Tooth fairy economics

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DD has lost her first tooth, and is strongly expecting a pound coin.

This was the going rate when I was a child, too. Back then, a quid could get you a comic or a small toy.

But I have no idea what DD could get for a pound! We don’t do regular pocket money - partly for this reason, getting anything meaningful (ie - not sweets which I don’t want her buying) needs more money than I want her to be in charge of at five.

So - should inflation raise the TF’s gifts, or should I just let her be excited by the idea of a pound without actually being able to buy much?

We did a pound. DS was happy with that until his best friend claimed he got a £20 note! I shut that one down pretty quickly I can tell you. My tooth fairy doesn’t have £400 to hand out for teeth.

Friend’s family are similar income to us, parents obviously made a rod for their own backs there.

Oh, not a Tiktok page, I just make videos and my sister plays it to her! I use clips from old cartoons with fairies and make montages. Basically you just need to cut out the parts with the fairy from the video (here is a tutorial for this) and then add some text or maybe a voice over (here is how you do that as well). Bonus points if the voice isn't yours and someone else is impersonating the fairy. My niece is already past the age where she actually believes the Tooth fairy exists, so now we're doing it just for the pure fun of it.

A pound in the late 80’s is £2.79 now. At this rate your daughters children will need a SumUp machine under the pillow

I always have my daughter £1 for each tooth, but far far more important to her were the little notes that the tooth fairies left for her wrapped around the coins that I left. She kept them all for many years, and I’ve still got the notes that she wrote to the fairies when she left her tooth under her pillow.

I also got 20p when I was small! I think 50pfor a molar. Dds get £1. They do get £1 a week from my mum aa well so often have a few pounds to put the tooth fairy payout with. Other times they spend it on a shit toy from the £1 vending machines in Sainsburys. But they do enjoy getting something with 'their' pound.

£5 for first tooth and £1 for each after. Though we did just do £10 per tooth removed ready for braces. That was more a compensation for pain than tooth fairy at their age though.

Always £1!!!! Or £2 if the tooth fairy has been late……

Ours is £2 because it’s a pretty coin. But classmates all get £5 or even £10 so I get sad confusion from DD on why do I think they get different amounts.

Also, more money for the first one just sets you for questions and disappointment imo.

I always have a £2 stashed to avoid any late night trips to split a note.

A pound still buys quite a lot of sweets. Which keep the tooth fairy in business. And so the cycle continues...

Tooth fairy here gave €2 and a shiny gold chocolate coin. The excitement over the chocolate coin was unbelievable.
Sometimes if the tooth was harder to come out DS might have gotten €5 and maybe a hot wheels car or Lego Minifigure if I had them in the house(stock piling for Christmas stocking).
DS lost 3 teeth in the space of 5 days.

My daughter gets a fiver.. inflation lol

Try taking her to a charity shop, plenty of tat there for a pound or two! DD aged 4 loves it.

I left £2 and a glittery card for the first tooth and £1 thereafter. The glittery card came back to bite me on the arse though when DS7 recognised my (poorly disguised) handwriting and loudly proclaimed he knew I was the tooth fairy. Which then started questions about Santa and the Easter bunny. Not much magic in my house 🤦‍♀️

Pound will be okay.

It's 2025. Going rate was £2 a tooth when my teen DD lost hers 15 years ago!
She refused to give her tooth to the tooth fairy. So the tooth fairy left a note saying fair enough, but no tooth=no money and look after your teeth 😁😁

£2 each time and she is more than happy with that. Others have told her they have had £10 but it hasn't bothered her.

I know someone who took it further, and told her DC that if they kept their eyes covered with a sleeping mask on a tooth fairy night, the fairy would talk to them, and peeping was absolutely forbidden, or the fairy would never come again. She would whisper in a fairy voice, from lots of different positions, and use a small fan to feel like air from their wings.

Ours was c.10 years' ago but I think we mostly left £1; except the front ones which were £2. We also had to factor in what cash we could actually find around the house (DSD sometimes turned up with wobbly teeth and we weren't aware!); to this end, occasionally it was 20p which we explained by saying that perhaps that night the toothfairy had been left lots of teeth and so they weren't worth so much! We did then try to redress this with upping it on the next ones with the reverse explanation!
It's only meant to be a little bit and ours just put it straight into their piggy banks anyway so around £1 is fine.

I got 50p in the early 90’s; it got me a Panda Pop 25p, a Chomp bar 10p, a pack of cola Frosties sweets 10p and I still had 5 left for penny sweets - good times!!

DH typed the tooth fairy notes. Took DD ages to rumble that.

She was called Mabel and had a bit of a maiden aunt vibe.

My dd has always been happy with a £1, and only ever done any kind of note if she has left one herself. Still happy with a £1 at 10 🤷🏼‍♀️

We just did a flat rate of £2 per tooth. You could also buy her a really pretty money box for her first coin with a note from the tooth fairy explaining that she needs to save her pennies for something nice.

No you won’t I only wrote one for the first tooth

It depends on the tooth. My tooth fairy was not a “flat rate” fairy. She took the tooth and examined it carefully, if it was very clean and well looked after she paid a higher rate.

Writing the notes gave us a lot of amusement!