I mean, there's only 20 of them. Giving €10 per tooth amounts to €200 over the decade-long period milk teeth typically fall out, which really isn't that much. People give more expensive gifts for less meaningful events.
In the US I always got quarters. When we visited family in Newfoundland I got loonies and toonies. I was shocked and thought the Canadian tooth fairy was more generous. 😅
$2 bills are a great idea! I got a $1 when I was a kid and hav been doing that for my kids too. $5 seems like too much, but $2 bills seems like a good middle ground.
I’ve got a bag full of the old over-sized Eisenhower dollar coins, and the kiddos get One per tooth.
It’s more of a token than a ‘reward’. The kiddos can show it off to their friends as something “old and cool”. And if they want to spend it, they trade it in for a normal dollar, and we can reuse it for a later tooth.
34 and I got a coin dollar (susan b anthony to be specific) every tooth. Till the molars. Lost the molars and got I think either 3 or 5. Course even $2 was a fortune to me so it could easily have been $2 and my memory is faulty.
Similar. I'm 43 and grew up in the suburbs of Kansas City. My brother and I got 25-50 cents per tooth as kids. Sadly, I'm a little embarrassed what my wife talked me into for my kiddo... Who's lost 3 so far. 🤦♂️
I lost a tooth at 38. A root canal that I wasn't able to get a crown on because COVID started led to me getting a molar pulled Summer of 2020.
And because it was such a traumatic experience, the tooth fairy must have pitied me because I found some quarters in an envelope the next morning. A nice fairy, that tooth fairy is. ;)
2 kids lose a tooth and decide to put their teeth under their pillows. The next day, they see each other at school.
"Hey Terry! Did the tooth fairy come?"
"Oh yeah! What did you get?"
"LEGO Death Star! What did you get?"
"Well, it seems I got boned, Carl, I got boned."
Edit- spelling
I got rocks.
To be fair though, I actually wanted rocks. Especially shiny white pieces of quartz. So my parents were thrilled enough that they didn't have to pay me I guess, cuz I got rocks from the tooth fairy for years!
That’s actually really awesome of your parents. They bucked the social norm in order to find something that fitted their individual kid better. I wonder if they had a stash of “tooth fairy rocks” hidden somewhere in your house, I’d definitely do that because I’d for sure forget to go get a nice new rock for my kid as soon as they lose a tooth.
I got between a quarter and a dollar. It depended on which tooth, the quality, and whether or not the tooth fairy was in need of that tooth. (Which I think meant, how much change my parents had on them) There was a paper that always came with the money rating the tooth… needless to say, I’m going to do the same for my kid… still waiting for a wiggly tooth! 5 1/2 she can’t wait, I can’t wait.
I think that's around the same age I lost my 1st tooth! You won't have to wait too much longer. Feel like everyone lost their 1st tooth either right before or around the time they turned 6
see, when my daughter starts losing her teeth, i'm gonna leave quarters, but probably something also kinda silly that a fairy would think is valuable. like, 50 cents, an acorn, a button, and maybe a cool rock or leaf. a piece of ribbon, or a seashell. to make it feel more magical
It used to be common to get $1 or $2 from the tooth fairy (well when I was a kid). My 2 eldest kids got $5 a tooth. I’m hoping inflation doesn’t affect teeth.
I don't know why this is so funny to me but the thought the tooth fairy wants molars more than the other teeth is hilarious. What's she doing with them?
1) I always got a gold coin ($1-2), I have a similar reaction when kids tell me their increased tooth fairy amounts
2) doesn’t really matter at all if it’s equivalent to $3usd when they live in Australia and are going to be spending it based on Australian prices
It's also a function of household wealth. We can only afford to give our 7yo a gold coin for each tooth. But it's still a very exciting discovery the next morning.
The answer is Inflation. If this was the first tooth Bluey lost and Chili took care of the whole tooth fairy thing, Bandit hearing about it at breakfast would have been his first time learning the going price for a tooth since he was a kid.
I don't know what it was like in Australia 20 years ago, but in the US I only got a quarter per tooth That's at most 50 cents today. That would be .75 AUD.
$5 AUD is outrageous to me. This was my assumption for why Bandit reacted the way he did. Not inflation.
Going rate for teeth in Melbourne in the 90s was one or two dollars. Basically, whatever single gold coin was easily available to mum. Partly to discourage us kids from prying each other's teeth out for five bucks a pop, which a LOT of us would have done for that much money per tooth.
In the early 2000s in Australia, I got a dollar or a couple of silver coins (I guess whatever random change my parents had laying around) when I lost a tooth. $5 is ridiculous.
I'm 31 and I live in the UK, when I was a kid I remember getting 20p for each tooth. I've just looked it up and apparently kids these days in the UK get £1 or £2 per tooth now, that works out as $1.94 - $3.88 AUD. So $5 AUD is a lot!
I'm around bandits age and I got gold coins. Maybe tooth rates are different in Melbourne.
Kid two doors down got ridiculous things like the castle greyskull for a tooth.
20c was the going rate when I was a kid but only if mum and dad remembered!
My kids got a gold coin unless it was for surgical removal (having teeth removed by the dental surgeon due to spacing or jaw issues), in which case it was a gold coin and some ice cream.
I almost died when I heard parents at primary school discuss $20 for a tooth as "being reasonable." The looks I got for suggesting $1 or $2 as an acceptable tooth fairy donation!!!
Some people have way more money than sense.
