Playing tooth fairy isn't easy
By SomeCowgirl
@SomeCowgirl (32189)
United States
August 4, 2012 12:05am CST
My grandmother came in the room and asked me to put money under my nephew's pillow. He's spending the night with us and lost a tooth. My sister's price as being tooth fairy is that she gives them $5.00. Dang we got like a quarter or a dollar, maybe two dollars growing up. $5.00 is a lot of money for just a tooth.
So she wanted me go and sneak and put the money under his pillow. I whispered back and forth with her "did you take the tooth?" of course she's getting hard of hearing. "what?" she whispers back shaking her head and shrugging. So I walk over to her and whisper again, nope still didn't hear me. So I did it once more and she heard me, apparently she didn't get the tooth.
I go inch over (it's crowded so I can only be so quiet). The little rascal is wide awake. I hide the money really fast and make up something like "oh I wanted to see if you were asleep." He says he was playing a prank on granny.
Well... I wonder now if he knows the tooth fairy isn't real, or if he heard us? he's hard of hearing like I am... so I'm hoping he didn't hear.
Playing Tooth Fairy isn't easy.
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6 responses
@ElusiveButterfly (45941)
• United States
4 Aug 12
My kids were pulling their loose teeth left and right when they realized they got a quarter for every tooth. If they got $5 for a tooth they would have been toothless.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45941)
• United States
5 Aug 12
Maybe for the city, but the country tooth fairy would leave less!
@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
4 Aug 12
I wouldn't blame them. I mean $5.00 is a big amount of money! I can hardly believe that's the tooth fairy's price!
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@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
8 Aug 12
I grew up in the suburbs though my family is originally from the mountains. The tooh fairy's price for us was a quarter, maybe one or two dollars.. never five.
@trantukhoa113 (149)
• Vietnam
4 Aug 12
Hahaha.
Your story is so funny. Play with children is always very tired. Especially you try to trick their.
But alway, when he grow up, he will find out the truth and then, you never need to do something like that again.
Do you admit that althought tired and hard, but this thing is very funny?
@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
4 Aug 12
I suppose you could say it's funny. He is almost old enough to not believe in it anymore so he may not and just playing it up to keep getting the money. It's funny he was trying to trick granny but acting asleep, but I hate it if he heard us and it broke his spirit with the tooth Fairy.
@trantukhoa113 (149)
• Vietnam
4 Aug 12
Oh really? If that's true, your brother is so smart.
Hahaha...
You are a elder sister, so you have to show him who you are!
@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
4 Aug 12
NEPHEW...
I know relations are different in other countries.
A nephew in the USA is a sister or brother's child. In this case he is my sister's child..
I am his aunt, he is my nephew.
@wilsongoddard (7291)
• United States
7 Aug 12
He may already know that the Tooth Fairy is not real, or, at least, have some serious doubts. At any rate, he still is going along with it. At $5 per tooth, he has some incentive to continue doing so.
In 2011, the U.S. national average for a lost tooth was $2.10. So, the Tooth Fairy is being pretty generous when she drops by for your nephew. 
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@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
8 Aug 12
I didn't know that fact, pretty interesting. Well I was concerned myself but the next morning he asked why the tooth wasn't gone and I explained to him that when I left the room (I was using the computer in the room he sleeps in) he was laying in such a way that the tooth fairy may not have been able to grab it, but that I am sure she will eventually..
He didn't seem to have any doubts, either that or he was playing it very smoothly.
@cynthiann (18612)
• Jamaica
4 Aug 12
If I was going to get five US dollars for losing a tooth then I would pretend to,believe in the tooth fairy even if I didn't. That is a lot of money. One lucky boy!
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@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
4 Aug 12
Very lucky boy! I couldn't grab his tooth and he ended up asking about it this morning. So I had to tell him when I left the room (there's a computer in here so I was in here when he was falling asleep) that he was laying in such a way it wouldn't surprise me if the tooth fairy couldn't grab the tooth... But that I bet she'll be back soon to get it lol
Five dollars is very lucky.
@jaiho2009 (39140)
• Philippines
4 Aug 12
A mylotter always play as tooth fairy for her kids :p
I remember my aunt who plays santa claus when I was a kid.
I use to believe in santa (guess kids are) and I am also one of those who hangs my socks on X-mas eve.
Then, one time I caught my aunt trying to fill every socks with gifts...hehehe.
I was laughing with her reaction- but she's too smart to trick me again
telling me that santa is on a rush that he can't stay long so he handed all the gifts to my aunt 
Anyway, I hope your nephew didn't hear you talking with grandma 
Anyway, I hope your nephew didn't hear you talking with grandma @SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
4 Aug 12
I was already planning what to say if he asked. I'd say "Oh the tooth fairy had to run but gave me the money and told me to leave the tooth for her in a special place where she'd find it later when she came back by"...
I don't remember exactly how I found out Santa wasn't real, I think it had to do with me waking up and hearing my dad make noise on the roof to make me think it was reindoor hooves but I somehow realized it wasn't...
I remember going out of my room asking what the noise was as I was frightened instead that year of being intrigued...
To catch Santa Auntie in the act, oh my! lol.
@savagecabbage (1216)
• Philippines
8 Aug 12
Aww that is really cute! I like it that you guys are playing the tooth fairy. My mom once played this too :) I found out that the tooth fairy was not real when one day I put my tooth underneath my pillow then on the next day, my tooth was still there. I did not get any money since my mom did not know my tooth fell out. LOL. Actually 5 dollars is really big for a tooth!
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@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
8 Aug 12
I think that that may have been how I found out. I think one year I didn't tell anyone as I assumed the tooth fairy already knew, and then when I didn't get any money and cried the next day over it they finally broke the news to me. I don't think I was too terribly broken up about it after finding out though.
$5.00 is quite a bit and definitely to "rich" for my blood. I didn't have to fork out the cash though i would have if I had it and nobody else had. I don't normally carry cash on me though.
