what is the going rate of the tooth fairy?

[leelo]

my daughter is 6 and needs to get 7, possibly 9 teeth taken out at hospital. and normally when she loses a tooth the fairy leaves her a £2 coin. with the prospect of this many coming out at once i wondered if there is current rate for teeth or special rates for lots at once. i have some time before she gets this done so can organise a 2nd mortgage.

thank you all for your insightful posts. i find it strange that toothfairy rates are so different from all over the uk. i think i will stick to £2 a tooth and because she has the ordeal of a operation to go through and is a bit white coat phobic i'll ask the tooth fairy to leave a note and special present for her. anything except those evil moshi monster cards they drive me nuts.

A golden coin ie a £1 - that has been our rate since the first tooth loss and we haven't changed.
DD will be having a brace in the not too distant future. She still has alot of baby teeth so if these have to be extracted she'll get more.

DS swallowed a tooth and got his £ but a couple of days later I caught him mashing through one of his poos with a tissue wrapped finger.He didn't find anything but I can imagine the Tooth Fairy's face if he presented that for reward.

`£2 for the first tooth and £1 for the rest. It seems to be pretty standard around here.

£2 even though they are twins, but we're fairly well off. Just do what you can afford and feels right. The older children got much less years ago even allowing for inflation.

Blimey, it was 10 or 20p when I was young and losing teeth! Inflation is a bitch! :o

Dd now 13 used to get £1 when we lived in S MCr/Cheshire, and it seemed to be the going rate.

I used to get 6d - which was enough to get either a Mars bar or 6 Penny Arrow bars of toffee (strong enough to pull out a loose molar). My 'd'm thought that milk teeth were completely unimportant, so loaded my drinks with sugar, buried strawberries under a mountain of the bloody stuff etc.

Tooth fairy leaves £1 here - except on one occasion when the tooth was lost on a birthday, and the tooth fairy was feeling very guilty that she forgot was too busy to come the first night - when she left £3

My DB once left the tooth fairy a note explaining the concept of inflation. He got back a snotty note explaining the rising costs of tooth fairy operations and the unstable market for teeth

If you usually leave £2 per tooth I would actually round it up to £20 for the hospital removals as it's fairly scarey for a little one, and maybe a treat too. She's going to miss out on all that wobbling!

I think we'll do £1 per tooth but we haven't got there yet. dd is 3

50p in our house, and our TF is called Violet (shamelessly borrowed from Hogfather!) She's special and only carries silver.

DD1 writes with every tooth, don't think DD2 will bother though!

HI, I'm a bit late sorry, yes 50p here too! When DD1 had to have 4 teeth out under GA she go the usual, so the fairy left a nice shiny £2 coin, but I also bought her a separate present, handed over when we got home, since it was not all just about the teeth but the whole hospital ordeal - GOOD LUCK leelo! The Hosp here even gave us a pretty tooth-fairy printed bag to put the teeth in!

we have tooth fairy envelopes for extracted teeth too