From the time my poor abused brain could absorb knowledge, my mother told me that Pine Sol (mopping kitchen floor) would eat the skin off my feet if I walked on it. Yeah... I believed that till I was 18. Made sense, though, for something that smells like that.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- I believed dinosaurs made the mountains whenever they walked the earth.— Tammy
- my aunt used to tell me that pinapples made your eyebrows grow. i believed it till i was about 10.— Anna
- when i was 2 or 3 believed that i had lots of animals in my tummy it made sense my mum had baby in hers.— kjc
- My Grandmother once told me she could unscrew her feet. I believed that for years.— Andy Bettison
- I used to believe that porcupines were humongous pine trees that could hurt you.— Shelly
- I used to think that tampons were meant to absorb women's urine so they wouldn't have to go to the bathroom.— Koyaanisqatsi