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Money Moral Dilemma: Is the Tooth Fairy being stingy?

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  • tgroom57
    tgroom57 Posts: 1,432 Forumite
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    Can it be a magical Beatric Potter 50p ? Same monetary value but much more endearing, and I'm sure they'll turn up in Mum's change occasionally.
  • culpepper
    culpepper Posts: 4,076 Forumite
    Haha I would be saying ..oh no, poor friend, the fairy must have run out of treasure..(because of course the fairy has a treasure stash and nobody thinks of treasure as being made of just paper).
  • Ebenezer_Screwj
    Ebenezer_Screwj Posts: 437 Forumite
    I would stop lying to your child and tell her that there is no such thing as The Tooth Fairy. This sort of American nonsense has a lot to answer for.
  • Schoolworker
    Schoolworker Posts: 499 Forumite
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    My two kids got £2 for their first tooth and then a £1coin for every other tooth afterwards. One time the tooth fairy forgot to collect the tooth and leave money but did this the next night but daughter wrote a letter to her and asked why she did not come. Had to write note with wrong hand to say was busy. It's all part of the magic. Also had a note to ask whattooth fairy name was.
  • Typo22
    Typo22 Posts: 26 Forumite
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    Tell her to have a sleepover with her friend when she loses a tooth & see what happens.
    Ian
  • Snowbird
    Snowbird Posts: 123 Forumite
    Kim_kim wrote: »
    I’m 51, the tooth fairy was visiting me 45 years ago & leaving 50p then.
    Surely it’s gone up with inflation.
    You had a very generous fairy. I am 58 and mine only left 6d.
    However, I did rumble the fairy when she left 2 x 3d pieces one night. I told my mum about it and she said that the tooth fairy musnt have had any change that night. A favourite saying of my mums!
  • Mrs_Soup
    Mrs_Soup Posts: 1,154 Forumite
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    Kim_kim wrote: »
    I’m 51, the tooth fairy was visiting me 45 years ago & leaving 50p then.
    Surely it’s gone up with inflation.


    I am a similar age and I don't remember getting more than 10p. Obviously the inequities of the tooth fairy leaving different amounts go back a long way!
  • Baileys_Babe
    Baileys_Babe Posts: 6,334 Forumite
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    edited 19 May 2019 at 5:53PM
    My children and their cousins receive £1 for the first tooth and 50p for each tooth after that.

    We have had no complaints from any of them.

    I keep a couple of 50p pieces to one side in case of any tooth loss.

    Dd teeth go from hardly moving to under the pillow in a day or two.
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  • Baileys_Babe
    Baileys_Babe Posts: 6,334 Forumite
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    olgadapolga wrote: »
    But not all teeth extracted by the dentist are rotten.

    My DD had two perfectly healthy teeth removed as she needed braces.

    My DS had two healthy teeth removed because the adult teeth were not pushing the "baby" teeth out but were coming through behind them at an odd angle. Again, healthy teeth.

    I think that they each got £5 for the pair. Definitely not £5 per tooth.

    Like your children the dentist has had to extract 4 of my son's teeth, none were damaged but he had no room for the rest of his adult teeth :(
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  • onwards&upwards
    onwards&upwards Posts: 3,423 Forumite
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    silvercar wrote: »
    Our tooth fairy gave less for teeth the dentist had to pull, as the fairy really wasn’t impressed with rotting teeth and wished they had been looked after better.


    Did the ‘tooth fairy’ not realise that was the parents’ fault entirely?
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