to be upset about DS's first lost tooth?

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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?

How could you throw it in the bin? That tiny perfect little pearl which you were so thrilled to spot when he was almost new still?
I've got all my babies' teeth along with other little mementos to remember the days which were gone so soon.
I don't keep anything to remember the sleepless nights, which were not gone so soon.

I kept all three sets of baby teeth, then gave them to the DC when they were teenagers. I've just asked DS1 & DS3 & they still have them somewhere. Clearly we are weird

@CatThiefKeith quite, it's a bloody dangerous thing to do. Anyone could get hold of it and have nefarious powers over your child. Very old magic indeed.

(in all sanity I really don't believe this but I don't believe magpies are harbingers of the devil either and yet I still have to say good morning and count. Also keeping the teeth isn't weird, lots of people do it. And neither is chucking them, except for the risk of possession by witches.)

You can't go round throwing children's teeth in the bin. Anyone could get hold of them. That's old magic

To the tooth keepers: do you keep their nail clippings too?

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

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...!

I also thought people kept baby's first tooth?

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" 😂

beela yes of course! and their feces and urine too

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

What did you want to do with it?

Stick it in a stolen skull?

My DD dropped hers down the toilet 😂😂

I have kept my dog's puppy teeth.

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

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/

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

Fiver for first tooth. Quid per tooth after that

Trb17 your tooth fairy is way more generous than ours!

Psycho I know, that fairy mugged me good!