to be upset about DS's first lost tooth?

[IamAporcupine]

Just got a call from DH - DS lost his first tooth today. They do not know where, probably in the street. So it is literally lost.

AIBU to feel very upset about it?

[beela]

£5 per tooth?? That's £100 for a mouthful!

[silkpyjamasallday]

I will be keeping DDs teeth, my DM kept mine and DBs, but sadly mixed them all up so we don't know which belong to who. I remember reading an article in a newspaper about a mother having her children's teeth gold plated and put on a charm bracelet, but lost that and was devastated. I'm not sure I'd go so far as to have them made into jewellery but maybe I'll become more macabre with age.

That teddy thing is horrific

[Ebb]

DS lost one of his teeth in Morrison's. Sorry to whoever found that amongst the produce!

You could make one of these with future teeth.

[Katedotness1963]

£2 per tooth

[IamAporcupine]

DH is suggesting £5 per tooth

[Trb17]

Psycho I know, that fairy mugged me good!

[PsychoPumpkin]

Trb17 your tooth fairy is way more generous than ours!

[Trb17]

Fiver for first tooth. Quid per tooth after that

[PsychoPumpkin]

Well our tooth fairy gives £1.50 per tooth. I think he or she is on the stingy end of the tooth fairy spectrum

[IamAporcupine]

by the way - what is the ongoing rate for a tooth?

[IamAporcupine]

sorry beela I didn't mean to be rude either, I was just a bit annoyed at some PP taking the piss and calling tooth keepers false and over-sentimental.

But teeth and nails are very different, as a PP said, that tiny perfect little pearl which you were so thrilled to spot when he was almost new still?

[LittleLionMansMummy]

It genuinely never occurred to me that keeping the first tooth was weird. We have a memory box for our two, which also includes newspapers from the day they were born and full set of coins from the year they were born. I'm sure we must be deemed exceedingly odd.

[LooksBetterWithAFilter]

It never occurred to me to keep teeth, cord clamps and locks of hair. I have 3 dc so that would be a lot of teeth and hair. I'm not particularly sentimental though and don't keep flowers and ticket stubs either and couldn't keep all the drawings and school work brought home even if I wanted to.
My parents recently downsized and I got an absolute pile of crap from my mum most of which went in the bin because I didn't want it either. It just seems like needless stuff to me.

[DontMakeMeShushYou]

saveforthat Me too!

I've kept all my children's first teeth. I thought everyone did. My mum still has mine. Each of my children has a memory box with this sort of stuff in - first teeth, lock of hair from the first haircut, the little hospital tags from their ankles from when they were born, scan photos, etc.

[MsSusanStoHelit]

Oh @beela I'm sorry, I was just being silly, didn't mean to make you feel badly.

But teeth are different - there's a lot history of people keeping them, not so much nail clippings.

Though it could be worse - the Victorians (OF COURSE) used to keep dead people's hair and make it into nice pictures.

the-toast.net/2014/07/25/victorian-hair-art/

[beela]

I wasn't meaning to be rude, it just seems like the same thing to me.

[saveforthat]

I have kept my dog's puppy teeth.

[Peachypie83]

My DD dropped hers down the toilet 😂😂

[WonkoTheSane42]

What did you want to do with it?

Stick it in a stolen skull?

[mrsRosaPimento]

Ds1 ate one of his teeth while asleep and another went missing while awake...

[IamAporcupine]

beela yes of course! and their feces and urine too

[Ham69]

That wouldn't upset me though I can understand you being a bit sad. I was thoroughly pissed off when my PFB lost his 1st tooth as it happened at my overbearing in-laws and they gave him money straight away "from the tooth fairy" 😡 and totally stole my thunder! It was in the day, maybe more forgivable if he'd had a sleepover with them. I did the mature thing and doubled what they gave him from the "real tooth fairy" 😂

[greendale17]

I also thought people kept baby's first tooth?

[Tortycat]

Yanbu. I now feel weird as i have both my dcs clamp and cord, some nail clippings, eyelashes and bits of cradle cap. Theyre not old enough to have lost teeth yet but will def keep them!

Not sure what I'll do with my own set though once my mum dies...!

[MsSusanStoHelit]

Ooh yes @beela, and hair brushings. I ritually burn them personally, to avoid them falling into the Wrong Hands.