How does your family react to the hobby ?

AHAHAHAAA! Yeah they're the greatest
The family is chiping in for my next one

 

My mom would prefer that I save my money, and the rest of my family doesn't really understand it. My husband is fine with it since all he wants is to see me happy, just as long as we don't go into debt over it. The biggest thing I'm concerned about is when my niece gets old enough to start playing with dolls- I love my sister to death, but I HIGHLY doubt that she'll be okay with it when I tell her that my niece can't touch my dolls for the first few years because of the risk of them being damaged. Now when she gets old enough and mature enough to know how to be gentle with things and has proven that she can, then I'll probably let her handle them.

 

I think my mother will suffer a heart attack if she'll know about my dolls. But I live very far from her.
My husband was willing for one doll. When the dolls became more, he was displeased. Now he's indifferent - Oh! The next doll ...

 

my family doesn't really mind- until they hear I'm saving up for "Another doll?! " even if i'm selling a doll to help save up for it, along with other dolly things i don't need. i guess they just don't understand doll people. :/

 

Well my mom thinks they are interesting. My boyfriend seems interested in my bjd's. My family doesn't mind that i have bjd's.

 

I'm not really sure, actually... Though my brother thought it was stupid of me to buy such an expensive doll. I don't think my parents mind, they have even given me some money to buy clothes etc for them.

 

My finacee and i have a deal with our hobbies ... he collects and paints warhammer 40k which is expensive and says i can match him in price with dolls ... so i have at least 1 more doll i can buy so far haha

 

At first my mother was totally against it. She was always complaining about how I was wasting my money and that I should grow up because I was too old to play with dolls. They were difficult times, the first years she was really angry with me and I was very depressed.

With the time (year by year), she had to accepted it and she just ignored my dolls, and when I started to receive many commissions for face ups and I was making my own dolls, then she changed her mind and started to feel proud of me, and now she supports me and she wants that I keep making dolls...

My sister doesn't pay to much attention to my dolls but she always has respected my hobby. And the rest of my family, the think that I'm weird and that I collect creepy dolls.

 

Not bad! If the Mr. and I did that, I know he'd owe me dolls hehe
His hobbies are building computers, playing musical instruments (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass and keyboards so far), and also audio engineering/recording stuff. So there are more guitars, bass guitars, amps, pedals, etc than dolls in this house hehe
We don't match though. We tell each other when we are thinking of buying something big, but we do whatever we want with our respective money.

 

My parents really don't care. I'm out of the house and successfully supporting myself on an amount that my mom didn't think I would be able to live on much less able to have fun with. I'm also the responsible daughter that really never gives them any trouble while my younger three siblings usually need help. My mom does comment on them and is supportive when she remembers to be but otherwise they really couldn't care less.

 

My father doesn't really care as long as I'm happy. My mother LOVES them. But I would have to say she loves anything yo-SD sized and smaller she is a huge fan of puki puki's and hujoo babies and actually wants to own a little army of them soon. She also really likes the variety and how you can do what you want with them. Though she does get kinda freaked out if they have red eyes or something and SD's freak her out but otherwise she loves the hobbies. The price scares her sometimes too XD.

 

My mom which I have said before hated them and now just is indifferent. She ask about new one somtimes but you can kinda tell its just a way to start a converstaion as the topic last for oh 2 mins at most.
My sister a few weeks ago however really hurt my feelings. I know she does not like my dolls. She hates them calles them creepy and stupied. My niece was born in March and I had told my mom when she is older I love to get her a doll of her own if she show intrested. Well my sister came off very very very mean. She told me under no terms would she allow one of those creepy dolls in her house. If I wanted to get her one I had to stay at my house and all. She even got rid of a porcelin doll our Great Aunt gave to my niece too. I am not a porclein doll fan but still. My sister is a good mother but can be so mean when it come to the fact that I am a doll/toy collector and consider myself well a over grown kid at time. I work and make my own money so I am not sure what her prob is. We getting along better now that she and her husband live like 2 hours away. I just hope my niece can grow up playing with toys and enjoy beind a kid. Instead of being forced to grown up to fast.

 

This. My mom is always scared that I spend too much money on my hobbies and always tells me I should save some money. My sister and her boyfriend and my grandma don't get it and they love to tell me how I don't behave like an adult^^ My dad doesn't care at all.

But my boyfriend is awesome, he supports me and loves to see me happy

 

My family thinks I'm a tad crazy for the amount of money I spend but they LOVE Xavier now My grandma is in love with him and is super supportive. Before my doll arrived no one in my family thought it was a good idea but as stated everyone loves them now I have three currently and they seem like just some more family members!

 

My mom is on my case about my wanting to save for my boy... she thinks I don't have my priorities straight...nevermind that I pay my share of bills in addition to a loan I have from college. But, I am an adult, and I have a job and make my own money, so she can complain all she wants. So long as I have my end of the deal straight, I can save for and buy anything I want...

 

My dad doesn't give a hoot, my mom is totally okay with my doll and calls her cute, my little sister loves her (and she still pines for her own BJD someday), and my boyfriend supports my new hobby, but still gets shocked over prices of dolls that I want. x'D My boyfriend's mother found my doll creepy at first (as she was naked in her box) but then loved her after I dressed her in clothes I got from my best friend for Christmas. Overall, my family is pretty supportive~

 

The only person in my family that actually has any sort of reaction to my dollies is my mom and she refers to them as her Granddollies.

 

My mom has always always been very supportive of me in my various hobbies and interests. Thus when she learned I was getting a doll she had two reactions. The first was that I was finally getting a doll. She couldn't get me to play with a Barbie or a Baby Doll for anything when I was a child. I had tea parties with my brothers GI Joes...

The second: She wanted to know his name..so that she's know the name of her "Grandson".

 

My parents are rather neutral about it. I know they're not crazy about the price, but they don't mind so long as it's my money I'm spending and not theirs. My mom is a bit more supportive than my dad, though.

 

XD You tell em!