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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-11 02:34 PM
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Tooth fairy leaving less money - average $2.60, 10% kids getting nothing
Bad U.S. Economy Busts Tooth Fairy

According to the results of a recent Visa survey (PDF), the Tooth Fairy is now reflecting the growing American austerity.

Kids all across the country are feeling the sting of budget cutbacks as the average payout for a lost tooth plummets from $3.00 to just $2.60. That’s a net revenue decrease of nearly 14% in just one year. In addition, the number of kids getting completely flown-over by the Tooth Fairy has gone from 4% to 10% in the past year, leaving 5 in 50 kids with no tooth-loss compensation.

“The survey gives parents the opportunity to start talking with kids – even pretty little ones – about money management,” Jason Alderman, Visa’s senior director of financial education, told the Denver Post.

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With the release last month of Tesco’s Top 10 Toys for Christmas 2011, one’s mind also turns to concerns for the coming financial viability of Santa, and the “opportunities” for talks with kids about “money management” those will bring to parents in the near future.


Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/bad-u-s-economy-busts-tooth-fairy.html#ixzz1TcQn5anA
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FirstLight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-11 02:39 PM
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1. puhleese
$3 for a tooth?
pocket change has always been our thing, so talks about 'money management' seem a bit over the top


I guess for those who were giving their kids big ($20+/week) allowances, they have to have those talks, but it seems a little out of my league...
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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-11 02:42 PM
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4. I got 25 cents as a kid (late 60s), Didn't know the tooth fairy was so generous these days
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-11 02:39 PM
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2. The tooth fairy can barely keep up with the increased price of toothpaste and floss.....

...... pretty soon the tooth fairy will be leaving IOUs.
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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-11 02:43 PM
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7. that would be really sad.
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-11 02:41 PM
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3. Saw that too. I always thought $1 was good; husb overdid.
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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-11 02:42 PM
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5. Wow, this means paper money, bills, singles and fives, maybe tenners! Shit...
...we got change, single coins.

I must be really old.

:hi:
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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-11 02:43 PM
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6. me too! cheap tooth fairy of my childhood only left change
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AlabamaLibrul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-11 02:49 PM
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11. But surely when you were a child, you could at least buy a pack of gum with change
You can't even get a single 30c pack of gum these days, it's either a monster multi-pack I'll never use for Wrigley, or those new "hip, cool" $1.50 packs with the little Trident looking sticks.
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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-11 02:57 PM
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13. I could buy a comic book with my quarter! that was my fav purchase -
Archie, Richie Rich type comics.
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InvisibleTouch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-11 02:46 PM
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8. $2.60?? I used to get a quarter.
Of course I always insisted on keeping the tooth, also, because I just thought it was cool. I remember telling my dad, "Now you tell the tooth fairy to leave the tooth!!" :)
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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-11 02:47 PM
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9. so the fairy left the tooth and a quarter? Did you wonder why she agreed to that deal?
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InvisibleTouch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-11 02:49 PM
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10. Maybe I was just that persuasive. ;) n/t
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ejpoeta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-11 02:56 PM
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12. hmm... in this house the amount depends on the quality of the tooth.
teeth with cavities get less than cavity free teeth that have been well taken care of.
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madamesilverspurs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-11 03:01 PM
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14. Dime.
That's what we got. One dime for each tooth that came out.

Nowadays I have to pay for each tooth that comes out.



I blame the Republicans.


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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-11 03:06 PM
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15. The tooth fairy just leaves me bills.
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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-11 03:28 PM
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16. I can remember when my daughter was 8 and doubtful about the tooth fairy,
so when she lost a tooth in the evening she said nothing and put it under her pillow and it was still there the next morning. Then she told me the next day and the morning after that she had her dollar coin.

I still have those teeth in a little plastic bag with a note about when she lost it and the circumstances.
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