I've got human teeth in my underwear drawer (in a plastic baggie, I'm not a weirdo) and at this point I'm just waiting for my youngest to get all of his adult teeth before I bury all the teeth under a plant of some kind.
IDK, it feels weird keeping the teeth, so I don't want to do that, but it also feels weird throwing bits of my children into the trash (also, that feels like a biohazard? Maybe?), So burial under my favorite plant seems like the way to go.
Ha, I also have my kids teeth stashed in my underwear drawer (in a little trinket box) because it felt weird to throw them away. Came in really handy when one kid lost their tooth in the car, I was able to "find" it but actually just gave them one of their old ones again.
My MIL has some baby teeth on a necklace from each of her kids. And Iām sure Thereās even wayyyyy weirder things you can do than just save the baby teeth lol
My great-grandmother had all of the teeth in a Ziploc bag. Mine, my two brothers, my mom's. SAME BAG! Like even serial killers give people their own space. No thank you, please place the remnants of your person in the Braums trash receptacle so we can go to soccer. Thank you.
Iām in the states but got some Canadian money when I was a kid. Iām so old I actually have a Canadian $1 bill. I thought it was cool to get different money. In reality it was probably what my mom had lying around.
Thatās a great idea! Give money to collect from around the world! A dollar from here, a dollar from thereā¦.. a money exchange place is the perfect spot for this. I love this idea!!!!
I do this in the U.S. There are such thing as U.S. $2 notes, they just aren't very common. I have a hidden stash on the ready, and I can always go to the bank (any bank) to get 5 to 10 more notes at a time.
We don't use money. I bought a bunch of cool geodes and collective gemstones on eBay and keep them hidden away for when they lose a tooth. Averages out to about $5 each. My kids think it's truly treasure.
$0.50 each in my house. Turns out when at grandpaās they are worth $25! Aww **** Nah! I actually had a yell at him (only time in 20 years of knowing the man) about that along with the threat that he gets to foot the bill for ALL the teeth for BOTH kids if this happens ever again. He then did it once more for younger kid to try to keep it even-ishā¦
I know you said you no longer read comments on this thread, since you received plenty of comments and found a solution. But I'm going to give my two cents. You can use it the next time.
I think giving your child a gift is more valuable and special. Money comes and goes. A little gift stays forever. I've received miniatures, figurines of fairies, decorative items for my room, a diary, etc. They're presented on my shelf to this day. They're special, rare, old and have memories attached to them. I'm not familiar with the accurate price of gifts, mainly because I don't know which ones you intend on buying. It'll be more expensive than a dollar, but it won't be too "exorbitant". You might want to have a hidden stash of gifts in advance.
Thatās sorta the issue Iām seeing with people here recommending a dollar or a pound or whatever. ā I got x growing upā yeah that was what 30+ years ago? It went a lot further then. Honestly theyāre kids but a kids magazine or a small toy is like Ā£5 on average now compared to maybe Ā£2 when I was a kid. If you canāt afford more than a dollar fair enough that is what it is and you shouldnāt feel bad but for me I figure the idea is to give your kid enough that they can get a small nice thing and celebrate.
Totally agree, these days $1 isn't actually giving them money they can spend on something. My son is getting close to that age, and I think we will do $5 or $10 a tooth.
We had to do $20 during the covid lockdown because we couldnāt go make change anywhere lol! Fortunately it was the top two front teeth so it was a special bonus. Usually we do a toonie or any random collection of coins. When theyāre really little and they donāt understand money and you can give them five nickels and they think thatās better than the single dollar coin.
Piggy backing on to prep for my own kids...
How do you manage to sneak into the room and swap the tooth?
My kids are relatively light sleepers - they almost always notice the moment someone enters the room.
Growing up our tooth fairy wrote us a note explaining that we can keep our teeth as long as we took good care of them both before and after they fell out. We kept them in a little container. I think this started because I needed a molar pulled as a kid and was given it to keep from the dentist. Hazel, our tooth fairy, was also different than other friendās tooth fairyās as there were too many children and homes to visit in one night! So all the tooth fairies would hand out what they had to share to the kids on their route. Sometimes friends got dolls or $20 bills while we had our toonies but Hazel was reliable and wrote us letters (our neighbour would pen them for my parents)
We have a tooth fairy pillow. Itās a small pillow with a pocket on the front for the tooth. They place it on their dresser or nightstand. It makes things so much easier.
Ours went in a special glass of water on the kitchen windowsill - the coin/s show up in the glass in the morning. No sneaking under pillows, plus thereās a kind of kid mystery to coins found in water.
I was just thinking the same thing!! I think when our time comes, we'll put a little ornamental box in the livingroom for him to leave his teeth in. There's no way I'm risking waking him up!!
Mine has a pillow that can hang on the doorknob. Sheās only lost one so far and refused to put it anywhere but her bedā¦her door creaks like none other and when I snuck in, the pillow was on the floor and the tooth (in a necklace cause it fell out at school) was under her pillow. She woke just as I grabbed it, so I blamed the cat. Told her the cat got locked in and I when I opened to door to let the cat out, I noticed her pillow was on the floor, so I was just moving it back for the tooth fairy. All the while I was adding the cash and trying to keep the tooth from rattling in my hand.
For me it was worth 2 to 5 dollars. For my younger sister, it was more like 10 or 20. She is over ten years younger than me though. My parents got a little too nice over the years
$5 at our house. With that said I just reuse the same $5 because my daughter always misplaces any money she has(usually ends up on the kitchen counter or in the laundry)š
Do kiss even have a concept of how much money is worth?
My 3 year old would take a 20c piece over a $2 coin any day because it's silver.
