My mom used to send me out with a little paintbrush and some special solution, and I would paint the outside of the house, to protect it from winter (we lived in a trailer). It was a very important job. Years later she admitted it was plain water.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- If someone broke into my house at night my ninja turtles would come to life to protect me.— blip
- I used to believe that when winter came and it snowed the grass just died or went away for the winter.— Chris
- ***I used to believe that water towers was a place that someone lived and they controlled the water.— C H R I S T E N
- I was always afraid of trailer parks because I though that is where tornados came from.— Evan
- I believed that the ladder on the back of a trailer/rv led up to a swimming pool.— marilese
- When i was small i used to think god lived on top of my house and the devil lived right underneath it.— Missuss D