How Much Did the Tooth Fairy Leave?

[Redbelly98]

Hey, just wondering how much money people got as a kid, or give to their kids now, from the tooth fairy for losing a tooth?

If you're willing, please provide a time frame. Maybe we can get a handle on how inflation has played into this.

I used to get 10 cents (Mid 1960's).

 

[humanino]

The equivalent today would be around $3 (mid 80's)

 

[Math Is Hard]

The mid 1970s ranged 25 cents to 50 cents for me.

 

[wolram]

6d, a silver sixpence, 56ish, same as went into the christmass puddings.

 

[Math Is Hard]

When we get some more data, we can make a graph.

 

[Kurdt]

What age do kids lose teeth again?

 

[rootX]

Hey, just wondering how much money people got as a kid, or give to their kids now, from the tooth fairy for losing a tooth?

If you're willing, please provide a time frame. Maybe we can get a handle on how inflation has played into this.

I used to get 10 cents (Mid 1960's).

should put in 2009 $s... ,CPI now/CPI then * 10 cent but I couldn't get CPI :(

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/cpi/cpiai.txt[/URL]
70 cents?!?

 

[Danger]

It was a dime for me, in the late 50's or early 60's (I don't remember at what age I shed the old ones).

 

[turbo]

I was born in 1952, and my baby teeth went for about 5 cents each. I got a dime once (after I was hip to the scam) and tried to give it back to my mother. My father was supporting a family of 6 on just over minimum wage. She gave me one of the biggest hugs I've ever gotten.

 

[Redbelly98]

What age do kids lose teeth again?

They only lose them once, they don't lose them again.

 

[Danger]

They only lose them once, they don't lose them again.

Contraire, mon ami. In keeping with my overall weirdness, I had 3 sets of canines and incisors. The intermediate ones hung around for a couple years and then bailed. On the other hand, two of my wisdom teeth finally sprouted when I was 47 and I got them yanked because they were impacted. The other two still haven't come in, and I'm 53.

 

[Astronuc]

6d, a silver sixpence, 56ish, same as went into the christmass puddings.

Thrupence or sixpence.

I would give my kids 4 quarters or a dollar coin.

 

[Evo]

They only lose them once, they don't lose them again.

After my older daughter started losing her second set of teeth due to a third set coming in, she had to have surgery to remove the rest of the third set. The third teeth that did come in before we removed the rest are perfectly normal.

 

[lisab]

I got a quarter per tooth. It was the late 60's.

My daughter got a dollar per tooth...that was about 10 years ago.

 

[hypatia]

Early 60's I got 10 cents for a normal tooth, and 25 cents for a molar. The average child starts loosing teeth around 6 or 7.

 

[Kurdt]

6 or 7 you say? I think i got 50p in the early nineties.

 

[misgfool]

The teeth I lost didn't do any productive work, so no money was received.

 

[lisab]

The teeth I lost didn't do any productive work, so no money was received.

Ahahaha...you don't think your teeth did work? You ate, didn't you ?

 

[misgfool]

Ahahaha...you don't think your teeth did work? You ate, didn't you ?

Eh... maybe their retirement fund was mismanaged?

 

[lisab]

Eh... maybe their retirement fund was mismanaged?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Hey, just wondering how much money people got as a kid, or give to their kids now, from the tooth fairy for losing a tooth?

I never got a dime if I lost it. If it was put under my pillow I got a quarter. (mid 60's).

In keeping with the times, perhaps you should leave a bill for the disposal fee. With the exposure to blood, this comes under the heading of toxic materials handling, so additional surcharges should apply.

 

[Cyrus]

http://cash4goldblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/cash4goldtoday.jpg

Trade in your gold teeth. WERE MELTING GOLD BABY!

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

I was born in 79. I think I got a quarter when I was younger and fifty cents later. I or my younger sister(by two years) may have gotten a dollar at some point before the toothfairy was mothballed.

Rosemary Wells tracked the tooth exchange rate.
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/23/n...le-tooth-fairy-keeping-up-with-inflation.html

Apparently though the tooth fairy fell on hard times.
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i48624

 

[NeoDevin]

In the early 90's, I got a dollar (Canadian) for each one.

 

[Loren Booda]

6d, a silver sixpence, 56ish, same as went into the christmass puddings.

Into Christmas pudding? No wonder you lost teeth.

 

[brewnog]

20p - 50p in the late 1980s/early 90s.

