Tooth Fairy

I always based the amount on the childs age and how much I could spare. So much easier now with the Dollar stores. Heck I can remember once with my first child, I must been about 20-21, I didn't have anything extra and so I put a foodstamp under her pillow. She was little she didn't care, she knew she could get snacks with it. I just told her the ToothFairy was financially embaressed right now. Girl, give what you can, trust me they just care that soemthing is under there.

I always put 2 dollars along with a note from the toothfairy. The note is actually what they look forward to the most. I have been doing that since my oldest lost his first tooth. The "toothfairy" always explains in her notes which part of her castle their tooth will be used to build it (they believe that she builds her castle with all of the teeth that she gets). 10 or 20 dollars for a lost tooth is a little over the top, in my opinion. If I would have received that much when I was a kid, I would have been pulling my teeth out like crazy!

I give them a dime per age....and that's all I'm saying!LOL

i put 1.00 under the pillow. the kids are ok with it. my oldest just sells me the teeth she is 12 and knows there is not a fairty that keeps teeth. she humors her sister though thank goodness. i remeber when i was little and all the kid talking about what they got i use to wish i was them. we got a nickle if someone remembered that we lost a tooth. all the other kids got was 25-50 cents.

We do not actually play the toothfairy game at our house - however, the children bring their tooth to me for inspection, and if it was a very well taken care of tooth I offer to buy it from them. it may be worth $1 or $1.50 if it is a bicuspid, if it is a molar in very good condition it may warrant up to $3. The teeth are kept for them to decide what they want to do with them when they are older.

The Toothfairy here left $5.00 for my daughter's first tooth but only because it had to be pulled by the dentist. The extra trauma made me dig out the bigger amount. Her front top & bottom teeth were coming in but from in behind the baby teeth instead of under them. Her baby tooth was still firmly in place while the new tooth was nearly halfway in, so I had the dentist remove the baby tooth so the new tooth could come in straight. All teeth after that one got between 50 cents and a dollar, depending on how much trouble it was to remove.

My kids haven't lost any teeth yet, but my sister usually puts a few dollars under their pillow. I haven't heard of 10s and 20s, but I have heard of some people even giving little gifts instead of money. I think I will do the money thing, though...it's more traditional and that is how I was brought up. But, I--like you--will only give a couple of dollars and that's it. At this age, that's all they need. 10s are 20s are WAY excessive, in my opinion.

Interesting, interesting. I have heard about tooth fairies but we don't do such things in Singapore. It is just not popular. Santa Claus might be a bit more popular but then again, we don't have chimneys here. :P So sorry, my friend, I don't know the market rate. :PP