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Disappearing tooth fairy money

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Shhhhitsmagic · 30/07/2025 09:39

Help me solve this mystery!

My daughter's front tooth fell out yesterday. We don't put the tooth/money under her pillow as I don't want to risk waking her, so she has a little decorative bowl on her windowsill where she leaves her teeth. So last night, I took the tooth, and left £1 in the bowl as per usual.

This morning she comes into my room upset that the tooth fairy has taken her tooth and not left her any money. I go to have a look and the £1 has gone!

The only other people in the house are her little sister who was in my bed all night and my husband (who obviously wouldn't have any reason to take £1)

The tooth is wrapped in tissue on my bedside table so I didn't dream the whole thing. So where is the money?! Am I losing my mind? 😂

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AlwaysHopefull89 · 30/07/2025 09:41

how odd… maybe you didn’t leave the money like you thought you did ? You could have been dreaming it!

doodleschnoodle · 30/07/2025 09:41

How weird! Could she have got up in the night half asleep and checked it and put it somewhere? DD1 can wake up and totally not compos mentis and do some stuff then in the morning have no memory of it

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Shhhhitsmagic · 30/07/2025 09:57

AlwaysHopefull89 · 30/07/2025 09:41

how odd… maybe you didn’t leave the money like you thought you did ? You could have been dreaming it!

I definitely didn't dream it. I got in bed then thought oh shit, forgot to do her tooth money. Got back up and luckily found £1 in my purse, did the exchange and found the tooth wrapped in tissue where I left it last night! If I dreamt it the tooth would still be in the bowl.

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Shhhhitsmagic · 30/07/2025 09:59

doodleschnoodle · 30/07/2025 09:41

How weird! Could she have got up in the night half asleep and checked it and put it somewhere? DD1 can wake up and totally not compos mentis and do some stuff then in the morning have no memory of it

This is always a possibility, but she always sleeps right through and we haven't has any sleepwalking for a couple of years. No sign of any money lying around either!

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spoonbillstretford · 30/07/2025 10:03

Perhaps a scam tooth fairy is collecting? You can't be too careful these days.

I'd say the tooth fairy must have dropped it and give her a quid. It's probably down the back of the mattress.

Gowlett · 30/07/2025 10:03

Strange. I wonder if you did somehow forget to put in the pound? Although, then it would be in your purse or bedroom…

I went to enjoy a cup of tea, I’d made, before getting my coat… The cup was empty & still warm, but I didn’t remember drinking it!

spoonbillstretford · 30/07/2025 10:05

I went to enjoy a cup of tea, I’d made, before getting my coat… The cup was empty & still warm, but I didn’t remember drinking it!

Yes, I've always done that. But the next, menopausal brain fog stage is going to make yourself an espresso and finding there is one already made. Oh thank you, five minutes ago me!

JillMW · 30/07/2025 10:06

The tooth fairy took it

HaveTeaWillSurvive · 30/07/2025 10:16

How old is she? What are the chances she’s testing you to see if the tooth fairy is real? When I was little this is the type of stunt I’d pull - hide the actual money, tell you and then if you say she must have forgot and will come that night and then more money magically appears….

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Shhhhitsmagic · 30/07/2025 10:24

She's almost 6. I don't think she's tryng it on, she was genuinely upset and she's very easy to read and I can see a mile off when she's lying.

Hate it when this happens! I once had one of my favourite boots disappear into thin air. Thought I'd come across it when we packed up to move house but nope, literally vanished!

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TerminalMoraine · 30/07/2025 10:27

My DD asked for help to write a note to the tooth fairy. So I asked her what she wanted to say. The answer was “Dear tooth fairy, please can I have £100?”. I told her the tooth fairy can’t carry that much money.
Shes 25 now so imagine the inflation since then.

user1498572889 · 30/07/2025 10:27

A friend of mine had this happen to his son. He had actually got up in the night and put the money in his bed.

TeeBee · 30/07/2025 10:27

Could she have knocked it in her sleep? Have you checked the room (under the bed, in between the bed and the mattress, etc?)

Spookyspaghetti · 30/07/2025 10:28

Have you considered the Mumsnet ‘man in the attic’ yet.

Pluvia · 30/07/2025 10:30

How old is she? Old enough to have worked out that if she makes the £1 disappear and blames the tooth fairy, another £1 will have to be found. Clever girl. Clearly astute.

RainSoakedNights · 30/07/2025 10:30

My brother and I used to wake each other up in the middle of the night when we’d had teeth fall out, to hide the money BlushBlush so my mum would think she’d gone insane, and the next night she’d put the money down again. We were raking it in!! This was back in the days of it only being 20p for a tooth though.

She used to write us notes and all sorts, wrap them up with ribbon and leave “fairy dust” on the side. God knows how she’d forget she’d done the money!

BMW6 · 30/07/2025 10:39

I think she's got the makings of an Oscar winning actress OP........

She's taken it. Nothing else is logical.

MalcolmMoo · 30/07/2025 10:40

I think maybe you took the tooth and forgot or misplaced the £1. It’s unlikely anyone else in the house has taken it.

Wilfrida1 · 30/07/2025 10:42

Ask her what she wants to spend her money on, and get her to get her purse/piggy bank out and count it with you. See if that tallies with what you would expect.

Next time put a dab of nail polish on the coin, make it easier to track.

Miss Marple signing off ...

Pricelessadvice · 30/07/2025 10:44

It’s got to be her who has taken it, surely?

NewsdeskJC · 30/07/2025 10:48

Is it possible that she is testing to see if its true?

Travelodge · 30/07/2025 10:51

The Borrowers?

Alternatively, she half-woke, took the coin and has forgotten all about it. It's probably in her bed somewhere.

(Made me think of the time my DD's tooth came out while we were holidaying in France and she was worried the tooth fairy wouldn't find it, so we had to write a note in Franglais to put with it. It started "Chere Dent Fairy".)

MyDeftDuck · 30/07/2025 10:51

Secrete another £1 coin somewhere else in her room and crack on that the tooth fairy was being mischievous and hid it 🧚‍♂️

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Shhhhitsmagic · 30/07/2025 10:56

This is the little dish. She likes to keep these little crystals and other random bits in.
I've done another sweep of the room and it's nowhere to be found.

She was suggesting that we look in other places in case the tooth fairy left it somewhere else and she was genuinely upset. So either I have a little actress in the making or I'm losing my mind. I think that option is more likely 😂

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GarlicLitre · 30/07/2025 10:57

Spookyspaghetti · 30/07/2025 10:28

Have you considered the Mumsnet ‘man in the attic’ yet.

😂

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