How does your family react to the hobby ?

I don't have a BJD yet, but i've been showing my mother pictures of the ones I want and one i'm saving up for currently. She thinks it's a waste, but my brother is into things that are even more wasteful in my opinion, so i have convinced her that it's a better hobby. xD;;;
She still tries to talk me out of it, but then takes it back and says it's my choice or mistake to make. So she is kind of neutral to the idea... I guess

 

Before Frei arrived:
Both father and mother were against the purchase: mother thinks it's too expensive (I totaled to just over $300) while father thinks it's a very bad idea to purchase on the internet (plus, it's his credit card I will be using). Sister said I should just spend it on something more practical (like a new phone).

Bottom line though, I earn my own and I am allowed to spend it however I choose.

The day Frei arrived:
Was on Christmas Eve. Father's fears we're put to rest by the EMS tracking while mother's and sister's misgivings disappeared when they saw Frei, saying that he's worth every penny (NOTE: Frei was still blank that time, no face-up, body blush, eyelashes or wig).

Frei's first week with us:
Proprietary ooohs and ahhhs after I did the face-up, blush, wig, and made clothes. Then I got scolded for bringing Frei to work, not because they think it unseemly for a 25-year old male to carry a doll, but because mother wants to make clothes for Frei (she wouldn't settle for a dress form). O_o

Also, sister freaks out everytime I put on the face mask, saying it will suffocate Frei. O_O

2 Months and counting:
Frei now has 25+ shirts courtesy of mother, has gone to 5 out-of-town family trips, and sits on the table come dinnertime.

Sometimes, I'm worried that they treat Frei more than a doll... .

 

I was a young adult living with my mother when I bought my first doll. She didn't really understand what the fascination was about but doesn't give me a hard time or anything. Her only gripe about the hobby is the amount of time I spend online and going to and from the post office. xD I don't tell her what all this costs and she doesn't ask. So long as I buy it myself. She has bought me dolls and doll things for special occasions like graduation or birthdays. I've always been a collector and hobbyist so she's used to it by now. :3

She herself has a lot of odd hobbies so she understands the collector aspect (buying/selling online, keeping everything mint, the high expense) even if she doesn't do the doll thing. Her coin collection far out weighs my doll collection in terms of expense and being time consuming.

Although this doesn't have anything to do with dolls, she likes to poke fun at me for cosplaying and going to anime conventions. Not in a mean way of course.

 

I'm nearly 40 and I try not to tell everything concerning my hobby to my mother as she is against it (can you imagine such a situation?) Recently I have taken her from hospital and now she has to live with us (I hope not forever!) and my life has turned to something awful! Every day she say I'm crazy as nobody "play dolls at such an age" or gives me advice to present all my dolls to relatives who have little girls, etc. I try to be patient but...

 

My mum and dad know about them and the price. (well dad doesn't -really- know the full story), but my dad doesn't mind. Mum complains up until the doll's arrival, then she's happy about it. It's weird haha. It happens with everything. My hair dye, body mods.. she hates the idea till it happens, then she likes it n_n;

 

My mom actually likes this hobby since it reminds her of how she was with the first Barbie dolls. (Don't yell at me that's what she said.) And I'm not talking about playing with it like it is now, I'm talking about actually making clothes for the doll. Since she is also into arts she likes the concept of customizing the dolls with giving them face-ups and modding. She won't go out of her way to buy me a doll even though she recently asked me how much the LoongSoul girl body was going to cost me since I was worried I won't be able to order it because I had to pay for our new kitten's neutering. Even though it was less than what I was quoted for and I love the little guy, I still didn't like that she went against our agreement that she would pay for some of it and I'll pay for the rest. No one understands budgets anymore.

My dad doesn't care as long as I'm enjoying it and I have people who are in the same hobby as I am. He just has a whatever as long as you're happy attitude. My friends are in the hobby so I don't have to worry about them.

 

well i didn't tell them about my hobby , they just figure it out by them self (well of course since theres a giant BJD box in my room )

my mom love dolls actually , but she think that doll doesnt cost THAT much ~
so when first time i really do have will to saving money for first doll i show my mom my first choice of doll , first she really agree as she fell in love with the face but it change when she ask the price ...

then new doll came i change my choice to buy first doll first instead my first BJD choice , when it came i was free for 3 weeks (mom didn't come to the store for 3 weeks) ~

then when she figure out i bought a doll she was freak out , but when i take him out and dress him up everything she got addicted to him (she carried him around for whole day that time )

 

Usually when family visits during holidays they want to see the dolls, I haven't had anyone react in any negative ways. Normally just surprised a the costs. I don't really keep them out around the house just in my room. My Fiance has taking a liking to the dolls as well Recently got a nice girl off the MP here

My friends arn't really that interested in the dolls but that's ok, we all have different hobbies so it's all good

 

My family thinks they are beautiful except for the price. But when they saw my dolls in person, they said they are creepy and refused to hold them. My husband though, knows what they really are, price, sometimes admire, sometimes hate my dolls.

