Comments on: Money Fallacies We Thought Were True As Kids.

By: david

david — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:45:35 +0000

Stephanie – me too! After all, what else is there to do but to go shopping when it rains?

By: Stephanie PTY

Stephanie PTY — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:18:24 +0000

I’ve been trying to think of one ever since this post went live, and I finally did! I’m almost 23 now, but up until recently, I never knew what people meant when they said to “put money away for a rainy day.” As a kid, I got to thinking it meant to put some money aside, so that when you were bored on a rainy day, you could go shopping!

It wasn’t until I became a personal finance blogger and read some article somewhere that called an emergency fund a “rainy day fund” that I realized people meant it as that!

By: david

david — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:46:01 +0000

I certainly don’t remember gum costing $.01

By: The Biz of Life

The Biz of Life — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:15:10 +0000

Showing my age here….. a penny could actually buy a piece of bazooka bubble gum… and I could make serious money (for a kid) picking up returnable soft drink bottles off the side of the road and getting the deposit.

By: David--Your finances101

David--Your finances101 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:28:12 +0000

That my little brother was forever trying to steal it all…

By: Bucksome

Bucksome — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:27:08 +0000

I thought ATM cards were magic; they just gave you money whenever you needed it. My mom would say she didn’t have the money and I would reply, “use the ATM”.

By: SingleGuyMoney

SingleGuyMoney — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:05:30 +0000

LOL, I used to think the same thing about banks when I was younger. I thought they just put it on the shelf for you and everyone had their own shelf in the back.

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:59:59 +0000

Very embarrassing but had no idea why banks had “CDs” when they had nothing to do with music.

By: David

David — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:38:32 +0000

$100 would buy a lot of Little Debbies…

By: Emily @ Under$1000PerMonth

Emily @ Under$1000PerMonth — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:35:51 +0000

I remember my mother once told me that we only had $100 left for food for the rest of the month. I got excited about all the Little Debbie snack cakes we could get with that. She totally burst my bubble when she explained that we would get no more Little Debbies.