Tooth Fairy

[geeteebee]

My 5 year old just lost his first tooth today. I was thinking the tooth fairy may show up with a 5 spot tonight. Is that market for a first tooth? How about for subsequent teeth?

[yo mama]

My 5 year old just lost his first tooth today. I was thinking the tooth fairy may show up with a 5 spot tonight. Is that market for a first tooth? How about for subsequent teeth?

Great question. (Not that I have an answer).

[Savage Beatings]

Don't set a precendent that you don't intend to keep following with each subsequent tooth. I can't imagine a 5 year old would need more than $1 for a tooth.

[fingfootball]

Don't know why I remembered this thread.

 

http://forums.thehuddle.com/index.php?show...;hl=tooth+fairy

[whomper]

For the first tooth we give the kid a magic dollar. The magic dollar can get the kid a toy (within reason) at Toys R Us.

Edited June 26, 2008 by whomper

[Double Agent]

I think a dollar will always be the going rate. They won't know the difference.

[muck]

First tooth = Gold dollar coin (or maybe two dollar bill)

 

All others = quarter

Edited June 26, 2008 by muck

[HowboutthemCowboys]

First tooth = Gold dollar coin (or maybe two dollar bill)

 

All others = quarter

A quarter?

 

The tooth fairy that comes to our house only carries paper. They're only young once fellas...

 

spell edit

Edited June 26, 2008 by HowboutthemCowboys

[Azazello1313]

I'd go with the varieties of money you don't see every day....silver dollars, two dollar bills, etc. maybe even some foreign currency, that could make for some fun.

[SheikYerbuti]

I'd go with the varieties of money you don't see every day....silver dollars, two dollar bills, etc. maybe even some foreign currency, that could make for some fun.

 

How about stock options?

[Perchoutofwater]

I like the idea of using obscure currency. I personally would say $1, but my wife says $5 so the kids get $5. I don't agree with it, but you have to pick your battles.

[millerx]

I'd go with the varieties of money you don't see every day....silver dollars, two dollar bills, etc. maybe even some foreign currency, that could make for some fun.

 

 

I like the idea of using obscure currency. I personally would say $1, but my wife says $5 so the kids get $5. I don't agree with it, but you have to pick your battles.

I grew up with the 50 cent piece(or half dollar) and if it was a difficult one, that I had a hard time with, it was the silver dollar coin. I use to hoard those and would not spend them because they were so special to me. I still have most of them. I will be passing the same exact pieces onto my daughter. Who knows, if she winds up doing the same, someday they may become even more valuable, passing form generation to generation.

[Hat Trick]

First tooth = Gold dollar coin (or maybe two dollar bill)

 

Our sons first one was a two dollar bill, then we switched over to the gold dollar coins for the rest of them.

[Grits and Shins]

My kids got $5 for their first and $2 thereafter.

 

i The Tooth Fairy always paid in "special money"; i.e. $2 bills, $1 coins, .50 pieces. The kids especially enjoyed recieving the "special money".

[TheShiznit]

I like the idea of using obscure currency. I personally would say $1, but my wife says $5 so the kids get $5. I don't agree with it, but you have to pick your battles.

 

Stuck in same boat....are we taking on water?

[H8tank]

$5, it goes into the disney jar fund.

[tonyr0802]

We do about $2.

 

For the parents of older kids, how did you handle the last baby tooth to fall out? Did you place a special premium on it like some do for the first tooth?

[Perchoutofwater]

We do about $2.

 

For the parents of older kids, how did you handle the last baby tooth to fall out? Did you place a special premium on it like some do for the first tooth?

 

By the time their last tooth falls out, hopefully they are smart enough to know the tooth fairy is not real, so they don't get anything.

[Double Agent]

Should you give more money to Arkansas kids since they have less teeth to lose?

[i_am_the_swammi]

My kids got $5 for their first and $2 thereafter.

 

Exactly what we do.

 

Should you give more money to Arkansas kids since they have less teeth to lose?

 

perhaps the only state in the nation where the tooth fairy visits more adults than children

[Marauders11]

We do at least $5 per tooth, sometimes $10- my kids are saavy, $1 isn't getting them anything in this day and age- if the TF visits at least they can go buy something afterwards.

[Hat Trick]

I grew up with the 50 cent piece(or half dollar) and if it was a difficult one, that I had a hard time with, it was the silver dollar coin. I use to hoard those and would not spend them because they were so special to me. I still have most of them. I will be passing the same exact pieces onto my daughter. Who knows, if she winds up doing the same, someday they may become even more valuable, passing form generation to generation.

 

 

We do at least $5 per tooth, sometimes $10- my kids are saavy, $1 isn't getting them anything in this day and age- if the TF visits at least they can go buy something afterwards.

 

Yeah, well I think the monies should be something they remember such as the idea from above. All the $2 bills and gold dollar coins go in the safe at the bank and someday that will mean a lot more than a sno cone from the ice cream man. Not to say want you do is wrong, just my opinion.

[tonyr0802]

By the time their last tooth falls out, hopefully they are smart enough to know the tooth fairy is not real, so they don't get anything.

 

That or they're smart enough to milk it out and not own up to knowing

[TheShiznit]

Should you give more money to Arkansas kids since they have less teeth to lose?

[idahov]

We did $5.00 for the first and $1 or $2 for subsequent teeth. We forgot a couple of times and and to up the ante to $5.00 since the tooth fairly blew it and felt bad.