I believed that if you ate snot, it would poisen you. And you would die.
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when I was a small girl, I had the bad habit of picking my nose. I simply detested having bogeys in my nose, so I'd always pick them out. My mother, quite horrified at this once snapped at me: if you keep picking your nose, your nostrils will stretch and become huge. look what you have done to them already! I instantly stopped, terrified. I have big nostrils, was it my own fault?
I believed that one was born with a perfect sphere of booger-material at the top of each nostril. Each nose-picking whittled away at these spheres. I don't remember whether or not I thought these spheres served any purpose, but I recall lying on the floor at nap-time in pre-school with my finger up my nose thinking I'd have to pace myself if I wanted any left when I became an adult.
I used to believe that if you picked your nose, your nostrills would become very large. That was why certain people had gigantic nostrills- they never listened to their parents and stopped picking their noses.
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My Mum told me that if you picked your nose you would turn into a matchstick man - I didn't believe her until one night,I did it and I stood in front of the bathroom mirror screaming "I don't want to be a matchstick man"
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My friend insisted that spiders eat bogies. She picked her nose and dropped the bogies onto spiderwebs. Goodness knows if the spiders ate them!
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My Grandpa told me if I picked my nose I could accidentally pull out my eye.
i used to believe that when u were picking ur nose u were picking out dead bits of brain so thats y my friend told me i was thick cos i wld only have half a brain
I regularly picked my nose and ate the bogeys. One day, when I was about 6, I was sick and threw up in the toilet, half of the vomit went on the toilet seat. The vomit was a greeny-yellow colour and looked just like bogeys. I honestly believed that years of eating my bogeys had finally made me sick, and that I had just thrown up all the bogeys I had ever eaten. I never ate my bogeys after that.
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My mother told me that if I picked my nose it would turn into a pigs trotter!
i used to believe that bogeys were dead flys that got blown up your nose mixed with old bits of brains
I WAS ONLY 8!
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My Dad told me that bogies were actually your brain. This was meant to stop me picking my nose and eating it. It worked!
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when i was 3 i thought u would find a plate of dinner up your nose because my dad used to say to me DO YOU WANT A FORK!!!
I used to beleive that if I picked my nose the boogie monster would visit me in the night + torture me
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My uncle had lost part of a finger, when he saw me picking my nose when I was little he said thats how he lost his finger,never picked my nose again in case I lost mine
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My boyfriend has told me that when he was little he believed his father when he told him that if he picked his nose and ate the snot, they would rot his teeth.
i used to think that my dad turned into the boogie monster at night if i picked my nose before i went to bed
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when i was young my grandmother told me i would get nosecancer through picking my nose. i believed this for many years.
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My grandma told me at a younge age that if I picked my nose and ate my boogers that they would turn into warms in my stomach. Talk about a good way to stop a nasty habit. I even tell this one to my child and my friends children. No booger eaters around here!
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When I was younger my dad told me that if you picked your nose too much, that you would pull the lining from your brain! I believed that until I was 11 years old.