They said WHAT to you?!

"Can you stop talking about buying heads? It's really creepy."

 

These quotes made me LOL! Great post

 

So far the worst is the total stranger favorite; "So.... are they like... sex dolls?"

To which my response is a deadpan shock face and, "I don't even want to know how you think that's remotely possible."

 

Mom: Laughing. "I'm sorry, I can't take you seriously when you talk about buying eyeballs. It's weird!"
Mom: "Your children like me better. I understand them."
Dad:"I hope you really like these...things...they are a lot of money!"

 

"Are you coming down the stairs with a HEAD?"

 

Mom when I sat my naked dollshe on the counter: "Don't sit him on my counter, he's NAKED."

 

"This doll better be made out of Jesus for that price"- my dad
"That girl's got some knockers on her, eh?"
"Is it supposed to look like that?"
"A house full of dolls would be so creepy."- my ex

 

My dad on seeing a doll sitting on my sewing table: "...You know there's a naked doll laying around on the table?"

Mom telling me what her boyfriend said about Caspar: "His eyes look like Ozzy."
Me: "Ozzy has orange eyes?"
Mom: "Oh no, he meant his hair did." (I don't really think so but, whatever, lol)

 

Mom: *walking in on me using my boy doll as a sewing model for girl clothes* ... I always knew you'd do something like this to him.

Me: N-no. Mom this isn't what it looks like!

Mom: *slowly walks out of room* I knew it!

*while me and mom were trying to be crafty and make our own fur wigs for my dolls*

Mom: 8D So what do you think?

Me:... It looks like David Bowie.

Mom:...What? Oh it does NOT!

Me: It so does!

(Seriously. It looked like David Bowie in Labyrinth)


Bestie: Alright it's decided. He's the one I'll get!

Me: YES!

Bestie: Though I'll be relying on you to be my mentor here.

Me: Of course! Mehehe I finally converted you...

Bestie: It's only the one!

 

"She ain't got no titties, just like me!!!"

 

Me: *grunting*
Friend on the phone: What are you doing?
Me: Pulling her apart to see how she's put together.
Friend: I pray you're talking about a doll.

 

I told my dad today that I just bought a new doll. What pops out of his mouth is "Aren't you a little old for dolls? You're not Aunt Mildred."

I'm sitting there thinking that first off, I have collected dolls for YEARS exactly BECAUSE of said aunt, and second, how could he possibly forget that I have BJDs?

Another common phrase out of my family's mouths is "You're spending how much on an outfit?! That's more than I spend on my own clothes!"

 

"A package for you was delivered, it says it contains .... eyes??!"

 

Bestie: WOMAN. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME?

Me: Brought you over to the most artistic hobby ever?

Bestie:... Good point. BUT STILL. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?

 

BJDs have such realistic bodies that it would have seemed weird to *not* ask for pubic hair on my (mature) dolls when I send them out for body blushing.
So when my mum was helping me sew pants for my first doll she got a surprise raising her eyebrows at me and saying 'She's furry?', which I affirmed. And then she lifted up her shirt trying to see if she had hairy armpits too XD . But you can't really do that on dolls anyway because of their joints.

 

One of my friends saw my Real Puki Aki in my dollhouse, and said "They look like an evil Dobby!" Can't really argue with that as she's about 4 inches tall and has fangs.

 

So, one of my co-workers has a sweet daughter who wanted an overpriced doll that barely had any joints, just at the shoulders and hips.

Me: You know, I can fix this. Give me three days, I'll buy a new body and pop the head off a used doll to put on it. It'll be far more fun for posing, and a great birthday gift. That's next week, right? Psh, I got this. I've already got my shopping list.

Co-worker: Um. You sound like you're about to murder somebody. Did you just say you're going to pop a head off? *gestures like she's yanking somebody's head by the hair* Seriously, it sounds like you're some kinda serial killer. And you said it with a straight face like it was a matter of fact.

Me: Well, yeah, I take off heads all the time, it's no big deal. Sometimes it's getting a head to stay on right that is the problem.

Co-worker: And I thought you were just being weird when I saw that your shopping list included eyes and a used head.

 

So the latest of my Dad's reactions to my hobby is that he finds it absurd that the new doll I am getting does not come with hair or clothes. He doesn't understand why I would spend so much money on a doll that is naked and bald. I have not even attempted to tell him that while she will come with eyes, they may or may not be installed. Especially since they may not come in a color I'll like.

The man I have lived in the same building together since long before I got into BJDs.

 

"Casper thats... a lot of money to spend in one place.."- A friend with me at AnimeNorth
So.. I am buying a doll, and currently on a short layaway for her. My mom is not hearing the end of it. "Why does it have nipples."

