I guess many kids believed that one: I believed that if I buried coins in the earth, they would "breed" and multiply. At least, that's what a teenage boy told us. He told us to bury our money in his garden. Needless to say, when we checked back, all the coins were gone :-(
A childhood belief about money

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
- that if you rip a dollar coins come outAnon
- when i was a child,i used to believe that a "million" is a big bag full of coins— Kafka
- The bus needed coins to run; it would melt them down and use them as fuelAnon
- I believed that the breed of dog called Boxer was called that because they could stand up and box.Anon
- when i was in kindergarten i believed that abe lincoln was buried in a cabin and not a coffin— lisa