Real life MMD: Is the Tooth Fairy subject to inflation?

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Im 33 and wene I had my wisdom tooth taken out I got a £70 mp3 player, your never to old and it is up to the perants how much to give there kids (and what would you buy with £1 enyway)

fairynuf

I'm now convinced these dilemmas are made up. You're telling me that 12 year old children are losing their first teeth now! If not how much money did the tooth fairy give them for the other teeth they have lost. This is utter nonsense!

Naomim

My DS has his first wobbly tooth now. The tooth fairy is going to bring £2 as it's his first. Next one's will be £1.

gaily

I have 5 year old twins. The first lost a tooth a few weeks back, and after a facebook q&a session, it was established that about £1 is the going rate in today's money.

(My mum thought 20p was good enough, with 50p for a 'big' tooth!)

£1 duely arrived by fairy power, and now my other little monster won't clean his teeth - told him they'd go bad and fall out, but he wants a visit from the tooth fairy, so he's willing to let that happen!!! Now that's a dilemma. (He's been told that the tooth fairy doesn't take rotten teeth, but that isn't detering him yet)

£10 in this economy - wow, someone's got more money than sense.

skylight

He's 12. The tooth fairy won't come anyway.

skylight

fairynuf wrote: »

I'm now convinced these dilemmas are made up. You're telling me that 12 year old children are losing their first teeth now! If not how much money did the tooth fairy give them for the other teeth they have lost. This is utter nonsense!

I had a milk tooth removed when I was mid-30's! No adult teeth underneath to push it out, wedged in and it lasted that long before starting to rot (which is why it was removed eventually).

Although the tooth fairy left nothing for me........



(PS - I leave £1)

Granny_England

My last milk tooth fell out when I was 17. And on a date. A first date.:rotfl:

Sadly, the tooth fairy did not visit me.

minerva_windsong

lkmc01 wrote: »

I give my 6 year old 20p a tooth. I have given him some euros (well cents) towards his holidays before. He loves to get euros as he was interested in the different currency. I told him the tooth fairy must be international and knew we were going abroad soon.

I remember getting pesetas (shows how long ago this was!) after one of my teeth fell out on a family holiday in Spain, when I was about seven or eight. I was absolutely chuffed with that.

I think the average rate in my day (early to mid-90s) was £1 for the first tooth and 50p for all the ones after that. Of course, at that time 50p could actually buy you something...

SarahC1001

20-something years ago, my teeth were worth about 10p each, plus personal letters from the Tooth Fairy (and when she was busy, Morris the Molar Elf). I got £1-2 for six teeth taken out while under anaesthetic but I think the extra was for the trauma endured...

My Brownies are on about £1 per tooth, but at 12, is he just angling for extra money? I admit I was at least that age for the tooth extraction but I was more interested in the letter (which strangely was written in my Mum's handwriting...) Maybe less than a tenner would be a good idea as that's rather high just for a tooth, and a letter explaining the 'tooth fairy''s argument...

Kenwood_2

It depends whether you view it as a bit of fun or an opportunity to indulge your need to "buy" your children's affections! In our house it's £1 and that's plenty to buy a bottle of pop or bar of chocolate as a treat!