I used to believe that when you paid for something at a store with cash, the clerk would sometimes give you back a smaller amount of money just to be nice. It took a while to figure out the concept of change.
A childhood belief about money
others believed things like this
- That everything was free. You paid for nothing, money was just to look nice.— Blasia M
- I used to think the lady behind the cash register at the A & P got to keep all the money in the drawer.Anon
- I used to believe that you had to "buy" your job. The more money you paid, the better the job. — Duke
- I used to think all money paid for goods at shops went to charity.— Tim
- When I was a child, I used to know that using cheques you could spend an endless amount of money— lollo
- 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