 

[Chi Meson]

The first one I lost got me a nickel (1970). It went up to a dime, then to quarters. The last tooth I lost actually COST me about $80 (my one wisdom tooth, 1985). I think I lost out on the entire program.

 

[Monique]

Who invented the tooth fairy, and why? The tooth fairy never existed in my household.

 

[dlgoff]

Who invented the tooth fairy, and why? The tooth fairy never existed in my household.

You didn't loose any?

 

[Pyrrhus]

In mine, it didn't exist too. However, I knew about it from watching TV, but I never really cared about it anyway.

 

[LowlyPion]

These days I think kids are doomed to being stuck at $1 for quite awhile. Inflation will likely eat away at that until the introduction of $2 coins.

Maybe the kids can ask Congress for a bailout for the eroding value of tooth redemptions?

 

[Borek]

No tooth fairies in Poland. Unless my dentist qualifies, but she never gave me anything. Quite the contrary.

 

[Brilliant!]

These days I think kids are doomed to being stuck at $1 for quite awhile. Inflation will likely eat away at that until the introduction of $2 coins.

Maybe the kids can ask Congress for a bailout for the eroding value of tooth redemptions?

The last thing we need is another bailout. No one has done any research on the declining quality of children's teeth. With all of the rotten food kids eat these days, how can we rule out the possibility that the Tooth Fairy isn't willing to pay out the big bucks for terrible teeth? Have we totally forgotten about the aspect of quality?

Oh well. Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm not a toothologist. Never said I was. But there is one thing I do know: it's not inflationary. They don't worry about rising costs in The Land Beyond Time And Space And Rainbows.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Who invented the tooth fairy, and why? The tooth fairy never existed in my household.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2170/whats-the-origin-of-the-tooth-fairy

 

[Monique]

Thanks for the link. It also has an answer for Redbelly98:

Tooth fairy economics have been closely studied. Rosemary Wells, acknowledged as the world's leading tooth fairy authority, tracked the exchange rate for teeth from 1900 to 1980 against the consumer price index, and found that the tooth fairy kept up with inflation. Another survey in the mid 1990s claimed that the going rate had increased to nearly two bucks from a dime 25 years previously. If so I must have come from a privileged background – back in the 1950s I could swear I got a quarter.

 

[Moonbear]

The mid 1970s ranged 25 cents to 50 cents for me.

Same for me, usually just a quarter. The exception was the last couple of molars earned a silver dollar each. Apparantly the toothfairy thought those were special teeth.

 

[Redbelly98]

The mid 1970s ranged 25 cents to 50 cents for me.

Same for me, usually just a quarter. The exception was the last couple of molars earned a silver dollar each. Apparantly the toothfairy thought those were special teeth.

Mid-70's 7-year-olds are definitely post-babyboom. With the supply of fresh teeth dwindling, I guess the tooth fairy had to put up more and more cash to make her quota.

Thanks for the link. It also has an answer for Redbelly98:

Cool! Thanks Monique.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

I don't remember, maybe a nickel. There was no fairy, it was strictly a business matter between me and my father. He was always paying me for things. I got 10 cents for an A and 5 cents for a B on my report card. In the summer I got a penny a fly for killing flies in the house. Once we took a 2 week vacation on a lagoon and he bought me a crab trap and paid me 10 cents a crab. I had to buy the bait, but it was worth it. He would often give me 30 cents, 25 to go buy him a pack of cigarettes and 5 cents for a candy bar for myself. I got ten cents a week allowance until I was about 12 when I took a paper route.

I gave my kids a dollar a tooth, but I told them it was the tooth fairy. I did the whole thing, they had to put the tooth under the pillow, and I would come in after they fell asleep, took the tooth and left the dollar. I still have the teeth in a couple of envelopes to give to them, I don't know when.

 

[S_Happens]

I really don't remember how much I got. It was the early 90s ( ) and I remember at least a dollar for the later ones. For one I actually received a " tooth fairy coin" in a wooden container. I'll have to see if I can find that thing. I'm not sure if it was real silver and a troy ounce like the one in the link, but I remember it looking just like this.

http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-TOOTH-FAIRY-COIN-SILVER-ART-ROUND-BULLION-bar-GIFT_W0QQitemZ270356622303QQcmdZViewItem

 

[physics girl phd]

Late 70's early 80's... 25-50 cents.

We don't do the tooth-fairy in our present household though.
Mainly because the kid in question would take any change and...
A) spin it noisily on the hardwood floor for hours...
B) then put it in his mouth...
C) then return to step A.