Doll "Family"

Is your doll really your family? No, I don't consider them family. When I use the term 'doll family' I generally mean my group of dolls, like all the ones I own.
Do you address them as your children, or something else? Sometimes I address them as my children, but in the same way the characters themselves are.
Do you truly love your dolls? This I can honestly say yes to. I triple truly love my dolls.
If someone was to steal your doll, which would you be more worried about: the individual doll, or the money lost? Both. Even if I could get a doll of the same sculpt it wouldn't really feel the same to me. And either way it's an expensive chunk of plastic, more so than even the most expensive of my clothing.
Do you think of your dolls as your own little family? More like their own little family.

 

Is your doll really your family? Yes, all of them are. They are my kids, even my anthro ones.

do you address them as your children, or something else? I call them my kids and my mom calls them her grand kids.
Do you truly love your dolls? Of course I do. I love each one of them with every fiber of my being. I wouldn't own them if I didn't!
If someone was to steal your doll, which would you be more worried about: the individual doll, or the money lost? The doll. I would know they wouldn't be the same and I would worry how they were being treated. I could never replace any of them, even if the mold is still available. That doll would not be the same one to me ever.
Do you think of your dolls as your own little family? Of course I do. They are apart of my family and even when my grandmother was alive she saw them the same way. Everyone in my immediate family sees them as apart of the family.

 

Do you consider your dolls family? Do you address them as your children?
As the representations on my characters, my dolls are part of me. They are little pieces of me, I guess sort of like children. Like the characters they represent, I see my dolls sort of like friends who I know will never let me down.

Do you truly love your dolls?
Yes. All of them. Anything into which I put time and effort and money is something I love. It's like the concept of apprivoiser from Le Petit Prince--to tame something and thus be tamed by it.

If someone were to steal your doll, would you be more concerned about the doll or the money?
I think saying "the doll" covers both in the way I mean. If I bought a new one of the exact same sculpt, I'd have to view it as a "reincarnation" of the original. I'd also have to shell out money again for something I already bought. Dolls aren't cheap. Even "affordable" dolls aren't cheap. It would make it unlikely to reshell a stolen doll unless something serendipitous happened--like I found a great sale with things I needed and things just fell in place.

Do you think of your dolls as your own little family?
Yes. But in a different way than I see my actual family or my friend-family. They're my brain children.

 

Is your doll really your family? In a way I think so, but not in the same way that my parents are my family. It's more like how you might call a really close friend family.
Do you address them as your children, or something else? Kind of, I usually just call her by her name or "my girl", which I suppose could be taken as a term of endearment for a child as well.
Do you truly love your dolls? I do, a whole lot
If someone was to steal your doll, which would you be more worried about: the individual doll, or the money lost? Definitely the individual doll. Money can be made again, but I feel like I wouldn't have the same connection if I just bought another doll. It would be sort of like losing a pet or something.
Do you think of your dolls as your own little family? In a way, yes, but again, she's more like a really close friend rather than a family member, I think.

 

Is your doll really your family? Do you address them as your children, or something else?
I don't consider my dolls "my children" (I don't consider my children my pets, too), maybe more really close friends. They are "my boys" and "my girls".

Do you truly love your dolls? Yes, I do! If they are still with me, it means that we have bond together.

If someone was to steal your doll, which would you be more worried about: the individual doll, or the money lost?
The individual doll. No doll is like another and plus, I usually paint my dolls and a face-up is never like the another. I'll accuse the money loss, but money can be recollected...

Do you think of your dolls as your own little family? More like my friends group.

 

Is your doll really your family? Do you address them as your children, or something else?
I refer to them as my little ones :P not kids but part of my life

Do you truly love your dolls? Oh yes! I love them more than a lot of things. They mean a lot to me.

If someone was to steal your doll, which would you be more worried about: the individual doll, or the money lost?
A little bit of both really, I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't think of the money but I would also be very upset about the individual doll.

Do you think of your dolls as your own little family? Definitely. Absolutely. Yes they are my lovely little family.

 

Is your doll really your family? Not really. They aren't living, breathing beings the way my blood relatives, my husband and my dog are.

Do you address them as your children, or something else? I usually refer to them as "my crew". Sometimes, I'll call Amir, Loki, Justin or Parker "my baby", (for some reason, the rest don't get that title) but I don't mean it as literally thinking of them as my child, more like it's a nickname/title I gave them because they were my faves.

Do you truly love your dolls? all of them? No. I love them as material objects that I prize over my other belongings, but that's about it. The favorites, yes, I do love them, but not in the same way I love a person or animal.

If someone was to steal your doll, which would you be more worried about: the individual doll, or the money lost? Depends on the doll. If it's one I really love and for some reason can't rebuy, I'd be more upset over the doll/character. If it's one I'm not as attached to or is easily replaced, I'd be more upset over the money.

Do you think of your dolls as your own little family? No. My family consists of my blood relatives, my husband and my dog. The dolls have their own families (some in resin, some just in character)

 

My dolls are toys.
Pretty, interesting toys that I value very highly and would miss if they weren't around... but still toys, none the less.

They aren't my kids, family members, little resin BFFs or even pets. I do call them "my minions", though.

