My mother had an awful way to get us to put our clothes away: "The fire inspector will be coming by today. If clothes are laying around, he'll note it as a hazard to vacate the house. And our house insurance will go up."
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when you moved house you swapped house with the person moving into your old house.Anon
- I used to believe that my clothes were shrinking not that I was growing.— Joann
- I used to think that the clothes in the thrift store were new— Ellie
- I used to believe that clothes got smaller if you didn't wear them very often.Anon
- I used to believe that my dogs diet was clothes, because that was all I ever saw him eating— kay
- I believe that it would rain when God would be having a shower or washing his clothes.— Karina