The Tooth Fairy

Hi everyone, I put a post on tonight on a sort-of related topic. May I ask for your candid thoughts please?

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/parenting/5335696-would-you-use-a-digital-tooth-fairy-service-idea-feedback-wanted?page=2

£1 coin here in a little organza bag

Tooth fairy visited last week for the first time with £1. But only as my daughter was very insistent that they bring gold coins and the tooth fairy had run out of £2 coins.
However she left behind a lovely tooth fairy cuddly toy with a knitted bag with my daughter's initial on it, that she can put any further lost teeth in.

I used to get £1 so by rights it ought to be at least £2.50 by now, taking inflation into account, but I think DS will still be getting £1. I never actually believed, so I used to just get the tooth fairy to hand it straight over.

@Sassy306 @Nottogetapenny @scalt

What adorable ways to have the tooth fairy visit. All different, but equally lovely and magical 💛

The tooth fairy left my children and now my grandchildren “fairy money” an old silver sixpence. I have quite a few, that I have given to their parent to continue this tradition The “fairy money” is then changed for money they can spend.

When my baby was born my mum gave me a little bag with £28 in £1 coins as she remembered never being able to find a £1 when we’d lost a tooth so we’d always have one to hand :)

I know somebody who does the tooth fairy differently, and makes the tooth fairy talk to her children; but like Roald Dahl's the BFG, the fairy does not want to be seen (or she might replace the child with a changeling); so after they have put the tooth under the pillow, and the child is sitting up in bed, she covers their eyes with a magic mask (a funny sleeping mask from Claire's Accessories, which they love), and stealthily swaps the tooth for the money, while the child can't see.😄The child has to lie down for a few minutes while soft music is played, and then the fairy talks to the child, in a disguised fairy voice, asks them what they would like to dream about, and reminds the child of the importance of cleaning teeth. She uses a hand-held fan to make the feel of air coming from the fairy's wings, and tells their child to keep their mask on for a few minutes while the fairy leaves the room. The children have probably worked out that it's pretend, but they always play along. She says they like this more than Santa!

the tooth fairy brings various amounts depending on what she has in her purse, 50p, £1 or if very lucky £2

£2 here. Gets given in a little organza bag with shiny confetti, I know I know but I was drunk the first time and had to keep it up.

We gave our ds5 special edition royal mint £5 coin for his first two teeth but those were pulled out and he was really brave having it done without a GA.
Next lot will be £1 I think

Ours leaves £1 but we have found out that is well under the going rate amongst her peers! A coin seems more of a fair exchange for a tooth than paper money though. Perhaps we could encourage her to find some £2 coins.

I used to get 10p for a tooth, 50p for a molar I think.

@Sassy306that is absolutely lovely!

The tooth fairy always left a £2 coin here.

My DC hasn’t lost any teeth yet but probably will soon, they are adamant the tooth fairy leaves them a chocolate coin. Will save some money.

That’s magical and so special.

Our tooth fairy pays by bank transfer, as she never has any cash.

That is so lovely!

That's how I caught on that she wasn't real!

My DC always got £1 (eldest is 26 now, eeek).

I remember being on holiday when a tooth fell out, instant panic that TF wouldn't find DC and said tooth (already under the pillow, more panic that there wasn't an envelope to put the tooth in with a message to the TF saying thank you).

Whilst I was calming DC down, I managed to switch the tooth out with a coin whilst he was in bed. DC wanted to check tooth was still there, found the coin and swore for years that he saw the TF sparkle out of the window with his tooth.

£5!!!

I might give DP that for a wisdom tooth extraction, but the tooth fairy in our house has a fuck-off mortgage to pay so a crappy baby tooth is never going to get more than a quid. (If she even remembers)

My dad is the tooth fairy in our family. For me and my siblings and now for the grandchildren.

He puts a shiny £2 coin in a leaf with flowers and sparkly bits inside and ties it all up with wool or thread then writes a tiny note which he rolls around the stalk to say thank you and it's always signed by a different fairy 🤣

My now 19 year old stopped believing in santa at around 10 but we had to break it to her at 13 that the tooth fairy also wasn't real and she said that was more upsetting as it was the most magical thing from her childhood.

Picture of last week's delivery from snowdrop the fairy, for my 6 year old 😀

@scalt yes.

@Toddlerteaplease Did your parents actually use the phone and pretend to speak to the tooth fairy?

I never believed in Santa, but I did believe in the tooth fairy for a while. I realised something was up when the 50p was delivered in two twenties, and a ten, as my mum never had 50p's.

We had to do that a few times too!! ;)

My parents had us going for years. If we lost a tooth after 8pm we had to wait until the next day, as the TF was already out on her rounds. (I suspect they'd just run out of 20p's 😂 They also used to phone their number when they phoned the TF.