What does the tooth fairy at your house do?

[SplashMountainMama]

Oh gosh, I have 6 kids. Needless to say I quit saving them somewhere along the way. My only alternative was to open a used tooth business!

I hear you. We have 6 kids too and although only 4 of them have lost teeth so far they are adding up quickly. I have them all in an old jewelry box up in the cupboard. Each kid has his/her own little baggy of teeth, but I'm sure when it comes time to remember which teeth belong to which kid I'll forget. The tooth fairy has forgotten to come on numerous occasions around here. We always figure that the tooth fairy must have had an extra busy night and couldn't get to us in time. My oldest has caught on (although he doesn't admit it) and leaves less-than-subtle hints about the suggested $ value of his teeth. DS #2 stockpiled his teeth until he had 6 to collect on and DD writes letters to the tooth fairy when she hasn't lost teeth and doesn't understand why the tooth fairy doesn't write back. I don't want to cheat the younger ones out of the experience, but there are days when I could lose my mind over it!!!

 

[6Smiles]

We use the Gold Dollars for our kids. We have kept all the teeth? Not really sure why? I guess I'll just make a little envelope and scrapbook the first tooth along with their first haircut etc.

 

[Mickeyorbust]

My mom glued all my teeth into my baby album. Kind of cute really, looks like a string of pearls with dates written above each. I kept all of DD13s teeth intending to do the same...hasn't happened yet. They're still in ziploc bags with the dates written on them. DD6 has lost two teeth...swallowed both of them.

 

[sndfan]

It depends on the tooth. My DS broke out both front teeth when he was 15 months old and had caps...we were REALLY happy when he lost those. So was the tooth fairy. She was especially sympathetic when he lost his first tooth. He had gotten hit in the mouth with a friends backpack and had to get the cap pulled! What a first tooth loss experience. The tooth fairy left him $20 for that. But the rest of the teeth have just been $2-3 dollars. Sometimes they are mixed with the $1 gold coins and of course a few foreign coins. The tooth fairy has to travel all over the world, and sometimes she gets mixed up and forgets where she is!

 

[CastleCreations]

My 5yo is about to lose her first tooth. I am going to do what my parents did. I was given a silver dollar for each tooth I lost. I have even told DD about this and she thinks it is so cool to have coins and not dollar bills. I still have all the silver dollars from when I lost my teeth. My mom told DD the other day that the tooth fairy gave my mom back all of my baby teeth. I guess I will keep them also. I am a dentist so teeth are not yucky to me. I like teeth!!!

I love that you said you like teeth...too funny... I'm a nurse, and I just about gag, when I have to brush someone's teeth or do mouth care...I would rather brush the kind that come out...LOL.
I have a questions for you...LOL, I'm sure you get lots..I have a dd age 6 who lost her front tooth a long time ago...almost a year, and the new tooth has come in fully yet, it's about 1/4 of the way in. I'm considering letting her dentist pull the tooth next to it, so it can come in. It has affected her speech and the way she eats...what do you think? I really hate to pull a perfectly good tooth...LOL

 

[juliana_sd]

DS's first tooth is hanging on by a thread - I think it will come out while we're at WDW ~ we leave Wednesday! I was planning to do golden dollars, but that one might have to be a Disney Dollar. (Yes, ONE dollar. I'm taking advantage of him being the first one in his class. )

 

[christa112]

I must have about 10 baggies filled with teeth in my jewelry box. LOL. I am not sure what I am going to do with them.

As for what the Fairy leaves them. For the 1st tooth they get $5.00 and then $2.00 for each tooth thereafter. My boys are done loosing their front teeth, so now I just have to wait for DD to start.

 

[lpoeppelman]

We always pitch them. Had we kept them, I really don't know what we'd ever do with them?

 

[2tinkerbells]

I love that you said you like teeth...too funny... I'm a nurse, and I just about gag, when I have to brush someone's teeth or do mouth care...I would rather brush the kind that come out...LOL.
I have a questions for you...LOL, I'm sure you get lots..I have a dd age 6 who lost her front tooth a long time ago...almost a year, and the new tooth has come in fully yet, it's about 1/4 of the way in. I'm considering letting her dentist pull the tooth next to it, so it can come in. It has affected her speech and the way she eats...what do you think? I really hate to pull a perfectly good tooth...LOL

If it is a baby tooth, she should lose it soon anyway. I would go by what your dentist thinks.
What is funny is you are a nurse and hate to do mouth care, I hate to take care of any other part of the body. Sores and stitches on skin give me the creeps

 

[vy2cga]

DD has a very small drawstring "Tooth exchange pouch" to put her lost tooth in and then find the money in in the morning. In our house the tooth fairy is a cousin to TinkerBell and she also gets lots of Tinkerbell related items too including dolls, books, jewellry, Dollar store items etc. I went online and found lots of tooth fairy certificates and even a tooth fairy envelope. Kids are only small for such a short time why not add a bit of extra magic. I keep the teeth in a small baby ornament in her closet. But she's the oldest and maybe why there is so much clutter here. Scrapbooking them was a good idea maybe will put them on the toothfairy page.

 

[james'mommy]

I bought a cute little tooth shaped box at a hospital gift shop for 3 bucks. We use that and I think that DH puts ir in the lock box in the closet. My MIL gave my DH his baby teeth a few years ago, I think they are in the lock box too. OT we were at the dentist office a few days ago and they had a little letter framed that the dentist had written to the tooth fairy years ago. cute

 

[james'mommy]

DH keeps his wisdom teeth in a little green box the dentist gave him. They are cirrently sitting on the kitchen island (not normally there) along with MIL moms day present