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

I'd lend it to friends, I mean, if your doll isn't around you for a while, wouldn't you appreciate it a bit more when its back. It's like it went travelling, haha, that'll be cute. I was thinking of leaving one at a friend's place on 'sleepover' for a few months.

 

I'd always have to be there with my doll, even if I knew the person.

I can only trust one of my friends to look after anything, and she's going to be getting her first dolls soon. (one is a present from me haha)

As for the other friends. No way. Especially if everything I lend them gets scratched and bent and returned years later.

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Also, on the other hand, I don't think I could possibly ever ask to borrow someone's doll, and unless they asked me personally, or if I was ordering it, I wouldn't want to keep it away from them.

 

I would let someone use my doll for an art project, that wasn't messy of course. But I would have to be there to supervise. I don't even lend out my CD's anymore because someone took my favorite CD and never replaced it.

 

Theres only one person i'd consider loaning my boy to...even then im not so sure because her house is insane and she has 2 terrible little brothers -.- ...so...probably not..I'd never let anyone else have him.

 

Answer to both questions in my case - no

I would consider nearly borrowing my doll(s) for a nonmessy art project, photoshoot or whatever, if I get to be there. But just to borrow my doll off somewhere, no. It's not that I don't trust people but accidents do happen and I would rather not spoil friendships with these kinds of things.
Same goes for borrowing someone elses doll. I wouldn't, I don't want to take that risk.

 

I have lent my SD16 Volks Amelia to a friend so that she could use her as a sewing model. I was happy to help out and got a free top out of the process. Having said that I would only lend to people I know personally that live geographically close to me.

 

My friends and I loan each other our dolls quite regularly. This weekend I'm leaving my biggest boy with her and she'll be bringing him home to me in a couple of weeks time. I wouldn't indiscriminately loan my doll to someone but if it was someone I knew and I knew I could trust them then I don't see why not...

As for asking to borrow one, again I would never dream of saying something like that to someone I don't know well, but if I, for example, wanted to make an outfit for a DOI Luke, my friend happens to have one so I might ask her if I could take him home for a couple of weeks, and either bring him back or post him back to her when I'm done.

So, my answers are yes - but only with people I know and trust really well.

 

Updating my post from some time ago on this thread....

2 of my Mini's (Narae and RML/DoC hybrid) have been loaned out to a friend who teaches knitting classes so she can use them as fitting-and-display models for miniature versions of the knitwear she is teaching classes on.

The hybrid girl came back after a few weeks having been in her carrier most of the time on account of my friend's 17 year old son claiming she was "scary" and kept "looking at him", my Narae is still with her.

Teddy

 

I had a prior friend leave her doll with me to make cloths for her and othr dolls before and I have let mine go to meets with out me.. So yeah I guess soo LOL

 

As an update to my last post so long ago, I'm actually prepping to ship one of mine to a friend of mine in Arizona - she wants to try making doll-scale props but doesn't have the funds to invest in one of her own [she thinks they're pretty but has no plans to get one at this time] I'll be shipping him with a list of care instructions, but I'm sure she'll take good care of him, and that's why I'm going ahead with it.

 

I have a "dolly exchange program" with a friend of mine, we're located a couple hours away from eachother, so if we can we get together to do the exchange. I trust her completely, I've known her for awhile before out first exchange, and I know she'll take really good care of my dolls.

I think that if it were someone I knew from just online it'd be harder for me to ship off one of my dolls to him/her.

 

I don't think I'd be able to loan out Moswen to anyone I didn't know. He's still too new to me and I'd be worried the whole time. I had a twinge or three when I sent him out to the face-up artist, but felt secure in the knowledge that she knew what she was doing and how to handle dolls. I have a few friends who I would send Moswen to if they REALLY wanted, but it'd be hard not to have him with me (the whole still pretty new thing again).

I have posted a message on a local board asking if I can size a sweater I knit for an SD-sized doll (I only have MSD-sized dolls) on anyone who has one in my area. I got the SD measurements online and I'm fairly confident what I've done is going to fit, but the anal retentive perfectionist in me wants to be absolutely sure.

I've offered to meet the person who'd take me up on my request in several locations of their choice and that they could put the sweater on their doll themselves and I wouldn't touch their doll period if they didn't want me to. *sigh* No takers on that though.

 

No. Never. xD Not to anyone. I'd DIE if anything happened.

 

no. i think they are to expensive. and i would really be bummed if something was to happen to her

 

Only if it were a close friend, someone I really trust. Then I would be perfectly comfortable loaning my doll to them. But I'd be a wreck if I lent them to anyone else. I wouldn't be able to sleep, haha.

Face-up artists and modders are fine too. So long as the feedback is okay, I feel pretty good, generally. I less uptight about loaning my dolls out than I was three or four years ago ^_^

 

Yes I would. While I adore Nola and J'Tem I don't think I would freak out too much if something happened. I guess I am thinking about if I had loaned them to people I care about and trust. Most of my friends I have known for many years so ::shrug:: though none of them would want them ^^; As far as asking to burrow someone else's doll, nope, never. I just don't think you should do that, but that's because I don't sew so maybe I don't see the needs.

 

I have known many people who have loaned expensive things (not dolls, but equally priced) to a new, awesome friend... only to have said new friend disappear with the goods with no way to contact him or her. However, I have loaned expensive things to the people that I do trust, and they've treated my items with respect and returned them as promised. I have to KNOW who I am dealing with, or I just don't have that piece of mind. For me, it would have to be someone that I am in regular contact with, and someone that I have a longstanding relationship with.

That said, I can think of a friend or two I would loan my doll to. My best friend can borrow absolutely anything I own--for goodness sake, I've borrowed her car, which is a very nice car and worth many, many dolls ten times over. If she were interested in my doll, I would have no problem leaving Claudia with her for however many days. My little sisters, who do not live in my house, would also be welcome to borrow my doll if they wanted. They are both responsible girls I can trust...and if they had a change of heart, I know which parents to get in contact with for appropriate repercussions. n_~

 

Well I would if it was some other doll owner who knows how to take care of it.
But I would only let them take care of it if I was away or if I had children over.
Like, if my baby cousins came over for the weekend, and I wasn't going to be home I'd definatly have someone look after them.

 

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