what would you do with these teeth?

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as is usual, i kept both of my childrens 1st baby teeth... BUT, it didn't stop there, for some reason, known to god knows who, i kept ALL of the baby teeth BOTH of my children lost!

now, my oldest is 26.. i have these teeth... its turned into a bit of a joke and it really is time to let these go...

but how?

i can't throw them away.. it would be like discarding a part of my children? the only solution i have come up with, is when i pass, these teeth are cremated with me.. which means these teeth will hang around my house hopefully for another 30 years.

any ideas?

Haven’t rtft but…

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Can't you have them cremated and the ash made into jewellery?
Could be an idea for Dragon's Den right there!

I still have my 'kids' teeth wrapped up in tissue in my knicker drawer. Moved three times, kids are in to their twenties 😂

Gross. And mad. Because, OP, you do know that these teeth are NOT the same thing as your children, right? If you had to choose between the continuing existence of your children and the teeth, (in some hypothetical world) you would certainly be able to choose your children. Which shows that you could easily bury the teeth/scatter them on a favourite beach/even bin them unceremoniously because you do know the difference between the teeth and the children. If you didn't, you'd keep every shed skin cell, every scab, every squeezed blackhead, ingrown hair.

You can put them in little gift jewellery bag (idk how to describe these small fabric bags with a string), put some flowers un, childs name on a paper/pebble and throw it from the bridge into the river. Or swimm far and let go into the sea.
You will not win an award for ecology department but it can give you some closure returning them to nature.

I found my husbands in my MIL house and nearly puked. I thought she was so bloody weird for that but turns out she's not (or maybe more are 😂)

This

Imagine if you had kept all the hair from hair cuts over the years, how is this different?

Oh and weren’t you worried they would find them whilst they still believed the tooth fairy was using them to build her palace?

There are some great ideas here... and some not so great ones..

I do need to say goodbye to these little nashers..

As morbid as it sounds, they visit their dad's grave at the local crematorium so I might scatter them there... they can be his problem then

There’s enough of us weirdos that we probably could build a palace out of teeth, and then future generations of parents wouldn’t have to wrestle with the hypocrisy of lying to their dc because it would be true!

Could you sell them on the black market as bonsai elephant tusks or rhino horns?

Why is this simultaneously both the best and worst thing I've ever seen?

Somehow get a plaster model of a mouth. Attach teeth in correct order. Put in a small decorative box with a copy of Pam Ayres poem - I wish I'd looked after my teeth! Fortieth birthday present - pass the love on..

God that's horrific!
So the teddy's smiling back at you with your kids old teeth?
It's terrifying !

I had to go look man. But...

There used to be a myth that you should bury them so the pixies couldn't steal them and use them to swap your child with a changeling. Better safe than sorry...

When my mum died I found a box with all my baby teeth in. I now have a box with my baby teeth and all four off my children's. It's turning into a generational problem here...

I really think it’s important you bin them. Or, like another poster suggested, lob them in a plant pot with a plant or something.

As morbid as it sounds, they visit their dad's grave at the local crematorium so I might scatter them there... they can be his problem then

I really shouldn't have laughed, but that tickled me a lot 😂

Whenever we have a problem letting things go we "gjve" them to another person. In your case give them to the children who can put them in the bin immediately after. My DD can't throw away poorly plants so she physically "gives" them to me and I walk straight outside to the bin. Same thing happened with all their soft toys etc, they couldn't face binning them but they could give them to me to bin iyswim.

That will be terrifying for other visitors to see

dozens of little teeth over a grave!!!!

We used to walk around a very old graveyard and we'd sometimes find teeth and bits of bone. They work their way up to the surface like sultanas in cereal packets apparently.

Dh's grandfather kept his gallstones which they found after he'd died.