When my sister and I were little, we convinced our younger brother that nickles were worth more than dimes because they were bigger in size. My brother easily traded his dimes for our nickles (sometimes even more than one!). We made off with quite a bit of moola until we got caught! :)
A childhood belief about money

others believed things like this
- my dad used to tell me that nickles were worth more then a dime cause they were bigger — brittany
- I used to believe that the bigger the coin was, the more it was worth.— Benjamin
- When I was small, my brother would bug me and say that if my hand was bigger than my head, I had a tumor.Anon
- My sister uesd to think that you did a whole year's worth of growing in the night before your birthday.— Richard Davies
- My brother once convinced me that the wind was "leftover hurricanes"— Tufty the Squirrel
- i used to believe that some day i'll catch up with my brother and never have to be the younger one again!!!!— rhea