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

Aug 24, 2008

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    1. I've done this before. My friend who lives a few hours away got my girls for the better part of a month while I was binding with my newest doll. She had a doll of her own at that point but didnt have girls so she wanted to make clothes for them, and then my other friend who didnt have dolls got to have them as well. These are friends that I fully trust to take care of dolls and not get them damaged. As for my other friends, I'm not sure I could do that or not :\
       
      #441 kawaiicoyote, May 24, 2010
    2. Mine would be a definite HELLS NO. D:
       
      #442 Sakuri, May 24, 2010
    3. No sorry, to friends. Hell no, to strangers.

      Too much can go wrong with lending out a doll.
       
      #443 guneko, May 24, 2010
    4. yeps my little girl Aithne actually spend my vakation last year having a sleep over at a friend of mine :)
       
      #444 Elaisa, May 24, 2010
    5. I'm a little too mistrusting for such a thing... I once had to wait a year to get a dvd back from a friend (who probably hoped I forgot about it... >[ ) and had to nag another friend everyday to get my 2 manga back, she's had for a couple of weeks. This cured me completely from lending things out... Way too stressful. (Which also means I do not like borrowing from others.)

      Even if I know the person will take really good care of the doll, I'd stress out, scared something might happen.

      So, for the sake of my own nerves, I wouldn't.
       
      #445 Roeleines, May 24, 2010
    6. i would rather not lend out my fav girl, I have had a sleepover of dolls, and another sleepover to see if a doll was staying or not. it would depend very much on the situation but am likely to say no.
       
      #446 pukipowderpuff, May 24, 2010
    7. Yes.

      To someone I know well and trust to care for the doll. AND for a good reason. I would also let someone I trusted "borrow" a doll during an event, just to carry around if they wished to... I've carried around a friend's doll, myself at a meetup (the LA Dollpa)--for no good reason, since I had dolls of my own, just happened to find myself carrying him! :)

      I know a number of people I'd trust with my dolls.
       
      #447 april, May 24, 2010
    8. Many interesting replies on this thread. ^_^ Here's one from someone coming from the other end!

      Before I'd ever even considered getting one of my own, back when I was still in the shiny-eyed worshi phase, a friend of mine (whom I'd known for six months, tops) saw how much I adored her MSDs, and how gentle I was with them, and promptly thrust her DZ Hid at me and told me 'you're looking after him over christmas, just bring him back at New Years!'
      And lil Ranmaru went home at New Years safe and sound without a scratch! But I think it was so, so sweet and friendly of my friend to loan me one of her boys so I could play with him, and showed such trust....and now I'm building my own doll family, and have, in turn, loaned one of my boys to both another friend and my cousin, who are also starting their own collections because of their positive experiences! And Lao Shan hasn't been hurt a bit by being loaned to either of them. With the right people, a little trust goes a loooong way, I think.
       
      #448 Teabender, May 24, 2010
    9. Yes! I have lent dolls out crossing oceans and sometimes they don't come home! Because we have worked something perfectly positive out so that they could keep the doll. Only one person though... I would trust her with my life, so why not a doll? And, as stated above, these are material objects... JUST material objects. I do attach to some but not all. However, I did send my all time favorite to this friend and ended up giving it to her because by an unbelievable chance, I was able to find one again. And, my friend just loves her. Makes me feel very good to make someone else happy!
       
      #449 puffin463, May 24, 2010
    10. No, never.
      Not even to close friends or family.
      My dolls cost me a small fortune to purchase.
      I wouldn't take a chance that someone borrows them and then they get damaged.
       
      #450 GothPonyDoll, May 24, 2010
    11. There are a couple friends I trust are capable of taking care of them, but I'd still be wary about loaning them out to them because the people they live with aren't trustworthy.
       
      #451 HikaruKun, May 24, 2010
    12. Eheh...I have to resist the urge to squirm when other people touch my dolls...sometimes even my husband...so, no, I don't think I could ever let someone take one completely without being there to watch it. I'm pretty darn obsessive compulsive, so I'm a little overprotective of my dolls. That's part of why I love them though, it's o.k. to be over protective of these dolls! ^_~

      That said, my friend let me take her new IH EID Jessica for a couple of weeks so that I could sew an outfit for her. I made sure to be extra careful with her doll, as I know how upset I would be if something were to happen if I were the lender. Perhaps, in this case, my OCD makes me a trustworthy candidate to lend a doll to because I've shown how carefully I handle them? Hehe.

