My mom once gave me a box of old, unused checks, saying I could play with them. But I didn't want to play with them. I thought they were just like money and I wanted to use them for real. I thought that if only I knew how to fill them out, I could use them to buy things at the toy store. I thought about all the wonderful things I could buy if only I knew how to fill out checks.
A childhood belief about money
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that as long as there were checks in the checkbook, there was money in the bank.— Michelle
- I used to believe that checks and credit cards allowed you to get anything you wanted with out paying for it. — Diamond
- I used to think that my mom had to buy ice cubes from the store and bring them home to fill up the trays.— Shawna
- I thought the name Phillip was actually spelled "Fill Up"— Natasha H
- I thought when you get married you have to fill out a form to get a baby and then you get one.— Danielle
- I thought God drove a car like ours - a Honda. The song DID say "fill the heavens with sweet Accords..."— Dummy