My mom use to make me vacuum our house all the time. She told me if i stopped vacuuming the carpet would catch on fire.... I believed it.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- I believed you ran the vacuum to cut the carpet and used the lawn mower to smooth out the grass.— Michelle
- i used 2 think if u lied your pants would catch on fire cus of the sayin "lier lier pants on fire!"— nell
- i used to think that vacuum cleaners had little piece of space inside them because space is a vacuumAnon
- that if i swang high enough on the swing set at my grandmothers house...i could catch a cloud for her.— nicole
- The first time i heard of someone getting fired from a job, i thought that they were actually set on fire.Anon
- I used to be terrified of fire-flys because I believed they would burn if they landed on me.— kevin