If something were to happen to you...

Man this made me sad...I was just talking about this with my sister last night. She said that she wants me to have her dolls if she dies, and I told her to have mine if I died first. She said she will take them and take care of them and hug them and remember me every time. I promise her to do the same. Ugh, last night was just so sad—I'm sorry for going off topic. Here are my answers.

1. If something were to happen to you, what you want done with your resin folk?
I want my sister to have all of them and take good care of them.


2. Are there certain people who would get certain ones, or would you send them all to one person?
One person.

3. Would it upset you if the person you entrusted to care for your doll a) sold him/her b) changed their name c) changed their style, personality, or character. Why?
I might be upset. I mean, it wouldn't be my doll anymore if everything about it changed. It would be just another doll. Another character.


4. Does it really matter to you what happens to them when you're gone?
I think I would be sad to know they would just be thrown away. Yes. It matters a lot. I spent a lot of time and effort on them.

 

1. If something were to happen to you, what you want done with your resin folk?
I have asked my mother to keep one of my dolls and give one to my father. I want the rest to be sold and for my mother to use the money for something she'd like.

2. Are there certain people who would get certain ones, or would you send them all to one person?
I don't want to dictate which dolls my parents would get. I just want them to have one to remind them of me.

3. Would it upset you if the person you entrusted to care for your doll a) sold him/her b) changed their name c) changed their style, personality, or character. Why?
No. I just hope they'd keep the one doll I left them, but I really wouldn't care.

4. Does it really matter to you what happens to them when you're gone?
A little. I like the thought of my parents having something I loved dearly to remind them of me. And I hope my mother would do something nice for herself with the money, she could get selling the dolls. Otherwise I just hope my parents would be happy.

 

I am in remission from cancer, so I figure in the end that is what will get me. If I have the time left when it does, I will sell my dolls so that my family isn't stuck with that job. They don't mind my dolls, but none of them would be interested in owning or displaying them. I love my dolls, so as long as I'm on this mortal coil, I will continue to collect and enjoy.

 

If my family didn't want to do anything with them and would just have them sitting in my room untouched/unloved or shut away in their dark boxes then I'd want them to go to a friend, someone who would appreciate them and remember me when they looked at them...i would try to send them to one person, but if they had to be split up there are certain friends in my doll relationships that are closer than others, and sibling relationships being split up would seem like they were being put in foster homes, where they might not get to see each other as much as they'd like...i think it'd tear me up inside if the person entrusted with the safety of my dolls changed them...they all picked out their personalities and some chose their names too, so by changing something about them they'd be fighting what the doll already chose them self...it matters sooo much on what happens to them all when i'm gone, as odd as it sounds, i think it matters just as much as what would happen to my pet cat when i'm gone...

 

Gee, I've thought about this topic a lot... I'm glad I'm not the only one! I don't really care about my other possessions: My will would be less law and more along the lines of suggestions, really. But when it comes to my dolls... my babies, that's a different matter entirely.

1. If something were to happen to you, what you want done with your resin folk?
I have quite a few, but there are two I'd want to be buried with... and those two are not dolls I currently own just yet.
Assuming this happens in the far future and no one has expressed a genuine interest in them to remind them of me, I would want to be buried/stored with my future two dolls, Bradley and Crista. I don't have them yet but they have been a long time in the making, and they're meant to represent my two most favorite toys from my childhood. I didn't have imaginary friends as a kid, but I had Bradley the rabbit and Crista, and I loved them terribly. It'd only be fitting that they come with me when I pass. But if I have someone special, like a sibling or a significant other or a child, and they want Bradley or Crista, I would be happy to see them inherit one of them. Likewise for my other dolls.
But if it were to happen sooner rather than later, I'd give my collection to a very dear friend of mine.

2. Are there certain people who would get certain ones, or would you send them all to one person?
Again, sooner rather than later? They'd all go to one person. She and I got into the hobby together, we've lived together for years, and our collections are so tangled that I can't think of anyone else who would love them as much as I do.

