On my first holidays (I was about 4) my parents took me to Italy. I thought the Italians were very poor people because for 1 mark you could buy 1000 Italian Lire.
A childhood belief about money

others believed things like this
- I used to think all Italians worked in pizza restaurants.Anon
- I used to believe that Spanish and Italian were the same language;Spanish was for boys and Italian for girlsAnon
- I used to believe that only 'poor' people had to go to the bathroom, that 'rich' people didn't.Anon
- I believed that numbers eventually just ended. That they stopped somewhere after 1000.— Jamis
- I used to believe that a brothel was where poor people used to go to get free broth.— Rob. UK
- I used to believe that all godfathers were Italian.— Madi