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Tooth Fairy - Going Rate?

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  • My daughter has lost two of her teeth. We put £2 under her pillow. OH put it under her pillow last time but forgot to take the tooth. :rolleyes: The tooth fairy had to come again the next night to get it and left another £2. :rotfl:
    :j little fire cracker born 5th November 2012 :j
  • Savvy_Sue
    Savvy_Sue Posts: 47,819 Forumite
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    Sometimes the tooth fairy has a long and busy night and pops in during the day ...

    And by the time they are in their teens, the baby teeth are so ground down that no self-respecting fairy really WANTS them! :rotfl: (Yes, the youngest was still losing teeth in his teens ...)
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  • ailuro2
    ailuro2 Posts: 7,540 Forumite
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    Used to be £2 but is down to £1 now that the teeth are older and a bit more used.

    She got 20 euros from the tooth fairy the night before we went on holiday to Europe, obviously M&S bureau de change hadn't added in any small denomination Euros for the tooth fairy's wallet that day, bet the TF was gutted.:eek:
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  • jess1974
    jess1974 Posts: 1,019 Forumite
    Mine get a £1 coin...
  • Lunar_Eclipse
    Lunar_Eclipse Posts: 3,060 Forumite
    morganb wrote: »
    DS1 has his first wobbly tooth ... he is very excited about the fact that the Tooth Fairy is going to visit and leave him, wait for it, £1.50!!!!

    Is that really the going rate? Unfortunately he is a very savvy 6 year old and he knows his coins! Apparently £1.50 is the going rate.

    I remember getting 10p and being over the moon! And I'm not that ancient!


    Ours (6&8) got £2 ($2 for eldest) for the first and £1 for the rest.

    But I also think £1 and then 50p would be fine. Whatever you are comfortable with.

    ETA: If he's 'expecting' £1.50 I would personally leave that. I certainly wouldn't leave more and your 'smugness' when he tells you he was right all along will make you smile/chuckle to yourself. Priceless parenting moment. :)
  • SPANIEL36
    SPANIEL36 Posts: 1,905 Forumite
    mine get a 2.00 coin
  • poe.tuesday
    poe.tuesday Posts: 1,858 Forumite
    mine get a £2 coin as I thought they were nice big coins, I am now wishing I hadn't started this presidence
  • mine get a £1 coin.. but i got £2 coin when i had my wisdom teeth out 2 years ago because they were so big
  • xmaslolly76
    xmaslolly76 Posts: 3,974 Forumite
    In our house we make the first tooth special they get £5 for that one but all the others only get £1 each after that. ;-)
    :jFriends are like fabric you can never have enough:j
  • £1:00 per tooth in our humble abode.......;)
    !!73lb lost!!
    29th June 2010 - Present Day

    Thank you Cambridge :D
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