When I was about seven years old my sister told me that I shouldn't put soap on my skin without wetting it first. She said that she knew a girl who did this and she ended up having to wear summer clothes in the winter and winter clothes in the summer!
A childhood belief about bathrooms

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that at the beach town where we spent the summer, they took the sidewalks in for the winter.— Missy
- I used to believe that when winter came and it snowed the grass just died or went away for the winter.— Chris
- the summer that I turned 11 I waited out side on the step all summer for my hogwarts letter... ;D — Ginny weasley... not really
- I used to believe that clothes got smaller if you didn't wear them very often.Anon
- I used to think the lyrics of "Boys of Summer" said "poison summer"— Lindsay
- that creases in clothes would pinch your skin — katy