My mom told me if I kept picking my nose that my nostrils would stretch to the size of dinner plates. My older brother even drew a picture to back it up.
A childhood belief about picking my nose

others believed things like this
- I used to think, that if you're picking in your nose too much, you push your eye out.— Joanna
- When I was younger, I used to think that picking your nose was against the law.Anon
- Picking your nose and eating it. Hey! Tastes like chicken and only half the calories— Henry the Seventh
- I used to believe that the mole on my leg was from when my brother drew on it with a marker.— Lori
- when i was small my brother always told me that if you picked your nose your head would cave in— Eric
- When I was in Kindergarten I was told if I picked my nose my nose will go into eternal bleeding— Sam