3. Would it upset you if the person you entrusted to care for your doll a) sold him/her b) changed their name c) changed their style, personality, or character. Why?
My BDF/BFF wouldn't change their name. She would keep the characters intact -- and I could only hope that she'd adopt them as her own, and continue to let them grow in her headspace. I am of the opinion that once you put an idea out there it isn't only yours anymore, and it couldn't be truer when it comes to my characters living on with my best friend. I hate the idea of dying with all these fictional friends in my head. I'd want them to live on, somehow. Of course, like people, characters change and grow and develop. I'd expect them to evolve with her.
It would upset me if she sold specific dolls, but it upsets me when she sells specific dolls of her own now, so that is a given ^^; I'd want her to keep some of our dearest pairs together for a little while after my passing, and I'd really hope she'd keep at least one of my dolls for a very long time, to remember me with. But some of my dolls I wouldn't blame her for selling or giving away to our other doll friends.


4. Does it really matter to you what happens to them when you're gone?
Does anything matter? Maybe not to me, because I'd be dead. But yes, it does matter -- out of respect to the memory of me, to the life I lived, to the choices I made, to the promises I hoped to keep -- it matters. We are given a short time on this earth, but we touch many lives and create many things and are given many opportunities to leave a mark on the world, large and tiny. It is through these achievements that we live on, however brief those extra days may be. So, yes, it matters to me where my dolls go once I'm not here to be with them, because they are special to me. Currently, they are me. And I intend to stick around as long as possible.

 

1. If something were to happen to you, what you want done with your resin folk?
My dolls are shells for my RP characters, and most of them are partnered off with dolls owned by my RP lifemate/bff. Those ones go to her, so they're with their partners. My "single" dolls, I guess my other bff (he's local) would decide.

2. Are there certain people who would get certain ones, or would you send them all to one person?
The majority of mine would go to one of my friends, the others would probably end up with another friend of mine.

3. Would it upset you if the person you entrusted to care for your doll a) sold him/her b) changed their name c) changed their style, personality, or character. Why?
I'd like to think they would keep my resin kids, and leave them as is in terms of character, name, etc. But realistically I know that's unlikely. Id be more upset about changes to my favorites than others, but since I'll be dead it's not like I'll know. I'd be gone so they really wouldn't be mine anymore, and if I trust someone to take them, I need to trust they'll do what's best. It's not practical to expect them to take 20+ SD dolls and A) not change a thing about them and B) actually keep them all, on top of their own dolls. That's too much of a burden.

4. Does it really matter to you what happens to them when you're gone?
Sitting here right now, I'd say yes. But honestly, if I'm dead what say do I have in it?

 

I actually thought about this many time

1. If something were to happen to you, what you want done with your resin folk?
Go to someone or be soldl.

2. Are there certain people who would get certain ones, or would you send them all to one person?
One doll would go to my friend in the US. If you asked me this question last year I would say a couple would go to my other friend back home, but not anymore. So I think I would want the rest sent to my folks with instructions of how to sell them and how much they worth.

3. Would it upset you if the person you entrusted to care for your doll a) sold him/her b) changed their name c) changed their style, personality, or character. Why?
The one going to my friend, yes. It has a meaning for us, so I would hope she kept him as he is.

4. Does it really matter to you what happens to them when you're gone?
There is a lot of money in them, so yes I do. I don't want it all going to waste, so I would like my parents to use the money.

 

On my 21st birthday ( this upcoming February ) I plan to write and legalize my first Will. I'll be leaving my dolls to my siblings to do with as they please. If they sell them that's perfectly fine with me. I know they'll be smart about it if they do. My dolls are one of the only things of value I own so I want my dolls to help my family.

 

1. If something were to happen to you, what you want done with your resin folk?
A) to be sold if my family has financial trouble and could use every penny.
B) to be given away for free to my dolly friend / friends / family members.
C) to be kept by my family as a memento.
D) to be sold just because of money. Not my favorite option, but I can understand.
E) to be given away to a person who will love them.

