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To think its not weird to collect dolls at my age?

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AdriftOnMemoryBliss · 15/02/2016 21:06

I'm 35 this year.

I'm a big fantasy/fairy tale/magic fan, i love fairy tales and am a big fan of Alice In Wonderland and so on, this isn't a secret, i'm a hippy/goth/rocker and my house is full of dragons and fairies, there is even a massive sun catcher sticker on my front window of a dragon

I have started collecting some of the "Ever After High" dolls recently, specifically the Gothic style ones and ones relating to Alice in Wonderland. Yes i have watched the animated web series.

My friend called me weird because i asked DH to get me a couple as they're reduced from £25 down to £10 in Smyths right now, and he bought me Raven Queen and Kitty Cheshire.

She came over today and saw i had them, still in their boxes on a shelf and asked if they were for DD and offered to take them out for her.... i of course corrected her, told her they were mine and they were NOT being taken out of their boxes. The others i own are on a display shelf in my bedroom.

Apparently, its weird, and creepy and i should give them to dd to play with.

wth?

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Monty27 · 16/02/2016 01:56

It wouldn't be my cup of tea, but if its yours yours you crack on and enjoy it OP. Why not? I like all sorts of stuff but not dolls :)

HaveIGotAClue · 16/02/2016 02:18

I think I know you.

RudeElf · 16/02/2016 02:26

I love adults with proper collections. I'm jealous as i dont have one. As a child i collected pigs Grin i had hundreds of little piggy ornaments. Would love to have another hobby/collection i could get excited about.

Would also like to know what i am. (Apart from adult human!) i mean OP you describe yourself as hippy/goth/rocker. I dont think i'm anything. I am clearly a very dull individual. I want to be something.

RudeElf · 16/02/2016 02:29

Ooooh!! Just realised i have an impressive tom hardy board on pinterest! I get pretty excited about that! I have a collection! Grin

Katedotness1963 · 16/02/2016 04:21

I'm in my 50's and I collect Steiff Bears. I put it down to not having toys when I was growing up.

Dontdrinkandfacebook · 16/02/2016 04:26

I don't get it, but each to their own. So long as it's not those CREEPY AS FUCK bespoke-made realistic looking newborn baby dolls that grown women pretend to mother even though they all look a tiny bit like Chucky.

Sothisishowitfeels · 16/02/2016 04:35

I don't see the harm.?i always wanted to collect something but I have yet to find anything I cre enough about Grin .

Abbinob · 16/02/2016 04:35

I don't think it's weird, lots of elderly women collect China dolls (i think, or atleast the ones i know do) and its not really much different to that, although dolls scare me its not meannlt to give them to your dc, theyre your things, you wouldnt give them your make upor anything else just cause they wanted it.

nanetterose · 16/02/2016 05:00

I'm surprised at some of the lack of understanding regarding the 'reborn dolls'. It doesn't take a genius to work out that they are normally collected by adults that have been unable to have their own babies/lost them.
A little more open mindedness wouldn't go a miss.
op do what makes you happy. My seven year old loves those dolls too. I was tidying her shelf - they are pretty special looking. Smile

HelpfulChap · 16/02/2016 06:16

Each to their own. I quite like it when I meet people and they have a random collection that you wouldn't expect.

I have to be careful because I get easily addicted to collecting stuff so I keep a lid on it now.

My mate has a MASSIVE collection relating to our favourite football team and I have a rather large collection of a particular punk band but I managed to wean myself off it a few years back!

LaContessaDiPlump · 16/02/2016 09:15

nanetterose I don't think it's a lack of understanding that makes people uncomfortable, as that explanation is perfectly obvious. For me, it's uncomfortable to see because it's such an open admission of pain and longing. I would never stop anyone having such dolls or displaying them openly, but the exposed emotion of it all makes me uncomfortable. That's my issue to sort out though, no-one else's.

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AdriftOnMemoryBliss · 16/02/2016 10:32

DD isn't into Dolls, she has a couple of the MLP Equestria Girls dolls that she sometimes plays with. She's quite a tomboy so the EAH dolls don't interest her. She'd rather raid my lego or play minecraft.

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TheFridgePickersKnickers · 16/02/2016 10:43

Each to their own. Collect what you like and display your collection however it makes you happy.
I collect Yankee Candles except a friend came over once and told me I'm not a proper Yankee collector because I burn my candles!!ShockGrin. Apparentlyserious Yankee collectors never burn them! !

FlowersAndShit · 16/02/2016 12:16

I collect Disney snowglobes and figurines. I think they're little works of art and have them in a display cabinet, they're worth quite a lot too.

VulcanWoman · 16/02/2016 12:18

I would like a Mrs Doubtfire dolls house.

MackerelOfFact · 16/02/2016 15:13

Not my thing personally, but you go ahead if that's what you're into.

I do find 'collecting' a bit baffling and unnecessary, I just don't see the attraction of amassing a large number of non-functional objects. But then I do own more stationery/cushions/serving bowls than I actually need just because I like them, so... each to their own.

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AdriftOnMemoryBliss · 16/02/2016 16:57

i just think of all my collections, that she thought the dolls were weird is funny.

i collect mugs. FFs, i have mugs that are NOT allowed to be drunk out of and are for decoration only, isn't that weirder? Grin

My mom collects those one pot tea pots that come with the pot and matching cups.

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ijustwannadance · 16/02/2016 17:15

It's probably because dolls are associated with childhood.
I had a load of star trek stuff at one point in my yoof which was thought odd for a young woman.

falada · 16/02/2016 17:35

DD has a ton of Monster High and Ever after High dolls. I enjoy rearranging them in her room rather a lot, they are very detailed and pretty. When I was Christmas shopping, I got quite entranced by unboxing videos, reviews and doll collectors blogs, all by adults. Loads of people collect dolls :)

SweetCheeks99 · 16/02/2016 17:45

I think it's a little weird, if I'm honest.

but then, to be fair, my family thinks it's totally weird to have as many perfumes as I do, and I don't bandy the information about to people atmy office...

we're all a BIT weird.

LaurieFairyCake · 16/02/2016 17:52

God I collect loads of things Hmm

But if we're talking weird. I once rubbed my cat into that state of chirrupy excitement where they let you do anything to them - then I put a hand knitted jumper on him ( which said 'I love my mummy').

Then I took a photo of him and turned it into a necklace.

Now that's weird.

AgathaF · 16/02/2016 18:07

I don't really understand why adults have collections, or collect toys, or have a bed full of cuddly toys, or those strange dolls with a china face. Each to his own though. It's you that has to dust the bloody things I guess.

Dowser · 16/02/2016 19:21

Just told DH I would like one of these for my birthday

www.google.co.uk/search?q=reborn+dolls&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari#imgrc=hbz0ccBi1G1kwM%3A

He thought it was a baby. When I said it was a doll. He snorted and walked out the room.

Shame...it's really nice!

SweetieDrops · 16/02/2016 19:27

*But if we're talking weird. I once rubbed my cat into that state of chirrupy excitement where they let you do anything to them - then I put a hand knitted jumper on him ( which said 'I love my mummy').

Then I took a photo of him and turned it into a necklace.

Now that's weird*

I am absolutely weeping at this GrinGrinGrin

That is brilliantly bonkers.

turdfairynomore · 16/02/2016 19:29

Santa brought me a Zelf in my Xmas stocking!! She lives in my handbag in her wee toadstool house!! Sometimes she comes out to see my P1 class and tell them stories!!! (And p1 don't know yet, but after half term she's getting a friend in school as we've got an Irish fairy door!!!)