Tooth Fairy Payout?

People! Stop driving up the price for the rest of us! A shiny quarter or maaaaybe two is good enough! A five year old really doesn't even know the difference. Save the big money for when they are still losing molars at age 12.

When my kids were born. I ordered $50 each rolls of gold coins with their birth year on them. That's what the tooth fairy is going to bring. :)

In our house it was 20 quarters per tooth and the last one was 100 quarters.
It's not a lot in the way of money but all those coins make it look like treasure!
Our son loved feeding them into his piggy bank.

Our daughter loved loved Quarters so the Tooth Fairy left Quarters. 8 to 12 depending on how many we had around.

She liked to collect them in her piggy banks. She had a collection of Piggy Banks.

$2 per tooth per kid. Doesn't change because then the older kids would take issue. And the tooth fairy has forgotten, which led me to explain that they must have stayed up too late. So, they hurried to go to bed the next night/tooth!

One dollar per tooth here in my house (years ago...they are older now)

Except the ONE year my eldest swallowed a tooth. He wanted me to 'find' it. The tooth fairy gave him a note (and $5) and thanked him for not insisting mom retrieve the tooth!

Wow, $5 a tooth? That's expensive. With my nieces, it was 50 cents a tooth. With wisdom teeth, they only have two, and will have to go to an oral surgeon to have them remove, since they are coming in sideways, so they will get more for those, but we haven't decided how much yet.

Anything over 75 cents seems too much to me but that's just my opinion.

I saw a show (not sure which one.. Kelly and Michael?) where they were talking about the average payout across the country and it was about 3 bucks. The way we got through is simple. The kids got (get) different amounts depending on what was going on financially. They got letters from their tooth fairies and were encouraged to write a letter to the tooth fairy asking questions or commenting on whatever. They each got different fairies each time, thus the reason for the different amounts. Eye teeth always got more than the others, of course. :)

I type out letters with different fonts and cut the paper in designs to accompany the money. They enjoy reading the personalized letters. One time, we didn't have cash on hand :( and explained that He was a new fairy and didn't pack enough money and would be sure to come back by the next night. :)

Anyway, we average 3-10 dollars a tooth, depending on the tooth and circumstances.

Sorry this was long. This is one of my favorite events in our kids' lives.

L.

Oh, and I remember one time getting a Canadian coin (my dad was a cab driver and was given it as part of a tip) and my mom told me I had a Canadian Tooth Fairy. I went to school touting about how awesome it was to have a Canadian Tooth Fairy! ahahaha

We're a special case as we're dealing with genetic problems in 2 of our 3 kids. Our pay out is higher than the average. First tooth gets $20, and in the case of our first child he got a special stuffed animal that was around the $20 price range. Each tooth after that is $5. There was 1 molar that my oldest lost that he got $20 for as well, but just that one. There is a long story about it getting misdiagnosed as an ear problem, almost suing the first dentist, fighting with insurance, it becoming infected in the mean time, an emergency trip to our pick of dentist on a Saturday and finally a crown and having to have the dentist remove it in the end several years later because even though it was loose the crown prevented it from falling out on it's own. Yeah, he deserved $20 for it LOL

you guys are awesome! i LOVE the gold coins- wish i'd thought of that!
we did a couple of bucks for some of 'em, but mostly they got little toys. no particular reason except that's what my mom did for me, so i kept it going.
i agree it shouldn't be much. i think anything over $2 is excessive. love paying it out in quarters so it seems like lots.
i recently cleaned out a bottom cupboard in my vanity, and found the treasure trove of 'letters to santa' (i should post about that) and a little jewelry box full of.......
teeth.
no way now to tell whose is whose!
:D
khairete
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One dollar, usually in quarters.

She brings $1 gold coins. Fortunately, she really thought ahead when child #1 lost her first tooth, and obtained $40 in gold coins from the bank, so she has been all set for both kids! ;)

$2 per tooth unless there are special circumstances like dentist pulling it out, then it's more.

My son gets $1 and a new super cool toothbrush.

I do the Susan B Anthony dollars - I think they might have different people on them. They're gold in color, but still a dollar, and they have the cool factor. :)

$1 for the first tooth $2 for the second $3 for the third and so on

My kids get $5.

ETA: Both my kids have had to have all of their baby teeth pulled by the dentist because they don't seem to want to fall out on their own. Neither one of them lost their first tooth until they were nearly 7!

My kids received $1 US dollar and a bunch of foreign coins and currency for each tooth. The "toothfairy" thought at the time that it would be a novel idea to receive something special/out of the ordinary. The foreign money was purchased on eBay for not a whole lot of money.

The idea was that my kids could learn about math and geography with the money they received from different countries around the world. The idea was good, but the reality was that after the second kid started losing teeth it was more of a pain in the a** than the toothfairy originally expected. I don't know that I would recommend it.

$1.00, which is the same as it was for me when I was a kid. (Grandma would "secretly" slip us an extra $1 later.)

When my kids each lost their first tooth, they also woke up to find a board game like Monopoly Jr.