Why would you give up your first doll?

I originally never thought I'd sell my first doll- he was a Volks FCS and I worked quite hard to save up for him, but then years down the line I'd hit a point where I was having some pretty bad financial issues that finally led me to sell him. That wasn't the only reason for it, the character he was based on had also evolved in my head and I'd grown away from the particular sculpt for him as well. Part of me regrets selling him to an extent, but not from lacking the actual doll/mold itself, but more for the sentimental attachment and meaning he had for me at the time. But he is in a very good home now, so I am very happy about that!

 

I sold mine because well... I needed money, and I just... didn't like him much anymore. I'd gotten another doll, and I wasn't spending any time with my first one, so that's when I decided he should go.

I don't regret it.

 

I remember my true first doll was a Bobobie Sprite and I was not aware I could have asked for different body so when i saw her in front of me I was sad because she was far from being pretty and a women like the dolls i've seen on the forum. Its almost got me out of the hobby but I decide to give it a second chance and trying another company, and then I got a minifee.

It was SO MUCH different and thats why I sold my first doll, because she was far away from my taste and i was not really aware that I could sand her face or change the body.

I don't miss her but I do hope I could have been more aware of dolls and choosing another first doll.
So today my "first" doll is my first SD, because she is the first I had in this range and its like i never collected any other size of dolls ^^

 

D: I would never want to sell my little Nixie. I think the only thing that could make me sell her would be if someone close to me was going to die I needed money RIGHT AWAY to save them . . .

Yeah, that's about it.

 

I sold my first doll because I just wasn't bonding with it. I had her for about a year and didn't really feel that she was particularly special. When my second full doll (there was a floating head in there, too) came home and I loved her right away, I knew it was time to sell my first. I had made a poor decision, but I learned from it and know more about what I like in dolls now.

I don't think people who sell their first dolls are crazy. We usually have pretty good reasons for it, and to me, it makes more sense to send something you no longer love along than leave it to gather dust in your closet.

 

When I really think about it, my Lati K Edissen is my first official BJD. He's the second one I ever saw in real life, the first one I'd handled, strung, and photographed. I actually ordered him after my Resin Soul An though. Maika came second, but for the longest time I'd refer to him as my first, and tried to force that "first doll" bond with him because I sold my $100 set of Copic Markers to buy him, and had made such a fuss over it. I honestly don't know which one gets "first" status for the win, but I'd part with nearly any of the others before I sold either one of them. However, I've been known to totally go off something that I was absolutely wild about (-cough- ) so I wouldn't be surprised if I did get rid of one of them eventually...

 

I can't imagine selling my first doll, either... he's my Elder Statesman and the Alpha Male of the house! He's been here almost 6 years, he's got a ton of personality, & he seems to grow more of it every year. And he's still adorable and I still like to shop for him. I'm a sentimental twit, so nobody ever gets sold anyway, but I'm very attached to little Rowan (SDCute Arashi). So, I would only sell him if it were an economic/housing emergency (gawd fa'bid).

But I have plenty of friends who are capable of selling off their oldest doll, once they stop enjoying it/ being really into it/ having much use for it. They send the doll off so it can start a new life elsewhere & they get some shelf-space back. I don't think they're crazy, just less sentimental than I.

 

[color=[B]pink[/B]]i never give up my first doll, i always keep the dolls in my bedroom, as they means a lot for me, and take me back to my memory[/color]

 

I actually already sold my first doll. I loved him, but I'm just re-buying him anew. I knew I wanted to do this as soon as I got him, but it didn't make me love him any less. I don't even consider him sold/gone really.

 

Well, I don't know if this count, but I Did consider on selling the Body of my first doll. I love his head but body was just too difficult for someone as new as I was to bjd, (w/o the access to DoA) to find clothes for him. He's weird! XD sd1/3 height with sd17 chest!

At the time, I didn't even know there was a difference between sd1/3 and sd13!
I thought it was just a typo!

 

If someone that I loved wanted my first doll, or if someone I loved was ill, and I had to sell my doll, I would give it up in a heartbeat.

