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Oh dear... about an hour ago, my oldest (5 yo)said that his tooth was loose (my first notice)... and now it's out. 
I'm a tooth fairy kind of person... but.. I don't have a pillow.
So I guess it's a plastic bag.
And then... has inflation affected the tooth fairy? I grew up with a quarter a tooth and a dollar for the big ones...
Any other ideas?? For the money or the plastic bag?
I'm totally caught off guard! 
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That was fast! No time to fret over a dangly tooth they won't let you pull out or anything.
We have generally used an envelope for the tooth or a very small box with lid). And I'm still pretty cheap (but not consistent) - 50 cents to a dollar (the higher amount for those that we have wanted them to get out so they wouldn't have to be pulled).
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ooo.... small box with a lid! I have that! And that won't crinkle as it's pulled out from the pillow!!
Thanks Mary!!
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My 6yo lost his 2 bottom teeth last month. We put them in a small cardboard jewelry box.
The tooth fairy left $1/tooth. Our neighbor across the street gets $5/tooth, which is too rich for our tooth fairy! LOL
I wanted to leave the new gold dollar coins -- but was at the end of my pregnancy and neither DH nor I made it to the bank in time.
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Our tooth fairy always gives a dollar. For the first tooth the dollar often has fairy dust on it.(this is very exciting in the morning) I put glitter glue on my finger and just spread it thinly around. Any color is good.  
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Okay, I have two cute stories about the "Tooth Fairy." With our oldest ds, we always remembered--it was such a bit event! Well our youngest ds began to lose teeth, and we remembered for him as well.
Our only dd (what a princess she is), feeling left out decided it was time to put a tooth under her pillow. The "tooth" was one of those little beads you use to make the images and then iron together, right? Well, the Tooth Fairy had to leave a little note explaining that soon her "real" tooth would be there and to wait patiently. It was so sweet.
Not long after that she really did lose a tooth. And we usually remembered. But on one occassion, we FORGOT. Yes, the Tooth Fairy did not visit. Well, she placed the tooth under her pillow on the second night. But we FORGOT again. Okay, mom and dad, shape up.  On the third night, doubting that the Tooth Fairy would ever visit, she came. We left her a little extra money and a note explaining that the reason she was late was due to the recent ice storms--she had been unable to visit all the children, and then she had a backlog of kids to visit!
Avee loved the story, and believed it. Now, of course, she knows there is no Tooth Fairy, but she thinks that it is so cute that we were so creative. Aren't kids wonderful!
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We had someone try to pull a trick on the Tooth Fairy, too. The big girls each lost a tooth on the same day and dd#3 didn't want to be left out so she put a candy Nerd in the pillow along with their real teeth. The tooth-loosers got real cash....and the fake tooth got play money!
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Wow, we put the tooth under the pillow straight -- no special containers or pillows. My mom must have had quite a time finding that tooth!
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At least with the older kids she looked for the tooth! By the time it was my turn (kid #6), I don't remember the tooth fairy stories! The first teeth I lost when my mom wasn't here, and I couldn't understand why i had $2 in my bed the next day! My cousins must have thought me so silly.
Congrats to John Paul, Maryan!
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I always use envelopes. And kept it to .50 or .75 cents. Until last summer, when dd was at her cousin's, lost her tooth, and the Tooth Fairy brought her $5. She decided that they must have a nicer Tooth Fairy, so she wants to go there whenever she looses a tooth!
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envelopes.. it works so nicely.. because you put the tooth in one envelope and they tuck it under their pillow and then you put the money in a new envelope.. and just switch the envelopes 
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This happened to us with #3. She was complaining one morning about not having any loose teeth and then lost her first tooth taking a bite out of an apple at lunch.
This probably won't help you now, but we have never done the "under the pillow" thing because our children are very light sleepers.
I got little canvas bags to hang on the door and used fabric markers to write a little poem. It was a variation of a poem I saw in a gift shop on a little pillow.
Dear Tooth Fairy,
In this pocket you will find
a teensy tiny tooth of mine.
