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I used to think that cashback meant that the supermarket gave you free money back. So if your shopping was less than £50 you could get your shopping free and get some extra money on top.
It was only a few years ago that I was told that the money actually comes out from your account.

ts
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I used to think that when you got a credit card, the company just took all your money and gave you a card of that value. When you bought something with it, it would be reprogrammed to reduce the amount of money.

Anon
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When I was little my older brother said that pennys where made out of gold and that they were worth a lot of money...So Everytime I got a quarter I would give it to him so he would exchange me with a penny. LATER (a lot of years later) I found out that pennys weren't gold and that I was getting ripped-off.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anon
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I used to believe that all adults always had money. I remember asking my mom for some money once and being shocked and not believing her when she said she didn't have any.

Anon
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Up until I was around 7 or 8, I believed that one day, without warning, my family would just lose all our money and become homeless. I kept a secret stash of tinfoil and anything spray-painted gold/silver so that we would have something to sell to pay for food, clothes, etc. when this happened. I believed that anything that LOOKED like silver and gold, must be silver and gold, and therefore must be valuable.

Hannah P.
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When I was little I used to believe that the banks would randomly choose who went into foreclosure. I used to read the foreclosure sections of the paper to make sure my family wasn't in it.

Elise Trupiano
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I used to believe that the checks my mom would write were money that she could have and it was an endless supply and that if I could get my hand on a checkbook I would have all the money I wanted

Molly
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I used to believe that pennies were made of gold, and therefore must be very valuable! I always saved all the pennies I found on the ground. :)

CK Molina
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I used to think that ATM machines just gave out free money when you needed it. Ahhh if only...

Anon
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My brother used to think that the bank just gave out free money. Whenever we said that something was too expensive, he would be confused and ask, "Why don't we just go to the bank?"

Anon
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When I was younger, I was rather inventive and imaginative. I wanted to solve poverty by inventing ' a game device that cloned money from DNA'. I was blissfully unaware of the giant hole in my invention for many years and sad when the teuth came about. All I wanted was to solve poverty...

Anon
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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 thought that when people needed money they went to the Bank to get it. It wasn't until years later that I learned that you first had to put it in beforehand yourself.

Joe
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When I was little, I used to think that CDs (certificates of deposit) were the same as the CDs that you listened to. I always heard my parents talking about them and so I thought they would invest the CDs they had in the bank or something. When I got a CD for Christmas one year, I thought that my parents took care of the banking part of it for me. It was a while before I figured out the difference between the two.

Katie O.
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I used to stay in a house with a six year old and used to take her out a lot. One day when I was trying to get money out of the ATM the screen came up as insufficient funds (I am a poor student with no money). She assured me that it was ok because she knew her mums number and we could use my card to get her mum's money.

waif
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when i was really young my 2 brothers and i used to get really excited when we went to the bank. ATM's were new machines and we didn't exactly understand how they worked. We would pull up in the drivethru. My mom would put her card in, and so the three boys started cheering for this lottery machine... Mom always picked the right numbers. So we'd be screaming, COME ON BIG MONEY!!!! and wouldn't you know it, mom was real good at it!

Goofball
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That everything was free. You paid for nothing, money was just to look nice.

Blasia M
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When I was little I used to believe that there was a man sitting inside ATM machines giving you your money.

Kazza
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When I was little and I saw the picture on the $1 bill I didn't know who it was. I knew the person had to be important, so I tried to think who the most important person in the world was. Finally I figured it out: the most important Person in the world was--GOD! So until I was about ten or so I thought the picture on the $1 bill was God. Even when I got older and knew better, it took me until I was sixteen or so to stop picturing Washington's picture on the bill while I was praying!

Darrell
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I thought that a travel visa was a special credit card which was used for travelling

Anon
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