When I was little, I thought that vacuums were for smoothing out the carpets, not cleaning them. Whenever my mom would vacuum I would tread as lightly as I could across the carpets because I didn't want to ruin them.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- I used to believe airplanes were powered by magic carpets.— Anonymous
- i used to think that vacuum cleaners had little piece of space inside them because space is a vacuumAnon
- when I was little i was scared of vacuum cleaners. I thought they would suck me inside of them.— Julie
- When I was 5 I was terrible scared of vacuum cleaners, because I thought it can suck me.— ahhhhhhhhh
- When I was younger, I would believe that vacuum cleaners were capable of sucking up humans.Anon
- I believed you ran the vacuum to cut the carpet and used the lawn mower to smooth out the grass.— Michelle