tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9154009.post2636745728273450333..comments2023-10-30T04:41:01.066-07:00Comments on Confessions From A Stay At Homo (SAHM): Little Known Factsgiddingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02999401177122785401noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9154009.post-2015158967165519242007-05-02T11:18:00.000-07:002007-05-02T11:18:00.000-07:00Hi Holly!Okay, you've given me a great research id...Hi Holly!<BR/>Okay, you've given me a great research idea! The Tooth Fairy and Inflation -- ha!<BR/><BR/>I'd love to know what other people got from the tooth fairy and what they leave their kids. <BR/><BR/>I suspect inflation is at work (along with everything else we give our kids -- seen those outrageous birthday parties?) but it is strange that inflation would come into play at all. Seven spends money on only the rarest of occasions. As a result, it doesn't mean anything to her. She'd have been happy with a nickle! So even though the price of goods has risen at a regular rate since (ahem) the 1970s, it doesn't affect the goods that kids buy because they don't really buy goods with the tooth fairy money. (My quarter used to buy me a WHOLE hershey bar!). <BR/><BR/>Having said that, your parents were still, definitely, cheap.giddingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02999401177122785401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9154009.post-42694618209747423472007-05-02T11:12:00.000-07:002007-05-02T11:12:00.000-07:00I thoroughly enjoyed the thought of you taking a d...I thoroughly enjoyed the thought of you taking a dollar from the stash to leave her.<BR/><BR/>BTW - I think the tooth fairy always left me a dime. Does the tooth fairy compensation rise with inflation? or were my parents just cheap?Hollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01837343422358215064noreply@blogger.com