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Tooth Fairy Inflation?!

webdeathwebdeath Member Posts: 1,570 Arc User
edited August 2013 in Ten Forward
http://t.money.msn.com/business-news/newsarticle?feed=AP&date=20130830&id=16854404

This whole article feels more like something out of the Onion then a true news feed.. wtf? $20 per tooth... an ancient type writer?! :eek:
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  • webdeathwebdeath Member Posts: 1,570 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    After losing her first tooth, 5-year-old Caroline Ries found a $100 bill under her pillow, along with a brand new My Little Pony toothbrush and a tube of toothpaste.

    WTF?! I want that family...
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  • lordhavelocklordhavelock Member Posts: 2,248 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Yeah, I think I got quarters, fifty-cent pieces, maybe a "silver" dollar for teeth when I was a kid. I never got more than a buck though (and whatever the money was, it was in coin form).

    Parents today are nuts! They over-indulge their children.

    For example, I've got friends with kids who spend hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, for birthday parties for their kids. They're inviting dozens of families, and the gifts range in prices from $40+++, and there's dozens of 'em. It's like each birthday is planned like some kind of mini-wedding. It started when the kids were even only 1-2 years old ... These kids are too young to appreciate it now, much less remember!!!

    When I was a kid, your first couple birthdays (I don't remember my own, but my seeing my brothers, cousins, friends, etc.) were basically family and close friends only. Mom would bake a cake (from a box mix), there'd be store-bought neapolitan ice cream (cuz then everyone could have the flavor they like, lol), burgers and dogs bbq, maybe pot-luck.

    As we got older, started going to school, then we might have some friends over. We were restricted to a half-dozen or so. Even then most of the times it was home-cake and ice cream (or maybe a "fancy" local grocery store bakery cake), simple cookout/potluck, maybe someone would order pizza. I think one year at like 13 I got to go to mini-golf with 3-4 friends. And I went to another friends' B-day at Chuck-e-Cheese.

    Anyway... It's crazy.

    Of course, I want to know... What's Visa (a company that profits off other people's debit) doing spending money to survey people's Tooth Fairy Habits? Are they looking for parents willing to take lines of credit to spoil their kids? Are they looking to give credit to the kids?

    It just seems unsavory.

    Meh. What do I know. I'm just a grumpy old man. Give the kids what they want, just keep them offa mah lawn!

    :D

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  • thecosmic1thecosmic1 Member Posts: 9,365 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    The amount you get is relative to the era you were raised in. When I was young comics were 10 cents. Now they're $4.00. A quarter would get me 2 comics and some candy. $10.00 today would get me 2 comics and some candy. :)
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  • corelogikcorelogik Member Posts: 1,039 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    webdeath wrote: »
    http://t.money.msn.com/business-news/newsarticle?feed=AP&date=20130830&id=16854404

    This whole article feels more like something out of the Onion then a true news feed.. wtf? $20 per tooth... an ancient type writer?! :eek:

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  • webdeathwebdeath Member Posts: 1,570 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    What I find REALLY funny is the whole article is one big "Hey look there is a Tooth Fairy Calculator on facebook" Ad. :P
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  • lordhavelocklordhavelock Member Posts: 2,248 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    thecosmic1 wrote: »
    The amount you get is relative to the era you were raised in. When I was young comics were 10 cents. Now they're $4.00. A quarter would get me 2 comics and some candy. $10.00 today would get me 2 comics and some candy. :)
    When I was a kid, comics were $0.60 (soon after I started collecting they went up to $0.75). I still only got about a buck. So I only got one comic and some candy.

    My parents sucked!

    :P

    :D

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  • webdeathwebdeath Member Posts: 1,570 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    lordhavelock wrote: »
    When I was a kid, comics were $0.60 (soon after I started collecting they went up to $0.75). I still only got about a buck. So I only got one comic and some candy.

    My parents sucked!

    :P

    :D

    My parents wouldn't even take me to Chuck-e-cheese.. Though now that I reflect on it, I'm glad they didn't.. because from what I've heard.. it isn't the best of places.. Cheap Pizza.. Lousy Games... :P

    But yeah.. I think I got $1 per tooth..maybe a quarter.. But I didn't care.. it was shiny.. it was money.. I was happy..

    Kids today.. Damn it.. now I feel old!
    You think that your beta test was bad?
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  • lordvalecortezlordvalecortez Member Posts: 479 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    I never got more then a dollar which came in coin form. Hurray Aussie money. Fortunately candy was 20 cents per at the store up the door. Happy times. $20 is like birthday money from grandma. Many I feel old and I'm only in my 20's!
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  • lordhavelocklordhavelock Member Posts: 2,248 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    webdeath wrote: »
    My parents wouldn't even take me to Chuck-e-cheese.. Though now that I reflect on it, I'm glad they didn't.. because from what I've heard.. it isn't the best of places.. Cheap Pizza.. Lousy Games... :P

    But yeah.. I think I got $1 per tooth..maybe a quarter.. But I didn't care.. it was shiny.. it was money.. I was happy..

    Kids today.. Damn it.. now I feel old!
    Chuck's was much better when I was a kid (wasn't everything? lol), back in the 80s, when video game arcades were in their prime. They had the games, they had ski ball and other ticket-giving games, you could get prizes (cheap toys), there were slides and ball pits and jungle gyms, they even had animatronic characters that "sang songs" and "talked" to the kids (they look terrible now, granted, when I was a kid, they were awesome)... And pizza was pizza... There was no such thing as good or bad pizza when I was young. lol

    Last year I took my nephew to Chuck's for his B-Day, and you're right... It's not anything like what I remember... The pizza I considered subpar (not terrible, but not "good"), there were no more animatronics... The games were still cool though. And he had a blast, so perspectives matter, I guess.

    I'm with you though on the money. It was money. Shiny. It spent. Woo-hoo! I was happy!

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  • sander233sander233 Member Posts: 3,992 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    My nephews have noticed this.

    I think the older one is at that point where he's young enough to still believe in fairies but old enough to grasp some basic economic theory.

    Time for a bit of uncle trolling, I think...
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  • webdeathwebdeath Member Posts: 1,570 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    sander233 wrote: »
    My nephews have noticed this.

    I think the older one is at that point where he's young enough to still believe in fairies but old enough to grasp some basic economic theory.

    Time for a bit of uncle trolling, I think...

    Trolling eh? What are you going to do? Have the Tooth Fairy leave him an I O U? :P
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