I had a friend who thought that when they gave you change at the cash register that they acutally changed the paper money magicly into coins.
A childhood belief about money

others believed things like this
- I used to think the lady behind the cash register at the A & P got to keep all the money in the drawer.Anon
- I used to believe that coin change could turn into actual paper money if you left it alone for a long time. — Marcus O
- that people in shops gave you 'change' if you didn't quite have enough money to pay.— suzy
- When my brother was 5 I use to swap a $5.00 note for lots of coins because he thought that I had more money— MATT NEWTON
- When I was a little kid I used to believe that tissue paper was money and that you could have a box of money.Anon
- When I was 6 I truly thought that if something was £50 and you gave them £30 you got the goods AND £20 changeAnon