Back then pad samples from Always used to be sent out in the mail. When I was 11 years old, I got a hold of the pad samples and brought them to my older sister saying, "Look we got free slippers in the mail."
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- i used to think that the word e-mail was a sex, like male, female and e-mail.
I'm so thick!— Confoozed - I thought when i was a kid, that all mailboxes had tubes that brought your mail to the person u sent it to.— Andrew
- When my sister told one of my brothers her e-mail address, he thought to spell out “at” instead of typing “@”.— EJ - no longer computer illiterate!
- i used to believe that babies came through mail order.Anon
- I used to believe that you could order babies from a catalogue!And that everybody had been mail ordered!— Jeff
- I waited for the mail to come on my 11th birthday so that I could get my letter to Hogwarts... It never came.— Charlie