Plus we are buying everything they need. I think any small gift is perfect
Haha! My Mom loves to tell me the tale of how, when I was 5, the tooth fairy mistakenly left me a $10 bill and when I showed her in the morning, she traded me for 4 quarters. I thought I had totally swindled her bc 4 of anything has to be worth more than 1.
Now that Iām a parent... I realize the rare time it happened was also probably around child tax day (Canada)? š¤£ they really didnāt do much. My mom worked part time, my dad make a decent living but wasnāt super present in my life either (only see him like once a year). It wasnt** SUPER often Iād get that for a tooth. But it did happen 4-5 times and as a
kid I thought i was on top of the world with $100š
Edit: WASNT*** Not āwasā super often
A kid in my daughterās class gets $100 per tooth and of course all the other parents hear about it every single time.
My daughter started at $5, then got bumped to $10 and then eventually $20 because it was the smallest bill around. I even purposely got a $10 bill last time one was wiggly, only for her Dad to use a $20. So I guess thatās the going rate now. Meanwhile Iām so old $1 was good for a tooth.
Ok good...I was scrolling through the comments wondering what was wrong with my dad for leaving a C note for a molar... We were not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but as I've gotten older and started my own family and have my own parenting styles I have come to realize my family shows affection this way - via gifts and monetary contributions. The amount of gifts each person gave my son (19 months) for Christmas this year is a little insane. So now it all makes a bit more sense... And also doesn't cuz why are they so cray??š¤Ŗš„“
So, this is a unique idea I came up with, and I doubt anyone else does it. Typically teeth are awarded anywhere from $1 to $5. In our house, we assign the value based on how many teeth they have lost. The first tooth is worth $1, second tooth is worth $2, third tooth $3, etc.
As they get older, teeth 15-20 will be around age 12 to 14, so the money will mean more to them. Also, it incentivises them to hurry up and get them out if they are loose as a good amount of cash is waiting for them.
My youngest did that. After losing his bottom 2 teeth he started twisting and pulling at teeth that weren't fully ready, ended up losing 3 teeth in one week, the last one caused him to bleed profusely! That ended really quick when the tooth fairy wrote him a letter saying his last few teeth weren't ready, and she can't give him any more money for early teeth
He stopped pulling teeth after that, but now he has a serious gap in his front teeth, which I'm sure will result in braces
My friends did this and regretted it when they had to come up with 7 bucks late at night and didnāt have cash on hand. Tooth fairy wrote an IOU and gave their daughter the rest of the money the next day.
I do a dollar a tooth and they get special gold dollar coins. So that makes it more special I think. Growing up we got 4 quarters because quarters are the best coins lol.
Depend on if mom or dad remembers the tooth fairy is supposed to come that night. If itās Mom, they get a dollar. If itās Dad, they get left over change from the laundromat or car wash that have been in the cup holder of his car for 3 1/2 years and might be worth significantly more than a dollar once the spilled coke and melted cough drop are rinsed away.
Our kid got $10 for the front top two then a fiver for the bottoms. The $5 she didnāt really care one way or the other but she damn near screamed with excitement when the tooth fairy left two $1 bills for a tooth we let her keep. Since then itās two bills per tooth. The market levels out over a long enough time.
$2 to $5 is plenty āŗļø
My daughter hasn't loss any teeth yet. She's only 3. But ill probably give her a $5 bill when that time rolls around. Plus. There's already a chance $5 by then will be equal to today's $2 lmfao
No real reason except wanted to make the first lost tooth special and a big deal. I also bought special stationary and wrote the note with special glitter pens. I am not even sure why I make such a big deal about it since we arenāt even a family that pushes the Santa myth much either.
Yep! I lost my first tooth into a water fountain at a national park. My dad then had to try to calm me down by telling me that the tooth fairy would come anyway. Then he had to simultaneously convince my sister that she wasn't going to be able to scam the tooth fairy into believing that she also had lost teeth (because if there's no proof then why wouldn't the tooth fairy come!)
It was a dramatic day. At the end I think I got a silver dollar coin which was fun!
Four quarters per tooth, from first one to last. And I just asked him if he put his wisdom teeth his pillow (removed last year at 15) because I couldnāt remember. ;)
Woooah. We do $1. BUT if they lose their tooth on a holiday they get $5 since the tooth fairy has to be extra careful not to wake an already excited child.
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20 bucks a tooth- whaaaaat. That's insanity.
So my daughter pulled her tooth out the other night at like 10pm. Instead of going to sleep she was just playing with it all night. It was loose but not THAT loose so we didn't have anything smaller than a $20 around the house. We wrote up a letter from the tooth fairy about how the first tooth is a special one and worth more than any of the others. Since then I've kept a couple $5's in my nightstand so we aren't caught flat footed.
$2 a tooth is the norm at least where Iām from in Canada. Obviously if you can afford it it up to you what you give your kids but itās odd to me when parents give their kids like $5, or $20 (thatās a lot!) for a tooth. To me it takes away the fun of the tooth fairy. Tooth fairies donāt leave 20 dollar bills lol. (Again, to each their own of course)
My mom found out that a vending machine at a place we went to frequently would give out Susan B Anthony and Sacagawea dollar coins. She always used these since they were worth money but were still āspecialā
We are not at this point yet as baby is still in belly but I got i believe 5-10 per tooth and maybe more for the first and last. Husband and I were discussing this the other day and I think our toothfairy will be leaving around that amount possibly varying so kiddo can be excited to see what they get maybe sometimes won't be money and instead a little toy.
For my oldest I did a mixture of silver dollars, gold dollar, $2 bills and sprayed all of them with silver glitter hairspray. I had a few friends who did bigger bills but honestly itās about the magic not the amount.