 

Is your doll really your family?
I want to say yes, but I don't think of them quite that way. It's more like... halfway between the way you love a pet and the way you love your best friend. I consider most pets to be an active member of the family they live with, and best friends are like an extended family of sorts, but you don't love either of them the same way you love your relatives or significant other or children. So I guess they're my extended family of tiny friends. ^ - ^

Do you address them as your children, or something else?
I do not address them as my children, no. I don't have any children and won't for a long time, so I don't feel the need to have 'replacement' children or anything like that. (When my maternal instincts kick up I just lavish them upon my dog...) I think of my dolls as my friends, or at least people I want to become friends with, in the cases of dolls who I've had trouble bonding with... Honestly, sometimes I think dolls I can't bond with are either indifferent to me or actually strongly dislike me, which is why they refuse to tell me anything about themselves...

Do you truly love your dolls?
Absolutely. (I don't even think I need to elaborate on this point.)

If someone was to steal your doll, which would you be more worried about: the individual doll, or the money lost?
I would be much more worried about the dolls themselves! Sure, that would be thousands of dollars worth of resin, gone, but they're MY expensive pieces of resin! I would be heartbroken, truly. It would be like having three or more of my best friends kidnapped and possibly dead.

Do you think of your dolls as your own little family?
In a way... I think of them more as a bunch of friends who all live together in my house (which make me the landlady, heh...) but that's just their doll forms. Their character forms aren't all in the same world, so technically some of them don't even know eachother, but as a group of dolls representing those characters, I think they've bonded with eachother in different ways. I think many of them would be sad so see another one go...

 

do you address them as your children, or something else? No, that privilege goes to my two cats . My dolls simply are my dolls.
(though it took me a while to break my mother of calling them her grandchildren... "No mom, they are not my children... the cats are. You have grandkittens, not grand-dolls.")

Do you truly love your dolls? I have what society would view as a strange view on love. Love is not an emotion, it is a conscious decision of commitment and sacrificial action for another. So I have to say I do not love my dolls. I like them an awful lot though!

If someone was to steal your doll, which would you be more worried about: the individual doll, or the money lost? I have my dolls insured, so if one was to be stolen, I would get full replacement value from my insurance company, so the money is not an issue. I would still be sad though to have lost one of my dolls. Even if I could get them replaced, it may not feel quite the same.

Do you think of your dolls as your own little family? No. They are a collection of art pieces that each have a little bit of myself to them in that I picked them out, worked hard to pay for them, and invested the time and effort to get them to look as they now do.

 

do you address them as your children, or something else?
I just call them "my dolls" or use their names.

Do you truly love your dolls?
Love is a very strong word. I like my dolls very much, but they are things. They have no use for love.

If someone was to steal your doll, which would you be more worried about: the individual doll, or the money lost?
The individual doll. A lot of work has gone into every one of my dolls and even if they could be replaced it would not be quite the same.

Do you think of your dolls as your own little family?
No.

 

Is your doll really your family?
NO! They are dolls. Inanimate objects. Poseable little statues, if you like.

In fact, this is one of the things that really, really bother me: because I am single and have no children, other people seem to deem it necessary to interpret the fact that I own dolls as some kind of compensation for childlessness. I HATE that. I can make a distinction between dolls and children, thank you very much, and I'm not trying to compensate anything. People who have children should not assume that everyone else wants children too. Yeesh.

Do you address them as your children, or something else?
NO! See above.

I do call them my "little ones" sometimes - because they are small. In my head, I call them the Little People - like fairies, not children.

Do you truly love your dolls?
What do you mean by "truly love"? They are dear to me, because each of them represents a character that I have created, and some of those characters I have lived with for more than fifteen years. I can feel intensely happy looking at a doll that is a fairly accurate representation of someone who came out of my head. And I get upset when someone says something nasty about one of my dolls, because I have crafted them with love and invested them with bits of me and my imagination.

Also, I'm materialistic and get attached to things, be they pens, clothes, furniture - or dolls.

But I wouldn't use the words "true love" about any object. How could I, if the thing doesn't respond in any way? I'm more concerned for my cat, who can feel pain, fear, cold etc. and whose life I try to make comfortable. And I'm not even going to try and point out how absolutely different a doll is from a human being.

If someone was to steal your doll, which would you be more worried about: the individual doll, or the money lost?
Both. I'd be really upset abou the money, but also about all the work each doll represents. I have selected it, waited for it to arrive, painted it, made clothes and other items for it - and the worst is, I'm sure the thief wouldn't care nearly as much about the doll as I do. It's my character after all; the thief would probably strip it down to all its parts. I wouldn't just be sad, I'd be livid!

Do you think of your dolls as your own little family?
NO! Again, see above.

But like I said, they are the Little People: they are their own family. My dolls are each other's mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, aunts, nephews, nieces and cousins.

 

Brain children - I like that concept!

 

I don't see my dolls as my family. They are beautiful works of art that I cherish.

I address them as dolls. To people more interested I'll state names and maybe where I got them from but they aren't children.

I do love my dolls. My heart would ache if I didn't have them around but again they are art.

