I’ve known for a good long time that my parents were the ones responsible for swapping out my teeth for dollar bills. The one thing I don’t get is how Mom could move me, the pillow and the tooth without waking me. I’m a light sleeper and had trouble sleeping when I was small. It seems like all this movement would have disturbed me, but I never woke up. How does this happen?
What’s to move? You slide your hand gently under the pillow, nab the tooth and replace with fairy money. EZ-PZ. The hardest part is getting in and out of the room withour stepping on toys and falling against the wall.
Kids are probably so use to parents coming in to check on them during the night, they don’t even hear them anymore.
Or so I have heard…
There’s always chloroform.
It may be that you even opened your eyes and saw the exchange take place, but that you remembered nothing in the morning.
This is certainly the case with my young son - I get him up each night to use the toilet so that he stays dry - he opens his eyes and sometimes has a conversation with me (often quite amusingly nonsensical), but in the morning, he expresses absolute disbelief that he was woken by me.
My mom made both my sister and I “tooth fairy pillows”. They were small pillows (about 8" square) with a wee pocket in the middle with the words “Tooth Fairy” embroidered on the pocket. We would wrap the tooth in tissue and put it in the pocket. Next morning we’d reach in and there would be a quarter. (I remember once the TF didn’t come and I was most upset. Next night I not only had a dollar (!) but a Hand Written (!) note from the TF letting me know that it was so icy her wings almost froze and that’s why she didn’t make it the night before.)
I still have my pillow as does my sister. I’m not sure what they did for my 2 brothers. Prolly just the slide n nab method Lyllyan described.
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My kids sleep so soundly it’s hard to get them up for school in the morning - much less wake them up by playing a bit with their pillow at night…
Nothing to it!
Dani
You weren’t as light a sleeper as you now think. That’s how.
It was a general “rule” at my house that the tooth fairy took teeth only on certain conditions. One, the tooth fairy would not give any money for rotten teeth. This included ones with fillings. Two, all teeth left for the tooth fairy must be placed on the nightstand because the tooth fairy wasn’t going to spend time hunting for a tooth under a pillow or otherwise. Three, the lower on the family food chain one was (younger brother, versus older sister) the more money the tooth fairy usually had access to, which meant the young brother (younger by ten years) usually got more money for a tooth than did the older sister.
Not fair,but that’s the way it was.
Oh, did I mention Legos? The tooth fairy won’t take a tooth if there are Legos on the bedroom floor. Or Matchbox cars. Or Bionicle pieces.
Maybe the Tooth Fairy gets the tooth while he’s in there with Scotch Tape looking for pinworms, so the kid never wakes up?
Wrong thread. Sorry.
She borrows a bag of sand from the Sandman. Wham!
this was lifted from a Discworld book
I was thinking that! 
HDS said
Especially if the tooth isn’t under the pillow and she has to use the pliers…
Gotta make the quota 
Simon
Quite right, those teeth are needed for the piano keys.
Normally those with fillings go on church organ stops…well thats what my mother told me.
I was one of the worst Tooth Fairies ever; bungled it lots of times! Once it seemed I spent half the night groping under the pillow for a tooth the size of a grain of rice and never found the horrid little thing. The next morning my daughter wondered why the Fairy had left her money and rejected her tooth.
Another time I was busted. I pulled my hand out from under her pillow and explained, “I just wanted to see if she came yet. Hey look, you got a quarter!”
Now I have the kids put their teeth in an old ring box so I can find the dern things. And yes, you should clear a path through the toys before lights out!
Well, this parent business is all well and good, but I believe the OP asks about the Tooth Fairy. :rolleyes:
After the 1st time searching in the dark under a pillow for a muchkin sized tooth, the Toothe Fairy demanded that our kids put subsequent teeth in a plastic baggie and then put it under the pillow. MUCH easier to find. Or so I’ve heard.
Nitrous Oxide.
Dollar bills?!?!:eek:
All I got were quarters.
Wear a hockey mask and carry a butcher knife. That way, if the kid does wake up, they’ll be way too scared to make any noise and you’ll never know that you were a bad Tooth Fairy.
When I was growing up, we put our teeth in a glass of water in the kitchen. Made it a lot easier for the Tooth Fairy to find them.
My daughter showed me a small white pebble that looked remarkably like a tooth and claimed it had just fallen out. I told her to put it under her pillow. After she was asleep, I replaced it with a fist-sized rock. She came out in the morning with a puzzled look on her face and I told her that it’s not nice to mess with ol’ TF.