When I was little, I used to write letters to the tooth fairy. My mom would write back in glittery pen and over-the-top cursive (she would even draw little teeth on it). According to the letters, the tooth fairy was named Tabitha.
My wife did this with my daughter's. I still remember the day some jerky boy at school told my oldest daughter that the tooth fairy was not real. It really broke her 💔. It was a bad couple days for her, she made fairy house in the woods and a bear destroyed it over night and took a shit on it. Then the she shared with her class what bear had done and that's when a boy made fun of her for believing in fairy folk.
When I was little and an older girl told me that her mother just took the tooth and flushed it, I just assumed it was because she was naughty and the tooth fairy refused to visit her so her mother had to do it.
This backfired on me. I left some fairy dust for my kid because he asked the fairies -in a note- to train him to do magic. He tried to do magic with the fairy dust and was SO disappointed.
Oh that is wholesome and precious! Maybe sprinkle some fairy dust (seeds) with him on some moist soil and he can be introduced to the magic of…plant germination? IDK, life is magical in my opinion
We must share a brain cause I was thinking the exact same thing. Plant the right kind of seed and it can be fun for the whole family.
Especially for Dad.
I have a distinct memory of writing a letter to the tooth fairy asking if it’d be possible for her to leave me a little more money next time because I’d heard my parents talking about how they weren’t sure how they would pay the bills. I had to have absolutely broken my parents hearts…
I babysat a family friend’s daughter for a few years awhile back. I happened to be watching her overnight when she lost her first tooth, so I had to play the tooth fairy, naturally. I was only 16 at the time, and recalling how magic the tooth fairy was for me, I wanted this to be really involved. I wrote a short letter in my fanciest not-so-fancy handwriting, left a trail of glitter from her window to her pillow, left her $5, and even left a little sequin, pretending that the fairy had left a wing scale behind. I think it healed my inner child a bit. Her reaction the next morning was priceless.
Thanks for posting this and reminding me of my memory!
My cousins came up with a great solution for this after the grandparents left their child a $5 bill from the tooth fairy. They explained to the child that the cleaner, better cared for the tooth the more money it’s worth. Encourages better dental hygiene and explains away a smaller payday for the next tooth.
My kid just lost their first tooth, my wife looked up the going price of a tooth online and people were suggesting $10-$15 in our area. We just went with a gold dollar coin. Definitely went over way better for a kid that has no concept of dollar value.
Some poor waiter is gonna get this on a table and it's gonna get glitter all over their apron and the rest of the money. (Personal experience with fairy money)
Cannot stand glitter. One of my mom’s friends rode with us to an Indian wedding reception and her outfit had glitter on it. Damn car seat was covered for weeks!
I was in charge of a fundraiser a few years ago and this little 7 year old have me a bunch singles covered in glitter. The next day her mom (who happened to be my kids kindergarten teacher) came up to me and said "sooo, I just needed to clarify, the dollars my daughter gave you were tooth fairy dollars, that's why there's glitter on them. I promise I'm not a stripper". It was hilarious.
That’s super cute! Much more wholesome then the other reason I’ve seen glitter on bills… I always gave my kiddo silver dollars, or weird bills from other countries. He has quite a collection of strange currency now, even though he know now that it was me he keeps them around.
In case OP doesn’t know the star at the end of the serial indicates that the bill was printed to replace another bill with the same serial number that had an error. While your specific serial number doesn’t seem to special, the bill is slightly worth more than a dollar to a collector.
I googled. First, they want every batch to have the same number of bills. 2nd, they don't reuse the serial, the replacement bills have their own version of the serial system which is why they have the star, just in case it somehow happens that a normal and replacement both had the same.
There was this time my uncle came to visit from out of town. So one night all the brothers went out and came back at like 2am. Said they went to the casino, but then we noticed my uncle had a streak of glitter from his belly to his chest. LOL caught red handed.
Lmoa, are you implying he strips? Strippers wear glitter. People put clean money on the stripper's body to tip. The money gets glitter on it. That money generally doesn't find its way back to patrons...
