I used to believe that my mother vacuumed our living room to erase all of the footprints in the carpet. I was always jealous that she got to be the first one to make new footprints. With respect to my mother's efforts, I rarely walked on a freshly-vacuumed carpet because I wanted to keep the footprints down to a minimum.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- I used to think that indents in mountains were the footprints of dinosaurs. — Emily
- I used to believe that people got their footprints in the sidewalk by stomping really hard.— Shantelle
- i used to think that my sister was a genie and flew a magic carpet at nightAnon
- I believed you ran the vacuum to cut the carpet and used the lawn mower to smooth out the grass.— Michelle
- i used to believe you couldn't draw on erasers with pencils because it would erase itself— Samantha
- I used to believe the living room furniture would party after we all went to sleep.— Ellen