To think £2.50 is enough from The Tooth Fairy???

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My ds lost his first tooth tonight, i have put £2.50 under his pillow. I mentioned this to a couple of friends tonight and they asked if the tooth fairy was on a budget! AIBU to think that £2.50 is enough? my ds is 6 1/2 and is just excited that he will get his first visit from the tooth fairy tonight. AIBU and does anyone know the going rate for a tooth??!!

£2.50 is more than enough. My two got £1.

It's a quid down our way.

Tempted to take a quid back then!!

My kids used to get a quid-I used to get sixpence......[hgrin].

Doesn't the tooth fairy know we're in a recession?

I give £1. (isn't the whole thing based on a tooth for a shiny coin?)

Could be worse though. Cash strapped friend of mine who couldn't get to an ATM/shop had to leave an IOU under her DDs pillow

Very generous! £1 a tooth here!

£1 here, very occasionally £2

Bloody hell, don't let my kids find out about your tooth fairy!

It's a quid here. And times are hard, so our tooth fairy is very likely facing redundancy if she can't give us a lower quote.

It's £1 here too

so going to take £1 back then!

Surely it should be a single coin the tooth fairy leaves? In which case £2 max? The going rate in our house was £1, until I only had a £2 coin in my purse so it went up because "I guess your teeth are bigger now, so the tooth fairy must think they're worth more".

£1 - except the night I forgot. It was then £2 the next night...

£1 for the first tooth, 50p after that - 3DC in this family, tooth fairy would soon be bankrupt otherwise (at one point we had all 3Dc losing teethe on the same night!!!)

My eldesy got £1 and a golden chocolate coin as she had let DH pull it with pliers (it was so wobbly she couldn't eat without crying, it had to coem out!)

the coin was more from my guilt than need though, and her letter from the fairy said this

£2.50? Per tooth?

Who are you, Bill Gates?!?

£1 here too

If my kids got £2.50 per tooth I'd hear screaming coming from the bedroom as they tried to pull them all out

Has anyone else forgotten about the tooth fairy and woken up to a crying child, then tutted and told them "Search harder, it's probably fallen down the side of your bed"....whilst desperately slipping a £1 coin down the side while you're 'helping' them look?

No? Ok, I'm just a really bad parent then [hblush]

I dont think i will be taking much more advice from friends just ask all of you instead! thank you all! x

No, worra, pulled the same trick here.

Several times.

Got to the point where my daughter suggested we find another tooth fairy ie one who could do her job.

Oh I'm liking your daughter...the future Alana Sugar

I would have been sacked long ago

The thing is, I remember when they go to bed...but it takes so long for them to fall asleep properly that I eventually forget.

£2.50 is just messy and aesthetically displeasing. A good old £1 or £2 coin would suffice.

Have taken £1.50 back so ds has a £1 coin.

When my Dcs were younger the tooth fairy was often quite busy and sometimes didn't get time to come to my dc so she would pop back the following night...