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I would have forgotten the tooth fairy duty on several occasions, but my husband is better about remembering it than I am also.

The occasions when the tooth fairy was �unavailable for visits�, were because the children failed (on purpose) to inform us of that they had lost a tooth, although they still put it under their pillow, then came down dejectedly the next day to tell us that the Tooth Fairy had forgotten about them! I think they enjoyed watching us make up what we believed were plausible sounding excuses!

The tooth fairy is very forgetful in our house too. More than once I have had to "find" the money that fell under the bed. Since my daughter usually receives Susan B. Anthony or Sacagawea dollars and the area under her bed is usually littered with toys this is not terribly difficult to pull off.

We have the tooth fairy visit a tooth placed under an overturned glass on the kitchen table. It's WAAAAY more convenient! And the kids don't care. That's how the TF visited me, so I totally swiped it and used it.