As children, whenever my brothers or I recieved money as a gift we took great pleasure in bringing it to the bank to deposit it in our savings accounts. We were told that we were saving the money so that we could go to college. I truly believed that "College" was some sort of theme park or something. I remembering wondering WHEN we were going to take this trip to college. I was crushed when I learned what it really was!!

college bound!

I used to think that, since things were so much cheaper when my dad was a kid, and even cheaper when his dad was a kid, then everything must have been free around the early 1800s.

Piper

My friend used to believe that if you put any amount of money in to a vending machine and then pressed any of the buttons, the machine would just choose something to fall. Then it would decide how much change you would get.

Lights on, nobody home.

When I was a kid I looked forward to friends of my dad coming to visit as I knew they would always dig in their pockets and give me an nickle or dime!The annoying part was when they would say "Here go buy yourself an ice cream" and I actually wanted potato chips or something else. It never occured to me that I didn`t have to buy exactly what they told me to.

Janet

When I was younger, I used to think that if you didn't pay your fire insurance, they would burn your house down.

Anon

When my sister and I were young we would pester our parents for a McDonalds but the only reply we got was: "Sorry, we don't have McDonalds money". For a while I believed that there were coins bearing Ronalds face.

Anon

I used to think that if you went into a shop, and didn't have enough money for what you wanted, the shopkeeper would give you the rest of the money so you could get it, and that's what "change" was... how much better would life be if that really happened?

Anon

When I was little I thought that you could print out your own money from the computer. I never understood why my mom said that we didn't have the money to buy me a toy at the time.

xoxo

I used to believe that if you swallowed a penny, it would make you small enough to crawl into the back of the TV, then you'd be on TV. I never swallowed a penny, but I did suck one down my windpipe while trying to 'shrink'.

Sherri

When I was little my older brother told me that if I ever tore money, that the president on the money would come and kill me in my sleep.And until this day I still have never tore money.

Emily

I used to hear the business report on the radio and think they were saying that 25 million chairs were traded on Wall Street. I pictured a huge room with millions of metal folding chairs being moved around.

Rhode Island Rick

As a kid, I could not understand why the cashiers in supermarkets would give change to you when you'd pay. The only explanation I could figure out was: you're to pay $100, and you only have $90 in your pocket, so the cashier gives you the missing $10. But I thought this was weird, though, because any dishonest person would just pretend having only $20 in order to get $80.

Denis

I used to have a strange belief that everything would happen at least once in your life, like a bee sting, or a house fire, or anything, it was only until i once read the chances of winning the lottery that it became apparent that this is not true!

Nick Blakesley

I used to believe that you had to write on huge checks (like the kind they show on tv for lottery winners) if it was a big amount, like 1,000,0000.

shelly

As a kid I always thought every coin and dollar was just called "money", and the denomination didn't matter. So a five dollar bill and two quarters was "three moneys".

Annalisa

I used to believe that my parents were mean to not have alot of money. I thought that I would be a much better parent because I would choose to be rich and give alot to my children,

tracie-phillips, wi

when i was a kid i used to believe that service-station attendants were the richest people in the world. that's because they had all this money in their pockets when it was time to pay after refueling

gianfranco

We grew up abroad, and didn't get many foreign newspapers and anything American was considered a real treat. When I overheard my parents talking about subscribing to a newspaper that I understood to be called The Herald Tribillion, I assumed this meant that each issue cost tribillion dollars. I reached the happy, yet misguided, opinion that we were phenomenally rich.

Anon

Once my mum was given a £10 not to share with her sister. Only being 4 she ripped it straight in half, thinking she was being generous, only to be hysterically laughed at by her whole family!

smell

I believed that the money one put in the bank was the exact money that one would get back. I cried in the bank when my mother handed me a ten dollar bill instead of the ten silver dollars my grandfather had given me on my fifth or sixth birthday a few months before.

Brandy