the world: money

When I was young, I used to think you could just take money from trees over and over again and it’d make you rich

I thought panhandlers were called that because they carried around a pan and put all the money people gave them in it. For some reason, I didn't wonder why I never actually saw beggars carrying pans.

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.)

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.