How Old is TOO Old?

I am 29. If you are too old to play with dols, what about data games? They can be more childish. Or animation moovies for kid, grownups love them often more than child. And my dolls are not toys. They are specials . Lol. I use them as characters, storytellers and photomodels. They keep e crative and in place. And small ones, can often not choose dolls, buy dolls, they ask their parents. I ask me. The dolls ask me. I say yes, when I can afford, and I have them as the mainthing in my life. I do not buy clothes to me, just to my dolls. So, my dolls are me. Am I a child? No, a child would not could priority. And not make my photos. Maybe it is special, maybe it is waird, but it has nothing with age to do. Soon going 30, still have my dolls. But not the dolls from I was a kid. Their have no expressions as my ball jointed. Run dolly, run!

 

Prege - Good points. Many guys I know are into watching sports and wear jerseys with their favorite players name on it and have their own fantasy football teams. I find it pretty ridiculous and yes, even childish but you know, it seems to make them happy so....

 

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
(George Bernard Shaw)

 

Oh ! This citation is an excellent one, and wise too ! I should use it next time someone comments negatively to me cosplaying

 

Yesterday while at a picnic with my anime club, I mentioned that I was watching anime before people here in America even knew what it was. Someone mentioned that I "watched anime before it was cool!" I laughed and said, "I guess so!" When I pointed out that I have a granddaughter and I'm starting to get gray hairs, they were like "You're HOW old? (Not that I look my age, and I definitely don't act it! )

I've never stopped wearing jeans, anime t-shirts and converses, My favorite black hoodie has dragon wings on it and I carry a One Piece messenger bag, not to mention I usually carry my BJDs everywhere, and they were surprised? I DID say I was with the anime club I belong to, right? I still run around and play, I'm just a little slower, that's all. >:PPP

I can imagine myself in the old folks home, surrounded by BJDs and MIB anime toys and playing videogames...still!

You're never too old to play with dolls. NEVER!!!



Ryu

 

I'm Mexican and when a Mexican girl turns 15 she has a quincena. Part of traditional is once you turn 15 you become a women. During the ceremony you are given your "last mónica" (last doll) So in a way I shouldn't be collecting dolls.

But I do anyways. XD There shouldn't be a age limit.

 

I don't think you can be "too old" for this hobby. It is one of those hobbies that people well into their 90s still continue with. I don't think anyone else should pay any mind to how long someone has been into this hobby. For certain people the dolls they own are a part of their family and that's not something that will disappear with time. ^.^

 

Like pretty much everyone that's posted so far, I don't think there's any such thing as 'too old' for this hobby (or any hobby, really). So long as you are mature in how much you partake in your hobby, then I don't think anyone can judge really (they will judge, mind, but that's because the world is never in short supply of stupid, judgmental people; but they're wrong). In this case 'mature' means that you don't spend money you don't have, and keep up with your responsibilities before indulging. If you're having trouble making rent, then that is definitely not the time to be buying a new doll.

If you can afford it, though, and it brings you happiness, then why not?

 

meansanity ~ welcome!
This is a question about aging, as much as it is about dolls. I'm rounding up on one of those b'Days that feel like an entrance into a new "age group". Most of my classmates have turned 60 this year. I've been bracing myself for my November ticket punch, where I will have been around the sun 50-NINE times! That will begin the last year I will be able to say I am FIFTY something. Sooo, I am one of THEM we are talking about. One of the old ones.
I'm adjusting to the current version of me, getting comfortable with myself -- and things like playing with dolls and letting my hair go *VERY* GRAY?? -->> I believe the combination is a reflection of my maturity. Mirrors have been a challenge lately. As in, WHO IS THAT LOOKING BACK AT ME! Just recently been able to see this can be a great "phase" to move into.
I'm not going to look into other people's eyes to see if I am too old for anything. I think this is going to be the BEST birthday yet; the first one where I have finally learned not to look into what I project other people think, to know who I am, or if I am TOO anything!!. Honestly, it has been a time to feel very self conscious. Yep, sad to say, that doesn't end in your tweener years, or teen years. Always there are new decisions to be made. So many peeps, start asking at my age, do I want plastic surgery? Especially single ones. And if they aren't worried about whether to have electricity or water this month...
Do I want to give a fluffy hug, or a muscular one? [that is, how thin do I have to try to be now?]