I've never been to one but I assume there's some facility for changing large bills into smaller ones which would presumably give you a handful of "pre-tipped" bills which you might not necessarily tip back.
Then the glitter gets all over the pillow, gets in the kids eye, causes an infection and they lose the eye. Glitter is NOT to be fucked with.
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/7qyumy/til_a_woman_lost_an_eye_due_to_a_piece_of_glitter/
Why do so many people think this is a great idea? I would hate having glitter in my bed, especially near where my face goes. Hope she doesn't breathe it in or get any in her eyes...
I never felt fooled or betrayed because when I found out they weren’t real I was smart enough to realize they were just games to make my childhood fun.
If you honestly would have felt lied to or betrayed, then that’s pretty sad, and I think it states how much of a privileged life you have if that’s all it takes to break a relationship with your parents.
I hate the tooth fairy. My son comes home at six year old. "Daddy why does Keith get $20 everytime he loses a tooth but I only get $1?"
"Because Keith's dad is a lawyer, son. Because Keith's dad is a lawyer."
I bought colourful feathers, and when my daughter loses a tooth I’ll drop a feather somewhere near her bed. She has a small collection of “fairy feathers”.
Our tooth fairy only paid in $2 bills or dollar coins. Money they don’t see everyday. And when they’d go to spend it they were always excited to find out it was real currency. They were true believers!!
My mother used to put cotton wool around the fireplace on Christmas morning, and pretend it was part of Santa's beard!
And our neighbour who had horses used to run the out around the green on Christmas night to put hoof prints in the grass, and of course all of us idiot kids fell for it hook, line and sinker!
LOVE IT. When my daughter lost her first tooth my husband printed a letter from the tooth fairy in the TINIEST font imaginable, then cut it out so it was about 2” sq., for authenticity points.
benevolent gaslighting.
it's fun to control what your kids believe and teach them to accept non-reality, right? no way that could bite our society in the ass later...
I used to put ‘special’ commemorative coins in my little sisters tooth fairy box, still puts a smile on my face whenever she proudly tells people about what the tooth fairy used to leave for her.
Tellers at the bank hate this stuff, it gets everywhere when the business it is spent at deposits their bills. Please just give her coins or something.
Gotta say, it really is odd how we collectively decide to lie to our kids en masse (and make sure to never reveal the truth to anyone else's kid either). Basically harmless probably, but weird.
When my kiddos were little, I would do something similar. But I rolled the “golden” dollar coins in glitter and left those as tooth fairy gifts. Cause the TF deals in Gold, don’t you know. Best of all, while helping my college-age daughter pack some things for storage, I found a little velvet bag: she has kept most of her TF ‘gold’ as keepsakes.
Adults lying to children to create that seed of doubt in authority for their entire lives.
Don’t worry the churches are happy they don’t have to pay for fairy dust to trick you.
I’m not sure that teaching kids that fairy tales are real is a good thing. Sure, they’ll learn and survive… but what’s the point of making kids believe in magic just to later tell them that you lied in the name of “tradition”?
It’ll be even more effective if he gets a Google voice number he can save in his phone as “Tooth Fairy” and have text conversations telling the TF about when she loses a tooth and it’s time for a pickup.
He could even delay retrieval for a day or two, then when the daughter asks why TF hasn’t come, he can discover via text that TF tried but her room was too messy and he had trouble finding the tooth.
We chose not to lie to our kids about Santa, Easter bunny, tooth fairy, etc. to give them a more grounded version of reality.
A lot of parent continue the tradition because it happened to them, but kids internalize that their parent lied to them for many years and we wanted to break the cycle.
When I was little, I used to write letters to the tooth fairy. My mom would write back in glittery pen and over-the-top cursive (she would even draw little teeth on it). According to the letters, the tooth fairy was named Tabitha.
Ours was Gwendolyn.
Gwendolyn is a good tooth fairy name.
Much better than "The Bone Collector"
An a LOT better than "The Bone*r* Collector"
My ex wife is the tooth fairy?
Yes. Yes she is.
Sounds very Welsh
Gwendolyn Llewellyn, at your syrvyce.
