the world: money

i thoguth that atm machines had little men and they take money from my piggy bank and give it to people when they say "BOO"! lolmy mom would allways say "boo" when the money came out.....thanks mommy! lol :P

I used to think that when you get change back at the store, they were actually giving you free money. So I never understood why when we couldnt afford something we couldnt just go buy something to get money

When I was around three years old I accidentally tore a coupon in half. I thought for some reason that I wasted a huge sum of money and started crying and apologizing to my mom. I asked her if she still had enough money to help pay for me to college. When she explained to me what coupons were I felt better.

once when i was about 5 or 6 and i didnt kno math, my mom would take me to the grocery store and pay in cash and i would think ' wow! youre getting more money than you started with!'

When my sister was a freshman in college, my mom called her to tell her her checking account was overdrawn. My sister didn't know what that meant and my mother said, "It means you don't have any more money!" My sister countered, "Yes I do! I still have a whole box of checks!"

I talked my brother into "trading" stacks of money. The stacks I was giving him were all pennies but they were much larger than the stacks he gave me (of only quarters and dimes). I convinced him that the penny stacks were worth more.

I used to believe that when a bank paid you interest on the money in your bank account, that whenever the bank employees looked at your money they had to give you some more because they were interest-ed!

As children, whenever my brothers or I recieved money as a gift we took great pleasure in bringing it to the bank to deposit it in our savings accounts. We were told that we were saving the money so that we could go to college. I truly believed that "College" was some sort of theme park or something. I remembering wondering WHEN we were going to take this trip to college. I was crushed when I learned what it really was!!

i used to find cash machines fascinating when i was younger and asked my grandmother where the money came from (bless her she was about 80) she genuinely believed there was a man behind the machine handing notes through the slot! the funny thing is she would'nt believe anything else...no matter what....ah bless i still chuckle thinking of that

I used to think that when you bought something, the tax couldn't be more than $1 ... I guess it made sense, because nothing I bought was ever much more than a dollar, so the tax was always less.

i used to believe that when someone was payed under the table the money was actually handed to them under the table so no one saw. i still picture this whenever i hear someone say it

As a kid I always thought every coin and dollar was just called "money", and the denomination didn't matter. So a five dollar bill and two quarters was "three moneys".

my dad used to tell me that nickles were worth more then a dime cause they were bigger

when my daughter was about 12, i found out that
she thought if you wrote a check for something it
wasn't really spending money. same with credit
cards. if you don't pay with actual currency, it's
free!

I used to spend a lot of time with my Grandmother and one time we were at the store and I asked if we could go somewhere else after that and she said no because she did not have any money and I said "Well, you have all that paper in your wallet, why not just use that!" I was talking about her checks. I thought at that you could just write checks and that was your money. I didn't connect the fact that it was your money that you were using out of the bank!

I used to think that when you bought a checkbook you could use as much money as you wanted out of it. I thought they must be really expensive if you could spend as much as you wanted..lol