I used to believe that when I grew up I would never have to pay for anything with cash...I would just use a check. Writing a check totally took the place of cash.
A childhood belief about money

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that you could create money (that you didn't previously have) by writing a check.Anon
- I used to think the lady behind the cash register at the A & P got to keep all the money in the drawer.Anon
- I grew up in NY and used to believe that The Dukes Of Hazard took place during the Civil War.Anon
- I used to believe that when people wrote in cursive, they were writing in Spanish.— Ellen
- When I was little - before we learned cursive - my sister and I called it 'real writing'. — Monty
- i used to believe that cursive writing was a secret language that only grown-ups could understand.— nicole