      I think there can be definite benefits to lending a doll, I just don't think I could ever do it myself. ^_^"
       
      #452 Lady Ravenswood, May 24, 2010
    13. The only thing I've ever done is lend out a shirt and a pair of pants, and I never ever got them back. I'm really mad about it because it was one of my favorite outfits and she promised she'd give it back. ughhhhh. So no, I'd never lend out a doll. I'm mad enough about a ten dollar shirt (though the pants were rather pricey... and now discontinued....) so I could only imagine the trail of tears left behind a doll going missing.
       
      #453 TrevviesBaby, May 25, 2010
    14. See, I "lent" my boy to my sister for a few hours once: she wanted to take him to her class to show her friends. I was expecting them home about 9:00 that night, considering when the class started. I text her at 10:30p.m. and she's got him at a coffee shop with some of her friends, and I'm thinking "That SO wasn't part of the deal!" Because I was under the impression that, knowing how much my dolls mean to me, she'd bring him straight home. So now my dolls go nowhere without me.
       
      #454 Nyco112524, May 25, 2010
    15. No. Lend my doll to someone? No way. No. Not even to other rl bjd friends. Just- no.

      In general I am pretty careface when it comes to my stuff, even my expensive stuff. I can let my laptop crash to the floor without batting an eyelid and if a friend borrow a pretty sum of money and I don't see it again- well *shrug*. But my dolls, no. It's not just that they're expensive in money value, but they have an extremely high sentimental value. There might be more of their molds to be bought, but that will never be Dio, Sinclaire or Prince, no matter how wacky that might sound. I get attached to my things and even if I rarely care about money value much... well. This time: plain no.
       
      #455 Li Chan, May 25, 2010
    16. I have a couple friends I trust enough to lend my dolls to, and I have on several occasions.

      But, like a car, I wouldn't lend my dolls to just anyone.
       
      #456 Doll-Mage, May 25, 2010
    17. I could never do that omg I don't like people touching my stuff UNLESS it's in front of me and I can watch them but, even then I freak out even if it's like, just a pencil. I've been like that ever since I was little :\
       
      #457 etoilecourante, May 25, 2010
    18. I have one friend who I would and have lend my dolls too. But she was the one that go me into collecting dolls in the first place.

      Anyone else, not unless it was one of my 21 cm vinyl ones.
       
      #458 Noodles, May 25, 2010
    19. You'll note, if you look at my original post, that I said "replaceable/repairable." Any damage to a doll that goes beyond what I or someone I commissioned could conceivably repair would either have to be intentional (in which case I would certainly pursue monetary compensation, but I also wouldn't lend a doll to someone that I thought would intentionally destroy or damage it) or the result of something far more serious than a bit of mishandling (like a house fire - which would be terribly unfortunate, but in that situation the loss of the doll would not be on the top of my list of concerns).

      It is true that some of the dolls I own are either OOAK or extremely limited, and it is possible I would not be able to replace them in the case of damage that was beyond the possibility of repair. However, I also view these dolls as representations of characters, not as characters themselves, and while I would be very saddened by the permanent loss of a given "shell," I have no doubt that with enough time and searching, I would be able to find a new sculpt that would suit the character, albeit likely in a different way than the current ones.

      There are a couple of dolls that I would not lend out, but that has to do with the sensitivity of their resin to UV radiation (light), and the fact that I do not want to burden any of my friends with caring for something that has such specific environmental needs. For the same reason, I will not take these particular dolls with me when I travel, and I only very rarely take them out of my apartment (or indeed, out of my light-controlled bedroom).

      These things said, I stand by my original statement: The dolls are material objects, and thus replaceable/repairable. I might be angry (for a time) if I lent a doll out and something happened to it, but I would get over it. I value my friends far more than I value my dolls - we've been through considerably more serious tension-causing things than a few broken resin fingers or scratched faceups, and we always get past them in time.
       
      #459 Kiyakotari, May 25, 2010
    20. To my friends who own BJDs and understand handling them yes. I have even loaned a doll of mine to a friends mother who used it to make clothing, (even though she returned it almost immediately because she was so nervous about handling it.)
      However, on the flip side of things, Im even wary of commissions-I had a bad experience with the first person who did a face-up for one of my dolls and a floating head I had at the time and she ended up stealing an item of mine, as well as an item belonging to a friend of mine. When cofronted she only replied that the item "must've fallen out of the box".
      So I reeeeally have to know the person or have a very strong line of communication with them before they even lay hands on my dolls.
       
      #460 BellaMorte, May 25, 2010
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