2. Are there certain people who would get certain ones, or would you send them all to one person?
I hope that two of my dolls will remain the same and my dolly friend could take her pick. I do think she would take my girl who is twin sisters with one of hers. Whoever gets them, I hope they end up being loved and cherished.

3. Would it upset you if the person you entrusted to care for your doll a) sold him/her b) changed their name c) changed their style, personality, or character. Why?
Yes, I do want my dolls to remain the same. If they are being sold, I can understand that the person will change them, so that is why I hope someone will keep them, love them and don't change them.

4. Does it really matter to you what happens to them when you're gone?
Look, when I'm dead, I'm dead. So in the end it doesn't really matter. I trust those who I leave behind to make the right decisions. I love my dolls, but they are really just that. So whatever is being decided, I can have peace with it.

 

i am relatively new to the hobby so i have not thought of this before. none of my family members really appreciate resin people the way i do (hopefully that will change in the future) so as of right now i would want my friends, who have their own resin family, to take them. i would not expect them to keep them all but i would trust them to find good homes for them where they would not get pieced out or taken apart. it wouldn't bother me if they went to different homes i would only want the ones that are siblings to stay together.

 

1. If something were to happen to you, what you want done with your resin folk?

My significant other would get them. This is funny because he is kind of afraid of dolls, but knows how much they mean to me and appreciates the work I've put into them.

2. Are there certain people who would get certain ones, or would you send them all to one person?

My only family member that knows about them is my little sister. She could care less about that sort of thing or the fact I care about them so I really would just give them to the fiance.

3. Would it upset you if the person you entrusted to care for your doll a) sold him/her b) changed their name c) changed their style, personality, or character. Why?

No. It wouldn't at all... because they're just things. I love them and they're works of art to me, but I can't expect someone else to feel that way about them. I don't think he knows all of their characters. He knows some of them and I know he likes some of them, but I don't talk about it that much with him.

4. Does it really matter to you what happens to them when you're gone?

No.

 

1. If something were to happen to you, what you want to be done with your resin folk?

- At first i thought i'd leave them to my friend who's bjd-owner too, 'cause no one else knows what to do with them. But now i think i'd like my mom to keep them instead. She's totally unfamiliar with the hobby but i want her just to keep them in their boxes, so that she'll know she will be able to sell them if she will have some troubles. They're a lot of money after all.

2. Are there certain people who would get certain ones, or would you send them all to one person?

- All to one person, i don't want to separate them. I can even feel jealous to that person if she was a bjd-owner. She'd feel like she won the lottery.

3. Would it upset you if the person you entrusted to care for your doll a) sold him/her b) changed their name c) changed their style, personality, or character. Why?

- Idk what to say 'cause being realistic so i'll be dead basically, what'd i probably feel when dead?.. But that's funny. Every option is ok, if only she will not break them. Otherwise she can do whatever a regular bjd-owner can with their own ones. The worst one would probably be a) - i gave her my beloved dolls & she turned them into money, that's just outrageously obnoxious.

4. Does it really matter to you what happens to them when you're gone?

- Wellll.... It's somehow a matter of what you think happens after you die to me. Now it matters to me, ofcourse, what'll happen to them then, because i'm still alive and so now i do care. Because i can. And where i'd be after i die or what i'd be thinking and will i be able to think at all... I don't know that now. But while i'm still alive i'll take care of this.
I feel the urge to write the will everytime i think about it, although i'm, like, still very young atm. But life is all about you never know what happens next.

 

My husband tells me he would keep them as a reminder of me. I bet they would end up with my daughter but for now she thinks they're creepy she's 22 so maybe eventually she'll feel different. I think my hubby would leave my craft room just as it is until he decided to move.

 

1. If something were to happen to you, what you want done with your resin folk?

I would probably disperse them between many different people. I know a few people in my family like my dolls, and then there's my friends who got me into the hobby. Depending on how many I had at the time, I would like them all to have at least one. I want them to go to people who would continue loving them.

