the world: money

I thought money came from banks, that they literally made it in back, lol, and would give it to people who filled out those little slips of paper at the desk or used an ATM. I knew there was some kind of code you'd break to get it... of course this was way, way before I got a checking acct, PIN number (my code! lol!) and a job (my money!) Good times.

I used to believe that there was a tree in every house hidden somewhere that grew BANK NOTES and every time we needed money ,dad just had to pick it up in his secret location!

I never understood the concept of working and getting paid, but I understood the concept of getting drinks refilled, and I used to think that parents did the same with their wallets they would spend money, and then type in how much they spent and that much would pop into their wallet, like when you get a drink refill you tell them what kind it was.

Pre school I used to believe that giving too much money in a shop resulted in receiving change. OK except that I also
thought that giving too little also resulted in receiving the difference in change!

I'm not sure how old I was exactly but it was pretty young. I had a piece of wrapped up Christmas candy and I was playing with it. For some reason I was trying to sell it to all the adults. I started out with a dollar and my aunt said no. Then I said a penny and she said "That's way to expensive for me!" Obviously she was being sarcastic but for the longest time after that I though the less amount of money you had the more it was worth.

One day I accidentally swallowed a penny (I don't know how). This didn't upset me until my aunt said my cousin swallowed a dime and because of that, she was 10x more valuable than me!

I used to think that "checks and balances" were some how related to balancing your check book. Actually, I believed this until 7th or 8th grade.

When I was about 7 I thought checks were special bills with no predetermined value. When you wanted to pay for something, you could turn a check into a bill for the specific amount of money you were paying by writing the amount on it. Very convenient, wasn't it? But then I thought about the person receiving the check and wondered if they were ever going to find a use for that specific amount of money.

I really used to believe that money DID grow on trees

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!

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 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.

when i was 3 i used to beleive dollars were paper so i i would color on them and my mom will put me on time out . then when i realized it was realy money i felt stupid lol.

On my first holidays (I was about 4) my parents took me to Italy. I thought the Italians were very poor people because for 1 mark you could buy 1000 Italian Lire.

i used to believe that every sheet of money worth the same. i mean i thought $1 note and $10 note both means $1.. before i could read.

When I was a child at about 4 years young I used to believe that every time me and my Mom would go to the checkout at a store I thought that the person at the cash always gave you change no matter what the circumstances.