Would you lie about your BJD?

There are a few friends that I have told about them and regretted it. I know my one friend is silently judging me on how much I spend on my doll... but she spends way more on clothes and shoes so.....I don't really care what her opinion is. I'm usually very open about my dolls and how much they cost. Sometimes I'll fib about how much I'm spending to my boyfriend tho He knows how much dolly stuff costs so usually I tell him that I got a really good deal on things that I actually paid full price for. But my parents know and my grandma actually really loves talking about doll stuff with me. She used to collect dolls too!

 

I generally don't discuss it. Period. It is not accepted well by my family as it is, so not discussing it works well for me. However, they are getting more used to my hobbies. It only took 11 years... Of course, they still think they're all transvestites too. They call them that, hence my word choice. -.- And not a soul in my resin crew is. Honestly. Meanwhile, the only other collector in our family is my grandmother who collects porcelain dolls. ...And she thinks mine are horrifying, which I guess is okay in comparison as I find hers equally scary.

 

I would not lie at all, if I thought the questions were intrusive I would change the subject. If the person was bold enough to drag me back to it to try to get answers I would just say, that is my private business thanks for being interested.

 

I could never lie about having them. I feel like if someone would be that upset knowing then I probably can't maintain too close a friendship with them anyway. Sorry if that seems harsh! D:

 

I needed to go to a depo store to get spray paint for furniture I was painting. I told my friend I needed it for art haha so he wouldn't think I was weird. He already knows I own dolls but I don't want to seem to intense to some people... I guess painting furniture is technically art in some way so maybe it wasn't so much of a lie but I didn't come out and say it wasn't for them

 

I feel like it's a hobby that I am proud of but I will be careful who I reveal it to. Probably would not tell my work colleagues or people I meet for the first time but once I get to know someone I like talking about it just in case I find a kindred soul. I haven't told a few of my high school friends (third year of uni right now so I'm still close with a lot of them) directly since it's not really a thing you suddenly talk to them about but I've posted up photos on facebook/instagram so surely they know.

As for my family.. the main body of my first doll hasn't actually arrived yet so they have no idea what's coming.. and in the next few months two bodies and three heads will be coming in so I'm nervous as to what they will think.. I don't really have much privacy at home or anywhere to hide them so they'll find out sooner or later.. I'll probably lie about the price to my parents though or else they'd probably kill me...

 

My mom knows how much they cost. She sees them now as an investment as they keep their value so i think she's forgiven me ^~^

 

I don't so much lie as withhold information. A couple times coworkers have invited me to go hangout and I've just told them I was busy so I could work on my dolls. My close friends know it's an interest and one even thought of joining the hobby as well but I'll never tell my family. They already think I'm weird enough.

 

I think this best describes my approach to this nowadays. I tend to also pass off new dolls as old ones, people who don't see them often can't tell the difference a lot of the time (even though I recently did this with an SD when the older doll was an MSD )

 

This was an awkward moment. I sew for my dolls, and don't normally buy clothes for them, except shoes of course. My friend Cory likes my dolls, and I talk about them all the time. But I try not to mention the cost, just because I feel a little ashamed of spending so much. Well, I fell in love with an outfit by Wimukt on Etsy and could not stop going to her site and looking at it. So I finally gave in and bought it.
I was going to keep it secret from Cory, but then the package was delivered to my old address instead of where I live now. I don't have a car, so I had to ask Cory to give me a ride to the old house so I could get my package.
When Cory saw that the package was from Thailand, she KNEW it was something for a doll. So I had to confess. Thankfully she thought it was cool.

 

For the dolls themselves, I don't see any point in lying about them. There's no reason to feel ashamed or anything! On the price though... Well, I'll admit I'd be tempted to. I'd probably want to give some sort of price range for the average BJD instead of an exact number so that I wouldn't feel so weird about it. I feel guilty about it for some reason, even though I worked really hard to get my doll.

 

I do not have a bjd now but if my mom asked me about my doll price, I wouldn't tell her the true. Mother doesn't consider playing with doll is something worths speding time on. And she has enough things to worry in her life, I don't want her to worry about my way of using money.
If strangers asked me about my doll, of course I wouldn't tell them anything.

 

Story time. My ex and I split up mid last year and things went really poorly afterward with him getting very petty, after a while he messaged me saying that he was getting evicted from his house and that I had to get the last of my stuff from his (I don't drive so transport to move things is an issue and I didn't want to be around him by myself) so I sorted it, however I was waiting on a delivery of clothes that I'd bought with money I'd gotten for Xmas, my address had changed since then so I'd frantically been messaging the seller on Etsy to tell them that my address had changed, they didn't confirm that they'd gotten the change of address so I had no clue where the parcel would show up. My boyfriend was away on a three week course, while all this was happening and my family all lives in Scotland so I had to explain to my boyfriend's Mum that depending where the parcel went I might need a ride to go get it, which obviously led to questions regarding the contents of the delivery which meant that I had to tell her that I had dolls and I hadn't really planned on telling her since I'm pretty sure she already thinks I'm really weird, so I'm stuttering and stumbling over my words going bright red in the face trying to explain what it was without her thinking too badly of me, after all of that she kind of looked at me as if it was silly and immature but she didn't comment on it. Similar thing happened with his sister in a similar situation.

I don't outright lie, but I avoid telling people and when I do I get nervous and embarrassed because I don't like to be put down about things that matter to me and I don't like to be judged, I've had quite enough of that so I tend to just keep quiet for the most part.

 

I think it would be quite rude for someone to ask how expensive my bjds are, so I wouldn't answer. If someone I was close to asked, I would tell them though. I guess it's safer though, because you already trust that person.
I don't think I would lie, but maybe I would prefer that acquaintances don't know how much I spend.

 

This.

Totally this.

 

I don't talk about my dolls anymore. I tried in the past but it's not worth the weird looks and rude comments I get.... and that's just from my family when they see the dolls. I don't dare mention cost! I enjoy collecting bjds and don't want to have to defend my choices.

 

Growing up I've always loved dolls, I've been known as 'the doll girl' by my family and friends since I can remember. I remember being about nine or ten years old and bring a doll with me to a school talent show and then being made fun of by a class mate of mine. Ever since then I've had this crippling fear of being brutally judged for being in the hobby, especially now being much older and it not being 'normal' for me to own a doll. Though throughout the years I've become a little bit more confident and now usually don't care if people know or not. It especially helped me when I told my boyfriend about the hobby, he fully supported me.

 

I don't tell people how much mine cost xD

Normal people just tend to think they're like porecelain dolls and they're maybe $50 a pop.

(Nope)

 

So I'll tell my family and friends, maybe, that I have a doll. Maybe show them once, and then no more unless they're interested.

But Imma LIE 'TIL I DIE if my mom ever asks how much I paid for my DC Elizabeth. Deny 1000%. Say it cost 70$. Do a riverdance to distract her. 'Cos she would FLIIIIIIIP, even if I bought it with my own career's money x'D. I bought it and had it shipped to my brother so she wouldn't get freaked out when it came to the front door, then later introduced the doll to my mom as if it was an afterthought, so she didn't really pay much notice (though she is interested in seeing me dye her and make a wig for her! So I got that going for me ^_^).

I did tell my siblings and so on, 'cause they less controlling over the finances of others xD. I remember my sister asked how much it was, I said $100.. she's like, "No, really." I said 200, insisted it. She kept saying, "No, what did it really cost". When I got up to the right figure, she somehow knew when it was the truth x'D I guess some people are better at understanding how much some things are worth!