Question For The Tooth Fairies

[phleb]

What kind of things have you put under the pillows for the kids? My hubby puts a tenner for the first tooth and then we put pound or two for each of the rest.

[yogi-bear]

For our four children a pound each tooth usually when young but tooth fairy raised up to two pounds per chomper a few years ago.

Inflation you see.

[EcclesCake]

£10 strikes me as being OTT but if it is going in the child's savings account/piggy bank it is kind of irrelevant as the child is far two young to appreciate the money.

I received 10p and I think my friends children receive a coin, either £1 or £2.

[rockyracoon]

I used to put £1. I forgot one night and daughter was very upset so I told her the fairies didn't work on a Wednesday, she'd never put a tooth under her pillow on that day again.

[tamborine]

Everyone knows real fairies dont have notes as paper would rot in their nests.

Fairies most treasured coin is the gold & silver £2, only the queen fairy has full sovereigns and fairy princesses have half sovs for their palace.

[snags]

''a silver coin (well, silver-coloured) is quite enough''

Preferably one of those chocolate foil coins... enough of them and there won't be any teeth left to fork out for in the future ;-p

[jno]

don't forget the ethical issues

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[Dee Sa]

I remember when I lived in Dubai in the 80s, parents ringing round the expat community trying to find English coins to put under pillows as the tooth fairy could not be Arabic could she ? I bet her little arms ached carrying the coins all that way from UK !

[sherrardk]

£1 a tooth, a note from the tooth fairy and £1 for a swallowed tooth, and £5 for one tooth lost through natural causes and one knocked out in the same day. Thing 1 is still desperately waiting to lose her first tooth and thing 2 has only lost two (despite already having all of his adult back teeth). This tooth thing has cost the tooth fairy a bleeding fortune.

[pixie373]

£1 a tooth here too. Apparently, my mum was going to give me 10p a tooth - but i told her my best friend got 5p, so she thought she'd better do the same :-(

[Jeza]

When I was a kid it was 6d for the 1st tooth and that was it. Nothing for subsequent teeth.

[phleb]

Interesting views from you all. x