I used to think that when you got a credit card, the company just took all your money and gave you a card of that value. When you bought something with it, it would be reprogrammed to reduce the amount of money.
A childhood belief about money

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that with a credit card, you could get anything you wanted for free.— Anonymous
- I thought that a travel visa was a special credit card which was used for travellingAnon
- I thought that a "student visa" meant to use a credit card while travelling.Anon
- I thought a Debit card was actually called a Debt card.— Kilgore
- I used to think that a Visa credit card was what one needed to be admitted to countries that "require a visa".— Stephanie
- When I was a child, I used to know that using cheques you could spend an endless amount of money— lollo