WIBU to keep teeth?

Original poster

Hushabyelullaby · 01/04/2025 00:22

Thanks for all your responses, I'm going to pick one of the smallest teeth to keep and throw the rest away.

ETA I only have one DC so no mix up problems

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rosemarble · 31/03/2025 00:00

If you do keep them PLEASE label each bag of teeth with the child’s name.
I came across random baby teeth when sorting my late mother’s things. No clue which tooth belonged to which of 5 siblings so they could not be returned to their owner. Who wants their siblings teeth?!

BewitchedBotheredandBewildered · 30/03/2025 23:52

I knew someone who kept all her childs nail clippings, fingers and toes.
I don't know what she did with them, we lost touch!

TheSeaOfTranquility · 30/03/2025 23:46

As you've got quite a few, you could do some lovely craft projects with them. We had some really original clear resin doorknobs made, showcasing the DC's teeth. They looked so unique and we got lots of compliments, but unfortunately we forgot to unscrew them when we moved house, so the new owners have them now.

mondaytosunday · 30/03/2025 23:29

Ugh gross I’d chuck the lot.

sakura06 · 30/03/2025 23:06

I’ve got my children’s teeth too. My DH thinks it’s creepy 🫣😂 I will probably throw them away at some point.

BubblegumGiraffe · 30/03/2025 22:56

LadyNairne · 30/03/2025 22:21

I’ve got them all, randomly tossed into drawers and jewellery boxes after midnight visits by the tooth fairy. I need to find some ritual or something interesting to do with them! Maybe plant them in the garden under moonlight or something. So boring just to throw them away!

So you could open up one of your drawers and there would just be an old tooth in there?

It didn’t even cross my mind that people would keep them.. why on earth?! 😷

Straight in the bin thanks.

Mandylovescandy · 30/03/2025 22:49

I have them all so far and do what I am going to do with them but can't bring myself to just bin them yet

Itsoneofthose · 30/03/2025 22:38

Hushabyelullaby · 30/03/2025 21:13

We’re having a sort out and have found a jar full of my DD’s baby teeth. I asked my DH to keep her first tooth when it fell out but didn’t realise he’d kept every one. As they’re all together I couldn’t tell which is the first, and a whole jar of them feels a bit dark and creepy.

What would you do?

Keep them all, who’s judging anyway.

SingtotheCat · 30/03/2025 22:37

I kept a few teeth from each of
my 2 DCs (now late teens and early twenties) and was wondering what possessed me to keep them and what to do with them. The cat solved my dilemma by eating most of them when the box they were in tipped while moving fortune around.

PrincessBing · 30/03/2025 22:30

My mum has all of mine! She keeps them in the silver bell I had to summon the tooth fairy, with some of the doubles just tucked in the box. I used to like examining them! I think I'd keep the first.

altaego · 30/03/2025 22:25

i have all the baby teeth from my DD's... and its got to the point now where i simply cannot dispost of them!

it has been agreed now, that when i pass, one of the girls will pop the little baggie of teeth into my coffin before i get cremated ... 😂

LadyNairne · 30/03/2025 22:21

I’ve got them all, randomly tossed into drawers and jewellery boxes after midnight visits by the tooth fairy. I need to find some ritual or something interesting to do with them! Maybe plant them in the garden under moonlight or something. So boring just to throw them away!

WaverleyOwl · 30/03/2025 22:01

I've kept all my kids teeth! Why is this creepy??

My mum kept some of mine and I was grateful.

WartOrNot · 30/03/2025 22:01

You don't do what I did, which is to trip while carefully moving the little pot of teeth while clearing the room for the carpet fitters. And drop the tub, which rolls across the floor, spilling teeth as it goes, half of which disappear into the gap in the floorboards that the electricians are about to screw down.

Those teeth are still down there. I can't imagine what some future owner of this house is going to think when they lift the floorboards and find human teeth distributed under their bedroom floor 😂

HundredPercentUnsure · 30/03/2025 21:55

gamerchick · 30/03/2025 21:47

Get them made into teddies.

Made me laugh a lot

That is creepy

HundredPercentUnsure · 30/03/2025 21:55

TheChosenTwo · 30/03/2025 21:20

People Keep the umbilical cord?!
We didn’t keep the teeth, what do you with them?

My NCT friend had their baby's umbilical cord turned into a pill which they proceeded to take 🤢 In some cultures the umbilical cord is buried in the ground to symbolise joining with nature I think, Indonesia and Hawai from memory!

I wouldn't keep them or teeth personally. What do people intend to do with them in the long run - keep them for their children to find when they sort through possessions once you've passed?! They'll get tossed. May as well toss them now.

Racingadmin · 30/03/2025 21:52

Dd found her baby teeth when she was 13 . She used them as an experiment by putting them into full sugar coke to see what happened .

i can’t remember how long it took for them to dissolve but it was fun

BeansCounter · 30/03/2025 21:48

Yeah, throw them away. The way I think about it is - will the kid whose teeth they are be happy to get them back?! Nah, not ever. Delaying the inevitable. Bin them now.

gamerchick · 30/03/2025 21:47

Get them made into teddies.

Made me laugh a lot

Dinosweetpea · 30/03/2025 21:45

I have all my children's teeth in boxes 🤷‍♀️😂

Blarn · 30/03/2025 21:41

Dd1 lost her first tooth and I swapped it for a coin and was unsure what to do so chucked the tooth in a wooden lidded box on my tall chest of drawers. Then did the same with the second, making a mental note to think about what to do with these teeth or just bin them. This box may now just have a scattered mix of two dds teeth. I need to throw them away...

Bippityboppitybooo · 30/03/2025 21:36

I've got 4 so far from ds6. I don't know why I'm keeping them. I've had other mums with oldests the same age asking what I'm doing with them too! It feels weird either way. I have first locks of hair but no other body parts, cords or cord clips (dp was in charge of ds the few hours it took his cord to fall, and it wasn't located for some weeks...)!

SingingSands · 30/03/2025 21:31

Eurgh. They're dead teeth! Bin them!

KatzenRatzen · 30/03/2025 21:30

I kept them all, stored carefully in my jewellery box for each child. Then we got burgled and the police came and took fingerprints and I found all the teeth mixed up on the floor 😭