Would you loan someone your doll or ask to borrow one?

If it was about "I need to borrow your doll so I can make it a cute dress!" I would ask to borrow or lend someone my doll, yea. ^^

But that would have to be someone I'm close with, not just anyone...

 

I would have to say "no". Not even with someone I am close to. I've had way too many incidents where someone never gave an item back to me, somehow afterwards something came up and I wound up not seeing them or my items again. I've finally learned my lesson and will not let anyone borrow anything anymore.

 

When my roommate got her first doll, he spent half of his time with me (we weren't living together at the time). Now that we do live together, my dolls are often in her room, and hers in mine. We're best friends, trust each other completely, and our doll's storylines are completely intertwined. I have no problem with her borrowing my dolls, nor she with me borrowing hers.

I really think it comes down to trust. One of my friends left two of her dolls at my house over Christmas, because she wanted them to be safe, and not in an empty house where there would be no one there for a month, because if someone broke in and they went missing, or heavens forbid, there was a fire, or a flood, or some kind of other disaster, no one would know that the dolls had been harmed/missing/etc. for possibly weeks! Besides, this way, her girls won't be lonely in their empty house by themselves!

I think it depends on the circumstances. Even if they were only online friends, if I really trusted them, had talked to them for a long time, knew they were responsible, and so on, I might even lend a doll to someone I'd never met in real life. It's never been asked of me, though, so I guess I'm just talking about speculation in that regard, lol!

 

Obviously if it was someone I wasn't close to the answer would be no, but if I know the person well enough then sure. I live in SC, but I've had dolls in multiple states before for various reasons. Quite often my friends and I will trade dolls for a little while, and at one point I sent my MNF Elf Shiwoo girl to a friend because she wanted to figure out how to make goggles for minis. It wasn't a big deal.

Actually right now I have one of DollLuver's dolls and she has one of mine. We live close to each other so it's not at all unusual for us to have each other's dolls.

 

heee hee, sorry I found this string really humourous...
Lots of people trust others to babysit their ALIVE pets and children, our dolls are resin and don't have a soul. I'm sure anyone who was babysitting your doll would notice the concern on your face and never injure or be irresponsible with him/her!!
Advice: don't loan your doll(s) to the crazy guy infront of the convenience store, lol!

 

But obviously you wouldn't trust just anyone with your pet or child, right? :3 I mean, I wouldn't let a random person take my pets into their house to "see what it's like" for a little while--I'd have to trust them and be sure I'd get my pets back safe and sound. I think that's the same for anything that's important to you.

 

I don`t think I would ever loan someone my dolls.
I just wouldn`t trust them to look after them properly.
But maybe that`s because I don`t know any "doll people" xD

 

I never make clothes for my dolls, so I never thought about asking someone else to borrow their dolls...

On the other hand,

I know a lot of people who make fabulous clothes for bjds. And many of them do not make YoSD sized dresses because they don't have YoSD. So I ask them if they can make YoSD sized if I let them use my doll's body. If they say yes, I let them borrow mine. The material cost is reduced so they charge me less even though they have to come up with whole new patterns.

Having many dolls, I've also sent my dolls to my friends for homestays if they like a particular doll type I have, or for practicing faceups on different heads. As long as you know you can trust the person, I don't see any problems. I think it's better in a way since I'm busy and can't take care of all my dolls all the time. It also strengthens the friendship and makes me happy to see my dolls actually helping out my closed ones

 

it depends, but i prefer to be there with my doll.

 

Unless I really, really, REALLY trusted that person, I wouldn't dare lend my doll to anyone. And vice versa, I wouldn't dare ask to borrow someone elses doll. It'd seem way too wrong. :/

 

Nope!
Not even my girlfriend.

I would go crazy if I didn't have my dollie with me.

 

I would neither lend nor borrow a bjd from someone else -either situation would be insanely stressful, either because I'd be super paranoid about breaking another persons doll or worried that the other person would ruin my doll.
Also if anything happened to the doll there could be serious consequences for your friendship.

 

OI would give my dolls only to my very best friend Anna. Of course I would miss them, but I know they were save at Annas (doll owner too ^^).

 

I have a hard time trusting babysitters as it is, and if I'll ever have children I doubt I'll be able to leave them in the care of one, other than my parents. Of course dolls aren't on the same level as children or pets (to me at least), but the discomfort feels similar at the thought of leaving my dolls with somebody other than my close family. I wouldn't feel bad if a friend doesn't trust me enough to take care of their things. Because, to tell you the truth...I can't even trust myself sometimes. Accidents happen.

 

i feel the same way.

i myself would borrow one, but i wouldn't lend it :3 xD
i guess it would be like that (cuz i don't have one yet, and i frankly DOUBT any of my friends would like to have one)

simply because i know i wouldn't do any harm to that doll and would treasure it as my own, or even more, because it's not mine. and that i can't tell about enyone else i know

 

I know a few people who I would trust with my dolls if they or I had good reason to lend them.

I have not lent any dolls, nor had any other dolls in my care. I would worry if I had other's property, but since I've been lucky with my dolls (no major mishaps, no major damage), perhaps that makes me a bit more open to the idea?

 

It depends how well and how much trust you have on the person

if you were my best friend and new how to handle and take care of dollfies then okay

but if you were a aquaintence and didnt know anything or even still new stuff id say no

and if you were my best friend had no idea how to handle dollfies id still say no

 

I would only loan it if the person asking truely understood how valuable the doll is to me and had experience of some sort. They'd have to truely understand that if my doll is harmed the same harm shall come to them :P

 

Hmm... I would never ask to borrow someone else's doll. I also wouldn't loan out my own doll to anyone but a few trusted people - all of whom, oddly enough, don't have their own dolls. My parents, and two of my best friends.

 

I have let my dolls visit with friends but they are very well trusted friends and doll owners themselves. I don't see anything wrong with it if you're comfortable but if I had any questionable feels towards lending I wouldn't.