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Tooth Fairy

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RaspberrySheep · 30/04/2008 06:57

Good Morning Everybody!
Was not sure whether to post this under this subject or 'legal / money matters', but as DS is disappointed with me, thought that 'Relationships' would be more suited.

DS(5)lost his first tooth yesterday, (a front one - he now looks and speaks completely differently - amazing what effect a small missing tooth can have!)

I told him that the tooth fairy should be along later and she would maybe leave him £1 under his pillow, to which he replied 'no mummy, my friends at school said the tooth fairy left them £5!!!!'

When I was little, the tooth fairy was generous to leave 50p to £1, which I was delighted with and it wasn't that long ago!!

So my question / survey is how much does the tooth fairy leave your DCs? I know she has to consider inflation and the cost of living is very expensive just now, which must be hitting her magic pocket a bit too, but personally I think £5 is a bit steep - considering how many other teeth DS has left to lose!!

DS woke up today and said 'She only left me £3'. He's disappointed with this and I don't want him to receive any less than his friends at school.

I'm off to work just now - have to be earning in case she is needed again soon! but will check back later.

Thank you, Raspberry x

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mankyscotslass · 30/04/2008 07:01

Round here the going rate for a tooth is £1 and the molars £2. DS lost his first two teeth last month, he swallowed one and was so upset that grandma had to write a special not to the tooth fairy explaining!
I choked even on the £1 per tooth, tbh. Talk about inflation!

NatalieJane · 30/04/2008 07:02

We always said first tooth £2, all the rest a pound, but second time he lost one she forgot to come () so she left him double what she'd left before to say sorry for being late...... so it turned out 1st one was £2, second one was £4, I think we will have to go with the £2 everytime now, else he is always going to get a bit deflated.

(3rd tooth is wibbly wobbly, and has been for about a month, it isn't coming out just yet though!)

minster · 30/04/2008 07:19

£1/go. I would never give more than that, it was 20p when I was a kid. £5 is insane.

My brother gives his kids £10 per tooth

mankyscotslass · 30/04/2008 07:21

HappyWoman · 30/04/2008 07:29

I suppose it depends if they get any other money.
Surely they should be able to get themselves a little 'gift' with the money. And the price of a magazine/book is really quite expensive.

Mine only get £1 but then they do get other money from grandparents so can put it with it to get something - they also get 'extra' money when doing chores.

Also dont forget that you dont have to pay for all the teeth - once they dont believe in the tooth fairy they dont get any money.

hanaflower · 30/04/2008 07:31

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Louise2004 · 30/04/2008 08:01

Ours get 20p per tooth (even after they know the truth about the Tooth Fairy). As hanaflower says, it's not about the money. We didn't get much as children ourselves either. Ours seem to like the excitement, rather than the amount itself, and they save it up with their pocket money. (Their weekly pocket money, by the way, is just £2 - much less than a £5 demand from the Tooth Fairy! - although they can get extra for chores etc. and we do buy them their favourite magazines.) Maybe we're just too strict in trying to teach them the value of saving and that money doesn't grow on trees...

OrmIrian · 30/04/2008 08:03

£1 per tooth. That's assuming that the useless tooth fairy doesn't forget

BalloonSlayer · 30/04/2008 11:12

Mine get £1.

One of them tried to tell me that the tooth fairy who visits one of their friends leaves £2. I just replied that unfortunately the tooth fairy who visits OUR house is a skinflint who only leaves £1 and they accepted this.

Also one of them said that a schoolmate had said when she left an acorn under her pillow and got a pound left !!! Needless to say - as we walked home past the biggest oak tree I have ever seen with a gazillion acorns underfoot - I remained adamant that the acorn fairy NEVER visits our house. What a shame, eh . . .

Buda · 30/04/2008 11:17

Toothfairy left 5 pounds here for first tooth . In my defence we were in London for weekend and it was on last night and I had deliberately spent all my coins so all I had left was a fiver. But he was thrilled and bought himself a toy black cab at the airport and still remembers that it was from the tooth fairy.

Second tooth - we were in Dublin so he got 2 Euros.

The others have been here in Budapest and he gets 200 forint which is about 70p.

titchy · 30/04/2008 11:25

£2 for the 1st one and £1 for subsequent ones here too. Tooth fairy always goes to granny's as well though to leave £1 if mummy doesn't accidentally on purpose forget to tell granny the news. (Don't know why that makes me so )

MaeWest · 30/04/2008 11:33

I used to get 20p per tooth, 50p for molars (tho it was purely symbolic by then ). £1 sounds fine to me, but then DS has only just got all his teeth so we're not dealing with this just yet...

I lost a tooth when we were on holiday in Germany once and was most impressed to get local currency under my pillow in the morning

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RaspberrySheep · 30/04/2008 19:26

Hey everybody
Thanks for your advice and stories! , I spoke to a couple of work colleagues today and the going rate here seems to be about £2 for a first tooth and £1 thereafter. I'm a bit by the inflation rates - don't think the tooth fairy will be buying a new pair of wings this year!
I still remember when my nan gave me 20p and told me to buy myself an icecream! Also a bit that it's all turned a bit materialistic these days i.e. how much am I getting rather than the excitement of the fairy visiting! x

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BalloonSlayer · 30/04/2008 21:14

Re the excitement . . . I made a cardboard drawing of a toothy fairy (looks a bit like Tony Blair!) holding a sign saying "I called to see you."

Each time I stick her somewhere different - causes great excitement. Probably more so than the money

mistressmiggins · 30/04/2008 21:58

I was going to pay 50p but unfortunately DS's tooth fell out and I only had £1.

So I have told DS that you get £1 for first tooth but after that it's 50p

he seems ok with this

Alambil · 30/04/2008 23:28

DS will be getting 50p or £1 - if he complains, the fairy will take it back!

cluttercup · 30/04/2008 23:34

For all tooth people - do children tend to lose lower teeth first? My DD has a wobbly upper front tooth ....and I put the tooth fairy on notice!

UnquietDad · 30/04/2008 23:50

Quid a tooth. Taxed at the 10p rate

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RaspberrySheep · 01/05/2008 07:53

Cluttercup, my DS's upper left front tooth was the first to fall out. I was a bit as I hadn't read up on my 'child rearing manual' and hadn't realised that they start to fall out at such a young age!! (I thought I was much older when it happened to me as a child), had a panic that he'd fallen or been eating too many sweets for a split second when he first showed me!!

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benbon · 01/05/2008 08:30

my daughter is only 4 so wasnt quite ready for her's to be falling out,
she lost her 2 bottom teeth on the same day so she got £2 a £1 per tooth

i think thats fair

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