Tooth Fairy, Wherefore Art Thou?
I got home about 20 minutes ago from my friend's magnificent Thanksgiving feast. Gosh, I am SO tired. I just want to put on some Maxwell and go to sleep. Instead, I have the enviable task of transforming myself into the tooth fairy.
My six year-old lost his first baby tooth today. It's been a really long time coming. I feel like he's been wiggling that tooth for ten years or something. Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating. Maybe he's been wiggling it for a mere five years. -- Regardless, it's been a long time!
Anyway, the tooth finally came out and everybody's happy. This morning the tooth was suddenly hanging from a string. Finally!
Of course, my son is all about business so he immediately ran around saying that the tooth fairy was coming and leaving some money for him under his pillow.
Kids are delusional these days because I asked him how much he thinks the Tooth Fairy should leave, and he said $10! Clearly the look on my face told him otherwise, because he immediately back tracked and said $1.
I remember back in the day how I was lucky if I even got a quarter for my teeth. The word "dollar" didn't even enter into the conversation!
So what amount of money do you think is the right amount for the Tooth Fairy to leave under a pillow?
My six year-old lost his first baby tooth today. It's been a really long time coming. I feel like he's been wiggling that tooth for ten years or something. Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating. Maybe he's been wiggling it for a mere five years. -- Regardless, it's been a long time!
Anyway, the tooth finally came out and everybody's happy. This morning the tooth was suddenly hanging from a string. Finally!
Of course, my son is all about business so he immediately ran around saying that the tooth fairy was coming and leaving some money for him under his pillow.
Kids are delusional these days because I asked him how much he thinks the Tooth Fairy should leave, and he said $10! Clearly the look on my face told him otherwise, because he immediately back tracked and said $1.
I remember back in the day how I was lucky if I even got a quarter for my teeth. The word "dollar" didn't even enter into the conversation!
So what amount of money do you think is the right amount for the Tooth Fairy to leave under a pillow?
Comments
Even though .25 cents was the going rate when I was a kid, I suppose you must consider inflation.
So I think $1.00 to $1.50 should do it.
(lol)
You know! He was all ready to roll up on Toys R Us and go shopping. I had to tell him that the Tooth Fairy doesn't carry that much cash!
MDC,
So I fell asleep before deciding how much money, but my husband stuck a sandwich bag of about a dollar in change under my son's pillow. The only problem? He forgot to get the tooth! So my son is psyched this morning that he got to get money and keep his tooth!
Ian,
I'll tell you, I cried a little when that tooth came out because it was just such a moment of my little baby growing up.
Kari
These L.A. kids I tell ya.
He was psyched about the dollar and the fact that it's all change made it seem like so much more. I totally feel like slacker mom though that I couldn't even get it together and do the tooth fairy thing correctly! LOL!
Joy,
Yeah, my son knows how much a video game costs so he figures he should get enough money for one. He'll be seven in January so I've been waiting for ages for a tooth to fall out. He has three other ones loose right now. I wanted to do the string thing and he almost agreed to it, but at the last minute, I decided to spare him. Thankfully, two days later, it came out on it's own.
I told him today that if he saves up all the money the tooth fairy gives him, he might be able to get a video game! He wanted all his teeth to come out at once, or at least until he realized that he might have a hard time eating! :)
Lisa,
Well mine thinks that if he puts the tooth under his pillow again, the Tooth Fairy will come back and give him the ten spot tonight! I told him that if he does that, the Tooth Fairy will come back and snatch the first dollar back! He's trying to bankrupt me over here!
That's so sad! Does that mean that you knew at an early age that the Tooth Fairy was a fraud?
My husband forgot to get the tooth one time, too. I snuck in her room under the guise of coming to give her a hug to go get it.
I was SO tired that I was just like, "Whatever" when my husband said he couldn't find the tooth! That's so not like me but I could only think about going to sleep. And then my son got up at the crack of dawn...oh well. I've tried to explain that fairies are fickle creatures, sometimes they take the tooth, sometimes they don't!
I wonder how much that dollar in the '80s would be in today's money, adjusted for inflation. :)
Did the Tooth Fair leave the tooth in response to your letter?