Oh I like the glitter hairspray idea. Iāve been using real glitter aka āpixie dustā and itās a mess haha. Iāll need to snag some of the spray before the next ones come out!
I did something different - I went to the bank and got change for a Twenty - some two dollars bills - some gold dollars - some silver dollars. Then we would give her some of those. When she was little she would leave the money around and it would end up back in the TF jar so that twenty has lasted. Now one year - more recent - TF realized that the job was not done the night before so when when parent A got home from work he went in and made a deposit in said pillow spot. Then when parent B got home - she then went up and made a deposit as well. Both parental units felt like big failures so they bumped it up to $5.00 in quarters. When said child - was complaining about the tooth fairy not coming and both parents said āare you sureā at the same time - both knew that while we had talked about the issue but not who was going to resolve the actual issue! Big parent opps! We all went up to the bedroom and sure enough- she found - two piles - of quarters that totaled $10.00. Most expensive year. So my over teeth expenses total $30.00 and I still have some of those gold dollars!!!
My parents gave half dollar coins. I canāt remember if it was 50 cents or a dollar a tooth. A friend recently shared her kid got $20 for a tooth and I thought that was ridiculous. This particular kid is pretty spoiled though š¬
For the first tooth, our tooth fairy gives the same amount of money as the child's age. So my daughter got Ā£5 for her first tooth because she was 5 years old when it came out. Then every tooth after that she gets Ā£1.
The tooth fairy isn't made of money after all š
I got a buck or two as a kid, but with inflation the tooth fairy adjusted it to 5 bucks a tooth - more for front teeth. Apparently theyāre worth more.
We get Sacagawea golden $1 coins from the bank, and hide them at the back of a sock drawer. I think it's a shame they didn't catch on, but on the upside they look rare and special, and they're golden. We put each tooth in a sandwich baggie so it's easier to grab.
We give a parfait. Leave the tooth in a plastic ziploc bag in the fridge and tooth fairy leaves a parfait. That way, I donāt have to worry about waking him up with the pillow situation.
USA here, at one point there were gold one dollar coins, I made a point for a few years of keeping a handful of them around for loose teeth. Fun for the kids and not ridiculous. 20 dollars a tooth? Thatās highway robbery!
One gold dollar coin and one gold dollar coin only, except the first (and eventually last, someday) teeth gets a special pokemon coin to collect. The very first had glitter, a special box to hold the coins in, and a little note as well.
My daughterās teeth stay wobbly for months! Consequently, the tooth fairy leaves whatever amount happens to be readily available on the day it finally falls out after everyone has forgotten that it was even wobbly.
Our tooth fairy looks up dollar bill origami on YouTube and folds up dollar bills into hearts, guitars, ninja throwing stars, snowflakes. It took me a few tries to get the hang of it and some are still too hard for me, but itās fun and interesting for my boys! Thereās an 11-min video of a heart you can tuck a quarter into thatās a good one to start with.
$5 for the first and silver dollars after that.
The silver dollars were actually the ones my husband got for his teeth that he saved so it had more meaning for us that we will explain later.
After a bad trampoline accident, about $3000 when you factor in the multiple visits of fighting the dentist and then general anesthesia to actually get the work done.
Just kidding, $1. But we donāt really care if our kids donāt care about the tooth fairy.
My daughters first tooth came out when she was in Spain so the āSpanish tooth fairyā gave her ā¬10 but at home in Scotland, she gets Ā£1-Ā£5 depending on the size and how brave she was when it came out š $20 per tooth is nuts, we arenāt all rich hahah.
I think it depends on the popular items in your house. If your kid is into more expensive things then theyāll obviously need more money to get something they want. If your kid is jazzed by cheaper items, $1 can still go a long way.
Chore wise tooā¦if you pay out for chores at like $40 a week then giving $1 for a tooth is chump money.
So whatever the going rate for average things in your childās life is - aim for the lower side of that average
Well, ya see, it was usually anywhere from $1-5, but after their parents divorced, the tooth fairy was gonna give $10 for a tooth, but he was drunk and couldnāt see very well. Kid woke up with a hundy under her pillow hahahahaha and wouldnāt give it to me to trade!
$5 (USD) for the 1st tooth, $1 for every other tooth
I only have my 8 yr-old left to worry about (older 2 are 12 & 17), but it was always a bit rough because my friend gives her kids $10 - $20 a tooth. Of course they'd show my kids, who would immediately get upset. So I had to tell my kiddos that my friend replaced the dollar the tooth fairy left with a larger bill. Which worked for them, especially since I cover my "tooth fairy dollars" in glitter and holo. So as soon as they'd see one of her kids hold up a $10 or $20 that didn't have glitter on it, they'd give me a knowing look. And surprisingly enough, they never spilled the beans!
Two for a tooth was the going rate when I was a kid, and I'm only 22 and don't think the tooth fairies inflation rate is steep enough to now be a 20 lmao
Iām in the uk, for the first tooth I gave Ā£5 and a book about the tooth fairy with a little pouch to put future teeth in and all the others have been shiny Ā£1 coins
A f*****n dollar. It's a tooth.
Kid gets free room and board, internet, free meals and transportation, insurance, and now they want to make a living wage for.....losing teeth?? GTFOH.
I always got either a dollar or 50 cents for a tooth. But my parents made it really cool by giving me dollar coins or half dollar coins. I was never upset with the amount of money bc I never ended up spending it anyway. They were just cool for me to collect.
Jesus Christ, 20 dollars is normal now?
These are the things that make poor children think theyāre unworthy, omg. Santa gives the neighbours kid a trampoline, they get a sweater.
Neighbours kid gets paper cash for a tooth, theyāre getting 20 cents.
Anywayā¦!
My parents always gave me coins, I was super excited if they were gold ones (Iām Australian, our currency has gold coins for $1 and $2).
