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

I used to think that way, well barring money issues of course. I haven't sold my first doll but I have sold a few. Honestly sometimes dolls just don't work out the way you think they might when you first see them. I can easily see random money troubles. Sometimes things just come up yah know?

TC

 

Yeah. :/ I guess it's just me, I'm obsessive. haha

 

There may be other dicussions regarding this subject, but I just wanted to know peoples opinion on their first doll too.

 

I only have 3 dolls but even if my collection grew quite large I don't think I could give up my first doll. She is by far my favourite of the group and I just love her tiny little face

 

I sold my first two dolls; not because I didn't love them - but because I found better moulds for them that fit the character I was going for. It would have been a waste for them to just be sitting in their boxes for the rest of eternity with no one to love them. So I sold them and they went to better homes where they're loved dearly.

While I still love the moulds of my first two dolls, I don't regret the decision I made to move them onto another owner who would play with them and love them more than I did.

 

How can you "love" something before you even see it in person? Obviously, most people aren't going to buy a doll they know they won't like, but sometimes these dolls look different in person than on the company website or in owner's pictures. I have no qualms about selling dolls that don't satisfy me in some way. I even sold my first. I liked him when I got him, but after buying many other dolls, I realized that I liked him far less than my newer ones. Tastes change over the years.

I'll also add that I don't really love any of my dolls, but I think many people on here use the word "love" a bit loosely. I do have sentimental feelings towards most of them, but it's nothing like the way I feel about a pet or family member.

 

Thats sweet. :')

 

Well, I have my first doll as well as two others that I consider "permanent" dolls (CP Yder, CP Shiwoo, Volks Kohya) but two will definitely be replaced at some point and the other two, who knows? I've bought many dolls over the years because they were cheap and I only liked them somewhat or not really at all and because of the price they were full of engineering and sculpting flaws and I am VERY picky. I always end up selling those impulse dolls.

You also have to consider, you are very new to this hobby but there are people who have been collecting for many years, some as many as 13 years. People's taste in dolls change as much as their taste in anything else. When I was a teenager I had short black hair, goth clothes, and wanted to be all emo and manish and now I have long blonde hair, wear makeup, and love all girly things. My teenage self would have been shocked and scandalized at the idea, but people change.

Another reason to sell dolls is quick money whether you want to part with them or not. If your cat was very sick and suffering and going to die without an operation that you didn't have the money to pay for, would you sell the doll or would you hoard it and hope things would work themselves out? I know I would rather throw all my dolls in a wood-chipper before letting my cats suffer. People's life situations also change over the years as their personalities do. Someone might have been a teenager with a part time job and all the money they made was disposable income because their parents paid for everything but 10 years later they have bills and a family and may need to sell the doll.

 

You tell someone else the meaning of love, thats YOUR opinion. If someone loves their doll, then you can't tell them thats wrong.

Thank you for this reasonable answer. (Also, I hate cats.) haha

 

Then subsitite "cat" with "dog" or "baby" or etc... ^_^

 

awww I love dogs

 

I didn't question someone loving their doll - I questioned someone loving it before they see it in person. I didn't state it was "wrong" - I was just curious about how you can know for certain that you love something you haven't seen. This is invalid if the buyer purchases the doll in person, but most of us order online and never know exactly how the doll will look until we see it. This is probably one of the reasons why box openings are important to many people.

Also, later I stated that my interpretation of love was different from other people's interpretations, so that was my way of clarifying in my original post that it was my opinion.

 

I don't understand why people are ripping me a new one. I obviously stated that, I was talking about the first doll. FIRST. I don't understand how people come up with the "money problems" when I said fist one. I mean if your FIRST doll has sentimental value, why sell it. shouldn't you keep it to remember why you got into the hobby in the first place.

 

Even though I just got my first doll a couple months ago I don't think I could ever sell her. It's always been like that with me, once I have something I feel like it's my job to take care of it forever

 

Once you begin getting many dolls, there will be certain ones that will be less favourable.
Furthermore, you could love a doll, then find a new one that you think is three times better, that you want immediately.
Besides, looking just at photos of a doll doesn't necessarily show you everything you need, when you get the doll, you might just fall out of love.

Situations change, you can't say for sure that you will just be able to find another option, because some people just don't have a choice.
There are people who can not take some extra shifts or sell something else.
While I do agree that you should not start the hobby if you're not very financially stable, but things do happen that can change things drastically.


I would agree with FrigidDamsel and Snow on this one, there have been quite a few threads similar to this.
&& Love is also very subjective, so it may be different from person to person.

 

I agree, but I am referring to the first doll. I was saying myself, that I would never sell my first doll.

 

There is nothing that is very sentimental about my first doll.
Some people might not have been able to get the doll that they completely love the first time around.

My first painting was a disaster, and I threw it out as soon as it dried.
Although it did signal the beginning of my hobby, I didn't attach myself to it.
I would much rather keep the prettier ones I have now than the mess I made five years ago.

Like I said before, your judgement and tastes change.
Two years from now, you might realize that you don't actually like that doll any more.
Seeing another doll that you absolutely love, you might be inclined to sell your first doll to get funds for that one.

Also, you don't have to quote the message here.

 

It'll be amusing to pull this thread back up five or ten years from now, and compare it to the OP's collection at that point.

 

yes, soooo amusing. Oh don't worry, I will.

 

No offense but, I don't see anyone in this thread 'ripping you a new one' as you say. You started this thread to get people's opinions and that is what you are getting, just because they don't agree with you or you with them doesn't mean they are 'ripping you a new one.' You are taking these comments way too personally.

As for me, I at one point thought I would never sell any of my dolls as not only did I really enjoy them but many hold sentimental value as well (several being presents from my parents including my first one). However, as the years have gone on, my tastes in everything (including dolls) have changed and times have gotten harder financially. I have had to sell many dolls over the past year due to financial hardship and have desperately clung to my first since she was my first and a gift. Then I got to thinking that, really, the doll itself has flaws and no longer fits the character she was at the time (as in the past several years the character has made several changes too) so I planned get another doll for the character anyway and it seemed redundant to have two for the same character (one of which on a flawed doll from a company I no longer like) while in the meantime I could really use the money from her. I know my parents will understand since I enjoyed and loved her for many years, and her character will be back with me soon, just in a different doll from a company I like much better. So that is one reason someone may sell their first if that makes any sense. ^-^