I used to think that when somebody wanted to move, they would have to switch houses with somebody else. no questions asked. i also used to think that if they did that, but still wanted to live in the same house but in a different area, they would "scoop" up each house with a giant machine with a spatula-type thing to move the houses.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- when I was 8 or9 I thought that you could only move to 3 houses or then you would get in big truble!!!— 3 houses
- I used to believe that when you moved houses, you traded homes with the person whose house you're moving into.Anon
- i used to believe that public houses were just houses were the public could go and liveAnon
- i used to believe that when a person moved away, they switched houses with the person that bought their house— alli
- I used to think that tornadoes were giant tomatoes that would sit on top of your house until everyone died.— Maggie
- I used to believed that the sign on houses 'to let' was a toliet and that there was lots of them!— Grace Lyon New Addington