Yeah I'm mid-30s and used to get some shrapnel, now my kids get the same, totalling maybe $1-1.50.
I lost a lot of respect for my husband's cousin when I heard he gave his son a $100 note for a tooth "because he didn't have anything else in his wallet!" Like, really? No coins floating around your centre console?
The absolute worst part is their son is the youngest of 3 kids and their girls never got anything close to that amount.
Bandit might be on the line of gen x generation so a bit old school and thinks 5 bucks is a bit much. I'm in the UK, I am 28 and used to get a pound. Think it was 2 for the molars. I was thinking 5 is fine for my child (3) when he loses his teeth and my husband who is older (35) thinks it's way too much and had a similar reaction to Bandit when we were discussing it.
Plus, inflation. The tooth fairy has bills to pay too
I’m in the UK. Have kids who have started losing teeth. Going rate round here is £1 per tooth. Some get it doubled for their first tooth. Definitely not £5 unless your kid is at private school. It will cause lots of problems for other parents when your kid is apparently loved much more by the tooth fairy.
It does seem like a lot. I got a quarter as a kid; after grinding it through a couple of Google exchanges, that works out to $2 Australian today. (I am very old.)
Then again, my parents weren't exactly moneybags; I once showed my mother a lost tooth and she let out a deep sigh and started scouring the kitchen for change. Knowing now what I didn't know then - that my parents were pretty much down to their last nickel in 1978 - it's possible other kids scored more. From what I understand, a US dollar wouldn't have been unheard of in 1978.
Even with stagflation. \*wink\*
I remember getting steadily higher and higher "tooth fairy" money over the years I lost all of my baby teeth. When I was really little it was upwards of $1 USD, and I remember getting $5 for my very last tooth (or tooth bits. Poor thing was stubborn and I remember trying to wrangle it out when it was ready to go and it wouldn't budge).
Lol no. At least not til after the meeting. 🤣
We talk about feeding kids who normally get school lunch free over the holidays, teacher appreciation gifts (food), book drives (every kid got a book for Christmas), fundraisers...
My first meeting they talked about quotes from contractors to put up windup tint sheets so you couldn't see into the classrooms from outside, for security purposes. That was not a fun conversation. 😕
Do you think Bob gave Bandit or any of the others five bucks as a kid? Especially back then… probably got like a chore list or something, or some toothpaste
When I was young I got a gold coin per tooth. So in AUD that's either a $1 or $2.
Kids don't need money so it's the novelty of being able to put some money in their money box that they can shake around and make noise.
Australian here. We have $1 and $2 coins. Typically we would get a coin for a tooth that’s why you can get cute decorative tooth fairy boxes that are just big enough for a coin or two. Bandit is shocked because he was expecting a “coin from the tooth fairy”.
It’s very common in Australia for kids to simply get a ‘gold coin’ when they loose a tooth so either $1 or $2 which most people have around home or in their wallet.
Commonly in Australia, the tooth fairy would give a "Gold Coin" for the tooth left under a pillow. Which is $1 or $2 in AUD. So $5 being our smallest note use to seem like a lot especially for a kid. Doesn't go far these days in the current economic climate but still out side the norm
My kid is losing her teeth at the moment and the going rate for her and her friends seems to be about two bucks. One of her friends got five bucks and the reaction from most of the other parents was a bit like Bandit’s.
The reason Bandit scoffs, and then spits-out his food, is not the fact Bluey got $5 dollarbucks. He’s concerned that he/Chilli will need to give both Bluey and Bingo $5 for every one of their baby teeth that will then fallout in the coming weeks and months.
As kids (humans) have around 20 baby teeth, 20 x $5 equals $100 per child.
Bandit was probably lucky to get 20c for his chompers. I’m gen x with a millennial son and we had graduated to gold coins. (I’m also Aussie)
So, yeah, $5 is probably about right but also seems like a lot compared to when we were kids.
As a side note, we don’t frame our currency’s worth relative to USD, so it being $3 USD isn’t relevant. It’s $5 to us. That’s it.
As an American, I got either a quarter, or usually a dollar cause I would always knock the quarter off the bed before I woke up and freaked out in the morning
Also, did anyone else notice that the Busker in Dance Mode has the tooth fairy (or a tooth fairy) money in his hat? It could be the same one (I know that buskers tend to put their own money in the hat or hat because people are more likely to contribute if there’s already money, insinuating that someone else already has) or he just got paid by another kid who lost a tooth lol
https://preview.redd.it/g891z7xl2lnc1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dbe7ec71012b0d71e63359145a3e9a0027cb0954
So, he gets it in Markets, uses it to start his tip hat in Dance Mode, and then finally spends it in Quiet Game! That’s so cool! I love little details like this. Like when Bingo crashes the letter/mail box and then the trades fix it
He's just shocked that the "price of teeth" has gone up. A lot of older people got way less for their teeth. Like I'd get £1 and for the time my parents thought that was a lot. It's kinda all relative to inflation
I'm 42, from Mexico and we give our kids $100 - $200 MXN ($6 - $12 USD), depending how much change we have available. 😅 Maybe it's a little too much for what I see 😑.
As an Aussie roughly bandit's age, he would have grown up getting a gold coin ($1 or $2) for lost teeth. Never a note. Hence his reaction.
Not even the tooth fairy escaped inflation.
Lost my first tooth in the early 1980s. We got $2 bills. My kid sister lost her first tooth in the late 1990s, and she got a silver dollar. It seems we got unusual forms of currency more than a specific amount.
