My mother told me that every time I spent a dollar of my allowance, a butterfly would die. Needless to say, I had about 500 dollars racked up by my 8th birthday.
A childhood belief about money

others believed things like this
- When I was in Kindergarten I used to believe that when I grew up i could be a butterfly.Anon
- when i was a kid, I used to think that butterfly shaped pasta could fly and I didn't eat it.— Sabrina in Italy
- My friend thought butterfly was actually called a 'flutterby.'— BlutterBly?
- I used to believe that beauty marks (freckels) were Butterfly bites!— Jolene
- Up until I was almost 11, I thought that a birthday suit was a special outfit you wore only on your birthdayAnon
- I used to think that a birthday suit was a special outfit you wear on your birthday— Bri