My little sister used to believe that there was candy in the garbage can. This she heard from my younger brother who was 12 and she was 3. well anyways he reminded her one day at the grocery store and she actually looked through the garbage and did not find anything.
A childhood belief about sweeties

others believed things like this
- Skunks smell bad because they eat garbage.— Isabel
- I used to want to be a garbage man when I was older because I belived they only worked one day a week— Oscar the Grouch
- i used to believe that a monster lived in the garbage disposal. i would never go near the sink— Whitney
- Lightning and thunder were produced at the garbage dump.— penny
- My grandma told me that if I misbehaved, the men in the garbage truck would take me away forever.— Anika
- I used to believe there was a Russian Leader named Garbage Trough and an Arabian named Are A FatAnon