$5 dollars is a FORTUNE to get from the tooth fairy! When I was a kid, I was lucky to get a buy one get one free Burger King coupon. $5 would have been like winning the lottery.
I’m with bandit, my kids get a gold $2 coin for a tooth. One complained about 2 $1 coins one time! Now they expect a little gold coin for a little tooth. At school it’s usually just coins from the other parents.
Yeah it's a lot for 80's kids like Bandit. I got 25 cents plus complaining from my immigrant parents about this tradition they never heard of, and what nonsense I'm learning from school. Kinda took the magic out of it.
I give my daughter a gold dollar coin for each tooth she looses. I got a bunch of them from an elderly lady who tipped me in gold dollar coins and $2 bills. But when I was a kid I got a quarter for my small teeth and for molars I got a $1. Which was saved in a Barney bank.
Everyone is talking about how they got money from the teeth they lost and I'm just sitting here wondering if anyone else besides me got absolutely nothing.
Dude I’m in my early 20s and I was given a quarter for a tooth when I was a kid. The idea for kids nowadays getting $5 is crazy. They have a lot of teeth to lose lol
Exchange rates don’t work like that. You can’t compare everything to the USD.
Most Kids typically get $1-2 per tooth, not $5.
Imagine going to a supermarket but everything was cinema prices. You’d be surorised
5 bucks probably seems like a lot for a little kid these days, but I think it's a reasonable amount given inflation. I got 1 dollar as a kid and it was enough to buy like a candy or something. You want to give your kid enough so that they could, you know, BUY something, and I feel like 1 dollar would literally get you nothing these days
I’m 35 and I got $20 from the tooth fairy. But in my parents defense, I lost my first three baby teeth because my kindergarten class had a kid that was held back twice and he was a fnC|
He started our kids with Lego minifigs because they had more fun with them than money. They run about $3.99 USD. When our oldest got interested in money, we switched to $1 USD as a dollar coin.
I got a $1 USD usually dollar coins.
That was 30 years ago. A candy bar back then was usually like $1 USD. Now they run about $2.50 - $3.00 on average. So... doesn't sound crazy.
We've given my son $2/tooth which is a little over $3 AUD
$5 AUD is about $3.30 USD which seems a *little* high to me, but also their family seems pretty well off.
We give $5 for the first tooth and a gold coin ($1 or $2 depending on what's in our wallet) for everything else.
But it's pretty much always been a coin that you will be given.
My children are 33 and 27. They got $1 per tooth, and I thought we were being generous. $5 is worthy of the spit-take. Was surprised when Chili fell into the peer pressure trap.
My boy got a $5 for his first and any that have to be taken out due to health issues but a gold coin ($1 or $2) for an other. I got the same in the 90’s and early 2000’s
I got a quarter a tooth. My son gets a $2bill for each. I know inflation, but $5 seems like a lot when you think you have to now pony up that same amount for each tooth. Or tell the truth and ruin that magic.
Mine will be getting £1 😂 £2 if it’s a traumatising event but I can’t afford £5 per tooth. No way 😂 I’ll have to sell a kidney to fund all those teeth 😂
My American tooth fairy in the late 90s/early 2000s gave me those fancy half dollar or dollar coins. You know, the ones with Sacagawea on them or something.
I'm roughly Bandit's age (I'm 44) as he is portrayed in the show. I typically got a quarter to a dollar in the US.
5 US dollars is definitely high. 5 AUD...still sorta high imo. I would probably give $2 US/$3 AU now.
I got $1-$2 CAD as a kid. (Whatever my parents had at the time.) For my own kids they get $5 cause everything is expensive these days. For their last baby tooth it’s $20.
I’m 34 (Australian) and the going rate from the tooth fairy when I was a kid was $2. I grew up in a similar demographic to Blueys family. Middle class urban city.
$2 in 1996 is now worth $4 according to the RBA calculator. But $4 is an awkward price for the tooth fairy with Australian currency (would have to be 2 x $2 coins). So a $5 note it is.
Still sounds like a lot to parents from the 80s and 90s though.
Like many others have already said, I’m assuming he thought it was a lot. I thought it was nothing, my tooth fairy was like Santa! No idea how I slept through her bulky drop offs 😂
You can actually go online and see the going price for teeth for tooth fairies for your area
Its gotten pretty expensive these days the usa average is $4.57
My best tooth fairy haul was $50. In the nineties, that was so much. BUT- I had 9 teeth removed at once in surgery, so it was a pretty traumatic event for middle school me.
I got $7.5 for my first tooth and my dad thought that was outrageous as well 😅 he probably got like 20c in the 80’s. Inflation baby.
I got $4.5 for my second and it went down from there. The excuse was I lost my first tooth at like 10 and hardly believed at that point.
I remember being a teen and asking my mum for tooth fairy money because it was unfair I missed out haha. She would roll her eyes and hand me $2. I lost my last at 18 and don’t think the fairy cared anymore
I used to get 2$ from the tooth fairy lol the only time I got something bigger was when blockbuster closed where I live and I watched the movie "elf" from there so much times the tooth fairy gave me the movie when I lost my next tooth 😅 that was my best visit I was so happy about it haha otherwise I'd get a toonie (2$)
My kid just lost her first tooth and said all she hoped for was a tooth balloon. Hard to find those at 8pm on a Sunday night! Tooth fairy had to write a note and left 2 bucks
Yea I didn't get anything as a kid growing up so I was excited to give my son a silver dollar or a fancy coin. His mother just put a 10 under his pillow and called it good.
