This Tooth Fairy Is NOT Prepared!! Lol...

Put under pillow and leave $.25 or whatever you want. Some kids, I have heard, get $20.00. To me that is crazy. Yes red with some blood is normal.

My boys have to get all of their teeth pulled by the dentist because they just won't fall out on their own. They end up with shark teeth (two rows). Because the dentist ends up pulling two at a time they end up getting a $20! Actually, a $20 was all I had for my sons first two teeth, and I said that it was so much because he had to get them pulled. That was before I knew he was going to have to get them all pulled and his brother too, so I am stuck with paying a $20 each time.

I saw something the other day - Pinterest maybe? You take a dollar bill and cover it with some hair spray glitter to make $$ from the tooth fairy. Not sure if you can find the spray glitter stuff this time of year, but I was thinking you could hit a dollar with some adhesive spray or even some watered down glue brushed on with a paint brush and then sprinkle some glitter on it. You get the idea. So cute. I think we did $5 for DD's first tooth and maybe a dollar for others.

When I was a kid, the tooth fairy took the tooth and left $1.00.

So, when my kids lost their teeth, the tooth fairy took the tooth and left $1.00.

One day, my daughter wrote a note to the tooth fairy asking to see a picture of her castle. That night, she received a dollar and a photo of her castle.

you simply remove the tooth from under the pillow and put money in its place-whatever you have will do! Cute!-would love to be back at this stage-when your child is 10 or so-make sure you have dental insurance in place that will cover braces and elaborate wisdom teeth extractions.

Growing up, my parents didn't have us leave the tooth under the pillow... I guess it was too hard to find the tooth without possibly waking us up! So... they had us put the tooth in a glass of water...

Years later, I found out that hubby's family did that, also....

We did that with out kids, also... and found a pretty, sparkly, fancy glass as the special "tooth fairy" glass... and put it on the kitchen windowsill for the tooth fairy to see.

With our kids, it was "one tooth, one coin" ... yeah, we were cheap.... but our kids now range in age from 30-21, so that was still quite a while ago before inflation had hit the tooth fairy so hard.

I guess I got lucky, my son's kinder teacher had them make a "Tooth Pillow" it's ready & waiting. It is a pillow the shape of a tooth, about the size of my hand (stapled together at the seams stuffed full) with a pocket(stapled too) able to hold the tooth or two and be exchanged for a few quarters or a single folded in.

Our tooth fairy leaves dollar coins. She may also keep a roll of them in her sock drawer so she's not left in the lurch when a tooth comes out.

Our tooth fairy leaves a $1 coin, just because they are novel. For the first tooth, $5 was also left with a note in teeny tiny handwriting about taking care of your chompers. Shortly after, we went and bought $10 worth of coins and hid them, so we are ready for a while.

The tooth fairy visited yesterday and had to leave another note. My son left one asking why some of his friends got toys and cool games. That was fun!

It's all normal.
I got a quarter per tooth too when I was growing up.
For our son I gave him 10 quarters per tooth and 100 quarters for the last baby tooth along with a glittery note from the tooth fairy telling him what a wonderful customer he'd been.
We used an empty metal Altoids box to hold the tooth and then the money for under his pillow.
The coins make it seem like it's a lot of 'treasure'.
And my son LOVED putting his tooth money into his piggy bank one coin at a time!

"there are two sisters that are the tooth fairies....one is very generous with her money for teeth. and the other doesn't like to part with her money for teeth." i read this once in a magazine and i thought it was cute but seriously my son had the generous fairy-he would get $5 for the first tooth and $2 for a tooth there after. we have friends that had the other "sister" and she would leave hardly anything!!

I roll up a dollar and tie it with a little bit of left over red christmas string.

~I hated loose teeth as a kid, ugh, it was SO gross! I was a chicken and couldn't pull them out myself, my older sister yanked out all my teeth but not until they were barely hanging by a thread! I hated it and was terrified by it!!! Funny story: My middle son, woke up one morning and said I have a loose tooth, he asked me to feel it and it was *barely* loose, I mean it was hardly loose AT ALL....I'll be damed if that boy of mine didn't work that tooth none stop until at about 11am he walked over to me and handed me his tooth!!! I was so proud of him in that moment I wanted to cry! No fear in that middle boy of mine...not one bit!!!
#ProudMommyMoment!

I say the tooth fairy leaves $1.

That's what my parents left & I don't think inflation need apply here. :)

We do a nice fresh dollar bill. You can buy a little heart shaped pillow with a tiny pocket on the front with a tooth on it. This is where the tooth goes while the pillow is under her bigger pillow. The tooth fairy can leave the dollar under the heart pillow or she can leave it in the pocket folded up.

You can even make your own if you're crafty. Here's a link to some that I found:

https://www.google.com/search?q=heart+shaped+tooth+fairy+...

Your post made me remember once we forgot to get the tooth out from under the pillow. My daughter came to breakfast and showed my husband and I the tooth she had left under the pillow the night before. My husband and I both stared at each other and I blurted out, "I bet it's because you pulled it out early. The Tooth Fairy must have you on her schedule for tonight." From that point forward, either my husband or I would put something odd (like a shoe) in our bed to remind us to get the tooth before we went to bed. We never forgot again.

The red gums are normal. Its the adult tooth under the gum, pushing the baby tooth out.

We gave a little extra for the first tooth...then less for those after. After her 3rd tooth she said she wanted a toy next time. Well, tooth #4 came out quicker and I had forgotten that. So when she woke up the next morning she was disappointed so I found a small toy and when the next tooth came out I was prepared and she was excited.

You just make sure they put the tooth under the pillow (preferably in an envelope or baggie so you can easily find it). After they are asleep, you slide the envelope out and put the $ under the pillow.

At my house the tooth fairy was frequently unprepared... and forgetful. She kept having to write little notes saying, "Sorry I didn't get to your pillow last night as I should have..." I can't imagine what was the matter with the sprite.

Incidentally, I have a friend who has made tooth money into a more token reward, but it's one her kids say has always been fun. When the tooth fairy has business to transact with one of those children, she leaves one penny, one nickel, one dime, and one quarter. Wish I'd thought of that.

My sons teeth never came out that fast. I think she has really been pushing and pulling on it - thus the red inflamed gums.

For the first tooth I did 5 bucks the rest get a couple of bucks. Inflation!