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When I was a little girl, I used to believe that if you planted a banknote, a banknote tree would grow.

Domi Contreras
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I used to not get how they could figure out the odds of winning the lottery ahead of time, as how could they know how many people would buy tickets? (this was before I knew about how combinatorics and the like worked.)

Kimothy
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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!

Anon
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I was a little disappointed when I got my first piggy bank to discover it had a rubber stopper in the bottom where you could take the coins out. I had assumed the only way to open a piggy bank was to smash it open with a hammer like they always do in cartoons, which seemed so fun.

Anon
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When I was in the school I used to believe that inside the automatics cashiers there were people working and they were the ones who delivered the money. Then I asked my father about this and he told me how atomatics cashiers worked.

Diego Nacevilla
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After hearing the phrase "time is money" I used to believe that money and time were essentially the same thing. So since 60 seconds equaled one minute, I thought 60 cents were equal to a dollar.

ERICK COCHA
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I used to believe that ATM'S had little people inside them counting money

Anon
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When I was a child I used to think money laundering was about putting money in a washing machine and that was illegal because with water the money spread some liquid with color and you can print bills with this ink

George
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When I was a child I used to believe that at the cashier ATM there was a person giving money

Brenda
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After hearing the phrase "time is money" I used to believe that money and time were essentially the same thing. So since 60 seconds equaled one minute, I thought 60 cents were equal to a dollar.

T
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I use to believe than when my dad gave me a one dollar bill, I was a millionaire.

Micaela Garcia
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I used to believe what I was drawing in my book became reality. Indeed one day I draw one beautiful bed and my parents bought this bed.

But one day, I draw a lot of money and this drawing didn't realize because I'm still not a very rich man.

xXfensterXx
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I remember as a kid being totally confused by those "give a penny, take a penny" trays. I thought you were supposed to put a penny in and take another penny out and didn't see the point of it.

Anon
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When I was 8, I thought I could become a multi-billionaire by selling a bunch of cups and magazines that were in my house. The reason I wanted this is because I wanted massage chairs that vibrated.

Anon
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My parents told me that the lottery was a contest where the winner got a million dollars, and I mistakenly assumed that ALL contests had a prize of a million dollars. Imagine my excitement when, over the morning announcements, I heard my name being announced as the winner of the 2nd grade environmental poster contest. As I waited in the principal's office to get my prize, I imagined how proud of my parents would be of me when I came home that day with a million dollars. Alas, the actual prize of a free book left me disappointed, but at least I learned an important lesson that day.

Opal
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When I was 8, I made a plan to become rich by selling cups and magazines from my house.

Kevin
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I used to believe the opposite of "expensive" was "relading". I didn't even know what expensive meant. I was just told I couldn't have something because it was expensive, so I said, "No! It's relading!", not knowing what the word meant but wanting that.

Relading
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I thought that you could just go the bank for unlimited money, and my mom taught me the concept that you have to have an account there to take money out of and that you can't just go the bank for unlimited money.

Jeff
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I could never understand as a little kid why my grandma, on long shopping trips to various stores around town, would say that she didn't have enough money for something. After all, every time she paid at a register, they gave her back more bills and coins than she gave them, right? Didn't that mean she had more money as the trip went on?

Anon
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I used to think that all countries had the same money as the United States, because the only currency I knew about was the united states, I never knew about the other countries and that made me believe that the currency was the same in poland, japan, germany, etc.

Caitlin
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