2. Are there certain people who would get certain ones, or would you send them all to one person?

My first would definitely go to my mom. She always loved him, and he's not to big to try and find somewhere to put him in our house. Any of my more normal looking dolls would go to my Grandma, and my fantasy dolls would go to my friend. I think that would be fair.

3. Would it upset you if the person you entrusted to care for your doll a) sold him/her b) changed their name c) changed their style, personality, or character. Why?

This is hard to say. I wouldn't be there to stop them, or even know about these changes. And I could understand having to sell if they were in a financial bind and didn't know what else to do. But the point is to remember the owner through the character, and how the developed their doll. If I was aware, I would be very upset if the person I entrusted them to changed them. I would still be offended if they sold them as well, but only if they were selling them just for the money. If they had a sudden financial issue come up, then I would understand, but I hope that they would try other methods instead of immediately turning to selling my dolls.

4. Does it really matter to you what happens to them when you're gone?

Yes, I spent a lot of money and time on them, and I would want people to respect that. They also would serve as a reminder of who I was and what I did. Even though, in the end they are just material possessions, the thought I have given to my dolls has been much more than that.

 

1. If something were to happen to you, what you want done with your resin folk?
I think I would like most of my dolls to be buried or cremated with me. I guess I'm that type of selfish person who couldn't handle it if somebody other than myself would have it.

2. Are there certain people who would get certain ones, or would you send them all to one person?
I would have my little MDD girl given to my boyfriend, as she's a really grumpy look and he always says that she reminds him of me. She is his favorite of my dolls.

3. Would it upset you if the person you entrusted to care for your doll a) sold him/her b) changed their name c) changed their style, personality, or character. Why?
It would really upset me if my boyfriend sold/gave away my doll, it would mean he was rejecting my remembrance. But it's totally okay if he'd like to change her name or style. I'd just want him to be happy with her.

4. Does it really matter to you what happens to them when you're gone?
Yes somehow it does, and sometimes I already think about it, although everybody keeps telling me I should this just much later (I'm 25 years old and pretty healthy). But you never know you could have an accident, so I at least already told my boyfriend what to do with my things when I die.

 

Haha, oh... man. When I was very small, I used to worry obsessively over what would happen to my plush friends if I got hit by a bus or something (I was an obsessive worrier on the whole, and I did not have many non-toy friends, so my stuffed animals meant a whole lot to me).

1. If something were to happen to you, what you want done with your resin folk?

Well, I am lucky, in that I have family in the hobby! So I would trust my siblings to see to it my doll collection found safe homes. Even if my sister and brother did not want to keep certain dolls for themselves, they would know their value and how to treat them in the process of rehoming them.

2. Are there certain people who would get certain ones, or would you send them all to one person?

I'd let them work it out... I mean, the three of us have quite different aesthetics sometimes... and I'm sure they could come to a decision fairly without fighting, even if that decision involved selling dolls and splitting the money.

3. Would it upset you if the person you entrusted to care for your doll a) sold him/her b) changed their name c) changed their style, personality, or character. Why?

Well, there are things I'd prefer, definitely! I'd like Pete and Billy to stay together, even if they became new people in the process... since they do come from the same company (and the same company as my sister bought her first doll from), though, it's not unreasonable to want them to stay together.

4. Does it really matter to you what happens to them when you're gone?

No. The idea might matter to me now, because right now I'm alive, but... once I'm dead, I think it will cease mattering to me, and will matter more to them (my siblings, not the dolls)-- if it means something to either of them to keep one of my dolls the way I had that doll as a reminder of me, that would be wonderful, but... whatever makes them happiest in the end, the most important thing is that the dolls end up well-loved. If they become different characters with different styles and different names for that to happen, well... I won't be there to see it.

 

I think everyone has point and they are all really sweet, for me I really didn't think about this matter as much since I'm young atm. But here we go:

1. If something were to happen to you, what you want done with your resin folk?
I wish the doll to live on while I'm gone since I think someone would deserve it more than I, when I'm dead.

