On Christmas night, when I was 4/5, my parents stuck shredded cotton balls to our fireplace grating when they were downstairs delivering Santa's presents (and I was upstairs sleeping). Yes, I fell for it.
A childhood belief about father christmas

others believed things like this
- I used to put a camera along my fireplace on Christmas Eve in hopes to tape Santa.Anon
- when i was little i thought that jesus delivered presents on christmas not santa .— gaby
- I belived that santa came every night to se if i was sleeping— david
- I used to believe that the clouds were made of cotton balls— Jeannie
- i used to beleive cotton balls were marshmellows— carly
- I thought planes collected clouds to make cotton balls.— Eddie