I asked the neighbors to write a short message from the TF since my handwriting was too easy to recognize
My parents sucked. My tooth fairy was named Stanley Lee, DDS, and he lived about two houses down.
So not only was he writing comics, but Stan Lee was a dentist too?
Yup. A second generation Chinese-American dentist. Multi-faceted guy.
Incisior!
/r/angryupvote
He used his Marvel profits to put money under kid’s pillows. That’s how he bankrolled the whole operation.
My wife did this with my daughter's. I still remember the day some jerky boy at school told my oldest daughter that the tooth fairy was not real. It really broke her 💔. It was a bad couple days for her, she made fairy house in the woods and a bear destroyed it over night and took a shit on it. Then the she shared with her class what bear had done and that's when a boy made fun of her for believing in fairy folk.
If fairy folk aren’t real, then who pissed off the bear enough to destroy their house and then poop on it? That boy was dumb.
Exactly
When I was little and an older girl told me that her mother just took the tooth and flushed it, I just assumed it was because she was naughty and the tooth fairy refused to visit her so her mother had to do it.
Tabitha Toothington
This backfired on me. I left some fairy dust for my kid because he asked the fairies -in a note- to train him to do magic. He tried to do magic with the fairy dust and was SO disappointed.
Oh that is wholesome and precious! Maybe sprinkle some fairy dust (seeds) with him on some moist soil and he can be introduced to the magic of…plant germination? IDK, life is magical in my opinion
A decent excuse to start an MJ plant. Could be a family event.
We must share a brain cause I was thinking the exact same thing. Plant the right kind of seed and it can be fun for the whole family. Especially for Dad.
I have a distinct memory of writing a letter to the tooth fairy asking if it’d be possible for her to leave me a little more money next time because I’d heard my parents talking about how they weren’t sure how they would pay the bills. I had to have absolutely broken my parents hearts…
I babysat a family friend’s daughter for a few years awhile back. I happened to be watching her overnight when she lost her first tooth, so I had to play the tooth fairy, naturally. I was only 16 at the time, and recalling how magic the tooth fairy was for me, I wanted this to be really involved. I wrote a short letter in my fanciest not-so-fancy handwriting, left a trail of glitter from her window to her pillow, left her $5, and even left a little sequin, pretending that the fairy had left a wing scale behind. I think it healed my inner child a bit. Her reaction the next morning was priceless. Thanks for posting this and reminding me of my memory!
You're amazing - Of course the parents will need to keep that up or the little one will be disappointed next go around! :-)
Op is awesome but I think the parents hated him from there on out lmao
Mum and dad were only planning to spend $1.
My cousins came up with a great solution for this after the grandparents left their child a $5 bill from the tooth fairy. They explained to the child that the cleaner, better cared for the tooth the more money it’s worth. Encourages better dental hygiene and explains away a smaller payday for the next tooth.
It used to be a quarter! (Talk about inflation…)
My kid just lost their first tooth, my wife looked up the going price of a tooth online and people were suggesting $10-$15 in our area. We just went with a gold dollar coin. Definitely went over way better for a kid that has no concept of dollar value.
They were actually thrilled. Her mom is a very artsy-fun type of person.
Some poor schmuck is gonna roll this dollar up to rip a line of coke and wind up with glitter in his brains
Some unfortunate prick is going to get kicked out of his house when he comes home covered with trace amounts of glitter
Tbf, if your relationship is that fragile, it wasn’t gonna last anyway.
Tbf, if your relationship is that hypothetical, it wasn’t gonna last anyway. 🙃
My hypothetical girlfriend and I are doing just fine, thank you.
Hey! Don't bring my girl into this, she goes to another school
And his wife will divorce him thinking he snorted that line from a stripper's ass.
You rang?
Hello, old friend. Back for all of my money again?
Oh hey, it's my toot fairy
You mean a stripper fairy's ass.
That made me laugh.
Some poor schmuck is going to get change back at 7/11 or something and his wife is going to think he went to the strip club and lied about it
Some poor waiter is gonna get this on a table and it's gonna get glitter all over their apron and the rest of the money. (Personal experience with fairy money)
Some poor fish will have this break down in its digestive track and leach forever chemicals into its bloodstream.
