The most supportive

My mom fully supports the doll hobby; she thinks they're precious. She only worries about the cost when I bring up another desire to order a doll, but that's understandable. My dad and brother think it's a bit strange, but they're indifferent otherwise. Most of my friends support me, even those who find them creepy. Those in my life just want me to be happy, even if they themselves don't understand it, and I'm so thankful for their support~

 

All my immediate family knows of my hobby, and they're okay with it I think. I'm pretty weird to them anyway, so dolls are nothing new! My hubby supports me with them as long as I don't spend *too* much money on them, and he even helps me name my surprise purchases.

The most supportive is my best friend and her mom (who is also like my own mom!) who buy stuff for my dolls and come to meets with me. Although last time I really had to keep an eye on my purchases so nobody stole them haha. My coworkers surprisingly really love my dolls and will pester me to bring them in occasionally. One of them even gave me a necklace for one.

 

I love this question! My husband is most supportive. Even though they are expensive and he's definitely not into dolls himself, he does understand that I adore collecting and the figure/photography/artistry aspect of the bjd doll hobby. He even gets excited for the lotteries and the limited dress releases because I think he takes joy in how excited I get about all of it. I think if it were Barbies it would be a bit tough for him to understand. BJDs are magical and fantastic and anyone with imagination can see the potential. I think that people who don't understand the hobby willfully choose not to look at the art of it and just close their mind.

I don't think my family could really get into it or understand it fully as a hobby? I certainly don't think my siblings would understand but we're exceptionally different people and our lives have lead on on completely different paths. We've never been close. I don't not mention to them it but I certainly don't bring it up all the time either because I don't want to put a huge target on my forehead for unneeded/unwanted criticism. For what it's worth, it's not the dolls themselves that would be the main issue but the expense of the hobby as a whole. I can understand that because if you don't love the hobby then it's hard to put a dollar sign on/with the collectable part of it.

 

In fact, at the beginning, my husband was supportive... and then, I made a BIG mistake: I said that I would buy only a few dolls, like 3 or 4... such a mistake ! Now I have four of them, wanting to have more, and he is less and less happy, especially when he sees that I buy plenty of other things: clothes, wigs, eyes, shoes ... It's not a problem of money, we are rich enough, but for him, it's a loss of money for nothing. And my 3 daughters dont like dolls at all, since ever (what did I do wrong ???), so they dont support me neither... Well, maybe my friends will be more helpful, who knows ...?

 

Most of my friends put dolls in the creepy category, with clowns and mimes. My sisters, also. I have a cousin who likes dolls. My boyfriend and my brothers have been the most supportive, to get excited with me when I look at dolls or plan outfits or wigs or buy blank eyes. My brother stopped by yesterday because he was at a garage sale and found two little felt top hats in different sizes. "Might these fit your doll?" I live very far out of his way, so it was very sweet of him to not only have thought of me and my incoming doll but to drive so far to deliver them. I have no idea if they will fit this doll, but they will probably fit a doll somewhere down the line.

For more fun, he was in his military fatigues and he's got the First Nations face that looks serious all the time even though he's a joker, so the people at that garage sale.. I don't know what they must've thought. XD

 

My daughter (she's 4) is the biggest fan of "mommy's toys!" We have a craft room in our house, where we watch anime together and create lovelies. Either together, or her painting while I make jewelry and occasionally sew. We do photography together too, her with her dolls (not BJDs of course), and me with mine. Sometimes we put them together for a family mash up. I hope that my enthusiasm continues to rub off on her throughout her development. She's a total enabler though, when I showed her pictures of my top 3 choices for BJDs she said "mommy, they should ALL live with us. And that one too" *points at random extra doll on FL site* My husband is supportive too of everything I enjoy, but he'd never get into it with me.

 

My mom is definitely most supportive. Everyone else thinks I'm kind of strange, but they don't really pay it much attention. My mom is definitely the only one who would pay money for a doll for me though.

 

My whole family thinks I weird, when I told them about my (and my 13 year old daughter's) new obsession, they all just looked at each other as if they just got more proof of my weirdness! Not that I care or anything. Just sayin'

My daughter showed me some dolls for the first time a few months ago. She was worried that I would be shocked at her new obsession, but even though the price was a bit shocking at first, I loved it. I am as much a BJD lover as she is now. I also love the fact that this is something we love together!

