When we were kids, my mother would tell us that if we lefts our galoshes on in the house we would go blind. Now I realise that she probably wanted to be sure we wouldn't track up the house.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when you moved house you swapped house with the person moving into your old house.Anon
- when i was young i believed that when u moved house the house would come with you !!!
just like a turtleAnon - The Whit house down the street was the real "White House". — SG
- I used to believe that if you opened up an umbrella inside your house that the whole house would fly awayAnon
- when i was younger i thought that when you moved house your house moved with you!!— chrissy
- When I was younger, I wanted to marry Willie Nelson so I wouldn't have to change my name.— stacy