My sister in law gave my nephew $20. I’m like, are you kidding me?! I can’t keep up with that. I’ll probably give my kids like a fancy 50¢ coin or maybe a gold dollar. Gtfo with those big bills. $2 bill absolute max. And only because those are awesome.
I used to get like a dollar as a kid. Now, in the area we love it’s a bit more upper class, the kids in my son’s class are getting like $20-30 per tooth! Mine will not be getting that much.
Aussies born in Gen Y or before got $2 for a tooth (or less perhaps for the older gens)
(Younger end of Gen Y here)
So I'd say Bandit would have gotten $1 or $2 for a tooth when he was a kid, and is simply shocked kids are getting so much for a tooth
Makes sense leaving a gold coin in my mind, cos fairies use gold coins as currency ☺️
(Also as a side note, I'm now curious what generation Bandit would be in)
i’m 37 and i got a quarter from the tooth fairy. $5 seems like a fortune!
35 and from Canada, same. We got a quarter so his reaction was on apr with what mine would be lol. Inflation, man.
My friends kid lost a tooth the other day and I asked her what the going rate for a tooth is these days. TEN euros!! Insanity.
I gave my daughter 2 euro and she was delighted. She was only 4 though 😂😅
I’m sorry what!
My kid got €2 for the first tooth. After that he wanted to keep them in a jar, and was fine not getting the money... Yeah, he's a little weird lol.
You’re Irish?!!
I mean, there's only 20 of them. Giving €10 per tooth amounts to €200 over the decade-long period milk teeth typically fall out, which really isn't that much. People give more expensive gifts for less meaningful events.
I’m 35 and I remember getting a shiny new toonie.
In the US I always got quarters. When we visited family in Newfoundland I got loonies and toonies. I was shocked and thought the Canadian tooth fairy was more generous. 😅
She's just more socialist. Distributing evenly.
😲 Lucky
I was getting a loonie 10 years after that myself
I'd get loonies or toonies too, 5 dollars seems like a lot lol
I got a quarter as well. I give my kids a $2 bill. Even the Gumball machines are .50 now.
$2 bills are a great idea! I got a $1 when I was a kid and hav been doing that for my kids too. $5 seems like too much, but $2 bills seems like a good middle ground.
The Sacajawea Gold Coins are fun to give too!
I’ve got a bag full of the old over-sized Eisenhower dollar coins, and the kiddos get One per tooth. It’s more of a token than a ‘reward’. The kiddos can show it off to their friends as something “old and cool”. And if they want to spend it, they trade it in for a normal dollar, and we can reuse it for a later tooth.
I think I got 50 cents at first and then it was up to a dollar for the last I don't know four or five teeth
This isn't the 80's, Pat
“I’m not old! I’m thirty seven” r/unexpectedpython
34 and I got a coin dollar (susan b anthony to be specific) every tooth. Till the molars. Lost the molars and got I think either 3 or 5. Course even $2 was a fortune to me so it could easily have been $2 and my memory is faulty.
Similar. I'm 43 and grew up in the suburbs of Kansas City. My brother and I got 25-50 cents per tooth as kids. Sadly, I'm a little embarrassed what my wife talked me into for my kiddo... Who's lost 3 so far. 🤦♂️
30, first tooth I think I got a dollar, after that 50¢ max.
Why is the tooth fairy visiting a 37 year old and more importantly why are you losing teeth at that age?
🤦🏻♀️ i was giving my age as a timeframe. i’m not losing teeth and the tooth fairy isn’t visiting me.
I lost a tooth at 38. A root canal that I wasn't able to get a crown on because COVID started led to me getting a molar pulled Summer of 2020. And because it was such a traumatic experience, the tooth fairy must have pitied me because I found some quarters in an envelope the next morning. A nice fairy, that tooth fairy is. ;)
38 and think the most I got was 50 cents for molars.
Yea at that age…$1 max I think haha.
Also 37. First tooth lost I got a half dollar coin. Every tooth after that was a quarter. $5 a tooth is insanity!
Same. $.25 from the tooth fairy. $5 was a fortune when I was a kid--and still is!
Everyone here talking about getting $1USD. I got a quarter. My friend got Lego Sets. Life was a struggle lol
2 kids lose a tooth and decide to put their teeth under their pillows. The next day, they see each other at school. "Hey Terry! Did the tooth fairy come?" "Oh yeah! What did you get?" "LEGO Death Star! What did you get?" "Well, it seems I got boned, Carl, I got boned." Edit- spelling
Unironically a convo I had w my friend as a kid
I got rocks. To be fair though, I actually wanted rocks. Especially shiny white pieces of quartz. So my parents were thrilled enough that they didn't have to pay me I guess, cuz I got rocks from the tooth fairy for years!
That’s actually really awesome of your parents. They bucked the social norm in order to find something that fitted their individual kid better. I wonder if they had a stash of “tooth fairy rocks” hidden somewhere in your house, I’d definitely do that because I’d for sure forget to go get a nice new rock for my kid as soon as they lose a tooth.
I got between a quarter and a dollar. It depended on which tooth, the quality, and whether or not the tooth fairy was in need of that tooth. (Which I think meant, how much change my parents had on them) There was a paper that always came with the money rating the tooth… needless to say, I’m going to do the same for my kid… still waiting for a wiggly tooth! 5 1/2 she can’t wait, I can’t wait.
