We always got a dollar. By the time my daughter is old enough to lose teeth, $3 probably. Enough to get some candy to rot the others out

We do silver dollars. It is different, so that makes it a little more special than just getting a dollar. My daughter is in first grade and she seems pretty happy with the amount she's getting. $20 just sounds ridiculous.

My daughter got $5 for the first one and $1 for everyone thereafter.

I have heard about the $20 lately, too. Hell, for that, I'll pull out a few of my own! Anyhow, my son is nowhere near that, but I figure a dollar or two should be sufficient.

When I was little we got $1, but when I spent the night at my grandma's house and lost a tooth I got $5. So, I tried to save my teeth for gradma's house!

MarinerMandy, that's hilarious. I'll have to tell my child that grandma's toothfairy is fancier than ours.

The tooth fairy at my house is very random. I think I gave her $5 the first time. However, when some of her other teeth fell out we only had $10's or higher...so she got $10. She came to expect that from there on in(although it doesn't always happen).

Now that we have a puppy who is losing teeth, she tries to get money for the dog. I told her there is no such thing as a dog tooth fairy b/c the puppy swallows all her teeth.

I think a dollar is sufficient.

Same here, radarkitty. She got $5 for her first tooth and $1 after that.

We always got $1 for the 'front' teeth, and $2 for molars. $20 per tooth just seems ridiculous!

our tooth fairy leaves gifts. a scrap book making kit, a barbie, and webkinz. money doesn't have much meaning and then they think they can buy candy.

i also leave a feather on the floor. they think it's from her wings

I remember getting a quarter as a kid...per tooth. I am dating myself here!! Now, when my daughter started losing teeth back in '95 or so...I gave her a dollar per tooth. And grandma would give her another dollar. My son gets a dollar also. I can't imagine giving any more than that!!

my little one is too small to even have teeth let alone lose them; but my sister-in-law gives her kids coins from around the world rather than US dollars or 20's! The kids LOVE them, of course the tooth fairy has money from all over, she does go to ALL kids houses right?

my kids are still to young to loose their teeth, but I think that the idea of of half dollars or maybe silver dollars would be cool. def. not 20 and probably not even 5. what do kids need all that money for, anyways?

My daughters got tooth fairy barbie for her first, son got a dump truck that had a big smile We do a dollar for the rest

I got $20 when I lost my first tooth, but I think it was more of a consolation prize since I was in third grade. I kid you not, as a late bloomer — I lost my last baby tooth when I was 16 and getting ready for a date. I cashed that one in as well.

Five dollars a tooth.

My cousin's son, D, was sleeping over at a friend's the night he lost a tooth. His friend's mom called my cousin and asked if she could be the tooth fairy for the night. That night her husband got out of bed in the middle of the night and slipped some money under D's pillow that he had left out. The mom awoke the next morning to hear D saying from the next room, "One hundred, One hundred twenty, One hundred forty... Two hundred eighty, Three Hundred, Three Hundred and twenty dollars!! The tooth fairy left me three hundred and twenty dollars!!!!!."
The father had emptied the contents of his wallet at night and left it next to the tooth fairy money. I guess between the grogginess and darkness he grabbed the wrong pile!

katedavis... That is SOOOOO funny, what happened? Did the kid keep it???? Surely your cousin didn't let him?!

I'm sure the mom explained the mishap.

$5 usually, unless I happened to only have larger bills on me and I didn't have time to get change.

The Tooth Fairy leaves our kids 1€ ($1.60) per tooth.

lickitysplit... i LOVE that feather idea, they think it's from the tooth faeries wings!? thats just Genius!

The first tooth I lost, I wrote the tooth fairy a letter.
In return, I got a silver dollar, a Susan B. Anthony, and the note that I wrote was covered in fairy dust. I never spent the silver dollars, because they were special, and I wanted to collect them.

If only I knew that there was a whole bag of them in my mom's nightstand next to the tooth collection!

I'd probably do something different like that and give my kids foreign money, implying that their tooth fairy traveled a long way just for them, all different countries, like postcards.

My son got $10 for his first, because he swallowed it eating corn and felt so bad. Other than that, they get $5 per tooth. A little high in my opinion but my niece and nephew get upwards of $25 the result of a divorce, the tooth fairy visits both households, plus the maternal grandparents kick in. Just nuts if you ask me.

I don't remember how much we got for each tooth, but I do remember that the tooth fairy always left us a note. My parents must have loved writing all those notes, cause we got notes from EVERYONE! The easter bunny, santa, tooth fairy... you name it, I got a letter from it!

$5. My friend gives his kids $20/tooth, but he's a dentist.

I always got $2 bills for my teeth when I was little. And since they're "weird" money, I always kept them and have a collection of tooth money in a keepsake box to this day.

My baby's only 4 months old, so she doesn't have any teeth yet to lose, but I think I'll probably do the same thing for her (I always like the money from around the world thing... makes it seem more special and it's not like she'll be able to go out and spend it on junk food very easily).

When I was younger, what the fairy left was all contingent upon how much pain we went through for the tooth to come out. It ranged from 25 cents to $5.00. The only time I got a 5 though was when one of my molars broke off in pieces because the new one grew in before the old one came out (OUCH!!!). I think $20 for a tooth is ridiculous!