When my mother complained about bills I would tell her to just put them in the bin, thinking that would be them gone.
A childhood belief about money

others believed things like this
- I use to believe that I could understand what my cat was thinking/saying. So I translated for about 2 years.— Cat Speaker
- when my friend was little, she used to eat paper, thinking it would make her read better.— hehehe
- When I was a boy I flushed my fish down the toilet thinking that it would go to its mommy and daddy.— Jeremy Clark
- I would turn the lights off and then leg it up the stairs thinking a monster would be chasing me.Anon
- I used to dig a super deep hole thinking it
would transport me to the galaxy — Rafaella - I remember thinking that non-English speakers were much smarter because they could speak "so much faster." Anon