So the strippers were putting money in his G string?
Can you snort into the brain? I thought it was only the nerves that went into the brain? Did I just get r/whoosh?
It’s okay, sometimes we get r/whooshed and sometimes we r/whoosh others. It’s the circle of r/whoosh.
It’s the ccccirrrcle of whoosh!
And it whooshes us all
Lackofbrainsya! Seeya nothoughta!
Microplastics 🙃
Even so, glitter is probably less of a health risk than coke!
depends is it coke like the drink or the stuff you snort?
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If he’s got coke he’s not poor
Coke isn’t that expensive try buying a house.
Awwwwwwwyeah. Houses are my drug of choice
How does one acquire the drug of safety and security? I just use alcohol
No one snorts from ones
I’ve seen lots of young people snort from ones, the dirtiest note.
Glitter in the brain is how you turn into the crab off of Moana.
I read it as angel dust originally. Don’t know why. Definitely better to have glitter up the nose than angle dust.
Speak for yourself
That's how new tooth fairies are made.
The glitter introduced to that house will outlive the deception.
Cannot stand glitter. One of my mom’s friends rode with us to an Indian wedding reception and her outfit had glitter on it. Damn car seat was covered for weeks!
My prom dress was covered in glitter. My date was finding glitter in her truck for years after that!
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Star note stripper glitter.
I’m glad I wasn’t the OnlyFan of the star note.
Grandpa's gotta get that money somehow.
This is going in r/cursedcomments
Was wondering if anyone else noticed it was a star note!
r/HolUp
I was in charge of a fundraiser a few years ago and this little 7 year old have me a bunch singles covered in glitter. The next day her mom (who happened to be my kids kindergarten teacher) came up to me and said "sooo, I just needed to clarify, the dollars my daughter gave you were tooth fairy dollars, that's why there's glitter on them. I promise I'm not a stripper". It was hilarious.
That’s super cute! Much more wholesome then the other reason I’ve seen glitter on bills… I always gave my kiddo silver dollars, or weird bills from other countries. He has quite a collection of strange currency now, even though he know now that it was me he keeps them around.
He very probably keeps them around **because** he knows that it was you.
I’m pretty sure lol. He has already knows.
This is such a cute idea. Thank you for sharing it!
And a star note, was that on purpose? Tell them the star is special bills from the tooth fairy?
In case OP doesn’t know the star at the end of the serial indicates that the bill was printed to replace another bill with the same serial number that had an error. While your specific serial number doesn’t seem to special, the bill is slightly worth more than a dollar to a collector.
I didn't know that- fascinating piece of information!!
HerpDerp dropping knowledge. 👍
If it's been replaced *twice*, they add fairy dust
Dang. I got one and saved it. Now I gotta look for it.
Wait why do they even bother reprinting serial numbers? Is it somehow important that the specific bill with that specific number exists?
I googled. First, they want every batch to have the same number of bills. 2nd, they don't reuse the serial, the replacement bills have their own version of the serial system which is why they have the star, just in case it somehow happens that a normal and replacement both had the same.
Neat, thanks. Guess I could have done the same googling myself, but I appreciate your effort.
No ... he gets them from the strip club and tells you he puts it on . Thats stripper dust 🤣
There was this time my uncle came to visit from out of town. So one night all the brothers went out and came back at like 2am. Said they went to the casino, but then we noticed my uncle had a streak of glitter from his belly to his chest. LOL caught red handed.
I used to call it that too LMAO
Lmoa, are you implying he strips? Strippers wear glitter. People put clean money on the stripper's body to tip. The money gets glitter on it. That money generally doesn't find its way back to patrons...
I've never been to one but I assume there's some facility for changing large bills into smaller ones which would presumably give you a handful of "pre-tipped" bills which you might not necessarily tip back.
Yeah that's just the story he told his wife... in there trying to jerk the tooth out of his daughter's face to make an alibi lol.
Only a dollar? Doesn't the tooth fairy know about inflation? :)
How does one obtain fairy dust? Asking for myself
Grab one fairy , choke and shake , well shake while choking actually.
