Disappearing tooth fairy money

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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? 😂

Maybe your DD dropped/lost it first thing in the morning and is hoping you'll replace it?
Or is testing if the tooth fairy is real by your reaction if she thinks you put it there.

If this happened to me I would just say maybe she ran out of money as the tooth is gone she must have been and give her £1. Re-hiding it if she has moved it just proves she is in fact not real….unless your not bothered about her finding out of course my ds still yet to loose a tooth but is very switched on to ‘magic’ and I’m wondering how long I’ll be able to keep it up myself **cries can’t they stay innocent forever

Next time you see the Tooth Fairy check out her shoes. If she's wearing a pair of tiny Manolos, you'll have your answer 👀

My engagement ring - just a cheapie number from Elizabeth Duke as we were saving for a home - disappeared once. I wasn't that bothered as, as I said, it wasn't expensive, and DH and I had been married several years by then anyway. It turned up, over a decade later, when my mum walked into their kitchen one morning to see it lying in the middle of the floor. Never did figure that one out! 🤷‍♀️

I did this and it had fallen down the side of the mattress and was standing on end on one of the slats of the bedframe, right up against the long plank that forms the side of the bed so it couldn't be seen unless your eyes were just past directly above. You wouldn't even necessarily dislodge it changing the sheet if there is a slight gap and it is pressed right against the outer edge.

Check your dressing gown pocket- maybe you meant to put the coin in but actually put it in there along with the tooth

Was it on the windowsill with the window open? I found a Magpie at my window this morning. It obviously wanted the shinny thing that was on the windowsill.

As an aside, my DS is 35, and £1 was the going rate in those days: has the Tooth Fairy not kept up with inflation?

We are in the process of moving house so we are hoping we find it somewhere when we come to pack. All the furniture will be moved/dismantled, etc so if it is still somewhere in that room surely we will find it 😂Honestly, it has had us totally baffled.

There's a whole book about this sort of thing - I was given it after a big shiny pair of scissors I was in the middle of using vanished in seconds and have never materialised!

I was going to say, you’re not the only one with a mystery. I’ve been walking round with one slipper since the weekend searched everywhere. Determined the other will reappear sometime then saw about your boot, maybe I should give up now 😅

I once lost a large lego set (the size of slab of beers) while wrapping Christmas presents, never found it again. My only theory is that I somehow mixed it up with empty boxes and threw it away- but how? Also lost my car key forever while holding it in my hand.

Could she have got up in excitement through the night, half-asleep knowing that the tooth fairy was coming, found the pound, and then put it somewhere safe? She wouldn't remember doing it because she was not fully awake.

I’ve done that before as well. Another time my cup had disappeared out the kitchen. Found ds drinking it. I didn’t think he liked tea.😂😂😂

My eldest is the same age and sometimes wakes in the night and sleep walks and then has no memory of it in it morning! She shares a room with her baby sister so her antics get captured on the baby monitor!

The fae leave one shiny gold coin. So your choice is either £1 or £2, basically.

Ah, I’m not up to speed with Fairy Rules

Are you sure your husband didn’t take it? If you don’t usually have cash and he urgently needed a pound coin, maybe he didn’t realise it was tooth fairy money?

The elves got p*ssed off with the fairies getting all the glory so stole it.

At 6 people at school will have already told her the tooth fairy doesn’t exist so she is proving to you she knows.

Do you have a cat?

I would very strongly suspect that she woke in the night, checked for the tooth money, then put it somewhere and went back to sleep and forgot what she'd done. I've done it myself - got up in the night closed a window a few weeks ago and then in the morning I was completely baffled as to why my window (which is always open) was closed. I guess there was a noise in the night which woke me and I closed the window while mostly asleep.

So I'd search the room; look in pockets and places that you would normally expect to find money - she might have done it without knowing if she was mostly asleep.

I'd check all the places where you'd normally put money - handbags, purses, play tills etc. Ask younger DD is she can solve the "tooth fairy mystery"

My younger DD aged 3 at the time once took £100 we'd put aside for a birthday party venue. We tore the house apart in panic. When she heard that we might have to cancel older DD's party she suddenly shuffled off to her room and it was in the play till!

Also call DH - mine has been known to absent mindedly pick up coins left in the kitchen for school things - and put them in the coin tray in the car for parking/shopping trolley etc

I think your Tooth Fairy is on holiday and you've got ours, Brian, covering her rounds. When Brian used to visit us he was a fat, uncouth, slob who wore hobnail boots with his tutu and grumbled loudly that he had to put his kebab down to complete the tooth transaction.
At least that's what I told my boys when I said I knew he'd been as I'd heard him clumping up the stairs in the dead of night.
Maybe Brian came to yours last night and dropped the pound when he put his takeaway down?

It is the borrowers