At age 5 I believed Monopoly money was real. I remember feeling stupid and embarassed when the the man at the corner shop laughed at me when I tried to buy sweets with it.
A childhood belief about money

others believed things like this
- i believed that little men sat in the back of vending machines and pushed the sweets forward.— rachael
- i used to think that 'uncle sam' was a real person...who took all my parent's money!— julie
- When I was a kid, I used to think that tablets were sweets for grown-ups Anon
- I thought that the Chewit wrappers were different flavours as they were different colours like the sweets— Helen
- when I was growing up I truly believed that my neighborhood was the only neighborhood with "THE CORNER"— Brid
- When I was little, I believed that banks were places where anyone could go in and take some money for free. Anon