at home: around the house

When I was around 5 my mom told me to always clean up becuase germs where alive and every where but you cant see them. So for awhile after that I would arm myself with Clorox and would constantly clean myself.

I used to believe that the fire place surround had several nuggets of gold between the stones until years later I caught an aunt polishing them with brass cleaner

I use to be deathly afraid of those knob water fossets because I use to panic and not know which way to turn them and I was afraid the knobs would come off and water would squirt everywhere and somehow would come in contact with a toaster and electicute me. I also was afraid of the water reaching the overflow dranage holes thinking it would come out the bottom and spill everywhere.

When me and my family movd into our new house i was 10 and my sister was 8 1/2. The basement bathrooms wallpaper looked like the wallpaper in Willy Wonka and The chocolate factory where they licked it and a schnozberry tasted like a schnozberry and so on. Well my siter and were convinced and we spent hours licking the wallpaper, but never tasted a thing.

I used to believe that those "smelly markers" were made from flavoured juice, and sucked on quite a few of the tips only to realize that they didn't taste anything like they smelled!

I used to be certain that if my parents would go up and look in our crawl space, they would find a playhouse for me up there. I imagined it as a sort of flat yellow plastic bundle, but when my parents set it up in our front yard it would be quite big, with multiple rooms, and even a refrigerator, and I would be able to live there.

I also used to stare at my mother's sewing machine, thinking if I just knew which levers to push, gumballs would come out. But I knew she would yell at me if I touched it, so I never tried.

When I was little, my dad informed me that our garage had black widow spiders in it, and I thought that when I turned off the garage light and went back into the house, millions of spiders would come pouring out to get me.

I had a lot of issues as a kid, the best I think, was that a magical genie lived in the wall above my bed and would try to kidnap me while I slept. To stop him I would pile all my stuffed animals on top of the covers and sleep under them so he would get them, not me. But then I couldn't sleep 'cause it was too hot under there.

when i was little we had a very unreliable vacum cleaner. My mum would say that the vacum had sucked a kumara so of course i thought our vacum was full of kumaras

From the time my poor abused brain could absorb knowledge, my mother told me that Pine Sol (mopping kitchen floor) would eat the skin off my feet if I walked on it. Yeah... I believed that till I was 18. Made sense, though, for something that smells like that.

My sister told me that White-Out (the Liquid Paper brand) was for when you ran out of paper and needed more. You just poured some White-Out on the table and you had a new sheet of paper.

I used to believe that tiny monsters lived inside electric wall outlets.

I believed this because I once stuck my finger in an outlet and one of the monsters bit me.

I remember seeing a film of lobsters underwater on Sesame Street. The claws and legs really freaked me out. Somehow I decided that it was a picture of what lived behind our walls in our house (especially near light switches), so I was scared to touch the walls.

As a child I was convinced that the furnace only came on when someone walked past a certain point in the house (namely the entrance to my bedroom hallway). When I heard it come on at night I was sure that it was ghosts or someone else in the house.

As a child, i used to believe that all inanimate objects were either male or female, for exapmle, forks were female, and spoons and knives were male. I also had different "degrees" of male and female, even before I knew about people being gay. Numbers, for instance: one was kind of ambiguous, two was male, three was male, four was female, five was male, six was female, seven was male, eight was female, nine was female but very masculine!!!! Must be the OCD in me!!!

When I was little I used to believe that when you moved out of your house, you switched houses with the family that moved into your old house. And that homeless people were people no one switched houses with.

I used to sit in front of the window unit air conditioner to get cool & I used to believe that a little mouse lived inside & he wore a plaid vest & a little round hat. I was convinced I would see him if I stared long enough.