at home: around the house

When I was a little girl, I remember my daddy telling me when I went up into the attic to be very careful and only walk on the beams. He said if I stepped into the pink insulation (which underneath would be the ceiling/drywall in the room below), that I would fall and fall and fall for the rest of my life! I would never stop falling - like a bottomless pit! I still have a fear of that to this very day!

My sister told me when I was about four, that IF I ran over the vacuum cord while vacuuming I would be instantly electrocuted. I was PETRIFIED of the vacuum. The really sad part was that I didn't figure out the real truth until I was about 20!

I used to believe that the washing powder than my mum bought Persil or similar..... was just used by her and when I found out it wasnt i was most upset and didnt want my clothes washed again.... I smelled very bad at aged 7

when i was younger i was scared of a bust statue of mozart that we had in our living room. i always thought that it was watching me. i would turn it around so that it wasnt looking at me. my sister knew it bothered me so she would turn it back around when i wasnt looking. that really freaked me out! (thanks heather)

We used to have a creepy painting in our basement of a lady in black leaning on a railing. I Never wanted to go by the painting because her eyes would follow me and she would get me. We have now moved away from that house and the painting is still there.

In my house is a crawl space. Its a little panel on the wall by the floor. You unscrew it and go down under the house. We store old junk down there and I've never been down there, only my parents have. In the back is a huge black panther statue. I used to think I wasn't allowed down there because the Panther would eat me.

my mother told us that there was a mr. wall and if we touched the walls with our dirty hands he would take her away. we did and she hid in the closet acting like he took her. we had to promise mr. wall never to get the walls dirty again.

When I was about 3, I had a fear of ceiling fans. I guess I thought they might fall down and slice me up or something.

when i was about 4 my brother told me there was a little man in the fridge who turned the light on and off.he also told me there was one in the tv too.he said if i was quick enough i could catch him in the act.boy they must be quick cause im 35 now and still have'nt caught them yet.

When I was about 4, I was frightened of a pillow case with weird looking flowers on it, the flowers looked like little aliens...

I was special.....

When I was younger, I wa scared to death to get out of bed during the night because I thought gravity turned off with the sun and you would just float away. I always made sure to go to the bathroom before bed.

I used to believe(6) that a nail in my bedroom wall,that had been painted but still had a piece of string hanging on it, would kill me if I ever touched it. We eventually moved house, but, would you believe there was another nail on the wall looking just as creepy. I never touched either.

When we were young, my brother and I beleived that the vacuum cleaner must get terribly thirsty because of all the dust it picked up. We sucked up a pint of coke to quench it's thirst. Our mum wasn't impressed next time she tried to clean...

I dug a hole in my backyard as a kid and found some shards of old broken dishware. I honestly believed that this is what people meant when they spoke of "digging a hole to China" and assumed I had done so.

I have never got over the childhood habit of giving personalities and emotions to inanimate objects...I feel really sorry for cars on scrap heaps, bald Christmas trees that nobody wants, etc...just typing this made me want to cry!!

When I was a kid, I used to think that "wall to wall carpeting" meant that a room had carpet everywhere - on the floor, the walls, and the ceiling.

I always wanted to see a room with wall to wall shag carpeting.