When I was 9 years old I thought "several" was a synonym for seven that people used for no real reason. I also thought of a "fortune" as 40 dollars because I couldnt imagine anyone having more money than that.

Soap

i used to believe that when someone was payed under the table the money was actually handed to them under the table so no one saw. i still picture this whenever i hear someone say it

amber

I used to belive that at a "hole in the wall" bank there was a woman or man standing behind the wall pushing money through!

Sophie

that people in shops gave you 'change' if you didn't quite have enough money to pay.

suzy

I always heard that 4 quarters made up a dollar, so I thought if you laid 4 quarters end to end, they would just meld together and make a paper dollar.

Fettboy

My mum told me that if you caught the bubles on top of your cup of tea with a spoon and drank them you would get rich-it's very hard to do -I'm still trying!

Ann Williams

my dad convinced me that gambling machines had little hands which came out the money return bit and stole all your cash. i was terrified of them for years. stoped me gambling though.

matty

when i was really young my 2 brothers and i used to get really excited when we went to the bank. ATM's were new machines and we didn't exactly understand how they worked. We would pull up in the drivethru. My mom would put her card in, and so the three boys started cheering for this lottery machine... Mom always picked the right numbers. So we'd be screaming, COME ON BIG MONEY!!!! and wouldn't you know it, mom was real good at it!

Goofball

I thought that a "student visa" meant to use a credit card while travelling.

Anon

I used to believe that bank withdrawal slips could be used as money, but only adults could use them. I would try VERY hard to write neatly on them, so it looked like adult writing. I was never too gready, I usually wrote them out for $5, because that would buy me heaps of mixed lollies at the school canteen.

Ness R.

I used to believe that it was customary to receive change regardless of how much you give to the clerk... Like a bonus for shopping at the store.

Gabe

I used to save money up by throwing coins into the bottom of my wardrobe, among all the shoes and things. I believed that it would be easier to save this way, and that I would end up saving more money, because I wouldn't be tempted to go rooting around down there to take the money back. Also, I would never be certain how much money was there. It was a brilliant scheme.

Katie

I used to believe that the term "401(k)" reffered to how much money was in the account - $401,000. This belief was further strengthened when I saw an article talking about "how to stop your 401(k) from turning into a 200.5(k)."

Alex319

I used to believe that rich people got rich by that one day they were walking down the sidewalk, and a bunch of bills rained from the sky to make that person rich.

Its raining its pouring

I used to believe that coin change could turn into actual paper money if you left it alone for a long time.

Marcus O

I used to believe for quite a long time that the paper money was made from was worth almost as much as the money note itself. I wondered which kind of trees the various notes were made of and also whether money notes in Europe would have to be made from paper coming from exotic trees like ebony if they were to be worth a large sum, whereas african money of high value would for instance be coming from a pine tree. I asked my father about it and he explained. I wasn't concinced though.

Katerina

I used to spend a lot of time with my Grandmother and one time we were at the store and I asked if we could go somewhere else after that and she said no because she did not have any money and I said "Well, you have all that paper in your wallet, why not just use that!" I was talking about her checks. I thought at that you could just write checks and that was your money. I didn't connect the fact that it was your money that you were using out of the bank!

Christina Cervantes

Up until I was around 7 or 8, I believed that one day, without warning, my family would just lose all our money and become homeless. I kept a secret stash of tinfoil and anything spray-painted gold/silver so that we would have something to sell to pay for food, clothes, etc. when this happened. I believed that anything that LOOKED like silver and gold, must be silver and gold, and therefore must be valuable.

Hannah P.

Until I became about 14 I had always believed that everyone had at least a million dollars and I would wonder why people would be so excited about the lottery.

Katie

When I was little and I saw the picture on the $1 bill I didn't know who it was. I knew the person had to be important, so I tried to think who the most important person in the world was. Finally I figured it out: the most important Person in the world was--GOD! So until I was about ten or so I thought the picture on the $1 bill was God. Even when I got older and knew better, it took me until I was sixteen or so to stop picturing Washington's picture on the bill while I was praying!

Darrell