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When I was about 3 or 4 I was eating my boogers when my gramdma told me that boogers were actually dead bugs. Never did that again!!

I used to think that "smoking a bowl" required a large cereal bowl sized aluminum bowl that people used like when you hyperventilate and hold your head over a bowl of steaming water or whatever. I wish someone woulda just said it's like smoking a pipe with tobacco like sherlock holmes but it's weed in there instead!

— Smokey McPotbad habits : smoking

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When I was little, I would pick my nose and throw the boogers on the floor (I never ate them). Then I would have nightmares of shuffling through thick piles of boogers throughout the house like autumn leaves! I never could figure out why they're made, and I still pick them, but I usually throw them in the trash can.

— What else are they for?bad habits : picking my nose

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When I was little my mum told me that if you picked your nose too much that your head would cave in (as if snot helps the head keep its shape!!) so I used to imagine that all these people who picked their noses too much would be walking around with a perfect head, but instead of having a nose that points out, that their noses would point in!!

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This isn't from me, but from my 4 year old daughter. Over the weekend she told me she was eating her boogers because she thought they would turn her eyes green.

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my mum used 2 say that if i sucked my thumb, it would shrink and i wouldnt have any thumbs left lol!!!

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my mum said to me when i was little that if i picked my nose my brain would come out of my nose! and i believed her lol!!! stupid huh?? x

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that sucking your thumb would cause buck teeth. when i was little my mom tried all sorts of things to get me to stop. one night she put hot pepper juice on it. i rubbed my eyes and got the juice in it. she had to get up and wash out my eyes. i did not stop. i still occasionally suck my thumb when i go to bed and i'm 24

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My grandmother installed such a believe that if I kept biting my finger-nails that I'd grow a hand in my stomach, that when I had the flu at school I told the teacher that this is what I thought it the problem was.

— Debbie Pittioni, Richmond Hillbad habits : biting my nails

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This is disgusting - When I was at primary school I used to pick my nose, wipe the bogey under the table (which I called the oven). Then about a week later I would check under the table to see if it had been cooked and pick it off. Oh dear!!

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When i was younger my grandpa would tell me that if i bit my nails then they would attach themselves to the lining of my stomach and make me very sick. He told me he had a friend that bit her nails and she became very sick and was hospitalized. When the doctor went to operate her stomach was full of nails and he couldnt help her so she died. Now I am 16 and I know that is not true. I wish i would have believed it because i still bite my nails.

I've had the habit of biting my nails since I was little, and one day, my friend's mom told me that if I kept biting them, a huge claw would grow out of my stomach. Surprisingly, that didn't stop me.

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one day when i waz in 6th grade my teaher would tell us not 2 bite my nails and my friend always asked y and my teacher said cuz if u bite them and eat them u can get ring wrom and even sence then i neva bet me nails

I never bit my nails, because I never wanted to and also because when I was 5 my friend told me I would grow animal claws if I didn't bite my nails.(He was trying to make me start the habit but it had the opposite effect... claws are cool!)

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When I was little, my mom told me that there was a snail that lived in my nose, and if I picked my nose the snail would bite my finger off!

I always picked me nose when I was younger (and still do)

My dad and mum used to tell me if I kept picking my nose I would burrow a hole to my brain and it would all come out my nostrils.

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I believed until quite recently that chain smokers all got together in a group and smoked eachothers cigarettes, then passed them on in the circle.

— A naive teenagerbad habits : smoking

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my brother used to pick his nose and smear it all over the wall. i thought i was way smarter then him because i would pick my nose and wipe it on the side of the bed so no one would know.

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My little brother had a bad habit of picking his nose, and when we would tell him to stop, he would simply cover his finger and nose with his other hand, thinking that we couldn't see what he was doing.