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Danas15146
Member
03-31-2004
| Friday, October 22, 2004 - 9:50 am
Justin just lost his first. What is the going rate these days? I am sure it is higher than the 50 cents that I used to get
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, October 22, 2004 - 11:14 am
My kids got a $2 bill for the first tooth, then $1 coins for the others.
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Friday, October 22, 2004 - 11:24 am
My nieces and nephews used to get a dollar coin for each of their teeth, that is until the first one was lost at Aunty T's house. hehehehehehehe That one got a $5 bill, and when questioned Aunty T said "Well I think I read on the internet that the tooth fair just got a raise yesterday, and all teeth are $5 each." Since my husband's sister, niece, and nephew [the 3 with the kids] are all so for letting them believe in the Tooth Fairy, Santa, Easter Bunny, they had to fall in line and start forking out $5 bills because they couldn't figure out how to explain the Tooth Fairy paying more at Uncle J & Aunt T's house than their's. Evil - only to the parents. I don't have kids and don't get to see my stepkids very often, so gotta spoil the ones I can, right?
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, October 22, 2004 - 11:30 am
I would have made you pay the $$! LOL
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Friday, October 22, 2004 - 11:51 am
They tried. Told them to just tell them I was the one that paid the $5 not the Tooth Fairy, but they were afraid of their little ones missing out on the fun. Funny thing is, my SIL's kids already know there is no Santa, EB, TF, etc., and talked to me about it, asking why mom was pretending. I just asked them why they thought their mom was still pretending, they said cuz she doesn't want us to grow up. I said exactly! I also let them know the TF and EB might quit visiting if mom found out they knew the truth. HEHEHEHEHE. I think SIL knows the almost 9 year old knows the truth, but thinks the 7 & 6 year old are still believers so doesn't want to "ruin" it for them. And before anybody says it's wrong for the kids to be "lying" to their mom, isn't the mom "lying" to the kids about these characters existing in the first place?
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Friday, October 22, 2004 - 12:04 pm
Miss Sarah gets $1 bill if the tooth falls out, $2.00 if daddy pulls it out and there's trauma involved. She also gets a gold $1.00 coin to save. She has eight $1.00 gold coins now. I'm not a good one to ask about the "lying" aspect of it. Miss Sarah believes that Santa, The Easter Bunny, The Tooth Fairy and I are all. She has proof positive that I'm great friends with the real SpongeBobSquarePants. NO clue what we're going to do when she figures things out but I'll cross that bridge when it comes.
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Friday, October 22, 2004 - 12:21 pm
sounds like the tooth fairy in Canada is paying around the same. 1st tooth dd lost was paid $2.00 (after leaving a note to the toothfairy because it went missing during a grilled cheeze lunch It has been $1 for each tooth afterwards.
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Danas15146
Member
03-31-2004
| Friday, October 22, 2004 - 12:29 pm
I was thinking $2 for the first and probably $1 for the others -- sounds like I am thinking around the right amount.
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Friday, October 22, 2004 - 12:30 pm
I didn't mean anything about the "lying" comment except I was told once that I was helping these children in "lying" to their mom. To me them not admitting they know the truth is no more a lie than Mom letting them think there is one. I guess I just got defensive before I really needed to. *L* My youngest stepdaughter lost a tooth at our house last year. Since it's the only tooth lost from any of the kids while staying with us, I put 2 $5 bills under her pillow, hoping for the best, and I got it. When she woke up and found the bills, she told me "Since the Tooth Fairy gave me $10, is it ok to give sis 1/2 of it?" I'm not a mom, but $2 for the first, and $1 there after sounds good. Unless of course it's my neices and nephews. Then the Tooth Fairy needs a major raise.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Friday, October 22, 2004 - 1:47 pm
I never was a big toothfairy believer. I always phrased it that "Toothfairy [insert mom's last name] came". Then again, I also got up one night and sat on the stairs spying on my mom as she hid candy around the house one night before Easter. I used a sleepy voice and asked her what that "clicking" noise was to see what she would say (it was the candy being set down). She tried to play it off, then I confronted her the next day and told her I watched her doing it. She tried to say she was "helping" the Easter bunny. Then at Christmas I knew it was her and whatever other adults were around for Christmas that year placing the presents so instead of leaving milk and cookings I'd grab some chips, salsa, a few beers- whatever I figured they'd want and set that out instead. My mom never was much for lying- instead of lying she just wouldn't say one way or another then she'd say stuff like with the Easter bunny thing- a lie but a really unconvincing one. Maybe I was too logical ever to be a kid like that 
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Emmy
Member
05-05-2004
| Friday, October 22, 2004 - 10:39 pm
Big coins that jingle together are the best - doesn't matter how much it adds up to, just pretty, shiny and jingly is the most fun. My Sarah likes to write notes to the tooth fairy and looks forward more to the answers of those notes than to how much $ there is. She's always known it's me and we have fun together playing it up.
