Why does the tooth fairy give money?

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Just that, really. Why does the tooth fairy give money, and not a gift? Does anyone give a gift rather than money? How much do you give per tooth? Light hearted and cheerful post from an over thinker

Have you tried slipping a gift under a sleeping child’s pillow? It’s hard enough to get a quid under there without them waking up.

I dread tooth loss day, Dd is on high alert and has taken to writing letters asking for pictures of the tooth fairy, so I have to be an artist AND a sneak. Still got loads to loose still.

I don’t know why really but it has always been a very useful way to put a cheerful spin on something that could have been stressful for the child! - Tooth falls out after a week or two of serious wobbling and there’s blood and a weird gap and it feels strange, oh god this is a bizarre sensation, don’t know if I like this 😫
”Don’t worry dc, now it goes under your pillow and tooth fairy comes and collects it and leaves you some money in return!!”
its a mood lifter!

Oh blimey I don’t actually do that, this is just what we say the tooth fairy does

This made me chuckle 😄

Can you imagine 🏰

I always give a gift. I usually buy small toys or books when I see them on offer so usually have something st home to give.

When dd's first tooth fell out Mil was staying with us and she put a £20 note under dd's pillow. No way am I following that tradition. 😁

Perhaps it's so kids can save up to pay for their dentistry once they're grown up.

I wonder how many teeth it’d take to make a house? Must need at least 100 per brick.

Because she's too little to carry a present (unless it's the same size or smaller than a £1 coin).

Going rate is a £1, although it was also a £1 in the early 90's so the tooth fairy's not offering great value these days. I'd see if the Easter Bunny or Santa could offer a better rate, so important to shop around.

When I was a kid $2 was the norm. Tooth fairy slipped one night and I got £20 (both were paper at the time) funnily enough, a note turned up and suggested I should spend the 20 bucks on pizza for the family.

We do a £1/tooth

Tradition was....early Norse and Scandinavian traditions were thay baby teeth were buried to help the child in the after life. Vikings had a tand-fe or tooth fee. Children's baby teeth were used as good luck charms and battle amulets.

Medieval cultures believed in a mouse that would loosen and take children's teeth at night.

More modern is of an old woman who children would take their teeth to in exchange for a penny or cakes.

Others, claim that if it wasn't taken/buried/burnt etc a witch would visit and bestow bad juju, basically.

There are many other traditions from Russia, Spain and France etc

I have had at times far, far too much time on my hands.

In our house, the holiday tooth fairy is always far more generous. Maybe in fear that they didn't add money under the pillow at night, post glass of vino, so she slipped extra under in the morning just in case. 2 years in a row that happened 😂

And yep. Also raided their money box for change 🤣🤣

So that when a tooth you didn't know was wobbly falls out just before bed, you have some hope of having a coin in the house. Also, how would you get a toy under a pillow?

In our house she leaves £1, so cheaper then any present. Each kid is going to lose 20 teeth, so if your spending £5-10 on a gift each time, ot add up.

TENNER???!

Jesus, anyone got any pliers?

My daughters tooth fell out and we had no money. I told her the tooth fairy was on holiday until we got some money 🤣🤣

Once the tooth fairy forgot to leave money but lo and behold she left a letter on our gate saying that she had been rushed off her feet and would collect the tooth the following night! 🥵

You would think if the Tooth Fairy was a bit more industrious it woukd leave a Mars bar or a doughnut instead of money.

Anyway, why does the Tooth Fairy want with all those teeth and what do it do with them?

Thirty years ago our boys got 50p a tooth. And they were always complaining that their friends got more. Considering inflation over the 30 years I reckon they got a good deal!🙄

In our house it has always been a large Starbucks chocolate coin or a £1 coin, at the Tooth Fairy's discretion depending on my stash of chocolate coins.

When in another county or another country, anything goes, as tooth fairies have local patches and each has discretion to do their own thing! Tends to be a chocolate or a coin though.

You set your own traditions. If you watch The Rise of the Guardians when they're 6 or 7 it sets the scene for Santa/Tooth Fairy/Easter Bunny to be real "people" with real struggles, that sometimes need to wing it and do the best they can!

Anyway, why does the Tooth Fairy want with all those teeth and what do it do with them?

She eats them, of course.

Tataratata....

Sometimes the fairy gifts a book

The tooth fairy 🧚‍♀️ leaves money because she is buying the tooth from the child.
She 🧚‍♀️ uses the little teeth to make pearl necklaces to give to Grannies if they are kind to their grandchildren. The teeth have to be sparkling like little pearls, so that's why children must brush their teeth. 🧚‍♀️ 🧚‍♀️

(I'm liking the idea of the tooth fairy 🧚‍♀️ getting London weighting! )

My little ones get £1 per tooth, we tell them that the tooth fairy magics the baby teeth into mouths of babies (yuk I know, 2nd hand teeth) this story started when friends baby got a new tooth when my daughters tooth fell out. If we don’t have coins in the house when the tooth falls out then a note is left for our little one saying the tooth fairy ran out of coins so transferred the £1 to mum or dads bank 🤣

having 4 close in age though means they all want sweets with the money so it always costs us to treat them on top of their sister buying sweets 😭

Brilliant