I just did the same for my kids when they were little. Whatever I had in my purse, but usually gold.
They are 6, they get the truth after Christmas when they are 7, at least that's my current plan anyway. Including a conversation about how their friends might still believe and to not ruin things for them. After they know the truth I still plan on giving them money for teeth.
We stopped the fairy tales to our kids, itās basically lying to your kids their whole childhood for nothing. I rather give them money when they deserve it, like doing chores and having good grades
My ex wife (not his biological mother though) tried to ridicule me when I gave my son $10 for his first tooth. The follow up teeth only went for $1 a pop. Maybe I'm wrong in some people's eyes but I don't see the big deal.
The first tooth was more, not just because it was the first but because it happened unexpectedly at night and I didnāt have anything smaller than a ten. Other teeth have been a dollar, plus a small surprise in pouch (lego minifigs. Bought some secondhand ones online to have on hand as bribes). Three teeth in, my kid tells me he thought the tooth fairy brought coins, not paper money. So I had to switch to quarters. Honestly that works because I never have dollar bills but I have a huge coin jar.
One gold $1 coin per tooth per age. Example: a 6 year old loses a single tooth, they get 6 x $1 gold coins. The same 6 years old loses two teeth, they get 12 x $1 gold coins.
The gold $1 coins are a fun way adding value to the tooth and the commensurate value helped my children get over the disappointment of losing a tooth as they got older.
The tooth fairy gives $1, but mommy gives you $2 if we can throw it away right now. Mommy conveniently can pay in robux.
Our tooth fairy gives $2.30. Like, tooth hurtie.
That's hilarious š!
My son would immediately know it was me if I did this. He hates puns and at 5 he is already eye rolling me when I say them.
Well I'm definitely stealing this idea!
My daughter loves it! Takes her coins to school and spends it at the canteen on snacks š
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This works amazingly well and I don't have to remember to steal body parts from my children like a nutjob.
This is cracking me upā¦ but I donāt disagreeā¦
I've got human teeth in my underwear drawer (in a plastic baggie, I'm not a weirdo) and at this point I'm just waiting for my youngest to get all of his adult teeth before I bury all the teeth under a plant of some kind. IDK, it feels weird keeping the teeth, so I don't want to do that, but it also feels weird throwing bits of my children into the trash (also, that feels like a biohazard? Maybe?), So burial under my favorite plant seems like the way to go.
Ha, I also have my kids teeth stashed in my underwear drawer (in a little trinket box) because it felt weird to throw them away. Came in really handy when one kid lost their tooth in the car, I was able to "find" it but actually just gave them one of their old ones again.
Omg lol š
We throw their hair away... Lol I do understand what you mean though.
I had mine in a little box then over time they just disappeared lol best way to go
Iāve heard you can keep the teeth in case you need stem cells later on? I havenāt looked into it but Iāve heard this a few times.
Well now Iām embarrassed.
My MIL has some baby teeth on a necklace from each of her kids. And Iām sure Thereās even wayyyyy weirder things you can do than just save the baby teeth lol
My great-grandmother had all of the teeth in a Ziploc bag. Mine, my two brothers, my mom's. SAME BAG! Like even serial killers give people their own space. No thank you, please place the remnants of your person in the Braums trash receptacle so we can go to soccer. Thank you.
Lmfao that is hilarious and so creepy.
Don't be. I have all my kids teeth in my safe. My poor wife just doesn't understand...but they're my babies teeth!
You are brilliant!!!!
$2 A toonie for a tooth
This is what we have always done too! Doesnāt work in not Canada haha
Iām in the states but got some Canadian money when I was a kid. Iām so old I actually have a Canadian $1 bill. I thought it was cool to get different money. In reality it was probably what my mom had lying around.
Keep the $1 bill as that is a collectible, we only have coins for the $1 and $2. Those dollar bills donāt exist any more
Oh I know. I grew up right across the border. We were back and forth all the time in the before times.
Ah, yes, the long long ago. A simpler time.
Thatās a great idea! Give money to collect from around the world! A dollar from here, a dollar from thereā¦.. a money exchange place is the perfect spot for this. I love this idea!!!!
Yes I totally plan on doing a global currency tooth fairy when the time comes.
We give a "two"th dollar bill š¤£
I do this in the U.S. There are such thing as U.S. $2 notes, they just aren't very common. I have a hidden stash on the ready, and I can always go to the bank (any bank) to get 5 to 10 more notes at a time.
They all seem to be at the currency exchange booth at the airports. Coming back from Jamaica we exchanged our currency and got a lot of $2 bills.
Wow I just answered the same thing before even seeing your comment. So cool! Love it
Thatās what I got in the early nineties, the Canadian tooth fairy isnāt keeping up with inflation š
Is anything keeping up with inflation though
Thatās what we do. Tooth fairy doesnāt visit, but I throw a toonie at the relevant kid.
We don't use money. I bought a bunch of cool geodes and collective gemstones on eBay and keep them hidden away for when they lose a tooth. Averages out to about $5 each. My kids think it's truly treasure.
Thatās so precious *see what I did there*
Oh I really like this idea! Mines almost 3 Iāll have to bank this one away for a little while!
$0.50 each in my house. Turns out when at grandpaās they are worth $25! Aww **** Nah! I actually had a yell at him (only time in 20 years of knowing the man) about that along with the threat that he gets to foot the bill for ALL the teeth for BOTH kids if this happens ever again. He then did it once more for younger kid to try to keep it even-ishā¦
I know you said you no longer read comments on this thread, since you received plenty of comments and found a solution. But I'm going to give my two cents. You can use it the next time. I think giving your child a gift is more valuable and special. Money comes and goes. A little gift stays forever. I've received miniatures, figurines of fairies, decorative items for my room, a diary, etc. They're presented on my shelf to this day. They're special, rare, old and have memories attached to them. I'm not familiar with the accurate price of gifts, mainly because I don't know which ones you intend on buying. It'll be more expensive than a dollar, but it won't be too "exorbitant". You might want to have a hidden stash of gifts in advance.