 

I don't have a doll yet tho I've talked a bit about it with my mum, showing her the dolls I liked,
she wasn't too interested but did agree that they can be beautiful...
and hinted i should clean my room since she was like 'where would you even put it' >.>

my dad on the other hand would probably think collecting these dolls would be weird,
and i gotta remember never to tell him the actually price on them,
I'm saving up for one that's $500-600, i think i'll say it's $100 >w>;

 

At first, I was gonna say my fiance. Afterall, we live together and he has no issues of my buying my $600 dolls (give or take), and everything that comes with it. He's always happy that I love them and is always getting surprised by the new things I learn to do and make for them. But then I read some one the other comments and it hit me.
It's my mom. She's the most supporting person I have in general, but especially with this hobby. She always has to put in her two cents and try to give me advice, which can often drive me crazy, but when it comes down to it no one shows as much interest and no one's as happy as she is when I talk about my dolls and how much I love them. I'm really lucky

 

I was actually surprised to find out that everyone in my family supports my hobby they think it's kind of weird, but I've always been the weird one of the family, so it's no different from how they regard all of the other things I do. They're a bit appalled by the price tag, but I used money that I earned myself so they don't really mind as long as it's something that makes me happy. They actually seem interested when they see me making something or opening a package for something for my doll as well.

 

Personally, my brother. When my boy arrived, my brother was right beside me, happily posing and taking pictures of him. It made me so happy!

 

My whole family know about my obsession on dolls and they already get used to it, I think I can't say that they are supportive but I think they are okay with that after all I guess my younger brothers are the ones who I can share to most the time!

 

NO ONE has been supportive when I started this hobby...

I live with my partner in a city where we have no family members or relatives living.
And because I don't see my family or relatives that often I have not mentioned this hobby of mine. I don't think they even would be interested so why bother? *sigh*
Also my partner has only complained about this hobby: "It's too expensive for your wallet!" or "You will lose your interest in that hobby in a short time so don't buy anything - you will regret it later." But I'm really glad I bought my first dollie!
We've been living in this small city for short time so I have not gotten a change to make new friends (not that it's even possible because of my asperger syndrome ).

But what can you do? It's just me and my doll.

 

All of my family are supportive. Most of the older generations make comments about how much nicer and more traditional they are than the modern 1/6 fashion dolls. The only non-supportive person I've met had a phobia of dolls, to the point she'd make me turn my action figures around to face the wall whenever she came to visit.

 

My partner is the most supportive of the hobby, to the point where he has weighed in on each doll I've bought (bar two).
Other than that, I have a few friends that are very enthusiastic when it comes to my dolls, one even asking me where she could buy one from which really made me feel warm inside.

 

My sister was supportive from the beginning. Of course, she's used to me getting into random things. Her first assumption was that I wanted the doll for a pose reference for sketching so it seemed completely natural to her!

 

My mom supported me from day one. We started with Barbie-sized, off-brand little BJDs that I worked on then gave to a friend when I got my REAL first BJD. From there, she bought my first doll from me 7 - 8 years ago when I was still in high school. That Christmas, 75% of the things I got were for my doll, and even she picked out some of the wigs and shoes and clothing that she bought for her. I've always collected things that as my mom, in the nicest way possible, put as "things kids my age don't collect." I have a wide range of collectable figures and plushies from anime, shows and games.
The next most supportive person would be my grandma. She taught me to sew for cosplay reasons then loves my doll and ended up buying cheaper, smaller Barbie sized BJD to do faceups on and make clothes for. While she doesn't do as much for her anymore, she still helps when I talk about something I am interested in.
My close friends are always supportive, a lot of them want their own. The closest two, one has a MSD of her own and the other came over today to play with her and try on different wigs and accessories. I got lucky with them all.

 

My dad supports it... But against his will or something XD he doesn't like how expensive are my dolls. On the other hand, my mom doesn't like that much what they cost but is a lot more supportive and even likes my guys and talk to them just like me. My grandparents at first where like 'hell, this is expensive' but when they met the dollies -I don't live in the same city as them- they thought as them of a totally worth thing, and my grandpa even has now a picture of them in his desk

But with no doubt of it, the most supportive person in my family is my little sister. She LOVES them and is really excited when I'm about to get a new one, is so cute

 

Not many people in my family support me in anything that I do but I know that my dad would have supported this hobby had I had the chance to tell him when he was alive. When I was little, we always used to love to go to antique stores and he always let me hang around a while near the dolls because he could tell I liked them. He used to always ask if I wanted one but I was always afraid that they might cost a lot and then I might damage them so I always told him no. Eventually he started to go blind and it made him really depressed so I never told him about the dolls because I didn't want him to think about the fact that he couldn't see them.