Lost Baby Teeth: Are They Trash or Treasure

What do you do with lost baby teeth? Are they trash or treasure?

My older granddaughter loves my cell phone. She’s only 7 so she’s too young for one of her own, but boy does she love to play with mine. She visited this weekend and when I picked up my phone I discovered she’d made a few pictures of herself.

Perhaps this is her way of reminding me she has a loose tooth. She’s already lost several but it’s still a big event, and of course she looks forward to a visit from the Tooth Fairy.

When our children were little I kept all their little teeth as they lost them. I put them in the top drawer of my jewelry box. We had five children so over the years I accumulated enough teeth in that drawer to make a miniature set of dentures. For a long time I thought it was sweet to have them there but I finally decided it was gross. I mean what was I going to do with them? Make a necklace out of them or something? Yuck! Besides, I had no idea which teeth belonged to which child- so I tossed them.

In a way I’m sorry I did. Now I look in my jewelry drawer and miss them. Am I twisted or what?

There has to be a better plan. I know somewhere on Pinterest some mother has come up with a cute way to memorialize baby teeth but since I trashed mine, I don’t want to look.

What did you do with your children’s baby teeth?  Trash them or treasure them?