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Do/Did you keep your very first doll? Or will you sell it?

Aug 12, 2009

    1. I only have one BJD, and not even a week yet :') The thought of selling her.. Never.
      I'm really in love with her! And I don't think that will ever change. (We even share the same date of birth, we're just 25 years apart. How really great coincidence is that! )
      Allthough this is my first bjd, my house is filled with other dolls, and I have never ever sold one of those too. I just can't do it, too afraid that I might regret it.
      I only gave a couple away to my niece. Sometimes I am considering selling one of my girls, cause I haven't bonded with her at all, but I have not been able to do so, so far. Maybe one day.
      But I don't think I will sell BJD's, maybe if I just don't bond with them, or if I have serious money problems (even then, as a last resort!) No, I will never sell my Little Sara (allthough of course I can't look in to the future)
       
    2. I've still got mine--I absolutely adore her, but I know some of that's nostalgia. Ideally, there's another sculpt I'd prefer for her character, and she's currently without a face-up, but I don't know that I could get rid of her unless I really had to. I've had her for... I think five years? Maybe going on six? It'd take a lot for me to part with her, though.
       
    3. My first is my Chiwoo Elf, Oliver. I got him on 2007, november, second hand here at the marketplace (first his head, then his body). I still have him and will never get rid off him, well, actually I will never let go any of my bjds, I just love them so much!! :D
       
    4. I will never sell him. Ever! :aheartbea
       
    5. I could NEVER EVER give up my first doll, Xavier is all my pride and joy and without him I'd go crazy. I love him to much to ever even consider him not being with me anymore.
       
    6. I still have my Renae, and I'd never sell her! I never imagined getting a Volks as my first doll, much less a girl, as I was into LUTS and Ringdoll, but my friend showed me this doll, as another friend of ours was selling her, and I instantly fell in love! Even her faceup was very unique and I couldn't wipe it off~ I instantly became attached and even my boyfriend has started referring to her as "my baby" when he holds her for me and helps me pick things out for her~ (she's in my signature)

      She's still my first doll, and it's because of her I'm determined to get an older boy doll for her older brother!
       
    7. I tried to sell her once because of being really desperate for money, then ended up giving up selling her because I couldn't do it.
      Now she sits happily on her chair in a glass display case.
       
    8. I actually don't have the first BJD I ever bought, anymore. She was a Dollmore Momo girl NS. When I bought her I didn't know too much about bjds or bjd websites. I kept her for about 2 years but when I started buying new dolls I found that I really didn't like her as much as my other babies. When I told one of my friends that I was planning on selling her she immediately respond with "I'll buy her." So she now lives a couple cities away with a good friend.
       
    9. I actually ended up selling him. He was this gorgeous fantasy modded Souldoll Paris, who was just amazing and fantastic. Unfortunately, and it took me two more dolls to figure this out, I'm just not into fantasy parts. :s So I ended up selling him.
       
    10. I still have my first doll. Not that i'v had her a huge amount of time but I have met a few people who sold there first doll not soon after getting them. However she still means alot to me sentamentaly and I dont think dispite yellowing or anything like that I could ever part with her
       
    11. My first doll purchase was two blank heads from Migidoll. I sold one because I was rather disappointed with the look when he arrived, but the second one (a Noel) I have kept. He has gone through many different faceups, "looks", and styles, and even shifted characters a few times, but I still love him and plan on keeping him.

      My first full doll was a Soom Chrom and he is still here... I even liked him so much I bought a second! (Not my usual M.O., but it works for this story.) He has, like my Noel, gone through a few character changes and quite a few faceups, but he has only gotten more special through all of it. I don't think I could ever sell him.
       
    12. Na.. I sold my first doll. He was Luts El white skin.. and I didn't know white skin turns lemon color..
      I was just shocked a lot. Since that I got only normal skin dolls.. easier to handle..
       
    13. I still have my first doll - she's a Madame Alexander Baby Kathy from 1957..... & I also still have my first modded doll (which was remodded by my daughter..) a 1963 Midge head on a 1962 Barbie body...
      Ok Yeah, BJDs - but the odds of me ever giving up my first BJD (a baby DragonDoll girl) or first big doll (my Angell Studio Trey) or first big girl (Loong Soul LuoYue), or - well, you get the idea. I keep things for a looooooong time LOL
       
    14. I still have my first BJD, a Resinsoul Ya, and she's my favourite.
       
    15. I still have mine. A Kid-Delf Bomi. He'll be seven years old in a couple of weeks.
       
    16. I have my first doll with me. I have tried to sell her and I kept her finally. It's a Rao AoD.
       
    17. I did, I sold my first doll (and another actually) for money for my dream doll, I'm majorly sad about it, but they've gone to loving homes!.x
       
    18. Yes I'm keeping my first male doll.
      (But my first female sculpt had to move on ;))
       
    19. I've been collecting for two years now and I've found a much better doll to shell the character that my first doll is. That said, I don't believe I'll ever be selling her. Her body is in use by one of my other dolls and her head is in need of a new faceup, but she's important to me. Getting her was the door to the best hobby ever. It was like magic, holding her for the first time. I don't think I could ever sell her, and anyway she's a standard Soulkid so it's not as though I'd make a lot off her anyway. The memory is much more important for me:)
       
    20. My first doll is still with him and I love him just as much as I did when I first bought him; at some point in time I was a little scared I was falling a little out of love but sitting to redo his faceup and sew some clothes pretty much eliminated most of my fears and helped me connect with him even more~