Great 'what does the tooth fairy pay?' Hunt

babyapril

My daughter is 4 and has already lost her 2 bottom front teeth. She got her teeth early so the dentist said this was ok as her hew teeth have come through instantly. Being new to this and the only parent at nursery to have to do it we had no idea how much the toothfairy brought. So hubby and I searched for 3 shiny new 20p's that all had 2010 on them to commemorate the year she lost her first tooth. It may seem a little mean but at 4 she was delighted. She also saw a story on the TV about what happens when the toothfairy comes and that your first tooth goes back to Fairyland and the tooth fairy makes it into a star, to her this was more exciting than the money that was left as every night she looks for her tooth in the sky. I am sure as the years go on this will change and I will have to find bigger shinier coins. :rotfl:

scooby088

I think the tooth fairy is going through rough times in the past few years, and they can only afford 50p a tooth.

mandlou

When my DD1 lost her first tooth I phoned my sister in law to check what the tooth fairy pays her daughter, they are only 14 months apart and her very close so I didn't want them comparing notes and spoiling the dream for themselves lol. The result was that the tooth fairy paid 50p for a front tooth and £1 for a molar DD2 & DS are 7 and 11 years younger than DD1 so I think the tooth fairy need not concern herself with these figures and could from now on stick to just 50p a tooth, I am sure she like everybody else is feeling the pinch and could do with tightening her belt

originalkat

What is this about teeth being ground down to make fairy dust for Santa?? Surely everyone knows the tooth fairy uses them to build magic castles!! The going rate for us is £1 per tooth, never thought to give extra for a first tooth. Loved the post about the tooth being stuck to the ceiling and I am just surprised none of mine thought of that.:rotfl:

jovichick123

£1.00 a tooth is going rate in our house

mum2one

DD is 8 now, but the first tooth was £10, every tooth now is £2, but shes a crafty madam, when my tooth broke she asked could she see it, yep ok, then she hid it under her pillow for the tooth fairy, but the tooth fairy was very clever and wrote a note saying sorry but we don't pay for mummies teeth....

Right saga last yr, she had a wobbly tooth we were due to go away, she was so worried the tooth fairy would miss getting the tooth, that we had to tell her that each county has their own fairy and our tooth fairy would give the Devon fairy the address of where we were staying and the Devon fairy would keep an eye out for her... that tooth stayed woobly for 2 weeks!!

mum2one

What does the tooth fairy pay for adults, - sods law broke another tooth, - this is a good one, was sucking a choc eclair, at the theatre, the next min one of the actors shots the gun, frightened the heck out of me, - threw the bag of sweets in the air, trying not to choke on this eclair - ended up biting it - broke a tooth!! x

John_Pierpoint

Jamsi wrote: »

50p + a shiny (lucky) penny!

Don't think they should be more than that... everything with kids these days is about money!

When I was a kid it was 5p!

6d !!!!!!!!!! but if you wrapped them in silver paper they doubled to 1/- (That is 5p in new money)

Slightly lower inflation than gold that used to be worth 35$ an oz. 60 years ago.

born_investor

Well 20 years ago I used to get 10p per tooth. It was only after my third experience at 10p that I wrote a note to the tooth fairy asking for more money due to inflation that I started to get 20p per tooth. Guess the tooth fairy decided that inflation was running at 100%:rotfl:

tabbycat

When I was a little girl in the 1960s I got two shillings or sometimes half a crown for each tooth. My daughters, both now in their twenties got 50p for a front tooth and £1 for a bigger back one. Our tooth fairy was fairly dozy and had to be shaken into action sometimes when he had forgotten to retrieve the tooth and replace it with silver, while I comforted a distraught child! I am also a primary school teacher and when I was teaching a Year 2 class (prime year for shedding teeth), I had to write a letter to the tooth fairy confirming that a tooth had come out at school in the playground and had fallen down a drain. The caretaker had been summoned and had lifted up the drain cover, but we couldn't find it anywhere. The parents were very grateful! The going rate at the school I work in now seems to be £5 and upwards!!!