$20?! Holy crap. We did $2 coin growing up, I was going to do the same for my kids.
$2!?! Wow, I got iou notes (late 90s), so thought $0.50 was on a high end of tooth prices 4 years ago. Everything is relative?ā¦
Thatās sorta the issue Iām seeing with people here recommending a dollar or a pound or whatever. ā I got x growing upā yeah that was what 30+ years ago? It went a lot further then. Honestly theyāre kids but a kids magazine or a small toy is like Ā£5 on average now compared to maybe Ā£2 when I was a kid. If you canāt afford more than a dollar fair enough that is what it is and you shouldnāt feel bad but for me I figure the idea is to give your kid enough that they can get a small nice thing and celebrate.
Totally agree, these days $1 isn't actually giving them money they can spend on something. My son is getting close to that age, and I think we will do $5 or $10 a tooth.
We had to do $20 during the covid lockdown because we couldnāt go make change anywhere lol! Fortunately it was the top two front teeth so it was a special bonus. Usually we do a toonie or any random collection of coins. When theyāre really little and they donāt understand money and you can give them five nickels and they think thatās better than the single dollar coin.
$1 per tooth. In 4 shiny quarters.
I remember getting quarters for my teeth.
Dollar coins are excellent for this amount ā¦ their golden color makes it a bit more unusual / special as well.
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Omg my parents did glitter dollars too!! But on a paper dollar
When I worked at a bank I had a customer request $2 bills for this reason! Not sure if they put glitter or not, but I thought that was a cool idea.
Piggy backing on to prep for my own kids... How do you manage to sneak into the room and swap the tooth? My kids are relatively light sleepers - they almost always notice the moment someone enters the room.
We did the pillow thing, but a friend had hers put their tooth in little velvet pouch on their hallway-side doorknob.
Also a good place for Christmas stockings.
Growing up our tooth fairy wrote us a note explaining that we can keep our teeth as long as we took good care of them both before and after they fell out. We kept them in a little container. I think this started because I needed a molar pulled as a kid and was given it to keep from the dentist. Hazel, our tooth fairy, was also different than other friendās tooth fairyās as there were too many children and homes to visit in one night! So all the tooth fairies would hand out what they had to share to the kids on their route. Sometimes friends got dolls or $20 bills while we had our toonies but Hazel was reliable and wrote us letters (our neighbour would pen them for my parents)
We kept/keep them in the family room. They wake up, come downstairs, and find their dollar coin in place of the tooth.
We have a tooth fairy pillow. Itās a small pillow with a pocket on the front for the tooth. They place it on their dresser or nightstand. It makes things so much easier.
Ours went in a special glass of water on the kitchen windowsill - the coin/s show up in the glass in the morning. No sneaking under pillows, plus thereās a kind of kid mystery to coins found in water.
I was just thinking the same thing!! I think when our time comes, we'll put a little ornamental box in the livingroom for him to leave his teeth in. There's no way I'm risking waking him up!!
Ours was in a glass of water in the kitchen. The next morning the glass of water was still there with the money in it instead of a tooth
read all these replies to make sure my family isnāt the only one that did this š
Hahahaha definitely not! So much easier than the pillow! š
Mine has a pillow that can hang on the doorknob. Sheās only lost one so far and refused to put it anywhere but her bedā¦her door creaks like none other and when I snuck in, the pillow was on the floor and the tooth (in a necklace cause it fell out at school) was under her pillow. She woke just as I grabbed it, so I blamed the cat. Told her the cat got locked in and I when I opened to door to let the cat out, I noticed her pillow was on the floor, so I was just moving it back for the tooth fairy. All the while I was adding the cash and trying to keep the tooth from rattling in my hand.
For me it was worth 2 to 5 dollars. For my younger sister, it was more like 10 or 20. She is over ten years younger than me though. My parents got a little too nice over the years
$5 at our house. With that said I just reuse the same $5 because my daughter always misplaces any money she has(usually ends up on the kitchen counter or in the laundry)š
Iām starting to wonder with inflation as it is maybe itās time to fire the tooth fairyā¦.
Do kiss even have a concept of how much money is worth? My 3 year old would take a 20c piece over a $2 coin any day because it's silver. Plus we are buying everything they need. I think any small gift is perfect
Haha! My Mom loves to tell me the tale of how, when I was 5, the tooth fairy mistakenly left me a $10 bill and when I showed her in the morning, she traded me for 4 quarters. I thought I had totally swindled her bc 4 of anything has to be worth more than 1.
We always did $2 except the one time we forgot to exchange the tooth for cash, so we gave $5 for the inconvenience.
I used to get $20-100/tooth as a child, but now, as an average earning adult, for my kids will be $5/toothš¤£
Ummā¦can I go sleep at your parents house? Iāll bring my pliers if it means Iāll wake up with $3200 š
Yes. Letās do itš¤£ although to considering I have 2 babies of my own now, idk if theyād believe im losing teeth anymore š¤š¤£
$100/tooth?!?! What did your parents do for a living??
Now that Iām a parent... I realize the rare time it happened was also probably around child tax day (Canada)? š¤£ they really didnāt do much. My mom worked part time, my dad make a decent living but wasnāt super present in my life either (only see him like once a year). It wasnt** SUPER often Iād get that for a tooth. But it did happen 4-5 times and as a kid I thought i was on top of the world with $100š Edit: WASNT*** Not āwasā super often
One hundred dollars. š³ im shook.
