What's the going rate from the tooth fairy at your house?

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Believe it or not, there are parents at my kids' school who give $20 per tooth! $5 - $10 per tooth seems to be the average.

I give a $1 coin and now feel like a cheapskate. But too bad, kiddos, I'm not paying top dollar for your old bloody teeth.

How about you?
 

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It's $5 in this house. We're almost at the end. My son just turned 12. He just lost 3 or 4 the last few weeks. I think he only has 1 or 2 left to go?
 

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Man. Maybe I AM a cheapskate. Is this in my future?:

Naomi: "Remember when mom used to only give us a DOLLAR for our teeth?"
Charlotte: "Yeah, I always thought the tooth fairly hated us, when really it was just HER BEING CHEAP!"
 
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I used to get about 50p a tooth. Sometimes they'd fall out themselves, without my mother having to punch me first.
 

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One dollar?.......One dollar? Boy. Talk about cheap. I would think that in today's market for wonderful, tiny teeth that a fiver would be in order. ($5.00) I mean...what with inflation and all. ;)
 

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My daughter's first tooth fell out just the other day. We gave her $2. She was happy with that. No way I'm goin' any higher!

but my son's into mutual funds. It's all good. I don't mind giving more...he doesn't spend it.
 

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I have a little jar with my daughter's teeth in it. But really, what for? It's kind of gross.


I have a little wooden ring box with yin and yang carved in it. Inside it are my Golden Retriever's baby teeth. It was hard to collect them. I will cherish them forever...even if it is kinda gross.

It's on my mantle.
 

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My mom only paid me off when my brother took a tooth by force. Otherwise, I got a big goose egg.

Then again, we never had any of that tooth fairy, santa claus, easter bunny talk in my house growing up.
 

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What about the potty fairy?


Yes...the potty fairy brought a bar of soap and stuffed it into our mouths every time we dropped the F Bomb. Oh how I loved the potty fairy.
 

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$2 to $5, depending on size. Tipping is considered if the removal technique is particularly brave, entertaining, or unexpectedly painful.

Wisdom teeth, however, will certainly go much higher than that.

Yes, we have all our kids' teeth, each in it's own ziplock, dated and annotated. Living with a scientist is sorta weird sometimes.
 

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You are the weakest link.
I actually have a smiley for that...
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Alright! You all have shamed me! I'm bumping it up to $5/1st tooth, $2 after that.
 

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We did $5 for the first tooth, $2 for the others (my daughter's in the hockey player stage now). I have them in individual dated envelopes tucked into her brother's baby book (she'll never look there).

As for wisdom teeth, I was in my 20s when they came out - and I never got one red cent (though for some odd reason the oral surgeon gave them to me, and for some even weirder reason, I still have them.) - someone owes me for those - I had all four out at the same time! :D