Lamb #1 presented us with his first milk tooth to come out yesterday. He was very impressed with himself.
The incisor was placed in cute pewter cylinder he was given as a christening present and yes, the Tooth Fairy found and took it last night leaving fair payment.
Now the question is; what does the Tooth Fairy’s financier i.e. myself do with these milk teeth? (after all we’ll end up with about 60 of them over the next five years) Throw them out? Keep them in a jar and present them back some day? Keep it as some macabre collection? I presume my parents threw mine out.
My parents flushed them. If you do choose to keep it, keep it for yourselves, not to gift to your kid years later. I think most people would be a little freaked at receiving their old teeth. They aren’t the most attractive things, and they lack the ‘cool’ factor of a removed organ. In short they’re boring and odd.
More importantly, how much did the lamblet score for the tooth, and what did he say about it the next morning ?
I remember once opening a drawer at home when I was a kid and finding several teeth inside. When I asked my Dad about them he said they were our baby teeth. They weren’t marked in any way as far as I could tell, but IIRC he was able to tell me which was whose.
I have no idea what ever happened to them.
Well, one could say that I’m short, boring and odd myself. As to attractive, well words fail me. So just chuckin’ them might create a dangerous precedent.
He scored $5 and thought he’d been diddled because it wasn’t enough to buy a Transformer. :eek:
I received my baby teeth as a gift from my parents after I graduated high school. I had no use for them so I threw them out. But if I had thought about selling them, perhaps to a 15 year old punk rocker…
I still have a zip-lock bag full of baby teeth (some fell out and were Tooth Fairied; 13 were extractions). Maybe I could file them down and make some ivory keys for a dinky little piano.
I think we gave our Perfect Child[sup]TM[/sup] a buck a tooth. Two funny tooth stories:
One night, hubby went in to retrieve the tooth and leave the cash, and under her pillow he found a note that read “Look on the window” and on the window sill was another note “Here is the tooth” - he saved both notes with that tooth.
A few years later, daughter came out and told us she knew there was no Tooth Fairy because she gave us the “Ultimate Test” (her words) - she lost a tooth and didn’t tell us, so when she woke up, the tooth was still under her pillow. We pointed out that she blew her chance for more money - she hadn’t figured on that…
Five bucks? Geez, I know it was the 70s, but I only ever scored 20c out of the ol TF.
I think the teeth would be useful for shoving up your nose, then sneezing violently and showing off your handkerchief’s new dental contents. “Aaah, happens all the time”, you’ll say.
my parents saved mine. on the night that i came out to them (i was 22), they gave me my teeth. i never understood that correlation. “mom, dad, i’m queer.”
“here, have your baby teeth.”
i was living in atlanta, working full time and taking a full load of classes when i had my wisdom teeth extracted. i didn’t have anyone to help me through the recovery period and it was really a quite unpleasant time altogether. the one happy memory of that week was receiving a card in the mail from my tooth fairy. her name was thimsley and she told me how nice it was to finally be able to contact me directly, even though she was sad that i’d no longer be needing her services. she told me that she’d miss me and that, although she looked forward to serving generations of other children, she knew i’d always be one of her favourites. (and yes, my tooth fairy mailed me money in that final card.)
A few months ago little milliAmp had a tooth fall out. It wasn’t his first so he knew the routine of putting it under his pillow before bed time. I didn’t have any cash on me so I left the SO a note about the tooth and leaving some money, she was working late that night and wasn’t going to be in until after midnight, and went to bed.
Next morning I’m awakened by little milliAmp jumping on my chest excited at the fact that the tooth fairy left him a twenty dollar bill in exchange for his tooth. It seems the fact that it was dark, coupled with the fact that she was tired led her to believe that the twenty was a one dollar bill.
Didn’t have the heart to switch the money but I know it is going to set a bad precedent.
My brother used our collection of baby teeth in a science fair project when he was in middle school. The experiment focused on how various liquids promoted tooth decay. Obviously an ample supply of teeth which were not currently in use was helpful. IIRC he discovered that nutrasweet slightly inhibited tooth decay as compared to plain water. I think he got a good grade.
