Offbeat: Shocker: Tooth Fairy investing less in kids’ teeth due to the recession
- $2.60 average amount the tooth fairy gives a kid for a lost tooth
- 40¢ dip from the last survey; that’s $3, for the math-challenged source
- » We’ve been really worried about the whole debt-ceiling mess for the past few days, but it really says something about the economy when the tooth fairy isn’t even giving as much for kids’ pearly whites. Perhaps, like Glenn Beck, she’s chosen to invest in gold instead of teeth. We hear gold’s doing pretty well nowadays.