tooth fairy rates?

[DCLane]

None - I'm cruel and we don't do the 'Tooth Fairy'.

But we also don't do 'Santa Claus/Father Christmas' either - and chose to tell the kids the truth. Which seemed like a good idea until my 4yo on his first day at school was asked what Santa brought him for Christmas. "There isn't a Santa Claus" says he ... cue kiddies in

 

[tadpole]

£2 per tooth, unless pulled or drilled by the dentist, then it's £1 (tooth fairy doesn't take sub-standard goods)

 

[Beebo]

i love the innocence of childhood, and the belief in father christmas and fairies. I know that I only have a few years left, but I hope she believes for a long as possible.

 

[tadpole]

None - I'm cruel and we don't do the 'Tooth Fairy'.

But we also don't do 'Santa Claus/Father Christmas' either - and chose to tell the kids the truth. Which seemed like a good idea until my 4yo on his first day at school was asked what Santa brought him for Christmas. "There isn't a Santa Claus" says he ... cue kiddies in

I'm sorry but that is really sad.

 

[Arch]

50p seems OK to me. And it's a big coin, which is important to a 5-year old.

Or perhaps a £1 pack of Mars bars...........

I was going to suggest chocolate coins, they are really big sometimes....

Actually, I'd suggest what my Mum did - not just one coin, but a few - they could add up to 50p or a quid or whatever. More coins definitely feels like more money -especially if you can find nice shiny ones. She made a little drawstring bag out of lace that we put the tooth in, and found the money in the next morning, and everytime she wrote a tiny little note in miniscule writing, thanking us for the tooth...

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

I remember getting DM5 in 1989 for a tooth and I think it worked out to just under £2.

 

[Brains]

On a slightly different tack, my brother in law has been advised that his teeth problems will mean that he needs a complete set of dental in-plants over the next 2 years.......at a cost of nearly £30k

He seriously needs to look at having the job done in Eastern Europe, two friends had ops done one in Poland other in Czech Rep, in private hospitals, waited on hand and foot, included a week long stay in a spa to recover and total cost was about one tenth on the UK cost and a lot better service

 

[Beebo]

He seriously needs to look at having the job done in Eastern Europe, two friends had ops done one in Poland other in Czech Rep, in private hospitals, waited on hand and foot, included a week long stay in a spa to recover and total cost was about one tenth on the UK cost and a lot better service

cynic mode on - And when it turns out they used substandard products you run to the NHS! Just like the women with dodgy boob jobs! - cynic mode off

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

6d. A nice shiny one :-)

Oh sorry - that is so 60's

 

[Saluki]

My friends tell me that 50p, and a shiny one at that, is the going rate in Norfolk. Our Jan got away with a bag of chocolate coins for a couple of months as her youngest's teeth came out at Christmas time.

 

[ufkacbln]

Mine get a pound, inflation doesn't have the same effect on tooth fairies as it does the rest of us, that's been the going rate since the eldest started losing teeth 12 years ago.
If it had been down to me they'd have got 50p and been happy about it.

Inflation reminds me of the one thing that you have all missed. Never mind children talking so do the Fairies.

Fairies are a well organised extortion ring, and if you shortchange one, and you are in for a world of hurt.

A bad reference from the Tooth Fairy will not neccesarily have the Horse Fairy put a horse's head in your bed, or the Broken Leg Fairy act accordingly... this comes later after the second low tooth payment.

However the most subtle of the enforcers the P*nct*re Fairy will let you know their displeasure fairly promptly.

 

[ufkacbln]

i love the innocence of childhood, and the belief in father christmas and fairies. I know that I only have a few years left,

... and how old are you exactly

 

[Brains]

cynic mode on - And when it turns out they used substandard products you run to the NHS! Just like the women with dodgy boob jobs! - cynic mode off

agree you need to check that you are getting the same if not better service than the uk (as for the dodgy boob jobs, I thought they were done by the NHS, the French Gvt have given all their women with the dodgy boob jobs a free removal, I the UK if you want them removed you will have to pay)

 

[MontyVeda]

i love the innocence of childhood, and the belief in father christmas and fairies. I know that I only have a few years left, but I hope she believes for a long as possible.

not too long i hope... It's a tad embarrassing when you find out Santa doesn't exist in senior school... that's the kind of thing the other kids won't let you forget

 

[Gary E]

Better play it safe and get her an iPad