What is the going rate for the Tooth Fairy?

gingin_2

My son has his first wobbly tooth and it looks like we are days away from the tooth fairy paying a visit. It used to be 10p in my day but can anyone tell me what the going rate for a tooth is in your area please?

Mumstheword

Ours has a capped rate of £1. Some friends have £2, but ours is an MiSEr

chatta

Fairy paid pound in my house.

black-saturn

I would go out and buy loads of little ornaments from charity shops for a few pence each and put them under their pillows. Now they have a collection of ornaments on their bedroom shelf which the tooth fairy gave them.

frizz_head

She always leaves £1 in our house.

Quackers

gingin wrote:

My son has his first wobbly tooth and it looks like we are days away from the tooth fairy paying a visit. It used to be 10p in my day but can anyone tell me what the going rate for a tooth is in your area please?

It was £1 here too.

I have a friend who put a sprinkling of glitter on the window sill to show the tooth fairy had been too.

My girls are too old now but I wish I'd have thought of doing this - it creates an extra special bit of magic me thinks

hardpressed

When mine were little I had a cunning plan to make finding the tooth in the dark without waking the little dears. I got two identical match boxes, though I expect that's not allowed these days (encouraging children to play with matches etc.) You could use mini smartie boxes. It works like this. Child puts tooth in box A. which he then tucks underneath the pillow. You need to point out that fairies are tiny so if they push the box too far under the pillow the fairy wont be able to reach. When the child is asleep it's easy to substitute box B with the money in for box A with the tooth. I worked for mine, in fact I still have a matchbox with their little teeth in.

Forgot to say you do know, don't you that the fairies use the teeth to make little houses at the bottom of the garden!

Crispy_Ambulance

Its a pound in our house as well. First tooth was traumatic - DD swallowed it in her breakfast - cue floods of tears. Luckily, the fairy sent an email and said she would find it with her magic and an extra quid for the trauma was paid.

With the second, Mr Crispy was putting her to bed and failed to take note of where the tooth was and also failed to spot she had written the fairy a letter as well. She is only 6 and her spelling can be quite creative, so the note was deciphered with difficulty when eventually extracted and we had to guess at the expected response. luckily we got it right!

livinginhope

Tooth fairy very skint around here,she only pays 10p for big teeth and 5p for little ones,going to take mine an awful long time to save up for anything!

skylight

DD3 lost her fist tooth at school - bit into an apple and has no idea where the tooth went.

I got a phone call to come and collect a very traumatised child! In the meantime, the school secretary suggested that she write a letter to the fairy explaining what happened. She got her £1 from the letter (still haver the letter)!

What was great, was the secretary also wrote a letter and left it in her tray, from the fairy, saying that she had searched the school and found the tooth, so will leave her some money at home. DD2 still has this letter in her memory box!

hobo28

I had to break it to my 9yr old daughter last week that the tooth fairy was really me! And that the reason "she forgot to come again" was cos I had!! Gave her a quid. She didn't seem that bothered to be honest!

Was I really mean? I mean 9yrs old and still believing in fairies! Luckily, she never asked about father xmas!

I do remember a couple of years ago when she first started losing her teeth, she did try to tell me that the going rate was £2 for a tooth but if it was a backtooth then it was a fiver! Kids eh!?!