The Tooth Fairy

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How much she give these days? Coins, notes?

As a child I think I had a shiny 50 pence wrapped up in the tissue i’d put my tooth in to go under the pillow.

Do you leave anything else, what is your routine?

‘Does’ she give these days

It's all contactless nowadays.
So a small printed receipt is all that's needed, stapled to the pillow.

😂It wouldn’t surprise me

£2/£5 seems reasonable.

£1 is plenty imo.

£1 here. Was going to do 50p but it’s not a lot these days!

Our tooth fairy brings £1.
She frequently forgets and has to send a letter of apology the next day!

We gave dd £5 for her first tooth fairy visit because she lost 2 teeth in 1 day! It was going to be a £2 coin but we upped the ante a bit considered the two in one day first loss (at different times of the day!)

It'll be £1 per tooth now.

We did £5 for the first tooth then £1 thereafter.

Always £1 coin here.

50p / £1 and a little letter. Did give DD a £5 note when she had a very traumatic experience having a tooth pulled.

When they were young, I think we gave 50p!

Now my oldest is 13 and still losing teeth (he and his younger brother are quite late with the whole teeth falling out business!! still have several more teeth left to loose) it's gone up to about £2 or £3 depending on how broke I'm feeling and how many coins I have around the house, and how much he bargains with me!! ;)

£2 for first tooth and £1 for subsequent teeth. (Really hasn’t kept up with inflation but my children are happy enough with that!). Sometime leaves glitter and once a Baby bel wrapper which was confusing and attributed to the tooth mouse by my eldest child 🤣

My parents had us going for years. If we lost a tooth after 8pm we had to wait until the next day, as the TF was already out on her rounds. (I suspect they'd just run out of 20p's 😂 They also used to phone their number when they phoned the TF.

We had to do that a few times too!! ;)

@Toddlerteaplease Did your parents actually use the phone and pretend to speak to the tooth fairy?

I never believed in Santa, but I did believe in the tooth fairy for a while. I realised something was up when the 50p was delivered in two twenties, and a ten, as my mum never had 50p's.

@scalt yes.

My dad is the tooth fairy in our family. For me and my siblings and now for the grandchildren.

He puts a shiny £2 coin in a leaf with flowers and sparkly bits inside and ties it all up with wool or thread then writes a tiny note which he rolls around the stalk to say thank you and it's always signed by a different fairy 🤣

My now 19 year old stopped believing in santa at around 10 but we had to break it to her at 13 that the tooth fairy also wasn't real and she said that was more upsetting as it was the most magical thing from her childhood.

Picture of last week's delivery from snowdrop the fairy, for my 6 year old 😀

£5!!!

I might give DP that for a wisdom tooth extraction, but the tooth fairy in our house has a fuck-off mortgage to pay so a crappy baby tooth is never going to get more than a quid. (If she even remembers)

My DC always got £1 (eldest is 26 now, eeek).

I remember being on holiday when a tooth fell out, instant panic that TF wouldn't find DC and said tooth (already under the pillow, more panic that there wasn't an envelope to put the tooth in with a message to the TF saying thank you).

Whilst I was calming DC down, I managed to switch the tooth out with a coin whilst he was in bed. DC wanted to check tooth was still there, found the coin and swore for years that he saw the TF sparkle out of the window with his tooth.

That's how I caught on that she wasn't real!

That is so lovely!

Our tooth fairy pays by bank transfer, as she never has any cash.

That’s magical and so special.

My DC hasn’t lost any teeth yet but probably will soon, they are adamant the tooth fairy leaves them a chocolate coin. Will save some money.