Does this hobby *really* teach us patience?

I think it depends entire how patient you have to be. If you have the money then there really is no waiting really, a few weeks maybe, you can have the doll professionally done and avoid having to do the face up. You almost need patients to get into this hobby any way. It's going to be a year at least until I can get my own doll.

 

It must.... I just waited 2 months for my Iplehouse Claude (which is less than the 3 months than I'd been used to), and he is so agonizingly cute that, looking back on it, I have NO idea how I survived the wait. Unless something taught me patience.

 

Yes and no.

No matter how prepared I was to wait for my Iple Storm, I still was rather impatient during that time. I mean, not too bad, but it was still there. It was even worse once he shipped and then when the post office tried to deliver him while I was at work...and then told me I had to wait until the next day to pick him up at the post office. That was the worst!

I'm really not anymore patient than I used to be, but I can wait. That "I need to have it nooow" is always lurking under the surface, even when I luck out with a shorter wait than the norm.

 

I'm not really a patient person. I try very hard to control that part of me because I know it's bad to be impatient in general. That said, when I had to wait 6 weeks for my doll I was not that antsy. The first few weeks were hard, then I sort of "forgot" about her. But as the estimated time neared, I got anxious again. Then there was a fiasco with the delivery... But for most of my wait time, I was pretty good.

I don't find stringing to be that difficult or require a lot of patience myself, so that was never an issue for me.

Face-ups; however, those require a lot of patience. As someone who draws a lot, I find I can get very impatient with myself when I can't make something look the way I want it to look. The same goes for face-ups. But the fact I want my doll to look decent, at least, has been a great motivator for me.

That said, I'm not doing to well in waiting for a head I bought here recently. >_>;; Oh well, when she gets here she'll be so cute and completely worth the wait!

 

I think I've always been a patient person, but that also depends on the thing that I have to be patient for. Like for example, when my mom told me that I was getting the camera I wanted for my Christmas I was overjoyed, especially because when I opened all my gifts Christmas morning and didn't see it well, I will say I was disappointed as the only other things I had gotten were clothes and a necklace I was allergic to. >.> The thing was I had to wait three months. But I was perfectly ok with this. So I waited, and waited, and waited...But the closer it got to when the camera was supposed to be showing up the more antsy I got.

I'm about to order my first doll from a company ever this week or sometime this weekend, so it's the first time I'll have had to be truly patient with this hobby. As I don’t know if I’ll have to wait a few days, a couple weeks, or a couple months and it’s really not even a guessing game as there’s nothing I can really factor in to help predict the time! Not only that but I’m trying to find a face up artist to send her to before she gets to me, which means some extra waiting time but it’s better than the extra month that I would have to wait if I were getting it done while she’s with Iplehouse. So yeah…we’ll see.

 

I feel it forces us to be patient more than it teaches us to be patient. The longer I wait for a doll doesn't exactly teach me a lesson where I'm saying 'Wow I'm glad I waited so long' to then give me the mentality where the longer I wait for a doll, the better it will be. If anything, it makes me anxious as to what's going on there and whether or not I will get a doll or not and if its still possible to file a claim.

 

Oh, I second this! Everytime I rush a faceup, I end up having to wipe it and start over. This has happened 7 times so far and I have only had 5 dolls to do faceups on. As soon as I start to rush it turns into a hot mess. And, seemingly, I never seem to learn my less till it's too late. -_-

 

Oh yes. This happens to me when making stuff too. I'll rush or try to cut corners and it'll fail... Though sewing a patchwork dress for one of my dolls did teach me to be patient, not cut corners, and make sure I pay attention to all the details... So at least I'm learning?

 

I'm very lucky because my only doll came home just two weeks after my order! I was soooooo surprised!
now she's with me since about a month... she's a beautiful kid delf! I'm totally in love with her!

 

Let's see... This hobby hasn't taught me anything about patience. I've always been a very patient person. I think it does reinforce it by force though. Most of it is from the wait between ordering the doll and actually getting it. For my second and third dolls I had to wait three months just for the doll to be made, let alone shipping time. And my most recent one was preordered in september and I won't be seeing her until april/may-ish, so one is very much forced to be patient especially if they like getting limited editions, like I do.

I do agree with the faceup thing too, it's never a good idea to rush a thing like that or it'll likely end up sloppy. Patience is also needed if you're just starting out too, if you end up not liking your first one you can always try and try again.

 

I usually have a great deal of patience however when it comes to dolls and waiting I am IMPATIENT.

 

for me big yes ! i order mine on 28th nov and still not arrived (im using 2 forwarder) so yea ...
i was inpatient person from the first place actually
though its annoying but this hobby do teach you how to be patient

 

Nope~ :"D
Not. at. all.

 

Who said it teaches you patience!? xD Anyway, I think I'm a pretty patient person but it really depends on what I'm waiting for. For things like commissioned art or this doll, there was the possibility that some things wouldn't be right, like the face sculpt, face up, and so on. For things like this, I'm rather impatient. Like, if I know the art I commissioned is going to be just like how I want it, I can wait a year+ for it. I'm not really sure why this is. Oh and, I'm also less patient if things are put on hold because I have to wait. Like, if I'm waiting on one doll to see if it's right *then* to see if I need to buy the other one to see if *that* is right, and so on.

 

I don't think so. I've had an order lost and that made me angry, ended up waiting like 6 months for that doll. I've also had my "reward for my patience" dashed when receiving a broken doll. And then there is the other extreme, just recently I just put in an order, and that doll just so happened to have come in with a regular shipment, so I was able to pick her up the next day. Nothing like instant gradification to make one more doll greedy. Now I'm looking more often for dolls I like, and ways to get them faster than preordering. *sigh*

 

It don't think it teaches us patience. You are either patient or you're not. I think waiting for a doll doesn't change much on that. ^^

 

I'm still waiting to buy my first doll and I'm super impatient about it. If anything, it teaches the people around you to be patient with our doll-fanaticism. But if I've learned one thing, it's how much patience can be rewarded in the end. I know that when I do finally get the right amount of money to buy my doll, it will be totally worth it. So to answer the question, it really depends on the person. For me, personally, no.

 

I think a lot of aspects of the hobby require patience... Saving money, waiting for the delivery, face-ups, making clothes... ^^

 

This pretty much captured what I was thinking. Also, I'm a fairly patient person, however when it comes to waiting on a package/present of ANY type, I become impatient and check on it's progress 5 times a day XD

 

Thats me in a nut shell ( add austin powers reff ) but i am still working out first doll and then have the wait lol arhhhhh