Kathy
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Tooth FairyWee E, came running down the stairs at bedtime this evening to show me her first gap, bless, eyes were sparkling and she was grinning fit to burst. 
We leave £1 under the pillow from the tooth fairy, what do other people do?
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Becki
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Same here, £1 from the tooth fairy. M lost hers, so I had to pretend I found it and slipped one of E's under the pillow instead.
Beats a couple of years ago, on holiday in Devon. Mark hit E in the face with a ball and we lost that one in the sand 
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alison
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We do £1 for the first and 50p for the rest.
Youngest has 5 missing at the moment!
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mc55
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our nieces get £1 per tooth too .... we used to get 5p !
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Kathy
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I remember getting a tanner.  
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Cabbagepatch
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Oh dear, now I feel very old. Our tooth fairy visited with 10 pence pieces. 
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Becki
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But I thought you didn't go to Brownies until last year or something?
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Kathy
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Cabbagepatch
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Those ten pence pieces were for my little darlings 
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agapanthus
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| Kathy wrote: | | I remember getting a tanner. |
Me too Kathy!!! and sometime if the tooth fairy was hard up it would be thruppence!! 
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mrutty
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| Becki wrote: | Same here, £1 from the tooth fairy. M lost hers, so I had to pretend I found it and slipped one of E's under the pillow instead.
Beats a couple of years ago, on holiday in Devon. Mark hit E in the face with a ball and we lost that one in the sand |
Nope we found that one after about 5 hours of looking
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Jellycat
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I've just realised that my tooth fairy was pre-decimal
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Kathy
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Farthing, half pence, penny, tuppence, thrupence, tanner, 2 bob, half crown, 10 bob note, I remember them all and you could get 4 chewy sweets for a penny (or a farthing each) and if you got a 10 bob note, well, it was like winning the lottery!
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Cabbagepatch
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Remember blackjacks and fruitsalads? Eight for one penny. Bargain!
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Kathy
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Don't make 'em the same these days.......................
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Jellycat
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You can still get blackjacks (but in a packet, not individually - it's just not the same...), but I haven't seen fruit salad chews for years....
There was another chew sweet that was sort of caramel and white colours, but I can for the life of me remember what it was called.
And then there were the little packets of parma violet sweets - yummy!
No wonder we needed the tooth fairy
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Daisy Bell
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We leave money under the pillow.
One late night my son lost one of his teeth came into us and showed it us.The night in question we had no money in the house what so ever only from the one and twos pot.
so i told my son that i had a email from the tooth fairy and because it was so late at night she was rather tired and she would collect the tooth the following night.(by then i would have gone to the cash point and got some change.He agreed and him and his tooth went to bed..
The following morning my son was really upset because unbeknown to us he had put the tooth under his pillow anyway and he thought that the fairy didnt want his tooth.after the tears and the never minds he went of to school.
i felt so bad for him i brought him the latest harry potter dvd and placed it under the pillow along with a pound for the tooth .
I also included a note from the fairy stateing that because she was unable to come last night he got a extra present.
The result was my son thinks the tooth fairy is the best thing since sliced bread and i was 15 quid out of pocket
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nanny
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oh daisy, you had a visit from the guilt fairy never mind the tooth fairy
we have all been there though i am sure
i can remember getting a dime and thinking i was well off...............
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Aqui
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it was 20p when I last used the tooth fairy! And i remember penny sweets, but in my day they were a penny each. Although I think flying saucers were 2p each.
that was bizarre at work when I mentioned pound notes and the others didn't beloieve they ever existed. Also they didn't remember half pennies. That made me feel old!
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Daisy Bell
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I can remember the half pence but only just
That is only because i remember getting black jacks and fruit salad for half p each.
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Kathy
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4 black jacks for a penny, or 1 for a farthing..............god, who started this, I feel ancient now!
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Cabbagepatch
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ooh yes, four blackjacks and four fruitsalads for the princely sum of 1penny. Those were the days
Am sure I left my zimmer somewhere around here..........
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nanny
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my zimmer has a jet pack on it
we didn't have penny sweets but i remember that candy bars were only a dime so you could have a "three musketeers" or an oh henry or maybe a hershey bar or maybe even a popsicle or a fudgesicle for that money
sigh
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