when i was little, my mom and i would go shopping and before we left she'd sometimes casually say that she didn't have any money, therefor i thought she meant our family had no money period, even though she just didnt have any cash.
A childhood belief about money

others believed things like this
- I used to think the lady behind the cash register at the A & P got to keep all the money in the drawer.Anon
- I believed money didnt exist and you could just get anything you wanted.— Mr Money
- 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 used to believe that coin change could turn into actual paper money if you left it alone for a long time. — Marcus O
- I used to believe that when i didn't get money from the toothfairy she was in HawaiiAnon