 

"It's only the one!" Famous last words in this hobby. XD

 

My brother knows I love and collect dolls but he and I were talking one day and he was talking about going to comic conventions and seeing girls with their dolls there in matching costumes and made a joke about how he wanted to smack them out of their hands and I just didn't even know what to say. I would never even think about that but he just thought it was funny.

 

Friend: Um, I just found an eyeball in your couch...

Me: Great! I've been looking for that!

 

Boyfriend: "Do they have...genitals?"
Me: "Yes, babe, they're meant to be anatomically correct."
Boyfriend: "What? Can I see?"
Me: "No, that would be indecent"
Boyfriend: "But it's just a doll"
Me: "No, she is my child."

 

^ To go with above
//first doll comes home///
Sister: Pull down his pants, I need proof he has a penis

 

Friend : Male dolls have d***s?!?!?!
Me: Yeah that's part of anatomy....
Friend: ......... Dolls with D***s is my new band name....
Me: I call lead singer!

 

I should not have read this while I was at work... I Laughed a bit too loud and choked on my coffee...

 

The first time I took my dolls wig off my partner was surprised because he didn't actually know how customiseable they were.
And, of course, the very first thing he asks immediately after?
'So does your doll have, like, pubic hair too?'

 

Another one (one of my most memorable moments) featuring my cousin and her hubby.

Cousin: So do you just say he's a boy or..?

Me: No he's anatomically correct. He's 100% a boy-

My cousin then proceeded to hand my doll over to her husband who held him like he was a criminal under arrest (cousin's hubby is a cop) and she yanked my boy's pants down to his ankles as they both started laughing at his doll parts down there.

Also same cousin five minutes before:

Cousin: Oh let me see this. *goes on to try to TOUCH THE FACEUP*

Me: Don't touch his face or you'll get skin oil on it and it'll rub the paint off. I don't even touch the face.

My mom: (right behind her) *LOOOOUD gasp* Your NEVER supposed to touch a faceup!


Also same relatives, most of my girls got their skirts flipped up by them. None of my girls at the time owned a stitch of underwear to their names. Two still don't.

 

More shocking instead of funny but random person during convention: "so do you also like, buy them on Aliexpress"

Me: "eeeuh.. WHAT? No that's reca.."

Person didn't let me finish so a whole one sided conersation followed about how he doesn't have money so I tried to tell them I do not have the money either but cut back on other expenses but I eventually gave up cause the whole conversation was a trainwreck. But like seriously? What?!

Then he told me he SOLD a BJD from Aliexpress during that convention. Yeah, I stood there in 'awe'. And not the positive one..

 

My mum call my dolls the grandkids XD

 

That is hilarious. I'm not sure my mom could do that since she actually has grandkids from my brother, but she thinks the hobby is strange anyway. She can't understand why I would spend so much money on dolls.

 

There was a woman we used to table roleplay with and she decided to call the dolls "dust-holders". This went on for about a month and she was still baffled why I decided first not to play in that group any more then when I asked her not to come to our home.

On a more happy note:
Around a few years in the hobby I started to paint heads for local customers and at one point I had 4 heads sitting on my desk drying, when in comes father and exclaims: "What a scalp collection!"

 

Roommate to me: "Wait, are you holding a tiny severed head?"

 

Your post just reminded me of this: When I first got my dolls' blushing done, the artist sent me WIP pictures, which I showed to my family. My sister commented that they looked like a murder scene and that the "severed hands" were crawling across the body. XD

 

Lol the separated parts always catch my husband and roommates off guard

 

So does mine. But of course she says it in the most exasperated tone... what's she trying to say?

Me: "His head is lost in the mail and I'm freaking out. I hope it's just in customs, but like, what's taking them so long? Is it suspicious? It's literally just a head."
Sister: "Sssshh! That's no kind of talk for a grocery store!"

 

"You know, you could use her head as a candy dish."

 

"Don't suppose that for one day you would stop talking about dolls?"

 

my great grandma told me a while ago that I'm too old for dolls and that I should focus on getting a boyfriend and how to be a good housewife...

 

that's priceless XD

 

Most of mine do.
Thing is, as someone whose art training involved a lot of non-sexualized nudity and human bodies, they look WEIRD AS HECK to me without basic body features like hair, veins, freckles and so on. Inlcuding nipples and blushed bits.

 

I had someone ask me the other day, when I brought my doll to the thrift store, if she was a Madam Alexander doll. I sheepishly answered in the negative. This was made even more interesting by the fact that I was carrying a Hello Kikipop.

 

Oh I know. I don't actually have dolls with older characters that require that but I would love to have one with details like that

 

When I first brought home our first daughter (a limhwa leda) my wife asked me, "Are you turning gay?"
She continued and said, "This is it, I'm losing my husband."

