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The Tooth Fairy

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Chipsgravyandcheese1994 · 13/03/2025 22:02

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?

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spiderlight · 13/03/2025 23:30

@Sassy306that is absolutely lovely!

The tooth fairy always left a £2 coin here.

MsJuniper · 13/03/2025 23:33

Ours leaves £1 but we have found out that is well under the going rate amongst her peers! A coin seems more of a fair exchange for a tooth than paper money though. Perhaps we could encourage her to find some £2 coins.

I used to get 10p for a tooth, 50p for a molar I think.

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 13/03/2025 23:39

We gave our ds5 special edition royal mint £5 coin for his first two teeth but those were pulled out and he was really brave having it done without a GA.
Next lot will be £1 I think

AliceMcK · 13/03/2025 23:40

£2 here. Gets given in a little organza bag with shiny confetti, I know I know but I was drunk the first time and had to keep it up.

Favouritefruits · 14/03/2025 00:02

the tooth fairy brings various amounts depending on what she has in her purse, 50p, £1 or if very lucky £2

scalt · 14/03/2025 07:36

I know somebody who does the tooth fairy differently, and makes the tooth fairy talk to her children; but like Roald Dahl's the BFG, the fairy does not want to be seen (or she might replace the child with a changeling); so after they have put the tooth under the pillow, and the child is sitting up in bed, she covers their eyes with a magic mask (a funny sleeping mask from Claire's Accessories, which they love), and stealthily swaps the tooth for the money, while the child can't see.😄The child has to lie down for a few minutes while soft music is played, and then the fairy talks to the child, in a disguised fairy voice, asks them what they would like to dream about, and reminds the child of the importance of cleaning teeth. She uses a hand-held fan to make the feel of air coming from the fairy's wings, and tells their child to keep their mask on for a few minutes while the fairy leaves the room. The children have probably worked out that it's pretend, but they always play along. She says they like this more than Santa!

Oddsocksanduglyshoes · 14/03/2025 07:38

When my baby was born my mum gave me a little bag with £28 in £1 coins as she remembered never being able to find a £1 when we’d lost a tooth so we’d always have one to hand :)

Nottogetapenny · 14/03/2025 07:54

The tooth fairy left my children and now my grandchildren “fairy money” an old silver sixpence. I have quite a few, that I have given to their parent to continue this tradition The “fairy money” is then changed for money they can spend.

Januaryiscoldandfrosty · 14/03/2025 12:29

@Sassy306 @Nottogetapenny @scalt

What adorable ways to have the tooth fairy visit. All different, but equally lovely and magical 💛

BarnacleBeasley · 14/03/2025 12:36

I used to get £1 so by rights it ought to be at least £2.50 by now, taking inflation into account, but I think DS will still be getting £1. I never actually believed, so I used to just get the tooth fairy to hand it straight over.

minimadgirl · 14/03/2025 12:36

Tooth fairy visited last week for the first time with £1. But only as my daughter was very insistent that they bring gold coins and the tooth fairy had run out of £2 coins.
However she left behind a lovely tooth fairy cuddly toy with a knitted bag with my daughter's initial on it, that she can put any further lost teeth in.

nutbrownhare15 · 14/03/2025 12:37

£1 coin here in a little organza bag

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