When I was little, I believed making things "out of scratch" (such as baked goods) meant you thought really hard about what you wanted and scratched the air and it would appear after awhile. I tried it a couple times too.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I scratched one side of my body I had to
scratch the other to be "even".— Greg - I used to believe making a cake from scratch meant using a box mix rather than buying a cake from the store.— EZ
- I used to think that when you made food 'from scratch', that scratch was an ingredient like starch.— Aynsleigh
- When I was 6 I truly thought that if something was £50 and you gave them £30 you got the goods AND £20 changeAnon
- I used to think all money paid for goods at shops went to charity.— Tim
- That baked beans were made of pasta! Spaghetti is?!Anon