-- Do I want to be seen in public playing with dolls?
--- Do I want people to see my doll collection when they visit my house?

For me, I'm going to skip the plastic surgery and play with dolls instead. I don't want to try to look young and act OLD as in TOO OLD TO PLAY WITH DOLLS. Growing up is not a bad thing. Growing old is not a bad thing.
Unless it is a bad habit, I don't plan on giving up anything because of age.

Age is a pretty slippery thing to define anyway.
I'm a "professional" artist in my town, and it has always been funny how surprised people are by my age. My art looks young. Haaa ~ there is something very good about that. So, am I too old for my art? One of my favorite sayings, one I think I might have made up actually = aging means getting wrinkly on the outside and smoother on the inside.

 

Cedario raises an interesting point. It is a pretty good way to make the point about how relative age is. Are we talking about 13 year olds being too old? Or 15 maybe? Or 29, or 41, or 60 ---
Do dolls equal childish?

dollhausen, you crack me up. There are some very good points on this thread. It is a fun one to look in on.

"Collecting dolls" has a negative image for most people it seems. And why the "crazy cat lady" thing? Cats get picked on too, don't they? Now we are wandering into the topic of numbers again, but from another threads point of few. One is OK, but 5 is too many...

 

+10000

Well, said. Hear, hear.

 

Too old? I just had my sixtieth birthday and I only started collecting BJD's this year! I love dolls, my four kids know about it and I have been known to buy dolls that I wanted to keep for my two daughters.
I got two dolls when I was sixteen and I was somehow made to feel that I was too old for dolls at that time. What a sad feeling to instill in a teenager eager to create clothes for her dolls.
i then started to create dolls out of felt with each a whole wardrobe, nobody could say anything about that.
So now many years later in a world where some grown men play with toy trains and cars in their attic room, we girls have a legitimate plaything: BJD's of all sizes.
If running cars or trains around a track gives grown men a relaxing feeling, the same goes for dressing, undressing, combing, photographing dolls and doll families.

 

I recently sold one of my dolls to a 30 year old lady and it was her first doll (she keeps in contact and now she has four already xD). I don't think you're ever too old to start. I think you can be too young to have them (like if you're 12 or something, I feel that's a little young imho) but never too old~

 

I been told I was too old to have dolls since im 22 and in college. Again There is the saying "Kid at heart" comes into play. So there really is no too old age. So if anyone says that to someone who has a doll hobby or anything child like is silly and immature. I known guys in their 70's still tinker with legos.

 

No such thing as being too old! If you are still enjoying the hobby, why would age matter?

 

I personally I don't think there is an age too old. People can like and enjoy what they want as long as it doesn't hurt anyone (Which I'm pretty sure this won't hurt anyone)_

 

DaughterofEden you crack me up!i love your saying!
Im coming closer to a b-day myself and with two little girls (one is 7 the other is 4 months old) some people try to tell me it's weird to collect dolls still. But I don't see why that is. I take photos with, am learning to do faceups on them, am writing story's for them and am even learning to sew for them and my rl girls. It's a creative outlet for many of us and I think people shouldn't knock it till they try it!

 

I'm in my early teens and I love to see adults with doll collections!

 

This is how I feel about it

 

I don't feel like doll collecting is an age specific hobby. I'm eighteen which is seen as a sort of cut off age where you leave your childhood at home to move onto college and work and stuff. But, BJD isn't a part of my childhood, because for as long as I love dolls, I'll always have them and I think that having a hobby that you love is more important than any age restriction society can place.