I was convinced you could make a pair of shoes out of conkers, if only you could peel them and mould them before they turned from white to brown. I still haven't given up on this one, actually...
A childhood belief about plants

others believed things like this
- I used to belive that if you ate anything that had mould growing on it, you would grow mould on your skin. Anon
- I used to believe that white people had white poop and that mine was brown because I was brownAnon
- Drinking coffee before your 12 yrs, old will make the white in your eyes turn brown.— dawn b.
- when I was little I used to think that white people had pink poop (i am brown so my poop is brown)— helena muteka
- That blue cheese was made by scraping mould off bathroom walls. My mother actually told me that.— sandee
- Red shoes make you run faster. — Ann B.