Things your family cannot stand about BJDs

The price. My niece can't understand that I would spend that amount on something of no use... She said it while she was holding her shopping bags with 5(!) new pairs of shoes!!! My doll will still be here next year, her shoes? Not so likely...

 

The fact that I'm a guy and I play with them.....Oh, and I guess the price as well........well......maybe the price not so much since it's my own money........probably more so cause I'm a guy and I like to play with them.

 

My little brother is a real jerk about it, we have him over o the weekends and I keep my doll Henry on a shelf in the living room and my little brother will go on and on about how creepy he is and that I should "put him away" the part that bothers me the most is that my fiance often takes his side which really bothers me because he is really supportive about the hobby when my brother isn't around.

 

Well, they are quite big and need space. Compered to Star Wars figures.

 

I had my mom on the hobby, she sews for me eventually, no one in the family is afraid of them but my little cousin but when they know the price that comes with the doll the make weird faces, I don't know exactly why since the dollies are expensive from years ago (I mean porcelain ones).

 

The situation is here almost the same, my family doesn't like how much dolls cost. At first my mother was really against for the whole hobby because of the price, but now days she accepts my decisions and my family has even given me one doll as a present. Now that I'm living with my boyfriend he accepts them but doesn't really understand why I put so much money for dolls, while I could easily buy (in his words) new electronics with that money. And he is also complaining sometimes how much space they need. ': D

 

As my husband has said from day one: cold, dead, soulless eyesssss!

 

My mom dislikes the price (not that she can say much, as I bought the doll myself), but what really gets under her skin is the craft stuff I buy for the doll. Always griping when I buy fabric, and she detests the sewing machine in her kitchen during the summer. (Though, maybe I should actually sew with the fabric; she would probably feel better about it then...)

 

My mom likes them it just the price of them and my dad well he's not a fan but he doesn't say anything. My sisters are like whatever.

 

I'm really lucky, it seems! My mum actually got into the hobby before I did, so not only is she supportive, she has more than I do! The rest of my family thinks they are pretty cool, too. Even my college roommate, who thought dolls were creepy, was really supportive about my love for them.

 

Gosh, and I thought I was alone. Apparently I have a dead zombie princess with devil eyes!

 

my husband was positively scandalized when he realized they were anatomically correct. I was sueding one of my boys and he came home to a naked doll sprawled out on the dining room table.

'Wait, wait. It has a penis?!'

I've never laughed so hard in my life.

 

The price. Not just of the dolls, but of the clothes, wigs, eyes and every else too. They've always commented on how it doesn't make sense that doll's clothes costs so much more compared to human clothing, especially when the fabric used is so little.

But, it's been years since I've started collecting, and they've sort of gotten used to it since I have a steady income now. She wouldn't admit it, but I'm very sure they've grown on my mom too.

 

My brothers don't like how my dolls face-up is "sad-looking". It was intentional! XD

 

My mum hates my dolls eyes! She has pink blind eyes which I adore

 

My mom is super supportive! And my dad.. I honestly don't know hihi.
I've loved them for a very long time and my boyfriend is the one who pushed me to buy one!
And to be honest i haven't told the rest of my family about this hobby.

 

Everything. I am the resident eccentric family member apparently.

 

My mother is at odds with pretty boys too. In my art, in my hobbies, in my doll interests, etc. It's hard to share my excitement at such gorgeous male dolls that look so lifelike when my family is uncomfortable with them being too pretty.

 

My Dad only has a problem with the price really...that and doll nudity. xD I showed him a box opening of a doll I was interested in and he was all "YSHENEKKID? /looks away" lmao.

 

My parents were SO weirded out by the doll thing when I was a teenager. They didn't really understand what I was doing, but they had already been used to me participating in relatively secluded hobbies and disappearing into the internet for days at a time, so it wasn't that different. Interestingly, when I started making money off of it and they saw that I was basically running a small business, they started to change their tune. They started telling their friends about this "odd doll thing that their daughter was into" and they thought it was "cool" that I was managing a thing and apparently the "internet likes what I'm doing". Our postman even knew who I was and he'd always ask me about the countries that my packages were coming from.

However, even as cool as they became with the hobby, my dad hated the fact that basically every camera in the house became mine. He'd buy himself a shiny new digital camera (which was still sort of rare at the time), and it would "disappear" by the end of the day. Ultimately he gave up and I had to start buying my own cameras, but it's still a sore spot. So I guess not specifically due to the BJDs, themselves, but due to the situations they would create.