I just throw the whole thing into a blender.
I prefer my fairy dust without pulp, thanks.
Just strain it with a cheese cloth.
Step one: download tor
1. Have grandparents 2. ??? 3. Profit
According to /u/Arduousjourney420, a stripper fairy's ass
Local strip club
Fairy dust comes from grinding up fairies. If you snort the powder you will be able to use magic!
Glitter is pure evil.
The deception runs deep
Gets them ready for future lies. 1st the tooth fairy, then santa, then jesus.
Then the realization that we all die and that social security and retirement probably won't exist for our people today.
CONSUME. OBEY. MARRY AND REPRODUCE
People go quite far out of their way to lie to their own children.
So when you found out the tooth fairy real, were you actually upset? Personally I didn't care, same with Santa.
Then the glitter gets all over the pillow, gets in the kids eye, causes an infection and they lose the eye. Glitter is NOT to be fucked with. https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/7qyumy/til_a_woman_lost_an_eye_due_to_a_piece_of_glitter/
I made origami with dollar bills. My child thought that my fingers were too fat to make them, so it had to be the tooth fairy,
Why do so many people think this is a great idea? I would hate having glitter in my bed, especially near where my face goes. Hope she doesn't breathe it in or get any in her eyes...
All these stripper note comments gonna have her thinking… Lmaoo y’all boutta have her pressing and stressing
I was gonna comment this but you got me covered
Just make sure she doesn’t go on Reddit.
I guess inflation hasn’t hit the teeth market quite yet
Lies!! Just like Santa and his Dutch origin Sinterklaas. First you make children believe this is real, later you tell them it's not. Why?
For fucks sake, quit lying to your children.
And quit polluting the environment needlessly.
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I never felt fooled or betrayed because when I found out they weren’t real I was smart enough to realize they were just games to make my childhood fun. If you honestly would have felt lied to or betrayed, then that’s pretty sad, and I think it states how much of a privileged life you have if that’s all it takes to break a relationship with your parents.
Craft herpes
Mmmmmmm micro plastics
Glitter is actually a micro plastic and is terrible for human health and the environment
I hate the tooth fairy. My son comes home at six year old. "Daddy why does Keith get $20 everytime he loses a tooth but I only get $1?" "Because Keith's dad is a lawyer, son. Because Keith's dad is a lawyer."
Tooth is only worth a buck in 2022?
A dollar?that fairy better do another flyby...
One buck for a tooth? In the year 2022?? ..Dang, I guess times is tough even for the tooth fairy.
One dollar? I gave my kids two bucks in the 1990s.
Teeth were worth a buck like 20 years ago, hasn't the tooth fairy heard of inflation?!
I keep a strict rule against glitter in the house, but I suppose the grandparents don't need to do the laundry. Brilliant!
Or he is just trying to dispose of the left over dollar bills he had when he left the strip club.
And WHO puts fairy dust on your dollar bills…🤔🤔🤔
Picked it up from the strip club
Sureeeee, hes just glittering all of the dollars in the house so he doesn’t get caught!
30 years from now, when you go to sell your house, you will find glitter
Great excuse for all that stripper money he has
Wait dollar bills with glitter on them and you think they are from a fairy….well anyone giving to tell her ?
How to explain to your wife why there is glitter in your wallet.
That dollar looks like it came straight from the strip club. "Ya, did that for the tooth fairy."
That dollar was from the strip club
My dad used angeldust instead
Best cover up for getting change at the strippers
Hasn't the tooth fairy heard of inflation? $20 is the new dollar bill.
I bought colourful feathers, and when my daughter loses a tooth I’ll drop a feather somewhere near her bed. She has a small collection of “fairy feathers”.
Your husband is working as a stripper and is laundering the ***ones*** through your daughter.
Sir those are stripper dollars.
That dollar bill came from a strip club. “Fairy dust = body glitter” 😂
Just grab dollar bills from the strip club, saves adding the glitter yourself
This is body glitter from a stripper
Hey that's the same explanation my wife gave me when I asked her why all her cash was covered in glitter.