Last year I had to sell my first BJD, my beautiful Elfdoll RuRu, when my son needed emergency surgery. I had to do it. Insurance wouldn't cover it and we needed the money. One of my best friends bought her, and it softened the blow. (Little son had his surgery and now he's not in pain anymore and is healthy.) I'd do ANYTHING for my children.

I've found that when you give up something you love for someone you love, you always reap benefits. This is exactly how I got into doll collecting again. When my husband got cancer, I sold my vintage Barbie collection, and in the process discovered a whole new world of collecting, (and I became a repaint artist too! Had never heard of that prior to that point.) Giving up my dolls was the best thing I ever did! (Hubby is now cancer free!)

 

I recently sold my first doll completely (she originally was a Soom Topaz but I had changed her body out). I was no longer bonding with her, I had had her for a little over 2 years and she just wasn't working the way I had wanted her to anymore. I tried repainting her and changing what she was but still wasn't working. I just didn't like the sculpt anymore. I sold her to someone who will hopefully love her more than i was at the time.

I think if you are not bonding with the doll anymore there shouldn't be a reason for you to try to continue to try to bond with the doll. Plus once I sold her I was able to use that money to get another doll that I am liking a whole lot more and enjoying more than my first. I don't regret it at all

 

I agree with you I honestly could never imagine selling my boy, he was my very first doll and I am very attached to him. I figure that if I do ever get bored with him I'll probably just change his faceup, hair, outfit, eyes ect. That way it would be like having a new doll but he is still the first doll I ever fell in love with and bought at the same time. If that made sense.

 

Honestly speaking, I may sell Näri some time, depending on how the other dolls I get feel to me compared to her.
I have a stormy relationship with her, and I think I could sell her without regrets even though I love her. I know my feelings don't make sense. For now though, I'm keeping her. And if I manage to get her a MNF body, I may start loving her more.

 

Dolls number 1 through 6 have been sold with ne'er a problem on my part. Doll #7 may have also been sold, but at this point I honestly can't remember who came when and who was sold when. I have owned and sold a lot of dolls.

If I don't like a doll anymore or I am bored with the doll, I sell it. Sentimentality really has no room for me when it comes to expensive dolls who take up space.

 

Like Kim, I think I sold doll # 1 - 7/8 or something. I get bored easily with my dolls so I keep/selling buying, there's a few I feel sentimental about, my RS Song especially, and I bought another back who was much better than the first one so it worked out perfectly. I prefer to keep dolls I PLAY with VS. dolls I keep for the sake of being sentimental.

I kept my first doll for almost 2 years, I dont know why I kept him that long since obviously I disliked him from the beginning. Everything I bought for him, eyes/wigs/clothes dont fit him and only make me feel more frustrated about him. So I only felt relief when I finally sold him and he went to a better home.

 

I sold my first doll...and my second. I had looked at both molds for months and months before I bought them, and I was convinced they were the ones I wanted. But my first doll just never clicked...I couldn't find a character for her, her style. I found that I just wasn't playing with her at all, so on she went to a new home. I don't get sentimental about my dolls, or most things for that matter, so it wasn't a big deal to me, but I can understand how others might feel differently. Out of the dolls I have now, there is really only one that I could never imagine giving up.

 

I sold my first doll, a Resinsoul An, because while he was a lovely doll he just wasn't the doll I really wanted. I wasn't bonding with him so I made the decision to sell him to help pay for the doll I had always wanted, a Dollzone Mo. For me it was just a case of not buying what I really wanted.

 

My first doll just stopped feeling right. It hardly matters that he got here first. My second has alot more attachment as the one I learnt the hobby with, anyway. No point me trying to force this ideal notion of the wonderfull first doll on myself when that stopped being the case after a few years!

I may someday re-shell him, but for now I have enough to do to my current dolls and not enough cash to do it all with.

 

My frist was a DZ Cloud. I sold all my dolls when I went back to uni.....I REALLY regret that now. I miss my DZ Cloud alot, my Soom Namu and DZ Isabel I really want back.

They don't make DZ Cloud anymore and I honestly feel I cant carry and cope with a 70cm doll though, but I miss his face and style >_<

One day I'll get my Soom Namu back though and I hope to get lucky with a DZ Isabel!

So yes. I'm in the "I sold them because of X and now regret it" camp