My grandma grew up in Eastern Europe and she gave me some old money from her country from a time of hyperinflation where the values on the bills were in the hundreds-of-thousands, and she said that's how much a loaf of bread cost back then. I was super excited and thought I was rich because of how big the numbers on the bills were! I didn't understand why no one else didn't just hold onto their old money from that time and used it today to buy mansions. My dad had a hard time convincing me that money from that time can't be used anymore!
A childhood belief about money
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that banks were owned by rich people who gave away their money.— Lyssa
- For along time I thought the Middle East and Eastern Europe were just different names for the same place!— Helllowerer
- that people in shops gave you 'change' if you didn't quite have enough money to pay.— suzy
- I used to believe that ATMs actually printed out the money fresh every time. — Kitty B
- When I was 10 years old, I used to believe that the accountants always counted money all the time.— Claudia P. R.G.
- I used to believe that coin change could turn into actual paper money if you left it alone for a long time. — Marcus O