre house and that sort of stuff. Then I told him with a completely straight face that there was such thing as a potato tax, for every potato you ate you would have to pay 7 cents. And he actually believed me....

The CupCake Rebel

My dad told me that "no money down" meant that if you dropped your money, the store would get to keep it, like as in finders-keepers.

Belle

I thought that you either don't have insurance or you have Blue Cross Blue Shield. No other.

MD Caruso

My mother told me that money was the dirtiest thing around. I decided it was because people kept it in their bums.

That belief lingered and when I was a cashier in HS I almost vomitted when someone handed me a damp dollar bill.

becka

I used to believe that a house didn't cost any money!

Christy

I'm Norwegian, but my family lived in the US when I was a little girl. Norwegian currency is called "kroner" and around the time that we were moving back to Norway (1969) one dollar was about 10 kroner. I didn't know this, I just thought of a dollar as an American unit of money, and a krone as the Norwegian equivalent. Shortly after having moved back, my mom asked me to go to the store and buy a loaf of bread. I was absolutely horrified when the shopkeeper wanted 1,50 (or whatever it was) - the idea that bread cost more than one unit of money was outrageous. When I returned from the store my mom explained it to me. I remember asking her if we were millionaires in kroner - positive that the answer surely would have to be "yes" if we were to continue eating with the food prices I'd just experienced. But her answer was "no", and I felt incredibly poor! (I was 11 at the time, and my family's income was slightly above average.)

Kari

When I was little I thought having $1000 or so you were rich and I asked my mom one day "How much money do we have?$333??"She the explained the value of mony to me.

periwinkle

I never realized that there was a difference between silver (those minted before 1964 were made entirely of silver) dimes and quarters and "normal" dimes and quarters (the copper sandwich). As a result, I used to raid my mother's stash of silver coins to buy ice cream from the ice cream man!

dano

I used to think the man on the dime was Arnold Palmer.

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