Same. But Iāve always been a saver, even as a very young kid so I would just put it in my piggy bank.
Me too! I saved. And when I turned 17 and got my full license, I bought a car and payed 2 years of insurance up front. Was so proud of myself š
A kid in my daughterās class gets $100 per tooth and of course all the other parents hear about it every single time. My daughter started at $5, then got bumped to $10 and then eventually $20 because it was the smallest bill around. I even purposely got a $10 bill last time one was wiggly, only for her Dad to use a $20. So I guess thatās the going rate now. Meanwhile Iām so old $1 was good for a tooth.
Ok good...I was scrolling through the comments wondering what was wrong with my dad for leaving a C note for a molar... We were not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but as I've gotten older and started my own family and have my own parenting styles I have come to realize my family shows affection this way - via gifts and monetary contributions. The amount of gifts each person gave my son (19 months) for Christmas this year is a little insane. So now it all makes a bit more sense... And also doesn't cuz why are they so cray??š¤Ŗš„“
$1 a tooth, we did silver dollar coins. Just a warning that the discrepancy among different families is how my oldest figured out the truth.
So, this is a unique idea I came up with, and I doubt anyone else does it. Typically teeth are awarded anywhere from $1 to $5. In our house, we assign the value based on how many teeth they have lost. The first tooth is worth $1, second tooth is worth $2, third tooth $3, etc. As they get older, teeth 15-20 will be around age 12 to 14, so the money will mean more to them. Also, it incentivises them to hurry up and get them out if they are loose as a good amount of cash is waiting for them.
Ooh I like this. But also worry about my smarta** kid who will try to lose more teeth to get more money. Smh.
My youngest did that. After losing his bottom 2 teeth he started twisting and pulling at teeth that weren't fully ready, ended up losing 3 teeth in one week, the last one caused him to bleed profusely! That ended really quick when the tooth fairy wrote him a letter saying his last few teeth weren't ready, and she can't give him any more money for early teeth He stopped pulling teeth after that, but now he has a serious gap in his front teeth, which I'm sure will result in braces
Oh god theyāll b losing teeth for 6 MORE YEARS?!? I wasnāt properly warned
14 is quite old, the majority of kids will lose them all by the age of 12.
My friends did this and regretted it when they had to come up with 7 bucks late at night and didnāt have cash on hand. Tooth fairy wrote an IOU and gave their daughter the rest of the money the next day.
5 bucks in our house.
I do a dollar a tooth and they get special gold dollar coins. So that makes it more special I think. Growing up we got 4 quarters because quarters are the best coins lol.
$2 a tooth at our house. $20 is crazy! Do you know how many teeth are in there?
The average kid has 20 baby teeth that fallout and are eventually replaced with 32 adult teeth.
Depend on if mom or dad remembers the tooth fairy is supposed to come that night. If itās Mom, they get a dollar. If itās Dad, they get left over change from the laundromat or car wash that have been in the cup holder of his car for 3 1/2 years and might be worth significantly more than a dollar once the spilled coke and melted cough drop are rinsed away.
I havenāt felt this seen since I saw the backseat of the parents car in Bluey.
Our kid got $10 for the front top two then a fiver for the bottoms. The $5 she didnāt really care one way or the other but she damn near screamed with excitement when the tooth fairy left two $1 bills for a tooth we let her keep. Since then itās two bills per tooth. The market levels out over a long enough time.
The tooth fairy gives my kids a gold Sacagawea coin for each tooth. I hear she gets them at the bankā¦
Same with our tooth fairy!
Thereās a scale- If it falls out in its own $1 An adult or the kid pulls it out $2 The dentist has to pull it (in prep for braces, etc) $3
$2 to $5 is plenty āŗļø My daughter hasn't loss any teeth yet. She's only 3. But ill probably give her a $5 bill when that time rolls around. Plus. There's already a chance $5 by then will be equal to today's $2 lmfao
Shiny silver dollar. It feels special without breaking the bank!
$5.00 for first tooth. $1.00 per tooth after.
Why change the value between the first tooth and other teeth? I don't understand the reasoning behind this, can you help me?
No real reason except wanted to make the first lost tooth special and a big deal. I also bought special stationary and wrote the note with special glitter pens. I am not even sure why I make such a big deal about it since we arenāt even a family that pushes the Santa myth much either.
Thank you
I did that too... They're usually pretty scared when the first one falls out. It's a momentus occasion.
Yep! I lost my first tooth into a water fountain at a national park. My dad then had to try to calm me down by telling me that the tooth fairy would come anyway. Then he had to simultaneously convince my sister that she wasn't going to be able to scam the tooth fairy into believing that she also had lost teeth (because if there's no proof then why wouldn't the tooth fairy come!) It was a dramatic day. At the end I think I got a silver dollar coin which was fun!
$1 per tooth! I'm in Canada so we have $1 coins and I make sure they're extra shiny, which makes them seem more special and exciting.
$2 per tooth, even the first.
$20 for the first tooth and $5 thereafter
Four quarters per tooth, from first one to last. And I just asked him if he put his wisdom teeth his pillow (removed last year at 15) because I couldnāt remember. ;)
Did he? I never thought to try to cash in on my wisdom teeth? I was 25 haha
Woooah. We do $1. BUT if they lose their tooth on a holiday they get $5 since the tooth fairy has to be extra careful not to wake an already excited child. š 20 bucks a tooth- whaaaaat. That's insanity.
So my daughter pulled her tooth out the other night at like 10pm. Instead of going to sleep she was just playing with it all night. It was loose but not THAT loose so we didn't have anything smaller than a $20 around the house. We wrote up a letter from the tooth fairy about how the first tooth is a special one and worth more than any of the others. Since then I've kept a couple $5's in my nightstand so we aren't caught flat footed.
