One of my son’s friends got $5 for his first tooth. My son is trying to get me to negotiate with the tooth fairy for $100 per tooth. Obviously, that’s not going to happen.
Anyway, that got me to thinking - how much did you get per tooth from the tooth fairy (assuming she visited, of course)?
I think I got .25 - .50 back in the early 80s. Apparently inflation’s a bitch.
I got a quarter, until I caught my dad. He was terrible at being sneaky.
$1 per tooth. Born 1981.
My mom spoiled me, so this was probably a bit above the norm.
On an interesting note, the whole “tooth fairy” thing was spoiled for me when I was about eight. Dad worked days, mom worked nights. She would leave written notes for dad before she left for work. One day, I lost a tooth. Being a precocious reader, I read her notes for dead. Item #1 - “Leave money under pillow for tooth!”
I got a quarter. One of my friends used to get a paperback book for each tooth. I thought it was horribly unfair. Of course, I had an older brother and as a result was full aware that my parents were the tooth fairy and if I had complained I would have just received nothing at all. This was in the 80’s. I still like the book idea though an will probably employ it with my children. That way I don’t have to worry if my kids on get $1 and the neighbor kid gets $5. Presents always beat money with kids. At least kids young enough to believe in the tooth fairy.
Something like $0.25. I was born in 1987. Sounds like the going rate is more like $1 these days, though.
I do know I only got money for the first couple teeth, then I stopped caring around the same time I busted my parents as being Santa Claus (age 5). My teeth were incredibly slow to do anything. I still had an adult canine growing in at 16 and my wisdom teeth are developing about 4-5 years behind the curve.
Mid eighties, I think I got somewhere in the neighborhood of a dollar.
My sister babysits for some well-to-do people. They don’t do it, but they have friends that do the $50-$100 per tooth thing. That seems kind of silly to me. A kid at tooth losing age, isn’t even going to have any use for $100 per tooth and probably doesn’t even understand how much money that is anyways.
Born in 1957. The going rate in our house was a dime, wrapped in a little twist of waxed paper so it wouldn’t get lost.
When my kids came along in the 80’s, I think we did a quarter. One morning I forgot, and managed to convince my son to go back to sleep because he had woken up “too early” As I tucked him back in I slipped the quarter under his pillow…and yes, it was wrapped in waxed paper!
People actually give their kids that much for a tooth? Jeez. I thought my son’s request was so funny I laughed out loud. I can’t imagine actually doing that.
The book idea is a good one. Hmmm… So much to think about.
$1 in the early/mid-90s, but it was $5 the time I lost two in one day.
Quarter. Born in 1944. Guess my parents were spoiling me even then.
Sixpence. Born in 1953.
I think I got a quarter. Born in '87. I did get 50 cents one time because I lost two teeth at once. That was pretty exciting.
I got a quarter in the 1950s. A small fortune - two comic books and a candy bar.
Ditto, except it was a piece of toilet paper.
Born 1970. I usually got whatever change was in my parents pockets at the time. It was never less than .50 and sometimes it’d be over $2. Then I’d also get some sort of stuffed animal and a pack of sen sen.
Pretty sure I got $1.00 per tooth in quarters or half-dollars. Would have been the late 80’s-early 90’s I guess.
A quarter or half-dollar, in the 70s. My mom must have been really good at it as I never caught her.
I was Tooth Fairy beneficiary age in the 1950’s. I remember getting a dime or a quarter. Woo Hoo!
Guess I’m the only one that got paid in stock options.
Exactly the same.