I used to believe that commercials would only go away when you bought the product that was being advertised.
A childhood belief about adverts

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that comercials are evil beings that would keep appearing until you bought the product.Anon
- I used to think that if a movie was advertised on the side of a bus, that meant it was really good. — Aretia
- i beleived that when someone bought a new house, they would swap with the person they bought it from— c
- Until I was 7, I used to think bananas were a dairy product.— Amplexor
- I used to think that "elbow grease" was an actual product of kitchen or surface cleaner.— Carrie
- Thanks to the commercials,I believed that Philadelphia Cream Cheese was made by Jesus.— Too Literal