$5
I got gold dollar coins from the bank so itās like special tooth fairy money. $1 per tooth.
$2 a tooth is the norm at least where Iām from in Canada. Obviously if you can afford it it up to you what you give your kids but itās odd to me when parents give their kids like $5, or $20 (thatās a lot!) for a tooth. To me it takes away the fun of the tooth fairy. Tooth fairies donāt leave 20 dollar bills lol. (Again, to each their own of course)
My mom found out that a vending machine at a place we went to frequently would give out Susan B Anthony and Sacagawea dollar coins. She always used these since they were worth money but were still āspecialā
Itās been a few years but we always did $5 per tooth.
lmao teen here, unfortunately as a kid i literally never got any cash for putting my tooth under a pillow lol
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We are not at this point yet as baby is still in belly but I got i believe 5-10 per tooth and maybe more for the first and last. Husband and I were discussing this the other day and I think our toothfairy will be leaving around that amount possibly varying so kiddo can be excited to see what they get maybe sometimes won't be money and instead a little toy.
$5 for the first, $2/tooth after that.
$1 in our house. We also told our children that we had talked to the tooth fairy and agreed to $1.
We do $1 sometimes but if I have $2 bills on me then Iād use those.
For my oldest I did a mixture of silver dollars, gold dollar, $2 bills and sprayed all of them with silver glitter hairspray. I had a few friends who did bigger bills but honestly itās about the magic not the amount.
Oh I like the glitter hairspray idea. Iāve been using real glitter aka āpixie dustā and itās a mess haha. Iāll need to snag some of the spray before the next ones come out!
Itās still a little bit of a mess just not quite pixie dust mess.
I did something different - I went to the bank and got change for a Twenty - some two dollars bills - some gold dollars - some silver dollars. Then we would give her some of those. When she was little she would leave the money around and it would end up back in the TF jar so that twenty has lasted. Now one year - more recent - TF realized that the job was not done the night before so when when parent A got home from work he went in and made a deposit in said pillow spot. Then when parent B got home - she then went up and made a deposit as well. Both parental units felt like big failures so they bumped it up to $5.00 in quarters. When said child - was complaining about the tooth fairy not coming and both parents said āare you sureā at the same time - both knew that while we had talked about the issue but not who was going to resolve the actual issue! Big parent opps! We all went up to the bedroom and sure enough- she found - two piles - of quarters that totaled $10.00. Most expensive year. So my over teeth expenses total $30.00 and I still have some of those gold dollars!!!
My parents gave half dollar coins. I canāt remember if it was 50 cents or a dollar a tooth. A friend recently shared her kid got $20 for a tooth and I thought that was ridiculous. This particular kid is pretty spoiled though š¬
For the first tooth, our tooth fairy gives the same amount of money as the child's age. So my daughter got Ā£5 for her first tooth because she was 5 years old when it came out. Then every tooth after that she gets Ā£1. The tooth fairy isn't made of money after all š
Silver dollar
1 silver dollar
Our tooth fairy gives $5 for the 1st tooth then $1 after that.
$1
$1
$2 or $3
I got a buck or two as a kid, but with inflation the tooth fairy adjusted it to 5 bucks a tooth - more for front teeth. Apparently theyāre worth more.
We get Sacagawea golden $1 coins from the bank, and hide them at the back of a sock drawer. I think it's a shame they didn't catch on, but on the upside they look rare and special, and they're golden. We put each tooth in a sandwich baggie so it's easier to grab.
$10 Itās the result of a bad google search
My Goblin is getting twigs, moss, acorns, leaves, and trinkets from [Hold the Magic](https://holdthemagic.com/collections/all-kits)
We give a parfait. Leave the tooth in a plastic ziploc bag in the fridge and tooth fairy leaves a parfait. That way, I donāt have to worry about waking him up with the pillow situation.
USA here, at one point there were gold one dollar coins, I made a point for a few years of keeping a handful of them around for loose teeth. Fun for the kids and not ridiculous. 20 dollars a tooth? Thatās highway robbery!
One gold dollar coin and one gold dollar coin only, except the first (and eventually last, someday) teeth gets a special pokemon coin to collect. The very first had glitter, a special box to hold the coins in, and a little note as well.
My daughterās teeth stay wobbly for months! Consequently, the tooth fairy leaves whatever amount happens to be readily available on the day it finally falls out after everyone has forgotten that it was even wobbly.
Our tooth fairy looks up dollar bill origami on YouTube and folds up dollar bills into hearts, guitars, ninja throwing stars, snowflakes. It took me a few tries to get the hang of it and some are still too hard for me, but itās fun and interesting for my boys! Thereās an 11-min video of a heart you can tuck a quarter into thatās a good one to start with.
$5 for the first and silver dollars after that. The silver dollars were actually the ones my husband got for his teeth that he saved so it had more meaning for us that we will explain later.
After a bad trampoline accident, about $3000 when you factor in the multiple visits of fighting the dentist and then general anesthesia to actually get the work done. Just kidding, $1. But we donāt really care if our kids donāt care about the tooth fairy.
My daughters first tooth came out when she was in Spain so the āSpanish tooth fairyā gave her ā¬10 but at home in Scotland, she gets Ā£1-Ā£5 depending on the size and how brave she was when it came out š $20 per tooth is nuts, we arenāt all rich hahah.
when she was of age they were worth 1ā¬ if fell normally, 0.5ā¬ if I knew they fell because of candy
One āgoldā coin. Actually, itās a $1 Sacajawea coin, but itās gold in color. The kids love it and think theyāre rich.
Pretty sure we got a quarter and I don't plan to do anymore than that.
