For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 24, 2017

Elizabeth, you’re lucky you got something for all the ways that tooth traveled about.

how suspicious

Lizzie, I bet it’s because Melody lost a bigger tooth. (That should work.)

Fifty cents and a pack of Bubble Yum was the going rate when I was a kid.

A quarter? Clearly they have stopped updating the comic strip dialogue to make it match modern times like they used to. Even back in 1988 when this strip was originally published a quarter wouldn’t have gotten you much. Now when Lynn Johnston was little in the 1950s, a quarter would get you 2 Mad Magazines. With my kids we gave them a dollar bill because it was a lot harder to lose a dollar bill under a pillow with a sleeping child on top of it than it was to lose a coin.

Considering where it’s been, she’s lucky she got anything.

Why parents long to be stranded on a desert island.

There was a horror movie about the Tooth Fairy, as well as a light headed one & its sequel starring Duayne Johnson.

My manager was talking about the exact same moment with her kids. On the spot, she came up with “Well, the tooth fairy has a set budget every night. You must have come at the end of her route.” Then she said “I was amazed at how easily lying comes when you’re a parent.”

My kids got a gold dollar, because my husband didn’t want to pay out more. Their friends sometimes get $10+, or even wrapped presents (!) I think $5 is about the going rate these days, and $0.25-$1 in the 70s when I lost most of mine. But we just got money and no notes, Pinterest decor, glitter, etc. All of us (including me) are light sleepers, so we’ve had some kids wake up and other close calls. I’m glad my youngest, at 8, will be done or figure out the truth soon!

Either the Tooth Fairy plays favorites or she’s just a cheapskate.

50% service fee by the Tooth Faeries Union for cleaning and disinfecting a tooth that is swallowed and recycled.

I remember getting a dime. (Back in the 30’s.)

Yeah, we got a dime in the ’50s too…

We got a quarter for a regular tooth and 50 Cents for a molar in back since they were harder. But I got a dollar for my two front teeth on the bottom, the “adult” teeth grew behind the baby teeth instead of pushing them out. It was murder for both me and my mom since they didn’t come loose and she had to go through a lot to wriggle them out.

Inflation, what can you do?

The “toof” should be re-appearing any day now…

I used to get dimes. Until I announced that the tooth fairy is giving quarters now because the cost of living went up.

I got a dollar in quarters in the 90s