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On this Humana commercial on TV, a little girl is all excited showing her mother that her tooth fell out. She's happy that the tooth fairy will visit her tonight. The next morning she's dancing around with a paper bill in her hand.

When I was a kid the going price the tooth fairy paid was twenty five cents. Not having any kids myself, I'm wondering what the tooth fairy is shelling out these days for a tooth?
 
Back in the early 1960s I got a quarter. Inflation calculator says there has been roughly 700% inflation since then and the quarter would be $1.97 in todays inflated currency. So $20 seems way out of line. But kids are more special now.
 
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Hell, you guys are lucky you got anything at all..

When I was a kid, my father would knock them out of my mouth free of charge.. No tooth fairy involved..
 
i have an 8 and 10 year old so we lose teeth around here with some regularity. The Tooth Fairy here leaves Tooth ($2) dollar bills. ha ha get it ?
They never had seen one before and they never see them in general circulation so they think its pretty cool getting one. easily available at the bank but they think its pretty cool.

My 8 year old is a saver and has a kiddie purse with like 40$ in it from savings cash and change here and there. my 10 year old blows it as fast as he can get it.
 
ElToro said:
i have an 8 and 10 year old so we lose teeth around here with some regularity. The Tooth Fairy here leaves Tooth ($2) dollar bills. ha ha get it ?

Back in the 80's my daughter had a tooth fall out so she put it under her pillow without telling anyone. Next morning at breakfast she was so upset that the tooth fairy had not left her any money. Thinking fast, I told her that the tooth fairy only worked Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. She nodded sagely and, lo and behold, the next morning her tooth was gone from under the pillow and two shiny quarters were there!
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You have to think quick sometimes to be a good dad. When I hear an ice cream truck, I tell them that is the music they play when they are out of ice cream.
 
When did the Tooth Fairy start carrying $20 dollar bills?

I hadn't thought about that in a long time. Wow, kids are spoiled.

When is the Tooth Fairy going to just make a deposit to the kids debit account? :D
 
Jimbo357mag said:
When did the Tooth Fairy start carrying $20 dollar bills?

I hadn't thought about that in a long time. Wow, kids are spoiled.

When is the Tooth Fairy going to just make a deposit to the kids debit account? :D
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Hey, that's a good one...just tell your kids that the tooth fairy made a deposit to their college fund. :mrgreen:
 
In the 50's I got a quarter. The going rate for me and my friends for shoveling a foot or more of snow from my neighbors driveway was 75 cents. 75 cents would buy an afternoon at the movies and 5 candy bars. In 2017, an afternoon at the movies and 5 candy bars would cost at least $20...everything is relative.
 
My daughter is still at the age of losing teeth, however my biggest problem is I never have any cash since I only use credit cards. But the last time sh lost a tooth, I gave her a good two dollar bill. She still has it in her piggy bank!

And yes I agree $20 is far too much. I was shocked when the kid at school told me that.
 
When I was a kid I'd stick a lost tooth under my pillow
and all I'd find in the morning in it's place was a small pile of dirt.
Beat that.
 
gasbag said:
When I was a kid I'd stick a lost tooth under my pillow
and all I'd find in the morning in it's place was a small pile of dirt.
Beat that.
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Man, you must have really PO'd the tooth fairy. :shock:
 
My brother and I got a quarter per tooth. In the late '40s cash was a bit scarce around our place so sometimes the tooth fairy couldn't come up with the cash until payday.
 
exavid said:
My brother and I got a quarter per tooth. In the late '40s cash was a bit scarce around our place so sometimes the tooth fairy couldn't come up with the cash until payday.
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Better late than never. I'd say you had a pretty good tooth fairy.
 
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