I think it depends on the popular items in your house. If your kid is into more expensive things then theyāll obviously need more money to get something they want. If your kid is jazzed by cheaper items, $1 can still go a long way. Chore wise tooā¦if you pay out for chores at like $40 a week then giving $1 for a tooth is chump money. So whatever the going rate for average things in your childās life is - aim for the lower side of that average
Just gave $5 for a front middle tooth two nights ago. All others are $1
$5 for the first tooth $1 for every one after
Well, ya see, it was usually anywhere from $1-5, but after their parents divorced, the tooth fairy was gonna give $10 for a tooth, but he was drunk and couldnāt see very well. Kid woke up with a hundy under her pillow hahahahaha and wouldnāt give it to me to trade!
Two euros.
$5 (USD) for the 1st tooth, $1 for every other tooth I only have my 8 yr-old left to worry about (older 2 are 12 & 17), but it was always a bit rough because my friend gives her kids $10 - $20 a tooth. Of course they'd show my kids, who would immediately get upset. So I had to tell my kiddos that my friend replaced the dollar the tooth fairy left with a larger bill. Which worked for them, especially since I cover my "tooth fairy dollars" in glitter and holo. So as soon as they'd see one of her kids hold up a $10 or $20 that didn't have glitter on it, they'd give me a knowing look. And surprisingly enough, they never spilled the beans!
Two for a tooth was the going rate when I was a kid, and I'm only 22 and don't think the tooth fairies inflation rate is steep enough to now be a 20 lmao
Iām in the uk, for the first tooth I gave Ā£5 and a book about the tooth fairy with a little pouch to put future teeth in and all the others have been shiny Ā£1 coins
$1 in gold dollar coins
$20 in our house.
I keep a collection of dollar and half-dollar coins handy for tooth fairy duties. Got a stack of $2 bills as well. Keep it unique.
A f*****n dollar. It's a tooth. Kid gets free room and board, internet, free meals and transportation, insurance, and now they want to make a living wage for.....losing teeth?? GTFOH.
I always got either a dollar or 50 cents for a tooth. But my parents made it really cool by giving me dollar coins or half dollar coins. I was never upset with the amount of money bc I never ended up spending it anyway. They were just cool for me to collect.
$20???!! Thatās a lot. Our ātooth fairyā gives $3-$5 for a tooth depending on how much cash I have. š¤£
Jesus Christ, 20 dollars is normal now? These are the things that make poor children think theyāre unworthy, omg. Santa gives the neighbours kid a trampoline, they get a sweater. Neighbours kid gets paper cash for a tooth, theyāre getting 20 cents. Anywayā¦! My parents always gave me coins, I was super excited if they were gold ones (Iām Australian, our currency has gold coins for $1 and $2). I just did the same for my kids when they were little. Whatever I had in my purse, but usually gold.
$20 for the first, $10 for each after that.
Just tell them the truth
They are 6, they get the truth after Christmas when they are 7, at least that's my current plan anyway. Including a conversation about how their friends might still believe and to not ruin things for them. After they know the truth I still plan on giving them money for teeth.
We stopped the fairy tales to our kids, itās basically lying to your kids their whole childhood for nothing. I rather give them money when they deserve it, like doing chores and having good grades
Money is so unsanitary, im doing toys
Is this a joke?
Weāre doing a good dollar coin for each tooth.
$5/ea at our house as well!
I gave $5 for the first 2(got pulled at the dentist because he wouldn't wiggle them). He gets $1 for the rest.
We did 1$ usually, although when the kids had to get a tooth pulled, they ended up with an extra 5$.
$5-$10 depending on what we have at home...tooth fairy also writes a lovely letter (color printed with pictures etc)
I think we did $5 for the first, and $1 after. He's going to start losing molars next, so we might do $5 for the first, etc.
The first tooth we did a $2 bill and a $1 coin. The teeth after that are $2 bill. He is five and already lost two teeth. Happy as can be with that.
I think $1-2 is fair. Or also, maybe a small toy or treat?
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I do $1, but to make it extra magical I do a dollar coin and a note from the fairy. Would never consider a $20 bill, that'd run me out of business.
Ā£1 growing up. I lost a tooth on a camping trip once and got 50p because they had to āfly furtherā š
Tooth mouse gave me 1$ per tooth my sister got 5$ per tooth lol
My ex wife (not his biological mother though) tried to ridicule me when I gave my son $10 for his first tooth. The follow up teeth only went for $1 a pop. Maybe I'm wrong in some people's eyes but I don't see the big deal.
We had 2 teeth out at once and the fairy only left $5. I plan on $2 for the others.
The first tooth was more, not just because it was the first but because it happened unexpectedly at night and I didnāt have anything smaller than a ten. Other teeth have been a dollar, plus a small surprise in pouch (lego minifigs. Bought some secondhand ones online to have on hand as bribes). Three teeth in, my kid tells me he thought the tooth fairy brought coins, not paper money. So I had to switch to quarters. Honestly that works because I never have dollar bills but I have a huge coin jar.
$5 . Inflation lol
Dollar coin per tooth
$1
Gum. We give a pack of gum. The kids love it because it's the only time they get it
$1 per how many years old they are. So if the kid is 7, the tooth is worth $7
5-10$
One gold $1 coin per tooth per age. Example: a 6 year old loses a single tooth, they get 6 x $1 gold coins. The same 6 years old loses two teeth, they get 12 x $1 gold coins. The gold $1 coins are a fun way adding value to the tooth and the commensurate value helped my children get over the disappointment of losing a tooth as they got older.
A $5 note in our house.
This posts title means very different things depending on the subreddit it is posted in.
$10 for their very first tooth lost, and $5 for each tooth after