# How much did you get per tooth from the tooth fairy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 18, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-you-get-per-tooth-from-the-tooth-fairy/582278 "2011-05-18T03:03:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-you-get-per-tooth-from-the-tooth-fairy/582278/21 "2011-05-18T06:14:22Z")
In the 80s I got a quarter per tooth until 1987, when the loonie was introduced, then I got $1. I’m not sure if the tooth fairy thought my teeth suddenly got more valuable, or if my Dad was just really taken with the new loonies. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-you-get-per-tooth-from-the-tooth-fairy/582278/22 "2011-05-18T06:33:10Z")
I got a quarter. (born 1964) I had a strange condition where my front baby teeth have very long roots. So I had to have them pulled. All of them at once. 10 teeth! (four top six on the bottom) And I got $2.50! ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-you-get-per-tooth-from-the-tooth-fairy/582278/23 "2011-05-18T06:35:34Z")
In the late 1960s I used to get a five cent piece. Or occasionally a ten cent piece if the tooth fairy was feeling especially generous. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-you-get-per-tooth-from-the-tooth-fairy/582278/24 "2011-05-18T15:16:43Z")
Born: 1978 Got 25 cents per tooth. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-you-get-per-tooth-from-the-tooth-fairy/582278/25 "2011-05-18T15:18:04Z")
I got a quarter. I give $1 coins. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-you-get-per-tooth-from-the-tooth-fairy/582278/26 "2011-05-18T15:20:28Z")
The tooth fairy never came to our house. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-you-get-per-tooth-from-the-tooth-fairy/582278/27 "2011-05-18T15:26:51Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I got a quarter in the 1950s. A small fortune - two comic books and a candy bar. A man (I believe) of my own time and taste. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-you-get-per-tooth-from-the-tooth-fairy/582278/28 "2011-05-18T15:52:29Z")
Born 1969. I got a quarter for the first one and a dime for the rest. I remember thinking that my tooth fairy was a lot cheaper than the one who visited my little friends. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-you-get-per-tooth-from-the-tooth-fairy/582278/29 "2011-05-18T16:06:11Z")
> [@overlyverbose](#): > > 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. They are at least a 7 figure, maybe an 8 figure household. Sometimes I think they lose touch with the rest of us. Hey, if you can afford it, more power to you and I suppose it doesn’t really mean anything to the kid anyways. I’d be more worried about when the kid gets a bit older and he mentions it to his (not so rich) friends as if it’s nothing. ---
**Author:** ![boozilu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@boozilu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boozilu)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-you-get-per-tooth-from-the-tooth-fairy/582278/30 "2011-05-18T16:09:15Z")
A quarter in the 1970’s. BooziGirl gets two GOLD dollars (makes it special) although she’s informed me that other kids get $5 or $10. I told her every one has their own tooth fairy and ours doesn’t carry that much cash. A neighbor gives her kid a small present (costs her between 50c and $1). ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-you-get-per-tooth-from-the-tooth-fairy/582278/31 "2011-05-18T16:20:30Z")
I was born in '69 and I got a quarter. My youngest gets a dollar. There is no way I’d give a kid five bucks for a tooth, much less fifty. That’s just ridiculous to me. What the hell does a six year old need fifty dollars for? My daughter would trade a dollar for a quarter just because the quarter is shiny. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-you-get-per-tooth-from-the-tooth-fairy/582278/32 "2011-05-18T16:34:05Z")
_[The Family Circus](http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/5350/familycircus0723.jpg)_ has covered the [tooth fairy on several occasions](http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/5138/familycircus0135.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Schoaff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Schoaff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schoaff)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-you-get-per-tooth-from-the-tooth-fairy/582278/33 "2011-05-18T17:16:19Z")
An Eisenhower half dollar coin for each tooth in the 70’s. Still have all of them. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-you-get-per-tooth-from-the-tooth-fairy/582278/34 "2011-05-18T17:47:41Z")
One thin dime. Born 1954. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-you-get-per-tooth-from-the-tooth-fairy/582278/35 "2011-05-18T17:52:01Z")
$1 in the early 90s. I figure today the kid should get $3. But since that’s such an awkward amount to leave behind, just go with a 5-spot and call it karma. What I plan on doing (and what my forgetful parents did on occasion) is telling the kid that the tooth fairy comes, but you never know which night. So on the first night, (s)he wakes up anxious for a dollar and finds the tooth still there. And the same the next night. Then on the third (or fourth) morning, there it is! The beautiful buck they’ve been waiting for for sooooo looooong!! That oughta stretch it out long enough to be worth it. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-you-get-per-tooth-from-the-tooth-fairy/582278/36 "2011-05-18T18:02:44Z")
I vaguely remember being pleased with a quarter for one of the later ones. So the earlier ones were probably less. At the time you could get a full sized candy bar for a nickle, for comparison. The part that I really remember was that sometimes there would be a note instead of the coin. The clue on the note would lead to the location of another note . . . I think the fourth location usually had the money. We were not surprised that the Tooth Fairy had the same handwriting as Dad. We were provided with a small matchbox to put the tooth in, so that it wouldn’t get lost. Once the matchbox was crammed with pennies. I guess the Tooth Fairy was low on silver at the time. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-you-get-per-tooth-from-the-tooth-fairy/582278/37 "2011-05-18T18:02:50Z")
Born in 1969, received 50c pieces, sometimes silver dollars. TheKid, born in 1993, received usually a dollar; however, she had to have 6 extracted (two at a time) and for those situations I gave her $5.00. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-you-get-per-tooth-from-the-tooth-fairy/582278/38 "2011-05-18T18:22:44Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I got a quarter in the 1950s. A small fortune - two comic books and a candy bar. You old fogey. In my day that would only buy the two comics (plus 1 cent tax.) My kids got a dollar per tooth, which wouldn’t have gotten them even one comic. ---
**Author:** ![desert29rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5fc32e/32.png) [@desert29rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/desert29rat)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-you-get-per-tooth-from-the-tooth-fairy/582278/39 "2011-05-18T18:26:28Z")
A shiny new dime! ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-you-get-per-tooth-from-the-tooth-fairy/582278/40 "2011-05-28T13:52:57Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > One thin dime. Born 1954. Of course, since they were silver dimes, [they are worth $2.75 today](http://www.coinflation.com/). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-you-get-per-tooth-from-the-tooth-fairy/582278.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-you-get-per-tooth-from-the-tooth-fairy/582278.md?page=3)