When I was little, I thought that people paid their employers to let them work. When my mom told me that people got paid to work, I was shocked.
Also, one time I asked my mom why anyone would shop at Fashion Bug because Fashion Bug plus had better cloths, hence the word "Plus."
A childhood belief about going shopping

others believed things like this
- My uncle once said that elves were really badchildren made to work in santa's work shop— Some guy
- I used to believe that you had to "buy" your job. The more money you paid, the better the job. — Duke
- That everything was free. You paid for nothing, money was just to look nice.— Blasia M
- I used to belive there were people under the traffic lights, otherwise they wouldn't work...Anon
- i used to believe that if i didn't work at school, i would have donkey ears, so now i work hard !!!— denis
- I used to think all money paid for goods at shops went to charity.— Tim