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

my dolls are constantly dollnapped during meets

 

No. Way. Even people I'm close with barely treat something as cheap as a CD like a ragdoll. I wouldn't trust my mother with my babies, and I live with her, much less loan out my expensive, irreplaceable doll.

And sure, maybe you could replace the doll, but it wouldn't be the same, you know? I'm possessive of my toys, so I'd miss it like hell anyway, and there's always that thing happens we call life... what if you don't get it back when you were supposed to? What about the people who live at the lendee's house? How are they going to treat it? Unless you're gonna be stuck up under this person, it's a bad idea.

 

Only under direct supervision! Otherwise, LOL! No.

 

I have loaned factory basic dolls out to a couple of people, but never any of my OOAKs.

 

Hell to the no. I've had bad experiences already with my friends breaking stuff... one broke a CD I got in Japan, and another broke shell earrings, both while borrowing them. Maybe only if I was there in the room right next to them, but I'd still be watching them.

I don't know if this is because of how expensive BJDs are or because I've always been possessive of my things, like Kideme... but no, I would never let my doll leave the house with anyone except me.

For the other question, I might ask to hold a doll, but I would be super careful with it and keep it within sight of its owner. Basically I'd treat it the same way I'd want someone to treat my doll.

 

That depends entirely on who the person is and whether or not I trust them around my dolls. If it's someone I know who is in the hobby and has fairly good feedback, and is very careful with other peoples things, then sure, why not? But if it's a total stranger that randomly asks me to loan one of my dolls to them, or even someone I know who has a history of damaging/losing other peoples stuff, then no freakin' way. I'm extremely paranoid and don't like people handling my things as it is. Hell, I can only think of one person who I would even trust to do my dolls face-ups, even though she's in a different state, and that's because I became friends with her FIRST.

 

Probably only two specific people, and for a very short time.

 

I wouldn't but that's mainly because I'm sorta possessive about my stuff :/ I've just had too much bad luck like the time I lent my sister my keys and they ended up being taken, by accident, by her boyfriend four hours away so I couldn't get back home until 2:00am. Not a good experience lol

I usually don't even like people handling my stuff but I make an exception for doll people with my dolls since they are used to handling them. I wouldn't lend them though because the additional time would drive me nuts thinking about all the things that could go wrong.

 

It really depends on who asks, but if it's a close friend who owns dolls themselves, then yes. I have actually loaned out some of my kids so that my friend could get a feel for the body or the size but I always knew exactly where they were and when I would be getting them back, and I was free to visit whenever I wanted.

So short answer - yes, but in very limited cases. There's about three people I'd lend any of my brood to and no one else.

 

It depends. I would only lend it to my closest friends (that have dolls/no dolls). 8)

 

um if it were the oldest of my younger sisters yes.. anyone else probably not. I do not trust hands much.. I let my siblings and friends hold the doll to get a better look at it.. but that is mainly because they know what they mean to me and that they are not really childrens toys...They know to be carefull.

 

If it were someone I trust, then I'd have no issue with letting them hold on the my dolls for a time. I let one friend borrow my big guy so she could work on a picture and get the male body in proportion. She kept him for several weeks and took very good care of him. I also let another friend borrow two of my dolls to work on sewing. If you're trustworthy, then I'd have no issue. And if I do go into the military, it will be those two friends who I will ask to take care of them.

 

No, I don't think I would ever loan any of my dolls to a friend. I've loaned clothing articles to a good friend, and even that is a stretch for me. I spend all my savings on my girls, and I really couldn't lend out my girls. Even if I trusted someone I don't think that I would lend any of my girls because I only really fully trust myself to treat my dolls the way I wanted them to be treated.

 

Well, sometimes its so hard to refuse ur friends when they want sth from you.
But dolls are very private things, i guess.
So...probably no.

 

Perhaps if the person was a very close friend and lived near. Would also have to be someone who knew how to handle them, and more likely a collector themselves.

 

I guess I would if they were reliable.
I'm not very trusting unfortunately. OTL

 

A very close doll owner & real life best friend : yes.
The rest : no.

 

I have loan my dolls out to before but only to 3 people and those people are the only ones I trust with my dolls. I do have some favorite face up artist on here that I do trust with the head so they are the ones I uses for that. But a complete stranger and my family in general no I would not.

 

NO! I'd never lend out my doll. I also would never ask to borrow one either, I know how important my dolls are to me and I wouldn't let them out of my sight, so I don't expect anyone else to either.

 

I'd trust my best friend (soenatte) with my dollies any day! She owns dollies also. As I soon will trust them to another very close friend of mine, who doesn't own any dollies. So, I guess my answer is, if it's someone I know well and I can trust and see whenever I want to, yes.
I don't know if I'd borrow a dolly ever though x'D;;; I'd probably be too afraid of messing anything up/having an accident and breaking my friend's doll (which I doubt but...yea...). If they asked me to dollsit them, I would though.