I also had a big tree in my back yard with a door shaped "knot" at the bottom. I was positive a colony of naked elves lived in the tree and my best friend convinced me that we should lay my barbie clothes outside the tree for them so they wouldn't catch cold.
I spent the day finding my best and warmest barbie clothes and much to my happiness and surprise, the clothes were gone the next morning! I bragged to my friend that they had enjoyed our gift.
It wasn't until a month later that my friend confessed that she had taken the clothes! I was so mad.
A childhood belief about fairies

others believed things like this
- When I was five, I believed God was big as a tree, a tree being the biggest thing I could convieve of.
— Chris - I used to believe that my clothes were shrinking not that I was growing.— Joann
- I used to think that the clothes in the thrift store were new— Ellie
- I used to believe that clothes got smaller if you didn't wear them very often.Anon
- I used to believe that my dogs diet was clothes, because that was all I ever saw him eating— kay
- I believe that it would rain when God would be having a shower or washing his clothes.— Karina