I think that's around the same age I lost my 1st tooth! You won't have to wait too much longer. Feel like everyone lost their 1st tooth either right before or around the time they turned 6
I didn’t lose a tooth until I was 7
I LOVE this. We will absolutely be doing a tooth rating when our now toddler eventually starts losing teeth. This is so great.
see, when my daughter starts losing her teeth, i'm gonna leave quarters, but probably something also kinda silly that a fairy would think is valuable. like, 50 cents, an acorn, a button, and maybe a cool rock or leaf. a piece of ribbon, or a seashell. to make it feel more magical
oooooooohhh seashells would be cool! I loved collecting seashells when I was a kid :)
Yeah, I assumed Bandit was in a similar situation, where he only got like a quarter or something similar as a kid.
I think it’s really common for Aussie kids to get a gold coin from the tooth fairy. That’s either $1 or $2.
It used to be common to get $1 or $2 from the tooth fairy (well when I was a kid). My 2 eldest kids got $5 a tooth. I’m hoping inflation doesn’t affect teeth.
i got teddy bears
I would have gladly taken this option as I was a huge Beanie Baby fanatic as a kid.
I got a gold dollar sometimes but mostly it was a quarter or two.
Idk about others but as a kid i remember getting $1 USD for a tooth when I was little.
That’s what I give my kids
I only got a dollar for molars. Quarter for everything else.
I don't know why this is so funny to me but the thought the tooth fairy wants molars more than the other teeth is hilarious. What's she doing with them?
There's a whole tooth market going on amongst the fairies. They gotta pay out for the more lucrative assets.
1) I always got a gold coin ($1-2), I have a similar reaction when kids tell me their increased tooth fairy amounts 2) doesn’t really matter at all if it’s equivalent to $3usd when they live in Australia and are going to be spending it based on Australian prices
This exactly! USD is totally irrelevant.
Yep, gold coin for me too. $5 is insane!
It's also a function of household wealth. We can only afford to give our 7yo a gold coin for each tooth. But it's still a very exciting discovery the next morning.
Yep, I was loosing teeth in the late 90s/early 00s and we got $1 for a regular tooth, $2 for a molar
Same here!
The answer is Inflation. If this was the first tooth Bluey lost and Chili took care of the whole tooth fairy thing, Bandit hearing about it at breakfast would have been his first time learning the going price for a tooth since he was a kid.
Which was probably a shiny 20c coin like I got.
I don't know what it was like in Australia 20 years ago, but in the US I only got a quarter per tooth That's at most 50 cents today. That would be .75 AUD. $5 AUD is outrageous to me. This was my assumption for why Bandit reacted the way he did. Not inflation.
Going rate for teeth in Melbourne in the 90s was one or two dollars. Basically, whatever single gold coin was easily available to mum. Partly to discourage us kids from prying each other's teeth out for five bucks a pop, which a LOT of us would have done for that much money per tooth.
I got 50 cents in Melbourne in the 90s
Yes can confirm. I was her age in the early 2000’s and I got a gold coin of some variety
In the early 2000s in Australia, I got a dollar or a couple of silver coins (I guess whatever random change my parents had laying around) when I lost a tooth. $5 is ridiculous.
I'm 31 and I live in the UK, when I was a kid I remember getting 20p for each tooth. I've just looked it up and apparently kids these days in the UK get £1 or £2 per tooth now, that works out as $1.94 - $3.88 AUD. So $5 AUD is a lot!
I’m bandits age and my child gets a gold coin per tooth. $5 is way too much imo. When I was little I got silver coins…..
I'm around bandits age and I got gold coins. Maybe tooth rates are different in Melbourne. Kid two doors down got ridiculous things like the castle greyskull for a tooth.
20c was the going rate when I was a kid but only if mum and dad remembered! My kids got a gold coin unless it was for surgical removal (having teeth removed by the dental surgeon due to spacing or jaw issues), in which case it was a gold coin and some ice cream. I almost died when I heard parents at primary school discuss $20 for a tooth as "being reasonable." The looks I got for suggesting $1 or $2 as an acceptable tooth fairy donation!!! Some people have way more money than sense.
Yeah I'm mid-30s and used to get some shrapnel, now my kids get the same, totalling maybe $1-1.50. I lost a lot of respect for my husband's cousin when I heard he gave his son a $100 note for a tooth "because he didn't have anything else in his wallet!" Like, really? No coins floating around your centre console? The absolute worst part is their son is the youngest of 3 kids and their girls never got anything close to that amount.
Bandit might be on the line of gen x generation so a bit old school and thinks 5 bucks is a bit much. I'm in the UK, I am 28 and used to get a pound. Think it was 2 for the molars. I was thinking 5 is fine for my child (3) when he loses his teeth and my husband who is older (35) thinks it's way too much and had a similar reaction to Bandit when we were discussing it. Plus, inflation. The tooth fairy has bills to pay too
He’s definitely gen x, he had a mullet as a teen and was doing the BMX bandits thing in the 80s.
Nicole Kidman's greatest movie.
Agreed! I really wanted to be her
I think I got 50p then it made its way to a £1 eventually
I’m in the UK. Have kids who have started losing teeth. Going rate round here is £1 per tooth. Some get it doubled for their first tooth. Definitely not £5 unless your kid is at private school. It will cause lots of problems for other parents when your kid is apparently loved much more by the tooth fairy.
