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Disappearing tooth fairy money

76 replies

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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Catsandcannedbeans · 30/07/2025 11:00

Could be her sister. My brother used to steal my tooth fairy money. Thieving bastard used to eat my advent calendar chocolate as well.

Is it possible her sister got up early and nicked it??

vixen996 · 30/07/2025 11:01

This happened to me a few years back with my daughter. My Mum was staying and we each put a £1 under her pillow (so obviously £2 total). Next morning she came in to tell me she had gotten £1 from the tooth fairy. Well my Mum and I literally turned her room over looking for the other £1, but we never found it. Was really strange

EverydayHeartBreak · 30/07/2025 11:03

Was the window open? Magpie?

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BeanQuisine · 30/07/2025 11:06

This is a lot more common than people think.

When real fairies come to take the tooth and leave a pound, they're understandably very annoyed to find it already gone and a pound in its place, left by a parent.

So even though it's against their code of conduct, you can't blame the occasional pissed off fairy from taking the pound and leaving nothing.

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Shhhhitsmagic · 30/07/2025 11:11

Loving these replies 😂

The window is on a safety latch, so no magpies entered the house.
Definitely not her sister. She got in my bed at midnight and didn't move all night.
Checked in the bed, under the bed, in her drawers.. every hidey hole! It's gone.

Maybe the tooth fairy did get pissed off? 😂

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DiscoBob · 30/07/2025 11:11

Do you think one of her little pals told her they did a 'trick' where they took the money out and pretended it wasn't there. Then they managed to get a second pound?!
Could she have been trying it on do you think?

ErlingHaalandsManBun · 30/07/2025 11:12

My DH had a small insect bite on his wedding ring finger so was itching it and the ring was irritating it. I told him to take it off overnight or the itching would keep him awake. I watched him slide it off, and place it on the chest of drawers. We both went to sleep, slept right through, woke up in the morning and it was gone. No-where to be found. Neither of us got up in the night, neither of us sleepwalk, no-one else in the house but the two of us.

He wondered if it had somehow been knocked off (how?) and we searched everywhere. The floor, under the bed, the back of the drawers and to this day we have never found it. We have absolutely no idea what happened to it.

Rhaidimiddim · 30/07/2025 11:14

Disappearing.object phenomenon. It is a real thing. Has happened to me and mine several times. Expect thd coin to reappear eventually out of the blue in the place you left it.

Ihopeithinkiknow · 30/07/2025 11:20

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.

My cousin was round at mine and my daughter lost her first tooth and he told her that it was tradition in our family that the tooth fairy always leaves £100 for the first tooth, bloody idiot he is anyway she got a quid and even now at 15 years old she insists that the tooth fairy owes her £99 haha

Blank1234 · 30/07/2025 11:22

Either your dd has indeed got it/hidden it and is a very good actress (which I suspect), or your other dd did not stay in your bed all night - you were tired and didn’t feel her move.

When I was younger I ‘lost’ a book. I knew exactly where it was, but thought I’d get wrong for it getting stuck in the place it was, so said nothing of its whereabouts. Cue my mum, dad and sister searching EVERYWHERE! An hour later, no sign of book. A while after, I found it 😂😂 Still haven’t told them to this day 😂😂 So I can fully believe your dd is playing you 😉

Rainbows41 · 30/07/2025 11:26

Is the pound still in your purse?

GAJLY · 30/07/2025 11:35

Check your dressing gown pockets just in case you forgot!

zanahoria · 30/07/2025 11:36

The tooth fairy has nabbed it

TommyTyson · 30/07/2025 11:38

The Tooth Fairy really took it! 😍

Honestly though, how odd. Could she have touched it in the night?

DailyEnergyCrisis · 30/07/2025 11:41

DD tried this stunt too- she claims to see if the tooth fairy is real (as how would we know money was definitely left if she is?!) she was around 6 at the time.

Sycamoretrees · 30/07/2025 11:47

Is it wrapped up in the tissue with the tooth?

Branleuse · 30/07/2025 11:53

go in there and mysteriously find it under the pillow. Tell her that the tooth fairy had put it under the pillow instead of the dish, what a silly billy etc

SixtySomething · 30/07/2025 11:54

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? 😂

Long ago, when my children were small, we had an unexplained event.
All my children vehemently denied having done it. They all looked completely innocent and I didn't doubt them.
Thirty years later, one of them has said he did it!
So, it could be that one of your children is up to mischief even though they look so innocent.

Starlight1984 · 30/07/2025 11:56

BeanQuisine · 30/07/2025 11:06

This is a lot more common than people think.

When real fairies come to take the tooth and leave a pound, they're understandably very annoyed to find it already gone and a pound in its place, left by a parent.

So even though it's against their code of conduct, you can't blame the occasional pissed off fairy from taking the pound and leaving nothing.

😆

x2boys · 30/07/2025 11:59

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!

I used to get 10 pence !

Phobiaphobic · 30/07/2025 12:00

You shifted into a universe where you forgot to leave the money.

itispersonal · 30/07/2025 12:00

Cant help with the money! But the trick is you pretend to be wrapping up the tooth but it’s actually the £1 and then when child opens the tissue- wow the tooth is now a coin!

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Shhhhitsmagic · 30/07/2025 12:01

It's not in the tissue with the tooth, checked that already.

Checked my purse - it's not there. I had a mad panic looking for £1 last night as we dont generally have cash in the house, so was relieved when I found 1 single pound coin in my purse! And I clearly remember carefully placing it in the dish, then wrapping the tooth up.

I don't wear a dressing gown, I held it before placing in the dish.

It's a possibility that my daughter is playing me, but I honestly don't think she could fake those tears! She's not a sneaky kid and is very honest with me. On the odd occasion when she has told a white lie (like blaming her sister for something) it's written all over her face.

Her little sister definitely didn't take it. She has some additional needs and it wouldnt occur to her to get up in the night and take it.

I'm heading out now but will keep you all updated if it turns up!

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Blank1234 · 30/07/2025 12:06

Do you have a pet? My cat is always knocking stuff off, especially money!

rurbane · 30/07/2025 12:13

My son is 22, painfully honest to the point it causes problems (also autistic so doesn't know when to stop) but a couple of times when he was little he lied so convincingly we believed him despite the evidence. It's almost like he needed to check he could lie.

Once he hid the key to the back door as we were about to go on holiday, door unlocked and no spare. He denied it almost to the point of crying. We were desperate so started to call out a locksmith and delay the holiday and he went and dug it up from the garden.

Not saying your daughter is lying but sometimes they surprise us.