When my Mum bought a new vacuum cleaner, the salesman told me that if she left it on for too long it would suck up the carpet and everything on it (including people) and so whenever it was used I'd always scream to my Mum to turn it off after a little while
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- I believed you ran the vacuum to cut the carpet and used the lawn mower to smooth out the grass.— Michelle
- when I was little i was scared of vacuum cleaners. I thought they would suck me inside of them.— Julie
- When I was 5 I was terrible scared of vacuum cleaners, because I thought it can suck me.— ahhhhhhhhh
- I used to believe that if you left crumbs out for a long period of time, they would turn into ants.— Bylaberrie
- 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 think that vacuum cleaners had little piece of space inside them because space is a vacuumAnon