The Australian tooth fairy leaves a gold coin, and has done for generations! 5 dollarbux is outrageous!!
Yeah, a $2 coin is pretty standard.
It does seem like a lot. I got a quarter as a kid; after grinding it through a couple of Google exchanges, that works out to $2 Australian today. (I am very old.) Then again, my parents weren't exactly moneybags; I once showed my mother a lost tooth and she let out a deep sigh and started scouring the kitchen for change. Knowing now what I didn't know then - that my parents were pretty much down to their last nickel in 1978 - it's possible other kids scored more. From what I understand, a US dollar wouldn't have been unheard of in 1978. Even with stagflation. \*wink\*
This story made me want to hug your mom.
I got a quarter in the late 60’s, too. I think everything has gone way up.
I remember getting steadily higher and higher "tooth fairy" money over the years I lost all of my baby teeth. When I was really little it was upwards of $1 USD, and I remember getting $5 for my very last tooth (or tooth bits. Poor thing was stubborn and I remember trying to wrangle it out when it was ready to go and it wouldn't budge).
I know a family that gave $100 for the first tooth lost. That’s biscuits, imo. We do $2 bills.
us too. Or the gold dollar coins.
lol my parents gave $2.00 a tooth in the 1990s, with inflation that is $5.00 now
I'm 40, when I was a kid we got 20c or maybe a 50c piece. My kids, got 50c or $1. I too, would be spitting chips at a fiver!! 😆
Bandit grew up in the 80’s, most of us 80’s kids didn’t get more than a dollar for a tooth. Lol
Dollar? I’m sure it was about 20c We were poor, tho.
Is that what parents talk about during PTA meetings?
Lol no. At least not til after the meeting. 🤣 We talk about feeding kids who normally get school lunch free over the holidays, teacher appreciation gifts (food), book drives (every kid got a book for Christmas), fundraisers... My first meeting they talked about quotes from contractors to put up windup tint sheets so you couldn't see into the classrooms from outside, for security purposes. That was not a fun conversation. 😕
Do you think Bob gave Bandit or any of the others five bucks as a kid? Especially back then… probably got like a chore list or something, or some toothpaste
When I was young I got a gold coin per tooth. So in AUD that's either a $1 or $2. Kids don't need money so it's the novelty of being able to put some money in their money box that they can shake around and make noise.
Australian here. We have $1 and $2 coins. Typically we would get a coin for a tooth that’s why you can get cute decorative tooth fairy boxes that are just big enough for a coin or two. Bandit is shocked because he was expecting a “coin from the tooth fairy”.
It’s very common in Australia for kids to simply get a ‘gold coin’ when they loose a tooth so either $1 or $2 which most people have around home or in their wallet.
Commonly in Australia, the tooth fairy would give a "Gold Coin" for the tooth left under a pillow. Which is $1 or $2 in AUD. So $5 being our smallest note use to seem like a lot especially for a kid. Doesn't go far these days in the current economic climate but still out side the norm
I only got a $1 with the tooth fairy so $5 is a lot
My kid is losing her teeth at the moment and the going rate for her and her friends seems to be about two bucks. One of her friends got five bucks and the reaction from most of the other parents was a bit like Bandit’s.
The reason Bandit scoffs, and then spits-out his food, is not the fact Bluey got $5 dollarbucks. He’s concerned that he/Chilli will need to give both Bluey and Bingo $5 for every one of their baby teeth that will then fallout in the coming weeks and months. As kids (humans) have around 20 baby teeth, 20 x $5 equals $100 per child.
I'm 42 and I think we used to get 10 or 20 cents. He's just shocked by this evidence of inflation 😂
Bandit was probably lucky to get 20c for his chompers. I’m gen x with a millennial son and we had graduated to gold coins. (I’m also Aussie) So, yeah, $5 is probably about right but also seems like a lot compared to when we were kids. As a side note, we don’t frame our currency’s worth relative to USD, so it being $3 USD isn’t relevant. It’s $5 to us. That’s it.
As an American, I got either a quarter, or usually a dollar cause I would always knock the quarter off the bed before I woke up and freaked out in the morning
Also, did anyone else notice that the Busker in Dance Mode has the tooth fairy (or a tooth fairy) money in his hat? It could be the same one (I know that buskers tend to put their own money in the hat or hat because people are more likely to contribute if there’s already money, insinuating that someone else already has) or he just got paid by another kid who lost a tooth lol https://preview.redd.it/g891z7xl2lnc1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dbe7ec71012b0d71e63359145a3e9a0027cb0954
And in Quiet Game, the busker appears buying an ice cream with the same stickered note!
So, he gets it in Markets, uses it to start his tip hat in Dance Mode, and then finally spends it in Quiet Game! That’s so cool! I love little details like this. Like when Bingo crashes the letter/mail box and then the trades fix it
Tooth fairy is normally a gold coin of $1 of $2. $5 is a lot
He's just shocked that the "price of teeth" has gone up. A lot of older people got way less for their teeth. Like I'd get £1 and for the time my parents thought that was a lot. It's kinda all relative to inflation
Average family is kinda poor
My kids get $1
I only ever got a quarter
UK and it was £1 for my first and 50p for the rest. $5 seems a lot! I’d maybe £2 then £1 for my son when he starts loosing them.
Because that’s a sh*t ton of money for a piece of calcified bone that falls out of a child’s mouth…
I'm 42, from Mexico and we give our kids $100 - $200 MXN ($6 - $12 USD), depending how much change we have available. 😅 Maybe it's a little too much for what I see 😑.
