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[webenda]

What's a little kid like that going to do with $100?

Save it until she has enough for her own kitchen. Now that a precedent has been set, she will expect $100 per tooth.

[Roy]

Yeah, I wouldn't want to be mommy or daddy having to explain why Princess only got $1 per tooth, next time.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Yeah, I wouldn't want to be mommy or daddy having to explain why Princess only got $1 per tooth, next time[

Yikes! Even I got more than that as a tooth-missing kid($10).

[rogruth]

WOW! I got a nickle for little ones and a dime for big ones.

[Tom Dempsey]

I got a quarter and felt lucky.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

For me, it started out as Silver Dollars (eventually accumulating a nice little stack of those), and then my maternal grandmother stepped it up with those ten-spots. Maybe my howling about them as they dislodged, plus the trauma of feeling something had been self-amputated, are what got me the notice and efforts at being assuaged? Grandma Rose is the same one who started with the same bills in birthday cards, which also improved with time. I was consciously aware I was very lucky. I must say, though, that I did always behave, never getting into trouble, and certainly not ever irritating her. She used to request having me visit her and staying for the day or overnight while my parents went on adventures and errands. I adored her. She made the best chicken-and-dumplings, too. Her first house in the USA was a large, sprawling Queen Anne-style home, with a long and broad white front-to-side porch, from which she chatted with neighbors who came by. It was part of a farm. She had immigrated from Hungary just as the Russian Revolution was getting muscular, bringing her four children with her, along with a single strand of real pearls sewn under her garments, which were sold, one at a time, as time went on, in the USA.)

[rex desilets]

[webenda]

Yeah, I wouldn't want to be mommy or daddy having to explain why Princess only got $1 per tooth, next time[

Yikes! Even I got more than that as a tooth-missing kid($10).

Murph, you got $100. How do I figure that? Ten dollars in 1950 are equivalent in purchasing power to $103.32 in 2018.
Reference: http://www.in2013dollars.com/1950-dolla ... ?amount=10

[Roy]

I had a depression-era dad who was hell-bent that I not be spoiled. I don't remember getting paid for teeth falling out. When my dad heard my mom was giving me $1 a week allowance, that got cut in half real quick.

[webenda]

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Child: "Mommy, where are the pliers?"
Mommy: "In the kitchen drawer Martha, why?"
Child: "The tooth fairy took my tooth last night and left $10 in exchange. I need two more teeth to buy one of those Lionel Stoves so I can help with dinner."

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[J. S. Bach]

A very accurate rendition.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Yeah, I wouldn't want to be mommy or daddy having to explain why Princess only got $1 per tooth, next time[

Yikes! Even I got more than that as a tooth-missing kid($10).

Murph, you got $100. How do I figure that? Ten dollars in 1950 are equivalent in purchasing power to $103.32 in 2018.
Reference: http://www.in2013dollars.com/1950-dolla ... ?amount=10

Interesting, Wayne. I never thought about what those $10 bills could get me, though I did notice, in a hardware store across the street from the movie house in our little town, on one occasion, that Lionel N&W "bullet-nose" cost $50. Never thought about it further (until 1995). You see, I always gave my Grandma Rose bills to my mother, to help out. Later, when I became a "Paperboy," beginning at 12 yrs old, delivering 72 daily newspapers and 100+ "Pittsburgh Press" Sunday editions, I loved giving my mother all my tips. At Christmas, I'd get about $125 in tips and the first time I gifted that over to my mother, she cried.

Little did I know, until years later, that all that money, the birthday gifts, tooth fairy tips, and newspaper delivery boy tips, had been put into a brown envelope, which was handed to me the day I got accepted into the college of my choice. My mother handed me the envelope with all that cash in it, and we both had a good cry, joyful at our wonderful home together, which I was about to leave, for college.

Life is complicated. And wonderful.
Murph

[Roy]

Well then, you only did get $10, because envelopes don't pay interest.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I got a quarter from the "tooth fairy" if I got anything at all.

[Rufus T. Firefly]