Yeah. No strip club suspicion here.....
some dollar bills come with glitter already on them
Inb4 reddit losers call your caring husband an abusive piece of shit Edit: lol didn’t even take 40 seconds of scrolling
i kept an old note my daughter put under her pillow for the tooth fairy that says “can I have 2 dollars?”
Dudes a legend. Got change at the strip club and played it off as fairy dust from the tooth fairy.
i now have 2 reasons on why theres glitter on my $1 bills
My mom did this every time, on $10 and $20 bills and the cashiers at toys r us were noticeably annoyed. Great memory.
Our tooth fairy only paid in $2 bills or dollar coins. Money they don’t see everyday. And when they’d go to spend it they were always excited to find out it was real currency. They were true believers!!
My mother used to put cotton wool around the fireplace on Christmas morning, and pretend it was part of Santa's beard! And our neighbour who had horses used to run the out around the green on Christmas night to put hoof prints in the grass, and of course all of us idiot kids fell for it hook, line and sinker!
LOVE IT. When my daughter lost her first tooth my husband printed a letter from the tooth fairy in the TINIEST font imaginable, then cut it out so it was about 2” sq., for authenticity points.
Why you gotta lie to your kids? Just say yeah getting older is crazy you're going to lose and regrow all your teeth. Let's go get ice cream.
To be fair most dollars have at one point had “fairy” dust on them.
Lying to your kids is an aww moment?
That's so cute!
Please don’t do this without gluing the glitter on. Don’t want your kid to breath in glitter
Stop giving kids dirty money. Give them a nice, crisp, only used to snort glitter, 50$ bill.
benevolent gaslighting. it's fun to control what your kids believe and teach them to accept non-reality, right? no way that could bite our society in the ass later...
I used to put ‘special’ commemorative coins in my little sisters tooth fairy box, still puts a smile on my face whenever she proudly tells people about what the tooth fairy used to leave for her.
I draw tiny little hand and foot prints on them....
That’s Gingers money
Tellers at the bank hate this stuff, it gets everywhere when the business it is spent at deposits their bills. Please just give her coins or something.
Gotta say, it really is odd how we collectively decide to lie to our kids en masse (and make sure to never reveal the truth to anyone else's kid either). Basically harmless probably, but weird.
Always good to have people who believe firmly in stuff that isn't real. Good on you two for priming that pump hard.
When my kiddos were little, I would do something similar. But I rolled the “golden” dollar coins in glitter and left those as tooth fairy gifts. Cause the TF deals in Gold, don’t you know. Best of all, while helping my college-age daughter pack some things for storage, I found a little velvet bag: she has kept most of her TF ‘gold’ as keepsakes.
That's not what happened. Your husband clearly got change at the strip club, and came up with an excuse for why his money is glittery.
Or he’s laundering stripper money
Adults lying to children to create that seed of doubt in authority for their entire lives. Don’t worry the churches are happy they don’t have to pay for fairy dust to trick you.
Churches trick you and get *you* to pay. Much smarter than the tooth fairy's business model.
Oh yeah. They have perfected it.
I’m not sure that teaching kids that fairy tales are real is a good thing. Sure, they’ll learn and survive… but what’s the point of making kids believe in magic just to later tell them that you lied in the name of “tradition”?
It’ll be even more effective if he gets a Google voice number he can save in his phone as “Tooth Fairy” and have text conversations telling the TF about when she loses a tooth and it’s time for a pickup. He could even delay retrieval for a day or two, then when the daughter asks why TF hasn’t come, he can discover via text that TF tried but her room was too messy and he had trouble finding the tooth.
Superstition brings life long trauma.
Kids these days don’t know how good they have it. I only got a quarter back in my day, 35 years ago.
35 years ago my teeth were worth 5 bucks each! Your tooth fairy was cheap.
Accounting for inflation that’s about the same as a dollar
hey my tooth is gone... and a stripper's been here!
We chose not to lie to our kids about Santa, Easter bunny, tooth fairy, etc. to give them a more grounded version of reality. A lot of parent continue the tradition because it happened to them, but kids internalize that their parent lied to them for many years and we wanted to break the cycle.