I would be worried about value first and depending on the doll then I'd be worried for the doll as well. I took the time to customize that doll I spent the money on that doll and someone took it. I'd be rather peeved...especially my June, Isaac, Ashley or Lily...

I don't see them as my family. I have flesh and blood family. However they are in a sense therapy dolls. I can't bring family to my infusions due to privacy of others but I can bring a doll. It helps prevent loneliness during the 2 hours I'm there. I cherish my dolls but they aren't real people who can talk to me...

 

Do you address them as your children, or something else?
I address them as "my dolls," or sometimes "my girl/boy". They are art pieces that I have spent time personalizing; they are not children.


Do you truly love your dolls?
No. I feel an attachment or "bonding," much like I'd feel for a painting I spent time on, or a favorite photograph. Maybe more, since they are long-term projects, but I do not "love" them like I love family, friends, or pets.


If someone was to steal your doll, which would you be more worried about: the individual doll, or the money lost?
Definitely I would worry about the money lost, to the point that I don't know if I'd ever replace the doll exactly the same way. However, I would also worry about all the work I'd put into the doll that is gone and cannot be quite replicated.


Do you think of your dolls as your own little family?
No more than I'd consider painted canvases, photographs, or any possession "family."

 

Is your doll really your family?
No. They're neat little items, but my family and my cat are my family, not inanimate objects

do you address them as your children, or something else?
Nope. I'll address them by name if I'm talking to them (I do the same with my computers), but not as children. Most of my sculpts are intended as adults, anyway.

Do you truly love your dolls?
Yes, inasmuch as I can love an inanimate object. I would not part with them, and would be sad if something happened to them, but if my apartment was on fire and I could save only one thing, it's going to be my cat, not a doll. (There are a number of other things I would rank above them in a situation like that, to be honest, things with a higher value or a sentimental aspect, or things that are much less replaceable than even the limiteds I own.)

If someone was to steal your doll, which would you be more worried about: the individual doll, or the money lost?
Both. Most of the dolls aren't limited and could be "replaced," in many cases for the same price I paid for them, but a new one wouldn't have the energies and personalities I've imparted to them. Even the ones that are "in progress" and need more work done on them still have a personality that would be difficult, if not impossible, to replicate in a new one. The limiteds might be even harder to replace; some are MNM heads where only 10 exist at all, others are older limiteds that don't appear as often in the marketplace.

Do you think of your dolls as your own little family?
No, not at all. I do think of them as their own little families, however; currently I have four distinct families of dolls (when my incoming boy arrives, there will be a minimum of two per family), with one more in the works.

 

Is your doll really your family? Yes! It's been just my Phinny (DS Hound) for almost seven years now, with my adorable Anthoney (Lud-N head only, poor boy) for perhaps five years. I got my sister a Puki Puki Sugar that she's had now for six years, but since she lives in my sister's room, they rarely interact. But...I love my little BJD family. I know they'll grow when I'm older, but I'm very happy with them right now. And I have a DC Agatha on the way!

Do you address them as your children, or something else? I call Phinny my baby, and he always will be, even if I've had him for 20 years and I have a million other dolls. He was my first BJD (first one I saw in person too!), and I just can't think of him anything other than my baby.

Do you truly love your dolls? Yes! Phinny travels around the house with me often, he's great company and is the sweetest thing ever.

If someone was to steal your doll, which would you be more worried about: the individual doll, or the money lost? The individual doll. I would be so upset if any of my dolls were stolen! Yes, they're expensive, and I've put a lot of work into them...but they're more like family than just a possession.

Do you think of your dolls as your own little family? Of course! When I'm able to buy more, they'll eventually have their own little families as well...but for now, it's just my Hound, floating Elysium head, and neighbor Puki Sugar! DC Agatha will join shortly, and they'll all be beautiful, precious little misfits together.

 

Is your doll really your family?
no. I just use familly to describe a group. some animals are herd, pack, etc. and dolls are familly :P

do you address them as your children, or something else?
nooooo. they're my dolls. that's it.

Do you truly love your dolls?
I have some attachment to my possessions but I wouldn't call it love.

If someone was to steal your doll, which would you be more worried about: the individual doll, or the money lost?
mostly the money but if the doll is modded or have a really unique faceup then I would cry over the fact I could never have another one exactly like it. (even if it was me who did it. the second time doing it might not come out as good. plus extra work uuuuuuuuuuuuugh)

 

Is your doll really your family?

Nope, they're dolls. Part decor item, part project, part plaything, but that's it. I treat them like any other decor item/craft project - with care, but not with the care I'd show to actual people (or pets, for that matter).

do you address them as your children, or something else?

I call them the doll posse. Or sometimes just the creepy dolls. Certainly not as my children - I realize that plenty of people do that, but it's not for me.

Do you truly love your dolls?

Eh, they're objects. I'm very fond of them, don't get me wrong, but they're still just dolls, y'know?

If someone was to steal your doll, which would you be more worried about: the individual doll, or the money lost?

Well, if the doll is hard to replace (and several of mine are old LEs and would be), I'd be upset about both. If the doll is replaceable then I'd be more annoyed than worried.