When I was younger I saw this advert on tv for the Eastern Electrical company. In it there was a woman picking money off a 'money tree.' I believed for years that money grew on trees. I even tried planting coins. Sadly, nothing ever became of them...
A childhood belief about plants

others believed things like this
- When my brother was 5 I use to swap a $5.00 note for lots of coins because he thought that I had more money— MATT NEWTON
- 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 really used to believe that money DID grow on trees— Kim
- I used to believe that money really did grow on trees, but grownups just didn't want us to know about it.— Mariah
- I used to believe there was a money tree in every rich person’s backyard — Kb