I used to believe that checker pieces were a kind of money. Products ordered from television commercials always told you to send $9.95 checker money order to some PO box.
A childhood belief about money

others believed things like this
- 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
- I thought the airport was a place that you get chopped into pieces in order to go to outer space! lol!!!— I don't know why you get chopped...
- I used to believe that you had to "buy" your job. The more money you paid, the better the job. — Duke
- When I was kid I used to believe that I had to earn enough money to have one of everything that existed.Anon
- I used to think that money from ATM machines were free :p— qwerty