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[mommydama]

Mari's tooth came out!!!!

I guess that means we are officially in middle childhood now, huh? Weird. I got all teary eyed looking at her snaggle-toothed grin. I'm glad it came out though. It was just barely hanging on all day and I was so afraid she would lose it in the night and swallow it. My mom found one of our old tooth fairy dolls for her. Well, it isn't really a doll, it was a perfume bottle from Avon. Mom bought my sisters and me each one when we were kids. She is some kind of hard blue plastic/ceramic stuff (I called her the Blue Fairy) with a glow-in-the-dark wand. The wand has a star on the end. And her other hand is held out in front of her with a small pouch-like purse hanging from it for the tooth to sit it. The pouch is exactly the size of a quarter...that dates it quite a bit, eh?

How much are teeth going for these days?

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[altarflame.livejournal.com]

My mom and stepdad always gave me a dollar.

My cuban grandparents, because I was rarely at their house and they wanted to spoil me wrotten, would give me a twenty.

You'd better believe I was chewing on the other side if one came loose and it was within 3 months of that vacation, and yanking like crazy if one got loose the week we were leaving :P

Those dolls/bottles sound awesome :)

[kizmet-42.livejournal.com]

A dime.

Unless the toothfairy forgot, then it might be a quarter.

I also have a rule that when a kid loses a tooth that has a filling, they owe me money.

Funny, reminding them of that makes them run to the toothbrush.

(No, I haven't really collected, but I could have. Little Lady got another filling on Monday. [sigh])

[justamy.livejournal.com]

my brother says the tooth fairy at HIS house leaves two dollars...with a note that says one dollar must be saved until all the teeth in the child's mouth are grown up teeth. the other dollar can be spent.

[sistersunshine.livejournal.com]

I remember being left a dollar, when I lost a tooth. I'm not really sure what the going rate is these days!

[aelf.livejournal.com]

How cool! Wow. How grown up. Wow. :)

I'm thinking of getting either 2 dollar bills or the dollar coins, or whatever seems practical once we hit loose teeth. I think when I was a kid we got a 50 cent piece for the first tooth, and a quarter for each subsequent tooth.

[kare43.livejournal.com]

I'm not looking forward to my kids losing teeth. It will make them seem so grown up. And the whole wiggling tooth thing kinda grosses me out. It's silly, cause I can handle blood and stuff OK, but teeth... ICK!

[ariellejuliana.livejournal.com]

I always got 50 cents, I think. I really like the silver dollar idea because it's a special thing that they probably will only find under their pillow, rather than on the sidewalk or something.

[mimima.livejournal.com]

First teeth are worth more in our house - maybe $2-$3 while the rest are worth .50 - 1.00. We also remind the kids that the tooth fairy brings me the tooth - my SIL is a dental assistant and bought me these wonderful banks with a place for each tooth and the date, so I keep them.

[noetic-toe.livejournal.com]

$2 is the going rate in our house. However, yesterday Sueanna lost her last tooth and the tooth-fairy got generous (he also didn't have any change) and left her a five-spot.