I thought that bank tellers had little vaults underneath their desks with customers' names on them, and when you came to the bank to deposit or withdraw they would open up your little vault and add or take money out of it.

Anon

At age 5 I believed Monopoly money was real. I remember feeling stupid and embarassed when the the man at the corner shop laughed at me when I tried to buy sweets with it.

David

Once when I was very young, I overheard someone talking about "borrowing $10." It made no sense to me. If you borrow something, then you have to return it, but what was the point of borrowing a ten dollar bill unless you needed to spend it. And once you spent it, how could you give it back. It never occurred to me that you could pay back a debt with a different bill.

John

i used to want to be a tollbooth attendant because i thought they got to keep all the money.

adam j. sontag

I remember when I didn't understand how bank interest worked - when my mum or dad told me that money grew in banks, I always pictured people struggling out of the building with huge 2p coins in their arms!

Emma W

I used to think that the pools was a swimming competition.

Matt

I once believed that the bank was where people went to pick up money, and it gave out infinite amounts of it. When I used to want toys, and my mom said she didn't have the money right then, I'd say "Well, we can just go to the bank and they'll give us some!"

Glenn

When I was small and first heard about dollar stores I pictured a store where you could buy any money ( $20 bill, $10 bill, a quater, ect.) for a dollar. This makes no sense obviously and made me think adults were extremely stupid.

Anon

When i was little and wanted to spend some money MUM
would say i could have anything i wanted, when our ship came IN. so i really believed we owned a ship

MARGARET

When I was very young I assumed adults bought money at stores. Since money was the only means which I knew of to make purchases, I deduced they bought money with money at a 1:1 ratio, which made no sense even then but seemed like the only rational possibility

smith,

When I went to Spain when I was 7, I thought their currency was potatoes. It was pesetas.

Helen W

I thought a Debit card was actually called a Debt card.

Kilgore

I talked my brother into "trading" stacks of money. The stacks I was giving him were all pennies but they were much larger than the stacks he gave me (of only quarters and dimes). I convinced him that the penny stacks were worth more.

Evil Sister

I used to believe when you had a credit card, you were able to make 10 freebie purchases. I got mad at my mother once for using a credit card at a hardware store when she could have used it one of the ten freebies to get something much more valuable, like a car or plane.

Mike

my bro used to belive there were smurfs in the atms passing out money

L

My mom once gave me a box of old, unused checks, saying I could play with them. But I didn't want to play with them. I thought they were just like money and I wanted to use them for real. I thought that if only I knew how to fill them out, I could use them to buy things at the toy store. I thought about all the wonderful things I could buy if only I knew how to fill out checks.

Still poor

I used to believe that planting coins in the yard would literally grow Money Trees. My oler brother convinced us and used to take our money to go "plant". So, I also believed that any coins I found on the ground had fallen off of a money tree.

Patti

When I was little around the age of 5, my sister took a trip to England, and brought back coins. One day I saw the coins laying on a desk in her room and I took them. That night my sister came in my room and saw her coins on my desk, she came up to me and was like "Those coins!! K.k! Do you know what they are? They will come and kill you!" This of course scared the hell out of me. I asked who was comming and she was like, "the pirates! They are going to come and get you! You stole their gold!" I started crying asking her how to stop them from killing me. She then told me that I had to make a boat, and put the coins in it then go outside and put the boat in the pool. So I went and made a paper boat and put the boat in the pool with the coins in it. Then the next day I went down to the pool, the boat was still floating I grabbed the boat, and in it was a rolled up letter I read it, and it said "next time Ill get you!" So ever since then I believed that if I took coins from ppl then Pirates would come and kill you. I believed that until 2nd grade when I told some kid that because he took a coin off the floor.

Kaite

From 1909 to 1958 American pennies had Abraham Lincoln on the front and wheat on the back. (They now have the Lincoln Memorial on the back.) When I was growing up in the '80s, my mom would sometimes find "wheat pennies" in change she recieved. She kept them in a jar and told me they were special since they were old. I thought they were called "weak pennies" because they were old. I also though the wheat magically appeared on the back of a penny when it got old enough.

Lauren P

I used to believe that banks were owned by rich people who gave away their money.

Lyssa