Letting other people hold your doll?

I only let my sister, mother and boyfriend touch or hold my dolls. The are really precious for me, so only the people I most trust can hold them.
And they know they have to ask for permission, that they can only touch them with hands perfectly clean and that they should never touch the faces because of the make-up.
In meetings I get really nervous, and I only trust the BJD owners who I know are responsible and gentle with other people's dolls.

 

it all depends on the faceup/clothes/accessories...

If it's something I care a lot about and can't replace, I might just demur and say another time (or with a different doll)

 

I don't mind letting adults handle my dolls as long as they ask for permission. My family and fiancee are the only exception because they know all about my dolls and would never do anything to harm them. I don't take my dolls out often except for meets so my dolls were never handled by people who are not familiar with them. I'm thinking of taking one of them to a local convention and it kinda makes me nervous that someone might just grab her without my permission and damage something.

 

I think I'd let people hold my dolls, I'm sure most people interested in dolls would know to be careful with them. I remember going to a convention and a girl let me hold her little luts boy and that really helped persuade me to buy my own (I had been stalking bjds for a while beforehand online). So I guess in a way id like to help to inspire someone to do the same ! All the little bjds can have homes!

 

I wouldn't let a stranger hold my dolls. If another collector wanted to I'm fine with certain dolls in my collection so long as their careful. I have dolls with elf ears and my Hazel is an Alice Cherry Blossom, I really wouldn't let anyone hold them simply because if they're dropped accidentally the ears are going to break first thing.

 

I only allow a few of my friends and family to hold onto my dolls and I don't let most people hold my Blue Blood doll because he's completely blushed. I hardly play with him because I don't want his blush to chip so I've only allowed one other person to hold him.

There are days that I will let other people I know hold my dolls as long as I'm nearby. I'm also the type of person that freaks out when someone touches my stuff without permission.

 

I don't let strangers touch my dolls. Period. People think it's funny to rile me by pretending to drop my things and stuff.

I'm more prone to let friends if they ask, or if I'm going on about the texture of the resin or weight and I want them to give it a feel. Most don't really have interest in doing so because the dolls inherently creep them out (but seriously, what's so creepy about a sleepy bishie? I just don't understand =-=)

 

As long as they ask and wait for me to say yes first, I'm totally okay with it unless that person has given me reason to believe they'll do something malicious with it. I'd be a bit more wary around complete strangers; however. I try to be nice, not stupid.

 

If it was a stranger or someone I didn't know well, they are not allowed to hold my doll. I'd be way too nervous about it. If it was someone I'm close to though, like friends or family, I'd probably let them, but along with a warning to be careful and not touch the faceup.

 

I probably wouldn't let a stranger hold it, unless they were in the hobby too. I've let friends and family hold the doll if they've asked, minus the smallest kids. I'm okay with that, but I still make sure they don't touch the face, and preferably hold it not-so-high above the ground, or above something soft.
I'm cautious, but otherwise I like to see people being interested in the doll and wanting to hold it.

 

I wouldn't let a stranger hold my boy. Since most of them know nothing about BJDs and that BJDs are actually really fragile T^T
But if its my family or close friend then i guess its okay, they can hold my Yuki, along with my never ending warning "be careful, be extra careful" ~ lol ~

 

I haven't taken my girl out in public yet, she's mostly been lurking in my closet xD. But when introducing her to my family, I think that letting them hold/touch her was very important to desensitizing the "foreign object". I think touching something turns something from "creepy thing" to a less uncomfortable thing, especially for a half-spider girl like DC Elizabeth! For instance, when I showed my brother pictures, he thought it was weird. Once I sat it in front of him, he played with her jointed fingers and commented how he loved how feminine they were, big surprise! As for my mother, she initially reacted indifferent/negatively to me showing her the doll, but once I put it infront of her to move her arms around, I think she wordlessly began to come around, because the next few days she was really interesting watching me work on her wig and prepare to dye her!

Guess what I'm trying to say is, letting someone hold/play with the doll is a good way of creating tolerance and/or acceptance for it. Of course, I would only do this step for friends and family, as I'm not really campaigning for having strangers accept my doll xD.

 

No one will touch my doll unless they're in the BJD hobby too or if someone bought a doll for me in the past

 

I don't mind people handling my dolls, as long as they ask politely and are careful when doing so. I live in a shared household and I know no one will touch my dolls, but if anyone did without asking that would be troubling for me (not that I'd know of course).

 

I don't really like the idea of letting complete strangers hold my doll. I'm completely fine handing off my doll to any of my friends. If its someone at like a gathering I'm at who looks interested, so long as they ask I'm fine. I've had someone just pick up my lil baby off the table without asking, nearly scared me half to death. and that same night a kid grabbed the dolls head out of my hand, but I stayed calm and told them to just be careful.

 

The average person? Heck no. I wouldn't trust anyone outside my family to hold my dolls, and only a few very close friends. Even others in the BJD hobby are sometimes not as careful as they could be so I'd need to know the person before I would think about letting them hold one of my kids.

 

I was just thinking about this now that I have a Fairyland Chloe, it's interesting considering this. I know I'll be restrictive just not sure to what extent.

 

Ha, yeah right..

I would definitely not let anyone hold or touch my doll. Because if they break it, they pay for it. Stranger or no stranger. Doll owner or no doll owner. Never.

 

I've let strangers handle my dolls before, but they were always adults. I would never let a child handle my dolls, and I might be wary of some adults particularly if they're known to be careless. Really, for me it just depends on the person and the situation, and sometimes the doll too. I'm more willing to let some of my dolls be handled than others.

 

Adults, children, whoever, it depends on who the individual is - for example, my boyfriend hates my dolls but I know he wouldn't break them so I'm not too fussed if he moves one (I sometimes have Fable on my bed or my bedside table).