When I was a boy, I believed that the television stations kept track of everything you bought, and would stop sending commercials to your house advertising those products you already had.
A childhood belief about adverts

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that commercials would only go away when you bought the product that was being advertised.— Hayabusa
- i beleived that when someone bought a new house, they would swap with the person they bought it from— c
- Thanks to the commercials,I believed that Philadelphia Cream Cheese was made by Jesus.— Too Literal
- When I was little, I used to think the commercial advertising the Mitsubishi car was actually a Mr Fishy Car.Anon
- As a child I believed I could get sucked into the television. — Deb
- i used to believe that when a person moved away, they switched houses with the person that bought their house— alli