While I sleep with angels' aid,
I hope that you will make a trade.
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We give a small gift plus some money for the 1st one and then some coins after that if we remember! So far the 2 kids are quite cynical and not into pretending. The oldest was happy to play along for the money but dd refused to leave her teeth for the fairy! Not even for $5!
I have a feeling though that ds#2 will LOVE the tooth fairy and happily play along until we stop leaving money!
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Carole N. wrote:
| We left her a little extra money and a note explaining that the reason she was late was due to the recent ice storms--she had been unable to visit all the children, and then she had a backlog of kids to visit! |
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Oh my goodness, I LOVE it!! How funny!!
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We build a small altar on the kitchen table,(made from blocks), because the tooth fairy has a way of forgetting over here
So sad actually she never forgot for the older dc, now she just flies off to sleep!!!
She is also not consistent with her gifts, soemtimes money, sometimes a small tinket, or pack of gum!
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I remember mostly using a glass of water beside the bed. As we got older, I think it changed to a matchbox.
I do like Matilda's rhyme... I'll have to make a note of that for the future:-)
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We put ours in a little glass of water on the windowsill! You're the only other person I've heard of doing something similar.
My husband's family used the envelopes under the pillow, which is what we do here. The first tooth earns $2, and each later tooth is $1. I do know my nieces get $20 a tooth, which is just ridiculous!
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kingvozzo wrote:
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I had always thought it was what everyone did 
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Oh all these suggestions are great! Due to the short notice on the tooth's part, I just did the small box (I had a plethera of those but no envelopes???) -- however, my newly lost tooth boy spiked a fever of 104 last night!  So it was very hard to make the switch...in between doses of tylenol -- (the door bag is sounding very appealing for next go round!)
And then... due to dh's schedule and the fast disappearing tooth -- we didn't get to pow-wow on the whole tooth fairy business and ended up on very different pages about this whole event!! He told him fairies didn't exist! (It must be that title of "fairy" mixed with his boys that bothered him!)
So.. between delirious fevers and realistic dads -- my oldest was more confused than psyched about the money this morning. He wondered if the tooth melted and turned into a coin. And I was so stumped by the "tooth fairy" not existing, that I could only answer his questions with "Hmm... what do you think happened?"
And then, well... we're back from the doctors' office with a possible diagnosis for strep... which this time they decided to give him a prescription -- that cost $95??????!!!!!  -- despite a negative on the "quickie" test because all his symptoms seemed so "strep" like including ENORMOUS tonsils.... They don't usually medicate without a positive test -- and last time the medicine was surely under $20. I am SO not sure WHAT happened here. But I didn't have the brain to figure it out as I sat at the pharmacy drive thru. Live and learn for next time.
Thanks for the help! I hope the next tooth loss has more of a fairy tale ending and I get to use some of these great suggestions. This was all too realistic for me.
(okay, Im done...)
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Maryan wrote:
Oh all these suggestions are great! Due to the short notice on the tooth's part, I just did the small box (I had a plethera of those but no envelopes???) -- however, my newly lost tooth boy spiked a fever of 104 last night! So it was very hard to make the switch...in between doses of tylenol -- (the door bag is sounding very appealing for next go round!)
And then... due to dh's schedule and the fast disappearing tooth -- we didn't get to pow-wow on the whole tooth fairy business and ended up on very different pages about this whole event!! He told him fairies didn't exist! (It must be that title of "fairy" mixed with his boys that bothered him!) |
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My mother did the tooth fairy thing, which is surprising since we didn't do other things. We all caught on pretty quickly.
Perhaps Dan would prefer this approach. My cousins who lived on farms like your dh almost all their lives didn't have a tooth fairy. The "Tooth Rat" came by. The rat was more feasible in their minds, though. He could crawl all over through the labyrinth of rooms and shelves and such, carry the money in his teeth and exchange it for the tooth.
I was 6 or so when my cousins told me this story. As I abhor any kind of little rodents, I found this awful, and really longed to lose my tooth at home so my "fairy" could exchange.
I never imagined a small fairy, but a person. I don't know why.
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