 

My mom totally hates them! She thinks its stupid that I spend so much money on my dolls so I don't really ever show them to her or talk about them when I see her.

My boyfriend doesn't mind them too much but he'd rather not know about them which is fine by mejust as long as I can keep on spoiling my babies to my heart's content!

 

My mom is ForeverVirginia. That should answer everything! XD
Of course, my dad... he's not so pleased.

 

I think I'll have to hide my bjd when I get it , my mom and sister know about them they like them but they really hate how expensive they can be and also they don't know I'm buying one,eek!
My dad is completely oblivious about them.

 

awww dont feel bad =( my family feel the same one =/ they think its a waste of money. only my grandma thinks theyre cute but she still doesnt think its worth the money =( but i will not be discouraged i still get them anyways xD

 

Everyone in my family (except for my Grandma who's had experience with expensive dolls) baulked at their price. When the dolls arrived, my family thought they were gorgeous, but still far too expensive and gave me disappointed looks.

 

Oh man, I accidentally outed myself, and it turned out to be the most anticlimactic, drama-free thing ever. XD I was doing a face-up for a floating head in the bathroom, and my mother walked in and asked what I was doing, so I showed her the head.

"Did you paint all that?"

"Yup," I told her. "The head is made by someone else, and you can paint the face and details."

"Huh, okay," she said, and walked out again.

No expression of surprise that I was holding a bald, eyeless head, no asking where it was from, none of the drama I'd built myself up to expect. I don't think she even registered the fact that it was a doll and would eventually need a body and that once the doll was complete it would be pretty big.

I was driving myself crazy thinking about how I'd break it to my parents that I wanted to own dolls - the original plan was to buy one at the end of the year as a graduation present for myself, dodge all questions about the price, and tell them I've wanted one for something like six years. Considering the amount of grief I got from them for watching anime in high school, I was expecting more of a fight, but I'm so, so grateful.

 

My mother was concerned when I said the doll I bought was 'expensive,' but said as long as it cost less than my 27" fancy iMac, she's okay (it did. By a LOT). Now she's all sorts of excited to make clothes for my doll! She's almost as excited for her arrival as I am.

My father does not know about this at all. He knows I'm getting some sort of special doll and he thinks it's kind of funny that I'm getting a doll when I'm 23, when I was pretty infamous for HATING dolls as a child, but otherwise he doesn't know about it at all (this is mostly because I don't want him to find out how expensive she was Dx)

My brother thinks it's kind of cool, but he commented that all the dolls look like girls. The only doll he thought was manly enough was Iplehouse Dexter. XD

 

^This is almost exactly how it started for me. Same reasons and everything.

 

I have had Dolls all my life, I think or I have been told My older brother was very jelous of my toys as a very young child and he would steal them away.
That was until I discoverd dolls, he was older than me and concidered dolls girls toys so had no intrest in them unless he was destoring them.

Luckly I was brought up by a very close family friend and we lived across the street from my parents till I was 6. (it's a long tragic story i won't go in to!)

My father has always hated the fact that I love dolls, and would always ask for a dolls pram/dolls house for christmas!
My mother and my "Auntie" always Induldged me by either buying them or helping make clothes for them.
from the ages of 7 ~ 10 I even used my mothers sideboard as a dolls house, without my brother finding out or my father.

2 younger siblings came along, I was growing up and had to put all the child like toys away untill...

I was 16 had just started work and with my first paypacket I bought an antique china doll,
form there it escolated to around 5 or 6, I would buy them a auction and re dress them in the finest silks and purest fine lawn underwear. I was quite talented with frills and stuff! much to the discust of my Father, I graduated collage with a degree in art & design, and a degree in clothing design. to get on his nerves even further I then became a bridalwear designer!

I took a break from Dolls for a while, moved out of home and got my own place, then it kinda kicked in again I spent the next 10 yrs collecting artist dolls and french antique dolls, even some vinal dolls. all under the guise of investment!
To this day I have not sold one doll, they are all my babys!
The funny part of this story is all of my orignal collection are stored at my parents home!

I have only recently started collecting Bjd's (Feb 12) and have managed to get some amazing dolls with the help form people I have met through the net.
I do this very secretly, ALL of my friends find my dolls creepy and think it is weird. I would not leave my best friend alone in my doll room from fear she would damage them in some way! (she is clumbsy and hates dolls with a passion)

So I would call my self a closet doll collector!

 

I used to buy and sell antique dolls, so when i bought my first BJD for nearly $1500, my husband sort of gasped because in his world, things have to be old to hold any resale value ever! So I had to frame it like this, "This doll is a model for clothes that I'm going to make and sell." Yeah..... I have yet to do that. Other dolls since then have made their way into the house, but I don't (CAN'T) make a big deal out of any of them. My adult daughter, who lives with us, says my dolls are "CREAPY". It ticks me off! I have to wait for her to go away before I play with my dolls or else she'll sit on the couch by me and complain about their creapiness and such.

 

my mom and dad dont like my dolls.they think its luxury and waste time which i should put time on my study. they dont want provide me any money on this but i just tried to save money on living coast they gave me. oh i hate board school so much