End of the Tooth Fairy Era
I have worn the same earrings for about a year straight. Before that, it was another pair for another year, and so on, back to the nineties. Boring, I know. So this morning I got all wacky and decided to celebrate “logical Friday” by switching it up for another pair of earrings. Exciting life, eh?
I have plenty of pairs of earrings, some left over from the Reagan administration and mile-high bangs. I keep a small selection in a heart-shaped ceramic dish with a lid. I went digging around in there to find a matching pair that were somewhat more recently in style. As I was dishing around, I found a human tooth.
The tooth was obviously one of the kids’ and obviously left over from the Era of the Tooth Fairy, but that was awhile ago and finding it freaked me out a little and in a heartbeat, I lost all previously-held sentimentality. Yuck.
Jen on the Edge has some years of sentimentality left in her, and some pretty darn cute Tooth Fairy stories. Rock on, Jen. I’ll be over here on the sidelines in my fun earrings.
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:46 am
I always hate touching the teeth after they’re out. *shudder* I’m not at all sentimental and toss them in the trash a.s.a.p.
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:44 am
I saved all of my teeth until they started breaking up into little pieces. I passed the tradition onto my girl. She has all but 2 of her baby teeth. I think I accidentally threw them away because I forgot about them being in tissue and hadn’t transferred them to her tooth container.
As far as earrings are concerned, I’m kind of like that too. I have 2/3 pair that I rotate. I still have all my earrings from the 80s that I wouldn’t touch with a 10-ft pole but my girl thinks are pretty cool.
July 10th, 2008 at 11:06 am
My daughter used to leave notes for the tooth fairy–love letters, persay. She asked for a picture of her, and replies. So, the wee hours would find me on the web trying to track down some suitably toothlike fairy I could print a picture of while I penned a response in what I hoped was fairylike penmanship. Once she asked to keep her tooth, so the tooth was left in a film canister with the correspondence. Now, she goes to my husband (the sucker) and tells the tooth fairy how much she should get–but she still wants it put under her pillow while she’s sleeping. Can’t take all the magic out, can we?
July 20th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
I thought I was the only person who has given up on matching accessories and outfits and assumed it was my age! Months ago, I tried. I collected earrings (relatively inexpensive) and convinced the family I needed a jewelry armoire to house my extensive collection (not!). The husband provided the armoire for Christmas, and as of July, it still stands holding court in the guest room with the college daughter’s “stuff” that won’t fit in her bedroom for the summer. It holds a few pairs of earrings, but everything else is still in the old dresser drawer while I continue to rotate the same 2 pairs of earrings. Go figure, glad someone much younger has the same issue.
Btw, my husband’s grandmother generously and sweetly saved some items for her only great-grandaughter-the college girl. Prior to her death, she shipped them to me to save for an appropriate time-16 silver dollars in an antique shaving tin, a diamond solitaire necklace her husband sent her in WWII, and YES, one of my father-in-law’s teeth from when he was a child. Big shudder and desperation trying to forget I ever touched it!