When the "tooth fairy" came what did you usually get

Was this the first childhood myth that was busted?

I think it went up to a quarter, but maybe I just remember that.

One night I felt my mom's hand slide under the pillow, busted!

:P

I kept mace by my bed.

She still talks about that night...

tutu and all because in our house he was the nurturer.

and as I got a little older, I started getting silver dollars.

Can't remember exactly how and when I stopped believing in the tooth fairy, but I was relieved to find the shillings kept on coming.

is that a ram's head mounted on a wall?

But it's not just any ram, it's a merino ram. Merinos give good wool. In those days wool was one of our major exports, Oz was ridin' to glory on the sheep's back.

Honestly, I don't remember which childhood myth went kerflooey first. I don't even remember when I tweaked to any of them. I do recall, however, that when one went, the rest collapsed like a house of cards.

Inflation check: My kid has been getting FOUR half-dollars per tooth!

blame it on Saint Ronald / Bush & Cheney

I don't remember when or how it was busted. Just like I don't remember learning that there was no Santa Claus and no Easter Bunny.

never mind. Bad joke.

:D

:thumbsup:

In our family, a dime was given for the FIRST tooth lost (and nothing for the others) but I swallowed my first lost tooth so I could not put it under my pillow.

But I never thought the tooth fairy was real. (And I also always knew that Santa and the Easter bunny were make-believe.)

be a 25 øre coin in it

This was pretty standard: you were supposed to take a glass of water, drop in your tooth and shake some salt and pepper into it. Then you left the glass in a kitchen cupboard. In the morning, thru the magic of the tooth elf (or whatever his name was), your tooth had changed into a 25 øre coin

Despite warnings from various people that I might ruin the recipe and be poor in the morning, I did try to improve the recipe, experimenting with the effect of adding mustard or catsup, in the hopes that a higher denomination coin would result. Fortunately, the tooth continued to change into a coin, but sadly it was always only 25 øre

I was never tempted to prematurely extract my teeth for profit. The 25 øre coin was something like a half-penny or centavo: it is longer legal tender, having been withdrawn from circulation last year because it represented such a tiny value that nobody cared about it. Forty years ago, I might have been able to buy a piece or two of salty licorice with it

Back in the day you could probably buy a candy bar with that! :)

It came out and she didn't tell me about it, but put it under her pillow that night and so the next morning there was no money. She then told me she had lost a tooth and put it under her pillow that night and the next morning she had a dollar coin. Yes, she had her doubts and put them to the test. It was also her last Christmas that she believed in Santa Claus.

as the smart was always seem to be

daughter a dollar when her 1st tooth fell out, and then double the amount for each successive tooth. They soon realized they would be into big money if they kept it up, so they reverted back to a dollar after the amount quickly reached $32.00.

My daughter received $2.00 per tooth. Way back when I got $1.00.

Pounds or pence or rubles or
kroners or pesos or what ever
we had laying around.

My father, who raised me, was a coin collector. Basically, he built a complete Peace Dollar collection for me, using lost baby teeth as an excuse. Yeah, kids have 20 baby teeth, and a Peace dollar collection by date and mint mark is 24 coins. The jig was up by then anyway, and I got the last five when the last tooth came out. And the collection immediately went in to a safe deposit box. I didn't see it again until I graduated from college. My "tooth fairy" silver dollar was always bought back the following morning by my father, who would give me a paper dollar (in those days, silver certificates), which I would promptly piss away frivolously. My father passed on about fifteen years ago, but I still have the collection. And I think of him every time I see it, or think about it.

I used to get a few quarters 45 years ago, Inflation I guess?

It didn't make any sense.

My Aunt still gave me money for each tooth.

I just let think I believed it.

What did they do with all those teeth?! I know that they must be somewhere... :rofl:

I lost my baby teeth at a pretty young age, starting at four, so I never questioned it... :shrug:

Once two came out at the same time. The tooth fairy left me two quarters, so he ain't a cheapskate.

abundantly inder pillow. when they got up they would have gold glitter all over them, and even brushing off carry it to school with them or thru out day.... having the good feeling. we would have gold sprinkle around house for days afterwards

i am sharing cause it was one of those childhood things i did for little ones that was so little, but brought all of us such a good feeling.

now they are older, damn if i can remember to get dollar under pillow. first few times i forgot, felt bad. but pretty much knew kids didnt believe, so why play.

the time of gold glitter lasts only a small period of time

Also, I had all three myths busted at the same time - Santa, Easter Bunny, and Tooth Fairy. If I remember correctly, I took it very well.