When I was seven, my parents took my brother and I on a trip. At the hotel we stayed in, there was this incredible fountain, and upon closer inspection, we saw the fountain had money at the bottom of it! Pennies, dimes, quarters! My brother and I thought we were rich!We reached into the fountain and started scooping up the money. It was then my mother told me that each coin was somebody's wish and if I took the coins their wishes wouldn't come true. So reluctantly, we put the money back in the water. I remember being surprised other people weren't trying to take the coins too. Maybe they already knew they were other people's wishes!
A childhood belief about money
others believed things like this
- 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
- I used to believe that banks were owned by rich people who gave away their money.— Lyssa
- I used to believe there was a money tree in every rich person’s backyard — Kb
- I used to believe that coin change could turn into actual paper money if you left it alone for a long time. — Marcus O
- 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
- I used to belive that if you went up to an ATM it would just give you money out that is not your own money.Anon