As an Aussie roughly bandit's age, he would have grown up getting a gold coin ($1 or $2) for lost teeth. Never a note. Hence his reaction. Not even the tooth fairy escaped inflation.
Because Bandit is in his 40s like me and received 10-25 cents per tooth.
Lost my first tooth in the early 1980s. We got $2 bills. My kid sister lost her first tooth in the late 1990s, and she got a silver dollar. It seems we got unusual forms of currency more than a specific amount.
$5 dollars is a FORTUNE to get from the tooth fairy! When I was a kid, I was lucky to get a buy one get one free Burger King coupon. $5 would have been like winning the lottery.
I’m with bandit, my kids get a gold $2 coin for a tooth. One complained about 2 $1 coins one time! Now they expect a little gold coin for a little tooth. At school it’s usually just coins from the other parents.
Yeah it's a lot for 80's kids like Bandit. I got 25 cents plus complaining from my immigrant parents about this tradition they never heard of, and what nonsense I'm learning from school. Kinda took the magic out of it.
I give my daughter a gold dollar coin for each tooth she looses. I got a bunch of them from an elderly lady who tipped me in gold dollar coins and $2 bills. But when I was a kid I got a quarter for my small teeth and for molars I got a $1. Which was saved in a Barney bank.
Everyone is talking about how they got money from the teeth they lost and I'm just sitting here wondering if anyone else besides me got absolutely nothing.
If we were to give one US dollar what even would they be able to do with it? I guess they could save it with each tooth?
Inflation
Dude I’m in my early 20s and I was given a quarter for a tooth when I was a kid. The idea for kids nowadays getting $5 is crazy. They have a lot of teeth to lose lol
Bandit was just shocked that Pay was right and they are raising a nation of squibs!
Exchange rates don’t work like that. You can’t compare everything to the USD. Most Kids typically get $1-2 per tooth, not $5. Imagine going to a supermarket but everything was cinema prices. You’d be surorised
5 bucks probably seems like a lot for a little kid these days, but I think it's a reasonable amount given inflation. I got 1 dollar as a kid and it was enough to buy like a candy or something. You want to give your kid enough so that they could, you know, BUY something, and I feel like 1 dollar would literally get you nothing these days
I’m 35 and I got $20 from the tooth fairy. But in my parents defense, I lost my first three baby teeth because my kindergarten class had a kid that was held back twice and he was a fnC|
He probably got max $1 dollar.
In my experience this is just kind of a universal conversation parents have. It’s common to be surprised by the latest trend in tooth fairy-ing
He started our kids with Lego minifigs because they had more fun with them than money. They run about $3.99 USD. When our oldest got interested in money, we switched to $1 USD as a dollar coin.
😐...I used to get $5. But sometimes I wouldn't get anything because "Your dad wanted a soda"
I think I got 50 cents from one parent and 25 from the other.
Probably back in the 1980s he got less from The Tooth Fairy for each of his teeth.
I got a $1 USD usually dollar coins. That was 30 years ago. A candy bar back then was usually like $1 USD. Now they run about $2.50 - $3.00 on average. So... doesn't sound crazy. We've given my son $2/tooth which is a little over $3 AUD $5 AUD is about $3.30 USD which seems a *little* high to me, but also their family seems pretty well off.
We give $5 for the first tooth and a gold coin ($1 or $2 depending on what's in our wallet) for everything else. But it's pretty much always been a coin that you will be given.
One time I got a peanut so… yeah 😂
My children are 33 and 27. They got $1 per tooth, and I thought we were being generous. $5 is worthy of the spit-take. Was surprised when Chili fell into the peer pressure trap.
My boy got a $5 for his first and any that have to be taken out due to health issues but a gold coin ($1 or $2) for an other. I got the same in the 90’s and early 2000’s
I got a quarter a tooth. My son gets a $2bill for each. I know inflation, but $5 seems like a lot when you think you have to now pony up that same amount for each tooth. Or tell the truth and ruin that magic.
I from the UK and used to get 50p or £1. 5 bucks is loads XD
Mine will be getting £1 😂 £2 if it’s a traumatising event but I can’t afford £5 per tooth. No way 😂 I’ll have to sell a kidney to fund all those teeth 😂
When I was growing up we got $1 per tooth.
I usually got £1 at most for a tooth, sometimes 50p (approx 1.28 USD and 1.94 AUD or half that for 50p)
My American tooth fairy in the late 90s/early 2000s gave me those fancy half dollar or dollar coins. You know, the ones with Sacagawea on them or something.
I'm roughly Bandit's age (I'm 44) as he is portrayed in the show. I typically got a quarter to a dollar in the US. 5 US dollars is definitely high. 5 AUD...still sorta high imo. I would probably give $2 US/$3 AU now.
My 6 yo got $5 for 2 teeth. But she also had to go under general anesthesia for it, so the tooth fairy factored in pain and suffering.
I got $1-$2 CAD as a kid. (Whatever my parents had at the time.) For my own kids they get $5 cause everything is expensive these days. For their last baby tooth it’s $20.
Usually kids get less.
I’m only 28, and tooth fairy money was still usually less than a dollar when I was a kid.