2. Are there certain people who would get certain ones, or would you send them all to one person?
I would care less who they are given to, I just hope they are happy about getting them.

3. Would it upset you if the person you entrusted to care for your doll a) sold him/her b) changed their name c) changed their style, personality, or character. Why?
I really think it all depends on the situation they are in, if person who sold the doll can't bond with the doll it is better off or if person is in need of money I wouldn't mind. If I die I think the character inside the doll will die with me too so I really don't care if they want to keep the character or not.

4. Does it really matter to you what happens to them when you're gone?
No, If I did I wouldn't give it to anyone from the start.

 

Wow! Thats a hard topic! I think it would be hard for me to know or figure out how to do with my doll after...

1. If something were to happen to you, what you want done with your resin folk?
I don't really know, my family support this hobby but isn't intrested the same way, I know my older sister kinda wanted one for a while so they maybe would be hers after me?

2. Are there certain people who would get certain ones, or would you send them all to one person?
My older sister would definitely get my first one since she has seen that doll "grow up". I don't really know about the other two, but i guess my older sister get to decide

3. Would it upset you if the person you entrusted to care for your doll a) sold him/her b) changed their name c) changed their style, personality, or character. Why?
Maybe if they where sold, but over all I wouldn't mind. As long I see the person I entrusted them with is happy and take care for the dolls

4. Does it really matter to you what happens to them when you're gone?
I would be hurt is they where thrown out like garbage.

 

I can really identify with the OP these days. My motto of the moment is: the spirit is more than willing, but the flesh is flipping falling apart on me.

1. If something were to happen to you, what you want done with your resin folk?
I know that there are some who would stay with my kiddos and/or my friends. The rest I would hope could be sold to help offset whatever bills I have remaining at the end, and to supplement my girls' education or whatever. ...and there is one who will stay with me regardless of whether they cremate my carcass or plant it, because he holds my heart in his little resin hands.

2. Are there certain people who would get certain ones, or would you send them all to one person?

Oh yes, I definitely have certain people in mind for some of them for sentimental reasons, because they've asked up front ("if you EVER...") or because they've been wonderful friends to me now or in the past, and I would want them to have some tangible reminder of how much they have meant to me.

3. Would it upset you if the person you entrusted to care for your doll a) sold him/her b) changed their name c) changed their style, personality, or character. Why?

Not at all. If I'm giving them away, they become gifts. As I was once told: "I don't care if you dip him in purple! He's your doll now!" There is much wisdom in that.

4. Does it really matter to you what happens to them when you're gone?

Well, as someone who invests a great deal of emotional capital into my gang, I would love to imagine that they will be loved and cared for and fussed over. The reality, though, is that they will move on to someone else's care, and if they decide to use them for parts or modding experiments or wildly different looks than I gave them, well that's entirely up to them. And after all, I won't be around to worry about it, will I?



This topic comes up every so often, but I think it's always worth thinking about. The one thing I would NOT want my dolls to be after I've shuffled off the proverbial mortal coil is a burden. I've seen an unfortunate number of pleas for help in pricing/selling/otherwise dealing with the collections of their late friends. It's too sad. So I hope to have things well enough organized that it doesn't happen to any of my friends.

 

1. If something were to happen to you, what you want done with your resin folk?
To have them passed on to my loved ones.

2. Are there certain people who would get certain ones, or would you send them all to one person?
They would be given to the eldest of my younger sisters, except for my Pukipuki, who would be held back for my daughter.

3. Would it upset you if the person you entrusted to care for your doll a) sold him/her b) changed their name c) changed their style, personality, or character. Why?
How could I be upset, I'd be gone! XD
In all seriousness, though, I don't think it would happen. My sister loves the characters and would certainly keep them as-is. If she sold them, it would be out of financial hardship, a situation in which I'd do the same, so how could I be offended?

4. Does it really matter to you what happens to them when you're gone?
I have loved my dolls greatly. As long as they are loved by someone else, that's all that matters to me.