Toothfairying is hard
Up in the middle of the night. Sneaking around. No, I wasn’t trying to see the eclipse because it was dark. I was trying to steal a tooth and replace it with a $5 bill. Junior managed to lose her tooth in the most unceremonious way. She was at gymnastics, went to the bathroom, and came out and said ‘here’. And she had her tooth in her hand. No blood. No crying. No drama.
I sneak into her room and slide my hand under the pillow. Grab the bag the tooth is in and she stirs. So I hightailed it out of there. Had to wait a few minutes sneak back in with the five spot. She can be a light-sleeper.
December 21st, 2010 at 11:42 am
Dude, $5?
Don’t tell my kids, okay? They only get $2… 🙂
December 21st, 2010 at 11:43 am
Grandson lost a tooth recently. His mom finds Grandson in his room just before bedtime, moving furniture around, placing stuff in the path to his bed, etc. Mom asks Grandson what he’s doing? Grandson’s reply: ‘I’m setting a trap for the Tooth Fairy!‘
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Fortunately the Tooth Fairy has a mole in the household and was able to avoid being ‘trapped’. This time.
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Be careful out there!
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December 21st, 2010 at 11:49 am
I’m gonna have to delegate the tooth fairy detail to my wife. I’m about as sneaky as an elephant wearing a suit of jingle bells.
December 21st, 2010 at 11:59 am
Yeah, $5 is definately in high cotton territory. That fairy only dumps a buck in quarters under the pillows of our adorable little spawn.
December 21st, 2010 at 12:05 pm
At least she’s not sleeping with a gun on the nightstand — yet.
December 21st, 2010 at 12:28 pm
My mom taught me that you leave the tooth in a cup on the dresser next to the bed. She was a smart woman. That drastically reduced the level of complication in doing the swap.
December 21st, 2010 at 12:39 pm
My oldest is a heavy sleeper. I could pick her up, toss her over my shoulder, grab the tooth an replace it with a roll of loose quarters in a paper bag and she’d probably never even stir.
My youngest? Not so much. Going to be trickier with her.
December 21st, 2010 at 12:49 pm
Why, when I was a child I was lucky to get a dime! Children today don’t realize how good they have it.
(There has been inflation. My, how dimes have changed.)
December 21st, 2010 at 1:01 pm
My kids get a $1 coin – which can be hard to find. Sometimes the Post Office stamp machines will give chnage for large bills in $1 coins.
December 21st, 2010 at 2:50 pm
Wow – $5?
That’s inflation for you I guess… we only got a quarter when I was a kid!
December 21st, 2010 at 2:59 pm
My kids have tooth pillows. They’re about 5″ by 6″ with a small pouch for the tooth. The best part is that they have a fabric loop attached. The loop goes on the doorknob and the tooth fairy doesn’t event have to enter the room.
December 21st, 2010 at 3:12 pm
I was giving mine shiny Sacagaweas for his. Kind of a loss if you want to keep them. Parents can be such assholes. Never had trouble sneaking them in on him, hehe.
December 21st, 2010 at 4:07 pm
If you’re willing to buy $250 worth, you can get the mint to send you dollar coins for free, with free shipping, charged to your credit card. The only shortcoming is that you are not allowed to just go deposit them back into the bank.
December 21st, 2010 at 4:57 pm
I got busted. Now we joke about that no-good tooth fairy.
December 21st, 2010 at 4:59 pm
Daniels Says:
A silver Quarter from 1932-1964 is worth about $5.30 in fiat nowadays.
December 21st, 2010 at 5:00 pm
@Ellen,
“Why, when I was a child I was lucky to get a dime!”
Don’t look now, but those pre-1965 dimes are worth $2+ now, due to their silver content.
December 21st, 2010 at 6:52 pm
With my youngest, I would make her put her tooth under the pillow for several nights in a row.
When she asked why the tooth fairy hadn’t come, I would tell her that I had emailed the TF the information but she was backlogged and had to fit it into her schedule.
So after a week or so, she wouldn’t be expecting the TF anymore which made it a heck of a lot easier to sneak in there and pull off the switch.
December 21st, 2010 at 7:55 pm
Man, I heard inflation might go hyper…
December 22nd, 2010 at 12:09 am
$5 bucks??
I’m in the dollar coin group. Sometimes I pull them out of little ears. Gotta stack of ’em right here for the next ear that walks by.
December 22nd, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Back in the 80s, I bought a couple of rolls of Morgan silver dollars, mostly from the 1880s. Not in collectible condition, so they call it “bag silver”. You know, a big, fat silver dollar under the pillow is a great replacement for a tooth. (There can be problems, though, if your kid loses a tooth on vacation, when you’re away from your stash.)
Even the Morgans are probably more than $5 now.
December 22nd, 2010 at 3:55 pm
“If you’re willing to buy $250 worth, you can get the mint to send you dollar coins for free, with free shipping, charged to your credit card. The only shortcoming is that you are not allowed to just go deposit them back into the bank.”
That’s because people were gaming the system, and ordering them on credit cards that gave free miles or other things, and then using the coins to immediately pay the credit card bill before they got charged interest. And doing it repeatedly. Some people got hundreds of thousands of miles and upgrades, if I remember correctly.