When I was young I thought that if you bought a product that was advertised on TV, that they would stop sending the ads, so you wouldn't see them anymore between shows.
A childhood belief about adverts

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that commercials would only go away when you bought the product that was being advertised.— Hayabusa
- I used to believe that comercials are evil beings that would keep appearing until you bought the product.Anon
- I used to believe that if I ate pieces of bread it would soak up my pee and I wouldn't have to pee anymore.— Anna
- When I was young, I used to belive that
if you pushed the stop button in the bus it would stop for good.— Tom (Norway) - I thought that blackmail meant sending black envelopes to people.Anon
- When I was young, I thought that rice was actually ants eggs! Didn't stop me from eating it though (: -@— Doh!