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Well, for one thing, most folks aren't in a position to just be tossing $20 to very young children simply for the convenience factor.
TTF was often very busy and thus took more than one night to get to our house as well.
I didn't say I give $20 per tooth. Heck no. I'm just thinking why someone would be inclined to do that. All of my kids lost several teeth close together...they would be rollin in the dough pretty quickly.
My son lost his baby teeth very young and got his adult set in. He would have made a load of month before he knew what money was.
It's funny about the coins. 90% of the time the kids just through the coins the tooth fairy brings back into the family coin jar where it came from. Every once in a while we go to coin star and use the money for a movie or something.
The tooth fairy last visited our house about 6 years ago. The tooth fairy gave between $.50 and $.75, and very occasionally $1. My oldest son figured out the "pattern" to the money (something like $.50 for the first year or two, and then $.75...). I had no idea he was paying attention. I sure wasn't, and it was really random.
I got $.25 in the 70s, so I didn't raise that bar a lot
I had a friend in college who said the tooth fairy "gifted" with a box of ALL her teeth (set up in a way that it looked like a full mouth somehow, not sure if it was glued or the box was conducive to setting it up that way). That seemed really bizarre to me.
I knew a lady who kept all her kids baby teeth in a box on her nightstand. I am grossed out by teeth. I mean, no matter how well jr brushes they are still covered with plaque and bacteria. I don't want to touch them let alone save them
I remember getting a dime when I was a kid. That was the price of the ice cream cones at my school's cafeteria, so I was happy.
We paid $1.00 for the first tooth, $.25 after that. Small change for those baby teeth. The real money was what we paid for wisdom teeth removal. Too bad for the kids that all went to the oral surgeon.
It was never anything I felt rated competition among parents, that's for certain. As MacieMom said, just a cute tradition.
No kidding about the oral surgeon, I paid close to $3000 to have my daughter's wisdom teeth removed. Anyway, we paid $1 per tooth but that was back in the 90s. When my little one loses her teeth I'll probably give her $2 a tooth. I'm not giving a kid $20 unless it's a holiday or they do some hard labor for it.
I never got $$ from the tooth fairy. However, I've heard decades ago, it was a quarter. I guess due to inflation? However, if kids don't have enough $$, I'd just give them extra $$ on the side, celebrating the tooth coming out, rather than masquerading it with a tooth fairy.
We give $10 for the first tooth and $5 for each tooth thereafter. BUT my kids get $20 per tooth that they lose at their grandparents house because I like to mess with my dad and he didn't dispute it when we said it, so now he's stuck.
I don't see any of this as "ruining it" for anyone else. That's like getting mad at another parent for giving their kids more expensive gifts from Santa. They clearly aren't doing it to affect anyone outside of their own family.
We give $10 for the first tooth and $5 for each tooth thereafter. BUT my kids get $20 per tooth that they lose at their grandparents house because I like to mess with my dad and he didn't dispute it when we said it, so now he's stuck.
I don't see any of this as "ruining it" for anyone else. That's like getting mad at another parent for giving their kids more expensive gifts from Santa. They clearly aren't doing it to affect anyone outside of their own family.
To me, $1 is a fun tradition. $20 is just unnecessary. What about a tooth falling out warrants a gift that large? I'd rather give them money for allowance and teach them how to save up.
sounds like the kids are unionizing to get a rate they can actually do something with. my son usually got $5
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However, if kids don't have enough $$, I'd just give them extra $$ on the side, celebrating the tooth coming out, rather than masquerading it with a tooth fairy.