 

I'd love to have this detailing, too, to be honest
I just thought it was hilarious that the first place my partners mind went to was 'hey, do they have pubes' xD

 

Mom: Aunt is gonna be here in two minutes... wh- did you just stuff a head in your pocket?
Me: I wanna work on it after she leaves.
Mom: You are not going to sit and talk with your aunt over tea with a disembodied head in your pocket. Put it in your room.

 

Not technically doll related though I was shopping FOR the dolls. I saw a guy walk past me with ALL of the really good Halloween fabric, so I stalked him to the cutting counter and waited by the go back cart so I could see them up close.

Employee: *nearly smacks me with a fabric bolt* Gah! Sorry!

Me: It's cool. *takes bolt* I'm cool to be over here right?

Employee:Of course!

Me: Yay!

 

Husband: It creeps me out when they're sitting there without heads.

(I had several out for faceups but the bodies were dressed and sitting on my display shelves.)

Later...

Husband: It's REALLY creepy to see eyes but no faces!

(I'd chosen eyes for some faceplates that were out for faceups and used eye putty to stick the eyes to the inside part of the head back. )

All of this was in our bedroom.

I also have, and have painted, reborn dolls, and he never complained about those, so I guess he's mostly ok with my dolls.

 

Me: I need to get Mami more clothes that fit her... right now she's just sitting around in a t-shirt and panties while everyone is dressed up super cute.

My partner: (looking directly at Mami as if addressing her/comforting her) Ahh, it's okay to just let it all hang out sometimes.

 

"I'm beggin' you, get that poor doll a new wig!"

My Johnny wears an unusual wig, and Grandma HATES it! LOL

 

My dad refers to them as granddollies!

 

I live beside the elementary school that I teach at and my neighbor's kids are some of my kindergarteners. Anyways, being such a small island with no crime, I used to leave my doors unlocked, until kindergarteners started coming into my house and demanding I come outside and play with them, to which my boyfriend pointed at my (still eyeless) doll and said
"If you want to keep them away forever, just put her in front of the door. Guarantee they'll never come back"

 

When I first got my doll, my mother's comments included the following:

"She looks like a cancer patient. Please tell me she won't be bald forever."
"Please make sure your little brother doesn't see it naked."
"THAT'S AN EXPENSIVE DOLL. Don't let your siblings touch it!"

My dad's reaction?
"That's an incredibly busty doll."

My sister:
"Can I see inside it's head?"

Bestie:
"It's pretty. But... creepy."

Grandma:
"That is the most outrageous wig I've ever seen. And you just switch them out? Interesting."

 

My boyfriend and I were at my parents place and I were cooking something to eat for the two of us. My brother was sitting at the table... Suddenly I stated "I freakin' need a paypal account!" (since I am probably one of the few people in this hobby not having one... ^-^"). I was thinking about getting some dolly stuff in the future. My boyfriend just stared but my brother reacted...

Bro: *confused look* What do you need paypal for? You've a bank account, don't ya?
Me: I need it for BJD stuff of course! Internationally it's hard to pay via your normal bank account stuff...! *totally serious*
Bro: Oh... You should stop spending money on such useless things!! (He doesn't understand the BJD hobby at all... thinks they are 'just dolls')
Me: They are not useless!! *walks over to boyfriend* My family doesn't understand me... You do, right?? *blinks*
Boyfriend: *can't help but chuckle*
Me: o_o" T3T

Well, yeah... My boyfriend at least tried to stay silent and serious all the time but once I confronted him with the topic as well... ^-^"

 

Ha!! I love it. Hilarious. As if the head is going to do anything weird while your sitting and talking to your aunt.

 

Sooo, we were out shooting, and at the last place, I had my boys stand and hold hands and a little kid and his mom walks up to us, I didn't catch what the boy asked, but the mom's reaction was priceless.
"Well, that's a boy for sure! and uhm...the other is his....uhm....giiiiirlfriend?!"
I did not confirm this but not said anything either, since both dolls were very clearly boys (meaning they had only one layer of clothes, showing their flat chest) and the one she pointed out as a "girlfriend" is an AoD boy...in very tight shorts....I knew from her tone that she probably would have felt very awkward explaining why two boys hold hands to her son :'D

 

"Can...can I pinch her nipple"
There was also the time where my brother put a fidget spinner on my feeple's head magnet

 

This wasn't said to me, but to my dad who received my doll in the mail...or at least was supposed to.

I purchased a Bobobie doll online, but the mail man accidentally delivered it to my neighbor's house instead of mine. And my neighbor just happened to be my grandma.
So she opens the package, even though it has my dad's name on it, and inside is my naked doll. The doll I purchased was male and...anatomically correct, which gave my grandma a bit of a fright.

She brought the doll over to my dad and hysterically asked him, "WHY DID YOU BUY A BOOBIE DOLL???"

She had misread "Bobobie" as "boobie" and assumed it was some kind of creepy sex doll. He explained it to her and it ended up fine, but I thought that was so funny!