Would you lie about your BJD?

I don`t lie. i`m a big girl already and can do whatever I want without asking permissions and looking for approval. And my character is not very nice, so my relatives hold their comments except " Oh, they are so adorable!"=)))

 

Well, my parents knew about my boys and how much they cost, but not my older brothers. They'll nag me for sure.
As for my friends, they only knew that I have dolls in my room, but when it comes to price I'll only say "let's keep it a secret for now" or "It's for me to know and for you to find out." I mean, they can search it on the net, right?

 

I tell my friends how much they are, some of them think i'm crazy and some just respect that i get a lot of enjoyment out of them and the social side that comes with them.
My parents know roughly how much one doll costs...but they have noooo idea how many i have and how much i've spent on them..>>

 

I lied when I get started with the hobby and bought my first doll. My mum is an economical woman that thinks twice if she should buy something and don't understand "waste" of money. But after my girl arrived I told her the true price and she was okay with it
Now I earn my own money and my mum is totally okay with it.
I never lied to my friends, they know what my dolls costs (just the dolls, wigs, eyes, clothes and so on not calculated) and they're okay with it or they don't care what I do with my money x'D

 

Of coz I cant tell my parents the cost. They will be crazzy @__@
Even how much I spent in each month for the doll goods...

 

I'd lie. I admit it. Mostly I don't have to, though... BUT, I do a lot of lying by omission... ! They don't ask, I don't tell!!! Or I'll be vague: "How much do they cost?" "A Lot!"

 

I don't hide my dolls or their cost. My parents don't like the cost but are (thankfully) generally supportive of my collection. Besides, there are plenty of people who spend 5x more than what I may spend in a lifetime on cars that they never drive or cigars that they never smoke, or drugs, booze, etc.

 

I'm okay with lies to parents about price to avoid scrutiny, I moved back home to save money and live rent free and I don't think my father would think it very sensible of his grown son to be spending hundreds on polyurethane toys. Besides my parents told me stacks of BS when I was a lil' kid.

 

Well, anytime i get asked i kind of take off about $200 to make it seem less harsh...although thats not includiing how much i take off by not mentioning the cost of clothes and accessories! That would take at least $500 off the total cost!!!

 

I try not to talk about the price. My dad knows to an extent what they can cost (he collects model trains, which can also be very pricey, so he can identify), but I don't really say how much mine are. I definitely don't want the rest of my family knowing, since they'd probably say I was crazy anyway.

 

I lie about my dolls very existence, so the issue of price has never come up in conversation. If people were to find out about the dolls I imagine I would probably lie about the price. It's my hard earned money and I don't feel the need to justify what I spend it on, but at the same time there is a part of me that is somewhat uncomfortable about the money that I spend on dolls. I think having people react negatively would just perpetuate how I feel. [FONT=&quot] [/FONT]

 

BAM! Thats exactly how i feel. I work hard 12 hour days! I pay off bills and keep my lifestyle bankrolling. Im entitled to spend on frivolous anything right??? But its the fact i spend so much on lil dolls that it feels wrong. I only got the two but i have spent pretty much $2000 alone on dolls and accessories. =/

 

i would either lie about the price, or just talk it away.
my friends wouldnt understand why anyone my age would want a doll, and at that price they wold think im crazy to even having bought one in the first place.

 

I think I sometimes..."drop" the price I have paid a bit..or say "I got a bargain!!!" but generally my mom knows how much the hobby is

Most of my friends have expensive hobbies anyway

 

I won't lie about my dolls when talking to family and friends, but I would to someone I don't know anything about. More precisely, I would keep information to myself and be purposely vague.

 

It's funny, I was nervous about telling my mom cuz I thought she'd think it was a waste of money and I need her credit card to make the payments on the new member of my doll family, but there was no need to be. She said, "You never got into drugs or alcohol, you don't smoke, any of those things would cost a lot more than you're paying for this doll. You never spend money on yourself, so if it'll make you happy then go for it. As long as you can make the payments to me every time you need to use my card." I love my mom.

I guess I just get a little embarrassed when people don't understand why I'd spend so much money on a doll. I know there's no reason to, and it doesn't stop me from loving my boy at all, but I get a little defensive when people say I'm wasting my money. I don't like feeling like I have to explain myself. It makes me happy and that should be enough for anyone that really cares about me, even if they don't understand my hobby.

 

Why is it 'lying' if I don't want to share something? It's kind of strange when you think about it. And, talking for myself, it's not even that I would not want to share, but that I don't want to run the risk of someone freaking out over something that isn't their business to begin with.
If someone is blunt enough to ask me about the price then there is very little I can do to protect my privacy without converting to some form of truth-bending because if I say 'I don't want to talk about it' I might have just as well said 'AMAZINGLY EXPENSIVE'.
If I want to hold off the other person then there is no way around it: downpaying their price (a lot), aka what is referred to here as lying.

I don't know, I think a lie for me isn't that black or white (and I don't use that as a cop-out, for I hate lying and I rarely do), it's just that natural language doesn't really offer a way of saying: neutral/evade/don't want to answer when someone asks unwanted questions, without actually conveying and saying and therefore meaning (aka not-neutral) a lot. So if someone's asks something like this in your face you're pinned like a butterfly unless you say something that you know is going to feel neutral to the other person, and that is as neutral as you can get the situation to be from there on.

When it comes to things that are privacy-related and really no-ones business but me and mine and not hurting anyone, I don't really consider my answer to hold them off a lie. Maybe technically, but certainly not in spirit. I won't even call it a White Lie because of this, for in this particular case I consider it more a deficiency of language then in me (and maybe also a bit of rudeness sometimes of the person asking).

 

I don't mind telling people how much my doll cost. At the moment I only have one, and I am currently saving up money to buy Sasara. My parents are actually helping me with that, they will pay for at least half of her cost. I guess I have no shame in saying how much I have spent because I wasn't the kind of teenager that caused trouble when I grew up. I didn't ask for many items, and in a way I feel like it's okay that I have an interest in the dolls, even though they are expensive. In a way I feel like I earned it, yet that might come off as pompous.

My parents don't seem to care much about their price. They realize how happy my one doll makes me, and they see how determined I am to have a Sasara and they want to help. Another thing is, I don't think that I need to lie about my doll because... Odds are I wouldn't bother talking to someone who would judge me for the price that I pay or judge me for my interest.

 

I don't normally talk about my dolls, because... well I don't know anyone who would be interested. so I don't lie about it? but I don't talk about it lol. it feels strange to me because a lot of the time i don't find it interesting to talk about her anyway, she doesn't have a specific character and she doesn't have super nice clothes so... i can't show off a naked doll... and so... i don't know, it's odd.

i bet i would lie about her, probably the cost. but i would most likely avoid it as much as possible and then only tell people i think need to know lol.

 

I use to have big issues with telling people about my hobby. The truth of the matter is, it's kind of an embarrassing hobby to go into if you don't have much experience with it, let alone if you're a guy. I've gotten a lot more comfortable with it since then, and now I don't really feel the need to lie about them.

Thankfully, I've always been a little off. Everyone in my family thinks they're awesome, and my grandparents are constantly inviting me back to there place to take photos. Just so they can oggle them some more. XD