My Godson just lost his first tooth, so his dad and I are wondering what’s the going rate for the Tooth Fairy in this day & age.
I’m betting the quarter I got doesn’t cut it anymore.
Eli
My kids and their peers get a buck a tooth. Except one friend of my son whose tooth fairy forgot to bring the money the first night, and felt so guilty that the next night she did a scavenger hunt for the money, and the kid ended up getting $5 for that particular tooth. I think it was a buck for the tooth and four for pain and suffering.
We’ve been giving a dollar. In fact, we’ve been giving Sacajawea “gold” dollars, just to make it seem more special.
Mine still get a quarter. Can’t help it, that’s the Fairy we’re zoned for. 
As long as it’s a shiny coin, my kid will get a thrill out of it for two minutes and then lose it in his room. It’s not as if he comprehends the value of money. He has more in his piggy bank than I have in my checking account, but still has to stop and think about which is worth more, a dime or a nickel.
My kids got a dollar. But it wasn’t not a dollar bill, it was a Kennedy silver dollar. Pretty cool looking. Big old heavy thing.
Can you still get those at the bank?
That happened at my house too! I had to call the Tooth Fairy on the phone and read her the riot act while my daughter sobbed in the living room and Ivylad rushed quickly into her bedroom to shove the dollar under the pillow.
I got a dollar when the Tooth Fairy visited me. The fairy forgot me a few times though, i’m still waiting for my dollars.
Whatever special currency is have on hand. The tooth fairy doesn’t mess around with the currency we do. So, she gives fifty-cent pieces, Sacajawea or Susan B. dollars and $2 bills. The first tooth netted a fifty-cent piece, the second was supposed to be a Susan B. but the tooth fairy’s husband didn’t see it and threw in a plain, old buck. Not even a crispy buck. So, now the math is all off and the tooth fairy is angry. The third tooth got a $2 bill and a Sacajawea because she was all out of fifty-cent pieces.
She also leaves a trail of gold dust between the window and the bed. It seems she rains sparkles while flits around. On her last visit, she was invited to view Cinnamon Little’s Memory Book/Photo Album which was also left under the pillow. Tooth Fairy left it on the window sill covered in fairy dust. But when CL woke up, she didn’t see it. She came down crying because the Tooth Fairy had stolen her memory book. “She needs to bring it back. sob, sob I didn’t say she could HAVE it!” 
We had to go find it. All is well now. We’ll see if she leaves anything (other than a tooth) for the Tooth Fairy next time.
Our kids got a quarter, except the couple of times the tooth fairy forgot for a night or two. Then it was about fifty cents. What can I say? That’s still better than the dime I got. And the kids were happy with it.
Dang I was getting a dollar back in 1976… I thought it’d be up to a flave nowadays.
Charlie gets a dollar. Except for his first tooth, for which he got $5.
Not because it was his first lost tooth, but because it was knocked out when he got thrown from the horse he was riding. The kind, old gray spooked and went from a walk to full gallop in the blink of an eye. It was also his first time falling off his horse.
The tooth that came out wasn’t even loose, and we never did find it.
He did get back on the horse, by the way.
I like that idea. As a dollar seems to be the going rate…but a bill doesn’t seem quite right. This is a coin…a gold coin, ya know, like pirate money 
i’d go with that if you can find one.
We’ve been going with the Sacajawea dollars as well. Although the last one, when I went to find some dollar coins, the woman had a couple of “silver dollars”, I think with Eisenhower on them. The Boy loved that, as it was bigger (so he probably thinks it’s worth more money ).
A hint: for the Sacajawea dollars, and most coins, I’ve found you can use regular toothpaste to shine them up. So if you can only find dingier ones don’t despair. Turtlewax chrome polish might work, too, but it’s a bit more toxic.
I’ve always used ketchup to shine pennies (it’s cheap–free fast food packets). I wonder if it also works on gold coins.