Were You Afraid to Start The Hobby?

Not one little bit. As soon as I found the doll I wanted, I jumped right in without a second though. Buying collectible dolls is not joining a cult or doing drugs, nothing to be afraid or ashamed of.

 

Not necessarily afraid of starting in the hobby, but more of what my mom was gonna say when I told her how much I wanted to spend on a doll. To be honest, joining was super fun. People were really friendly and eager to help a newbie out.

 

I admit I was a little scared of my family's opinion of me having dolls as a grown woman, but in the end they're both mildly interested in certain parts of the hobby: the clothes and faces for my mom, the restoring and flipping for my dad.
I think I'm lucky that my fears were unfounded. My mom's even interested in seeing my arrivals!

 

I don't tend to start hobbies without having some sort of passion first. Bjd in particular are so expensive that I feel like you have to save and save and fall in love with a doll to the point where its hard to let go once you have the doll in your hands. Then the fun in changing the doll and making it your own. For me it wasn't a fear of starting the hobby, but when to stop buying dolls and to control how many I should have. I have a biggggggg problem with this lol.

 

I was terrified of feeling remorse. When I started becoming interested in BJDs, I knew that I was very impulsive and got freaked out I'd spend all this money on a doll and feel like I'd wasted it all, or that I'd buy a sculpt and then want another...the list goes on. After a while, I'd tell myself "Wait a week or so, and if you still feel the same, go for it!"

 

The first time I saw a BJD was round 10 years ago, I just fell in love with bjd’s and doll in general to be honest. 7 years later I got my first bjd, I wish I did it sooner. It is important to realise what other people think doesn’t matter, if it makes you happy do it. I spent 7 years think about bjd’s... if you think about the hobby a lot, it’s meant for you.

When you save, any time you are about to spend money, I always think, ‘what do I want more, what I’m about to buy or more money towards a doll.’ You tend to spend less money on stuff you don’t need that way.

Also, try to worry about if u might want to leave the hobby in the future. A BJD might even just make you happy for a while, and to me those moments of happiness with a doll, even if I end up selling it, is worth my money and time. The great thing is that you can sell bjd’s for almost the same price that you buy them for (if you don’t damage them).

So in conclusion, save up every penny and do it hun, so you don’t waste time dreaming about it like I did.

 

I was a little, but that was when I was younger and the price and how the dolls looked really made me not want to own any incase my family judged me :'> However probably 5 years after I decided I would never have one a friend got me back into it and well, I now own 13 dolls and the family keeps expanding!

 

Tbh I was extremely worried about buying my first doll just due to the price I ended up spending 338 aud after the new import tax
I love the dolls and idea of a hobby my main though was that amount of money I could feed me my son and partner for about 3 weeks, but after budget for it I realised doing that I can budget for a whole lot of things my family would love vacation is next!

 

Definitely scared like many others. :P Because they’re so expensive I was afraid of spending so much money on one thing, and whether I’d even like the dolls afterwards. Now I found out obviously I really love the doll-hobby. ^_^ I’m so glad. And I was afraid what other people would think. So obviously I keep it a bit discrete still.

 

Yes,
At some point I was wondering if I only bought action figures of varying scale because the main licensing company release them every other year. Until I got back into 1/6 Obitsu doll and realised 1/6 is nice size with changable clothes, dioramas and endless props...

i wasn't sure if I could handle a big doll (60cm and up) Some big doll friends(also 1/6 starters) I met were enabling each other at a very scary rate to me. Spent close to a year researching for bjds that resemble my favourite character to avoid impulse buying lovely as they all are..

And then I saw the shop pic of the Obitsu-Parabox Megu in my avatar and fell in like with her resemblance to said character. At 50cm and a reasonable starter price to me, I have no regrets. There after I ended saving for two large Iplehouse (EID Dexter and SID Luna) grail dolls and bought them 2 years apart. By now I'm satisfied with what I have and not actively looking for more dolls(unless renewing bodies count) since four of my most distinctive characters have been shelled. (Technically 3 big Iple and 4 50cmers a year apart for each)

By now I stopped buy action figures and the 1/6 doll population stabilised.

 

I wasn't afraid to start the hobby and get interested in it because I did feel like the price of BJDs was definitely worth the end result and the effort people put into making them. I was more afraid of leaving: I was so concerned I was going to lose interest in BJDs after buying one doll, feeling like it would be such a waste of time and money if it turned out to just not be my thing. I'm going to order my first doll this week hopefully, and I'm more excited than anything! I'm totally ready to jump right into this and I think I'm going to really like this lmao.

 

I was afraid of spending the money. I don't like spending money because I have poor health, and BJDs are really expensive. That said, there are so many things you can do with them (photography, making clothes, jewelry and props etc.) that I feel like it was worth it. I will probably never have that many though.

 

I wasn’t... and I have a lot of other hobbies and collections.. like anything I think you may experience waves of withdrawal, where as you sometimes won’t have the time or interest for a little while, but then come back to if it’s normal and totally okay! I think you should just focus on the positives about the hobby and about how much you will enjoy havign your doll! If it doesn’t work out, you can always allow her to be adopted by someone else... but it that happens just hide her away for a little and take a break to see if you would miss her

 

I was... Mostly because of my clumsiness, obsessive compulsive tendencies and price tag of the hobby! Also I'm currently hiding it from my mum (I don't live with her at the moment, so it's not hard at all-- except for the lying). Because I have a few friends in the hobby, I was also afraid that I might be thinking of getting one just for the sake of it, and not do anything productive after-- also what if it doesn't stop (I don't really have a lot of space at the moment and am saving up for future plans)? ...So far that has been wrong-- I've been photographing my doll a lot, writing a bit and haven't really been looking at getting another one. So I'm glad that I took the chance to start the hobby. :-)

 

i 'm not afraid but i don't want to do a lot of monney with this hobby

 

When my friend got me into it in 2012, I was. The prices were so high, and back then I saw a lot of mean elitism in the community with snobby attitudes..... it doesn't seem to be even REMOTELY like that anymore, which is good. Because this year I was able to get my first doll ever, and now I feel like the community is beyond friendly enough to talk to and squeal with about stuff, haha. No one in RL around me actually likes this sort of thing, so most of my doll buddies are online.

 

I was afraid to spend too much money on this hobby, and now I did spend a ton of money on dolls, but I think they are worth it!

 

I wasn't afraid necessarily, but I am worried about how much money you can pour into this hobby. I just don't want to spend a lot of my money, that I'd have to save up for a while, and then realize later that I don't really want it or that I'm over the hobby.

 

Yeah. I first discovered bjd’s through deviantart back when I was in highschool and I really wanted one for myself.

But that was a scary amount of money for a high schooler to pay for a doll. Also, since I was still living with my parents at the time, there would be no way to had to the package when it arrived and I didn’t want to have to justify buying a large and expensive doll to my parents.

 

petrified all because for one i had no idea what i was doing at first n it felt like what i was researching wasn't the proper stuff to look at then i found out about the recast vs legit that made me nervous as buying second hand could have a possibility of landing me with a recast (i didn't know the difference but i differently do now) and then it became me worrying about the drama there is around dolls on Instagram people having a go at someone else because they ''copied'' them even when they didn't have similarity's just similar colours it was very worrying for me but im getting out of the worrying ive done my research good i have a good idea of what i want for my dolls and my crew and if drama arises i will ignore it