When I was little my mother would not let me wear socks to bed. She believed it was bad for your circulation. I suffered many a winter night with cold tootsies well into early adulthood. Now my mom doesn't even remember this notion and frequently wears socks to bed, as do I.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I wouldn't wear stripy socks because I used to believe the stripes dug into your feet— Shirley Reeves
- I used to believe that if you didn't take your socks off at night your feet would turn into jellyAnon
- I always wondered why shepherds washed their socks by night. (correct lyric: watched their flocks)— MaggieNJ
- When i was little, i believed that if you slept with socks on, your feet would fall off.Anon
- When I was little, my mom told me that if I slept with socks on they would eat me alive.— Cindy
- When I was little, I thought that if I slept with socks on, my toes would grow together.— Laura