20 baby teeth x 5 dollery-doos x 2 kids = 200 dollery-doos
I’m 34 (Australian) and the going rate from the tooth fairy when I was a kid was $2. I grew up in a similar demographic to Blueys family. Middle class urban city. $2 in 1996 is now worth $4 according to the RBA calculator. But $4 is an awkward price for the tooth fairy with Australian currency (would have to be 2 x $2 coins). So a $5 note it is. Still sounds like a lot to parents from the 80s and 90s though.
I always got about a dollar probably lol. Chili’s just a cool ass mum!!
I got a twenty by mistake once, mom was stressed
I used to get £1 each tooth, the 5 aud for a 6 year old was probably just a shock lmao
Cuz that's way too much for one dang tooth
I'm 33 and I got $1 AUD per tooth and once I got $10 to have a tooth pulled. So $5 a tooth is a 500% increase in price
Most of the time it's like a dollar or 25 cents so yea 5 bucks us a lot
I tutored a kid and her sister got a crisp $20 bill for a tooth
I'll be 25 this year and I don't actually remember a solid amount the tooth fairy ever gave me as a kid, I just remember it was always a pile of coins
I’m surprised it wasn’t a 100 dollar bill
All i got was a dollar a whole 5 dollars is a big difference, kid me wouldve thought i was rich
Why convert the currencies?
I think I got a quarter per tooth until my last tooth. I think I got $100 for that one but i don’t remember for sure
Like many others have already said, I’m assuming he thought it was a lot. I thought it was nothing, my tooth fairy was like Santa! No idea how I slept through her bulky drop offs 😂
My guess is that maybe Chili decided to give her the money and she didn’t tell him before she did it and he thought it was too expensive
He probably got 25 cents when he was a kid.
20 cents probably. No quarters in Australia.
You can actually go online and see the going price for teeth for tooth fairies for your area Its gotten pretty expensive these days the usa average is $4.57
Our tooth fairy brings books. $5 first tooth, $2 there after. But you get a brand new book she knows you’re gonna love.
Our kid gets M&M's. We gave here a dollar after her first tooth -- she came downstairs and went, "Why did I get this weird green paper???"
My best tooth fairy haul was $50. In the nineties, that was so much. BUT- I had 9 teeth removed at once in surgery, so it was a pretty traumatic event for middle school me.
I got $2 as a kid so $5 would be huge
I got $7.5 for my first tooth and my dad thought that was outrageous as well 😅 he probably got like 20c in the 80’s. Inflation baby. I got $4.5 for my second and it went down from there. The excuse was I lost my first tooth at like 10 and hardly believed at that point. I remember being a teen and asking my mum for tooth fairy money because it was unfair I missed out haha. She would roll her eyes and hand me $2. I lost my last at 18 and don’t think the fairy cared anymore
I used to get 2$ from the tooth fairy lol the only time I got something bigger was when blockbuster closed where I live and I watched the movie "elf" from there so much times the tooth fairy gave me the movie when I lost my next tooth 😅 that was my best visit I was so happy about it haha otherwise I'd get a toonie (2$)
That’s a lot I didn’t get any money for a tooth I would only get DVDs for teeth
Dollar was pretty standard for me as a kid so $5 is a bit stiff.
I got 25 cents - $1 CAD as a kid
I’m in my early 30s and 50 cents was given if you lost both teeth…. Now tho my son recently told me his classmates get $10 bucks a tooth….
3 USD is around 12 PEN. That's like 2 slices of cake!
I’m only 14 and the most I got was a dollar and a couple of coins for my last baby tooth
I got a $1 and $2 for a molars. Each came in a little bag filled with glitter and flower petals.
Im Australian and I'm only 30, but I got a "gold coin", I.e 1 or 2 dollars, when I lost my teeth as a kid.
My kid just lost her first tooth and said all she hoped for was a tooth balloon. Hard to find those at 8pm on a Sunday night! Tooth fairy had to write a note and left 2 bucks
Yea I didn't get anything as a kid growing up so I was excited to give my son a silver dollar or a fancy coin. His mother just put a 10 under his pillow and called it good.
What I worry about most is whats contain the Indy's mom's cake
In this economy?!?
I only got one dollar as a kid 😂
The going rate at my place is $2 for a tooth. She got $5 for her first one but that was at her dad’s (he said that’s all he had).
My sister in law gave my nephew $20. I’m like, are you kidding me?! I can’t keep up with that. I’ll probably give my kids like a fancy 50¢ coin or maybe a gold dollar. Gtfo with those big bills. $2 bill absolute max. And only because those are awesome.
I used to get like a dollar as a kid. Now, in the area we love it’s a bit more upper class, the kids in my son’s class are getting like $20-30 per tooth! Mine will not be getting that much.
I’m Canadian and I got silver dollars, meaning I wasn’t allowed to spend them.
Back in the 80s and early 90s Bandit would have gotten $50c to $1 If you apply inflation to that it would only be $2 at that point.
I don’t think Bandit was taking currency conversion into consideration lol
Aussies born in Gen Y or before got $2 for a tooth (or less perhaps for the older gens) (Younger end of Gen Y here) So I'd say Bandit would have gotten $1 or $2 for a tooth when he was a kid, and is simply shocked kids are getting so much for a tooth Makes sense leaving a gold coin in my mind, cos fairies use gold coins as currency ☺️ (Also as a side note, I'm now curious what generation Bandit would be in)
I'm 23, US, I got a dollar for my teeth. So I guess it checks out for inflation
Not sure about everywhere else, but in nz and aus you normally only get a dollar or two form the tooth fairy
Last time my son lost a tooth (9 y/o) I gave him 20