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Graceunderfyre
Member
01-22-2004
| Saturday, October 23, 2004 - 11:11 am
The kids at YMCA get between $.50 and $2. . .some got $5 for their first ones. I remember writing the Tooth Fairy a note asking for $.50 and I even went so far to trace a quarter twice to show her what size they should be. My mom showed it to me once a few years ago, she keeps it with her favorite artwork from her kids.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, October 23, 2004 - 1:56 pm
My 9 yr old hasnt lost a tooth in a long time...how old are they when they loose the last ones?
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Saturday, October 23, 2004 - 3:16 pm
Depends if they brush them. 
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Jmm
Member
08-16-2002
| Saturday, October 23, 2004 - 3:20 pm
LOL Julie. Pamy, They have 12 year molars, lost sometime between probably 10 and 13. These don't seem to bother them a whole lot because they're so far back they can't easily play with the loose tooth and bruise the gums.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, October 23, 2004 - 3:22 pm
lol Julie! Thanks Jmm!!!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, October 23, 2004 - 3:25 pm
My kids got $5 for the very first tooth and $1 every tooth after that. It's funny that they never questioned the price difference after the first one.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Saturday, October 23, 2004 - 4:14 pm
my holly had surgery when she was 6 and had her 6 front teeth removed. she had full anasthesia and was pretty drugged. that night i (in the tooth fairy disguise - i used to dress up with the wings and the wand etc. - just in case i got caught) put $6 under her pillow. $1 for each tooth. she got up that morning and was crying. she showed us her 6 silver dollars. she said - with a little lisp (due to the removal for all the teeth) - "for all i went through i should have at least got 20 bucks! the rest of holly's baby teeth were pulled and for each subsequent tooth, we gave her $5
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, October 23, 2004 - 4:34 pm
Dylan tricked me one year, he put his tooth under pillow at bedtime..I went in to put the money that nite, couldnt find the tooth, figured it feel under bed with all his tossing..so I put the money under pillow and planned to hunt under bed after he went to school.....that morning he came running down with the money AND the tooth!!!!! He HID it!!!!!!! and planned to put it under there the next night for double the money!!!! LOL I told him that was dishonest and made him write a note to the Fairy saying sorry....he did, she wrote, Thanks for your honesty on his note and took the tooth.......the next day he was happy to see the note and now we put his teeth in a PLASTIC BAGGIE!!! LOL
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Saturday, October 23, 2004 - 5:28 pm
When I was a kid we put our teeth a glass of water on the kitchen table. When we got up there'd be no teeth and a quarter or two. Don't think it was Mom being lazy, just my brother used to thrash around alot and she could never find his tooth, so that's when the tooth fairy said she preferred the tooth in a glass of water because Dock [our dog at that time] was too protective of my brother. When I came along that's just the way it always was so I never questioned it.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, October 23, 2004 - 6:15 pm
LOL Great story!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Saturday, October 23, 2004 - 9:06 pm
I just have to add my lil' story, too. DS was barely 5 when his first tooth came out -- he didn't even know it was gone! By the fourth or fifth tooth, the TF was getting a bit "slow" in replacing the teeth w/ $, and DS questioned me. The only background information that is needed is that DS and I visited Sam's Club (midwest version of Cosco's) and he had sat on Santa's lap there. DS: Are you sure there is a TF? ME: Of course! DS: How do you know? ME: I read it in my book. (I'm a huge reader - English teacher, so he knew I'd read a ton about rearing children). It was right after the chapter on Santa Clause. DS: Oh, Ok. Then I KNOW it's for real -- I met Santa at Sam's! DS is 9 this year, and he still questions me about Santa. Many of his friends have tried to convince him there isn't one, but his beloved principal says he still believes AND mom here was wise enough one year to get a Santa costume and videotape DH in it bringing the presents! DS wants to believe, and his principal keeps telling him Santa is real, so I *think* I've got him for another year at least.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, October 23, 2004 - 9:12 pm
Great story!!! I have told Dylan if he believes then they come...if he stops believing they don't come......HE BELIEVES!!!! LOL ...my mom did the same to me and I believed thru my 30's!
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Eazyeast
Member
09-01-2004
| Tuesday, November 02, 2004 - 7:09 am
dd gets 10 bucks a tooth. Mostly only because she doesnt get an allowance and she saves every penny she ever gets do I know she wont go blow the money. About a month ago she lost a tooth and I slipped her a 10 under her pillow while I thought she was sleeping.She came out of her room 5 minutes later and said "dad you need to fork over another 10" she pulled another one out right after I gave her the money.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, November 02, 2004 - 8:01 am
WOW!!!! my kids don't get an allowance either, I won't let them see this post!!!!!!!! LOL
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