The funny things kids say!

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lorihart

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I have a question...how much does the tooth fairy go for these days? She has started losing her teeth over the last few monthes.The first couple I gave her $5 for.Which I think is to much.Another tooth fell out on Friday so I put $4 under her pillow.Well...all day Saturday she couldn't get over what a cheap skate the tooth fairy was:D It was pretty funny actually.
I explained to her that you only get $5 for the big ones.She lost another tooth today.She wanted me to write a letter to the tooth fairy apologizing that she called her cheap!B/C I told her that the tooth fairy is listening and probably won't be back the next time.
Anyway..this tooth fairy,santa,easter bunny...the whole bit is costing me a fortune.Sorry if I burst anyones bubbble who thought these guys are still real!:eek: :7 :7 :7
Lori:)
 
> I have a question...how much does the tooth fairy go for
>these days?

Are kids so smart these days that tooth fairy rates must rise with the inflation of everything else!!

>...all day Saturday she couldn't get over what a
>cheap skate the tooth fairy was:D

I really am busting a gut right now - thanks for the good laugh, and sorry, no words of wisdom!
 
Our sons get a dollar for a tooth, though with the first tooth I think my dh splurged and gave at least the oldest a 5 dollar bill, but thereafter it was and still is a buck a tooth. Lot more than I ever got for a tooth. Inflation affects us all including the tooth fairy.:+ :7
 
LOL that is a funny story, My kids get two dollars from the tooth fairy but when they loose a tooth with a silver cap they think they should get two more dollars amounting to $4 LOL.
 
$1 per tooth is what the tooth fairy gives when she calls at our hosue, but sometimes she forgets and that was an eye opener for my girls when it first started happening. We looked at eachother and I launched into an explanation of how the poor overworked tooth fairy was one busy lady and she was sure to come the second night, or maybe she never received the vibes the fallen tooth was giving out? having seen how busy their own parents are, my two were abe to accept the tooth fairy as over taxed worker quite easily! Sure enough, she always remembers my girls the second night.... funny that.

Clare
 
I love it! I have 3 kids-16, 13, and 8. Since my dh started out giving the oldest son a 50 cent piece, that is also what the other boys received from the tooth fairy. Sounds cheap the kids were always excited. The kids would put the tooth in a sealed envelope, and dh would somehow get the tooth out and the 50 cent piece in without opening the envelope. To the kids, the tooth fairy is magic, taking a tooth and leaving money!
Thanks for sharing such a cute story.

Diana:)
 
My children get real silver dollars (1923) that were given to us by my husband's father. It's our way of passing these collector's items down to them. Of course we explain their value and make sure they don't spend any of them!
 
That is so funny! When she was younger, my niece decided that $2 was not enough and sat herself down and wrote a letter to the tooth fairy stating that in her opinion her tooth was worth $8! Negotiating with the tooth fairy!! She is just like her Dad, my brother, was when he was a kid. Always looking for an angle to make an extra buck. These kids are too funny!! :D
 
Maybe it's inflation, but I got a quarter from the tooth fairy! I do remember at one point getting a real dollar bill, but maybe I was hallucinating.

:) Stacy
 
LOL I have had the same dilemma with each of my older kids. Thankfully the oldest two have lost all their baby teeth. I usually gave a dollar per tooth. A couple of times the 'tooth fairy' forgot to pick up a tooth...she was exhausted or just plain old forgot :)so for each day the tooth was not picked up the kid got an extra dollar ...call it interest LOL

My youngest is now 5 years old and here we go again, I always took a photo of the lost 1st tooth for memories and gave them a bit extra with a note congratulating them and maybe I think 5 dollars for the 1st one, but after that if they would question it I always told them that if the tooth fairy gave a $5.00 bill she'd be broke and what about all those other kids?

LOL good luck and enjoy the illusion with your lil one, once they get into there teens you can't do it anymore, they become your accomplices for the youngest's sake
 
$5 a tooth?!? With the current inflation rates, how much would it be in about four years, when my son will start losing his baby teeth?

Right now, my boy is at a very difficult stage that everything is a struggle. It's very hard to make him do even the simplest of things. When he doesn't want to brush his teeth, I tell him that his teeth will rot and he'll end up looking like that Gollum/Smeagol character in Lord of the Rings. That scares him so much he'll open his mouth really wide.:)

Pinky
 
I'm glad I'm not the only one that uses scare tactics to get my kid to brush his teeth! Ha, ha! He's never seen the LOR though, I thought it might scare him.
I'm glad that this discussion has started I ahve only about 2 more years before mine will start to lose his, I need to know the going rate. Especially so the other kids in the neighborhood don't get too upset with what their tooth fairy is handing out!
I always got like .50 and a pack of carefree gum. But, my tooth fairy was a flake. She kept forgetting towards the end. Of course I knew that it was my parents by then, but they would forget for days a lot of the time. They did the same thing to my brother too, poor kid. By the time he started losing teeth the flakiness was well underway! Ha, ha! we're 6 years apart.

Kathy
 
We do that, too! We gave the one with the woman in the flowing robes, and my son thought she was a fairy, so these are now "fairy dollars!"

Shari
 
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