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I don't pay near that much. We gave ours a dollar per(2018 dollars), which she didn't much care about. So we switched to a small ice cream cone per, which she was much more excited about and about the same price. But she always has known mom was the tooth fairy.

One of the few times in my life I've ever been in a fistfight was as a child over a lost tooth. A kid being a bit too rough in a backyard game knocked my already loose tooth out, and after stopping everything, I couldn't find it in the grass and went ballistic at the prospect of not getting a visit from the tooth fairy. Throwing kid punches while screaming about the tooth fairy.

It's one of those cringe/embarrassing moments that pop up in your brain for the rest of your life.

I'm pretty OK with the spirit of Santa Claus, but the idea of lying to kids about mythical creatures doesn't sit well with me, based on how fooled I felt later.

I'm now picturing your daughter waking up to find a mess of melted ice cream and splintered cone under her pillow.

Oh no, a visit from the Tooth Troll!

This makes me really wish the US had coins for small dollar values, finding a shiny coin under your pillow is so much more appealing than a wrinkly bill IMHO. Quarters aren't worth a damn thing any more and a cup of coffee is at least $5 now.

I am also sitting at a desk decorated with a bunch of Mardi Gras doubloons because it makes me feel like I'm in the middle of a pirate's treasure so I may be biased.

Agreed with most of that, but "a cup of coffee" is 1-2 dollars from your average fast food place.

I’m more used to the prices that include rent on a table at a cafe, I guess!

We got a stash of $2 bills from the bank (took several trips, they’re getting harder to find). Our kids think they’re really neat.

If you don't mind waiting a couple of days, your bank (or credit union) should be able to do a currency order for you, and you can get $200 in $2s. Most likely uncirculated, sequential bills.

We give our kids gold Sacagawea dollar coins under their pillows. Can’t get them from the US mint anymore, but it’s easy to get them from your local bank branch (who are happy to dispose of them).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea_dollar

When I was 16, I had all 4 wisdom teeth out and got a full roll of Sacagawea dollar coins from the Tooth Fairy!

There are president dollars now that are the same size and shape

The last two we gave our kid were James Polk and John Adams.

I get them back because I'm letting my 9 yr old bank money with me at 10%/mo. I'm hoping it teaches him to save and to be mindful of spending. If it grows too much I may have to back off on the interest a little. So far he has occasionally buys stuff, so it doesn't get too out of hand.

Haha, wait until he grows old enough to do the math on that and leaves it in for a few years.

Wait for him to grow enough to lend money from friends at 3% and deposit it with you.

Then he gets a fun lesson about counterparty risk?

Silver dollars are still minted and are legal tender, but of course it would make more sense to trade them in for their silver value.

Do they need to be spendable for their actual value? If you encourage them to hold on to them rather than spend them, American Silver Eagles (face value $1, market value $30-35 depending on year) are a _very_ shiny, quite large coin to find. They are also fun to collect in multiples because when you manipulate a stack/handful of them, they make the "video game money" sound.

US fairy tooth index is around 5.5 USD.

Argentina's largest bill (1000 ARS) is between 3.6 and 7.8 USD (depending on the exchange rate you want to use).

Are you up for imports?

There used to be $2.50, $3, $5 and $10 circulating gold coins.

I screwed this up so bad. The first time my son lost a tooth, I put $5 under his pillow. But he was a squirmer and ended up pushing the bill down the back of the bed.

He wakes me up the next morning, "The Tooth Fairy stole my tooth!!" I of course am completely confused, so I struggle out of bed and into his bedroom, see the bed in chaos, immediately realize what happened and go directly to where the bill would be. Apparently, in my sleepy state I didn't sell the performance of saying, "Oh, look! Here it is, silly!" He looked at me slyly and took the money. Later I learned that's when he knew the whole Fairy thing was bunk.

Which is OK, really, I disliked lying to him like that. All those crazy imaginary characters - Santa, Easter Bunny, Jesus, Tooth Fairy, etc. - are just silly and guaranteed to cause tears, disappointment and a sense of betrayal. I only played along with the holidays so he wouldn't be the only kid who didn't get a visit from magic land.

My siblings and I would get a quarter if we lost a tooth at our house, but once my sister lost a tooth at our aunt and uncle’s house and she got $20! The Easter bunny works in mysterious ways…

That's dynamic pricing.

And it must be a side hustle so the Easter Bunny has something to do year-round.

I recall getting a dime in the 1950s and I was overjoyed.

I gave my daughter a Kennedy half dollar in the late 1980s.

We're visiting my wife's family, and tonight my sister-in-law's front tooth broke completely off while biting into a tortilla chip. It would be pretty funny if the tooth fairy left something under her pillow. Hopefully her husband thinks of it, because I'm not sneaking into their bedroom at 2AM. I already witnessed her scream bloody murder once today!

Little did I know I had been getting ripped off by my parents for years! $1 a tooth? I demand reparation.

When did you sell? Perhaps look into tooth (teeth?) futures ;)

I am still paying $1 today!

[And I actually feel very bad lying to my kids about this whole tooth fairy business.Tooth fairy wasn't a thing in my family when I was growing up.]

> And I actually feel very bad lying to my kids about this whole tooth fairy business

Then don't? You can even preserve the magic by giving them a silver dollar or whatever to commemorate each lost tooth.

last time I recall this index being brought up was during the financial crisis

Kids should start 3d printing teeth to offset the inflation

The realization anyone could sneak into your room, disturb you pillow, and not wake you up. D=

(Also I miss being able to sleep that soundly through the night.)

Wow. By comparison, I got 50¢, and that's adjusted for inflation! (It was a quarter at the time.)

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