Have you ever postponed a box opening ?

By a few hours only~ my best friend really wanted to see his box opening live via skype so I waited for her before taking the plunge.

 

Yes, sometimes for work reasons, i mean sometimes i recieve the packages when i was going to go to work so i wasn´t able to do the box opening ultill the next day. I don´t see it as a tragedy, the most important thing for me is that the doll arrives perfectly safe.

 

no never even when im gonna be late for work! >D when i get a package nothing else matters! gotta open it! after that the excitement dies down and i go to work xD; dont wanna get fired hehehe

 

by a few day... my girlfriend had a body in the same order of my first BJD. I had a lot of classes and we couldn't see eachother for a couple days...

 

In 2005, I postponed opening my very first BJD's box for at least five hours, because I was worried sick I wouldn't like him! But as soon as I saw his face, all the fear and anxiety went away.

Occasionally I have set aside a doll for a couple of days after its arrival, just because I was waiting for specific clothes or the proper wig for it. I am more anxious opening some dolls more than others, for various reasons.

I would never EVER do a box opening party, because if for some reason I didn't like the doll, I wouldn't want everyone to be disappointed. I want to be by myself when I open a new doll for the first time, and the only "others" I want there are my other dolls. It's very personal to me.

There have been two times when I have been on my way to a gathering the same day I got a new doll, though, and as long as I have had a chance to examine the doll when I was on my own, I am glad to share the new doll's arrival with my friends afterwards.

I do always wait til I get home to open a doll box, though. I like being in a controlled environment during that time. LOL! I've heard horror stories of people opening a box while in the parking lot of the post office, and dropping parts and having them roll under the car, etc.

Linda S.
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Yeah sure, but that's also because when really bad stuff happens, I forget about the doll. There are more important things going on and I just get sucked into the situation.

Usually I postpone a boxopening, bacause I like that nervous feeling of anticipation you get when you're waiting for a doll and don't want it to end. I once waited for days at a time before I could no longer take it and had to open it.

 

I only own one bjd, and I had to postpone her box opening because one of the conditions my grandmother made when she payed for Aithne for me, was that she had to be there when I opened her.

Thankfully I only had to wait till that night, but even 8 hours of just knowing the box was right in the next room and that I couldn't open it was torture enough for me.

 

I'm thinking about doing this in the near future, because I have a doll coming in soon, and my best friend is flying in to visit next month... although the fear of the doll being damaged is definitely there.

 

I was actually thinking whether I should postpone opening my first BJD when he gets here because I want to open him with my roommate, the one who got me into BJDs. The problem is I only see her 3 days a week, and considering I’m already going crazy just waiting for him to arrive, waiting a few extra days just seems too much to me. But again, I really want to open the box with my friend so I’m hoping he’ll arrive when she’s here and if not……I guess I’ll just pet the box rather creepily and whisper to my doll “Soon….my…precious…soon.” That will at least keep me from going senile.


But I guess if and awful event were to happen….I would rather open my box, seeing the doll for the first time will be the light shining through the gloom clouds surrounding me….but I could be wrong and it’ll just lead me into not bonding with my doll. Honestly it depends on the person but I honestly think that opening the box will make any situation better.

 

The only time I've postponed a box opening for particularly long was when I sent my dolls to my parents' house and wasn't there to open the doll yet. Though I made my mom spot-check the bubblewrap mummy for some reason. @_@ So I opened her like a week or so later.

 

The only time I've ever postponed a box opening was when my pukifee Hope arrived, but that was postponed for good reasons, not bad! My great aunt and uncle were having a wedding anniversary party at their farm, and my dad and sister had arrived to pick up my partner and I, and as we were walking out the door a courier arrived and dropped her off - it was so frustrating to have to put her inside and leave her there, knowing I wouldn't be home for at least five or six hours.
For me, if I'd had a really bad day and a doll arrived, I'd probably open it faster than normal, because it would make me happy and feel better to have a new doll to take my mind off my problem haha.

 

This is why I wouldn't wait longer than a few days, because if something is wrong with it - and you've opened it long after it arrived, you might be too late to get a refund.

 

yes, i postponed opening my first dollfie dreams by over 1 week because i was feeling very depressive, and i knew i could not appreciate them if i opened them at that time. when i did open the box it was a wonderful feeling.

since then i never delayed opening doll boxes but i have delayed opening anime figure boxes (which i also collect). i often keep something i really like boxed up until i am feeling in the right mood and then i open it- it sounds really lame but it's like giving a gift to myself - and it makes me feel strangely happy. so i understand the phenomena with dolls.

the reason i don't do it with dolls is with anime figures you usually see/know exactly what you are getting, but with dolls you cannot really perceive them at all until they've been opened, and sometimes they aren't what you expected at all (unlike figures). so as long as i know what to expect, i'm fine with keeping something "waiting for the right moment"... it's just that for me, dolls dont usually fall in that category any more.

 

No, I never have. For one thing, I am not into delayed gratification when it comes to things for which I've already been waiting. The longest I've ever postponed a box-opening was... 'till the end of a workday, & then long enough to carry it home from work. I walk to work; the dolls are almost always large males; I schlep those enormous doll-boxes home on foot; it's only an 18-minute walk but it's uphill on some steep San Francisco hills; I am motivated. By now, I have deltoid muscles like Michelle Obama's.

For another thing, yes, it's just good policy to immediately check for anything missing or damaged in the package. If there's gonna be any refund or replacement or dispute procedures to hassle out, Immediately is the way to start. It's also good etiquette to let the sender know ASAP that you received the package & that all is/isn't well.

Why is it that I can totally picture you wrestling open a BJD while driving?
Motivated!

 

I have postponed a box opening...Usually when a friend wants to be there when I open the box....never more then a week though.

 

I have by a day. I had to have my boy wait at the post office while I was out of town. Just knowing he was there and I would of had him had I been home was excruciating!

Then just recently I postponed putting up my box opening till this month ( when I got the doll six months ago) because his outfit took five months to make and get a replacement pair of pants. And it takes a while to Photoshop 80 images

 

Yes mainly by a couple of hours, and because I was working on something that was time related, or I wasn't ready to enjoy the doll. But Never longer then that when I am home. I have had a couple ship while I was on vacation. But Daughter was home and was able to bring box into house.

 

Definitely have postponed a box opening, but not because of grave circumstances. I asked someone else to pick it up at the post office, and I couldn't bring it home immediately because the company sent a waaaay huge box for a YoSD-sized doll.

I would definitely delay unboxing a doll if I was experiencing something bad at the time I receive the package. I don't know about other people, but I do tend to associate events with items sometimes.

 

I postponed a box opening this summer for just a few hours... I was planning to wait until the next day, but my sister wanted to see right then. The reason was that I had been working at a horse show for the previous 15-ish hours on 4 hours of sleep, and I didn't think that I could be properly excited while so tired. Also, I ordered her without a face-up, and I knew I would want to work on her right away and had no hope of doing my first face-up on so little sleep.
I think that if I had something bad going on in my life, like family in the hospital, I might open the package anyway to cheer myself up and give myself something else to think about, though, like making clothes.