Now that I have got your attention...
Hi, I'm Klein. Klein is not my real name of course, but for our purposes here it will do. I will be twenty seven years old at the end of the month :O. I am married and I have a beautiful/healthy toddler nicknamed zilla that is the absolute love of my life, she is my sunshine so to speak. I am gainfully employed, my job is not actually necessary to the household budget so I am fortunate enough to be able to do what I want with my paychecks (after I pay my cell phone bill). Since my paycheck is mine to do what I want with, I choose to split it 50/50 between my own wants and the zilla's piggy bank. Now my current job is not nearly as stressful or hectic as my old job, my old job had me working six days a week, 18 hours a day the pay was phenomenal but the job itself was hugely stressful. It basically took up all of my time but the new job is relatively stress-free albeit I am making quite a bit less (but I really don't care about money anyway). I tend to dislike talking about my personal life, because well it's personal but maybe I should here once in a while as that would clear up a few misconceptions.
I have no life outside of dolls - Again I dislike talking about my personal life, it's not that nothing is happening it's that I don't feel the need to talk about it here. My primary focus is taking care of the zilla but I also like to go to concerts (No Doubt, Green Day etc), anime conventions, go on road trips and hang out with my friends.. I'm actually quite normal. Okay, I'll admit I also like to video games, read comic books and watch really bad old horror movies which aren't exactly girly things but meh.
You should share the dolly wealth I volunteer and donate to actual charities I'm all for helping those in need.. dolls however are not an actual need, sometimes you may think you need a doll but you really just want them they are superfluousness no one actually needs a doll. I have given a handful of dolls away to people who I felt deserved them, I have also helped people find their grails and have bent over backwards to help people with photo requests.
I'm mentally ill/unstable This is a popular one. Do the dolls have a significant negative impact on my life? No, not really. They don't put a strain on my marriage, my hubby even has a few of his own pullips and none of relationships have really suffered from my having dolls. The community can drive me a bit nutty at times (I've gotten death threats because of what I did to Agony when she was a horribly damaged bait in the first place and I wasn't even the one that customized her) but the dolls themselves don't. I am not obsessed with them, I have a doll room basically all of them live in it I go in there to relax and unwind at the end of the day but the point is I can also close the door and ignore them for months if I so choose to as well. Yes, there are a lot of them but I like having a variety am I am absolutely in love with every single doll? Honestly I do like some dolls more than others but there are certain aspects I like about each doll and I would never buy or keep a doll I absolutely hate (you could not pay me to own the Seikima II taeyangs for example). I'm not dependent on the dolls in any way, they do not define me.
Shopping addict Nothing is going on my credit card and I am sure as hell not going into debt for dolls. I've gone months without purchasing dolls, not because I had to but because I didn't want to. Yes, I do spend a fair bit of money on them but never more than I can comfortably afford and if I feel I have overstepped my dolly bounds I do sell off a few from time to time to balance things out.
You neglect the dollies No, they are all pretty well cared for. I don't really customize but I like to fix up dolls especially if they are damaged in some way. A big complaint is that I don't take a lot of pictures of some of them, I don't really have the time or desire for more photography between work and the zilla. I photograph dolls when I am in the mood to and I don't always post what pictures I do take as I am a merciless self critic (Lunatic Alice and Queen both had three photoshoots each but I was never satisfied with the results so I never posted them ). With some of the dolls like Harley Quinn, although I love her I try to avoid posting photos of her as I get a flood of offers every time I take pictures of her ^^;
Zomg you are buying up all the dollies and now I can not has them I don't intentionally go out of my way to snatch dolls out of people's hands. Yes, there is a finite number of dolls out there but with some dolls like Papin she was widely available for over four years pretty much everyone that has been in the community for a while had a chance at getting her. At least three of the Papins I own were considered bait and were in fact rescued from on top of Requiemart's bait pile (it's not that she would not have turned them into something else lovely, I just like to save them if at all possible). A lot of my duplicate rare dolls have issues, I knowingly bought some dolls with issues (although some show up a lot in a lot worse condition than advertised) so I can fix them up.
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I have no intentions of quitting pullips or stopping collecting, I will continue to collect until I decide I want to stop (or if they stop making them). I work very hard to be able to do what I want, I am through apologizing for it. I don't really care if you dislike but if anyone has any issues with me that they feel the need to discuss, I prefer they deal with me directly rather than have stuff randomly filtering back down to me. Thanks :D
Now that I have got your attention...
Hi, I'm Klein. Klein is not my real name of course, but for our purposes here it will do. I will be twenty seven years old at the end of the month :O. I am married and I have a beautiful/healthy toddler nicknamed zilla that is the absolute love of my life, she is my sunshine so to speak. I am gainfully employed, my job is not actually necessary to the household budget so I am fortunate enough to be able to do what I want with my paychecks (after I pay my cell phone bill). Since my paycheck is mine to do what I want with, I choose to split it 50/50 between my own wants and the zilla's piggy bank. Now my current job is not nearly as stressful or hectic as my old job, my old job had me working six days a week, 18 hours a day the pay was phenomenal but the job itself was hugely stressful. It basically took up all of my time but the new job is relatively stress-free albeit I am making quite a bit less (but I really don't care about money anyway). I tend to dislike talking about my personal life, because well it's personal but maybe I should here once in a while as that would clear up a few misconceptions.
I have no life outside of dolls - Again I dislike talking about my personal life, it's not that nothing is happening it's that I don't feel the need to talk about it here. My primary focus is taking care of the zilla but I also like to go to concerts (No Doubt, Green Day etc), anime conventions, go on road trips and hang out with my friends.. I'm actually quite normal. Okay, I'll admit I also like to video games, read comic books and watch really bad old horror movies which aren't exactly girly things but meh.
You should share the dolly wealth I volunteer and donate to actual charities I'm all for helping those in need.. dolls however are not an actual need, sometimes you may think you need a doll but you really just want them they are superfluousness no one actually needs a doll. I have given a handful of dolls away to people who I felt deserved them, I have also helped people find their grails and have bent over backwards to help people with photo requests.
I'm mentally ill/unstable This is a popular one. Do the dolls have a significant negative impact on my life? No, not really. They don't put a strain on my marriage, my hubby even has a few of his own pullips and none of relationships have really suffered from my having dolls. The community can drive me a bit nutty at times (I've gotten death threats because of what I did to Agony when she was a horribly damaged bait in the first place and I wasn't even the one that customized her) but the dolls themselves don't. I am not obsessed with them, I have a doll room basically all of them live in it I go in there to relax and unwind at the end of the day but the point is I can also close the door and ignore them for months if I so choose to as well. Yes, there are a lot of them but I like having a variety am I am absolutely in love with every single doll? Honestly I do like some dolls more than others but there are certain aspects I like about each doll and I would never buy or keep a doll I absolutely hate (you could not pay me to own the Seikima II taeyangs for example). I'm not dependent on the dolls in any way, they do not define me.
Shopping addict Nothing is going on my credit card and I am sure as hell not going into debt for dolls. I've gone months without purchasing dolls, not because I had to but because I didn't want to. Yes, I do spend a fair bit of money on them but never more than I can comfortably afford and if I feel I have overstepped my dolly bounds I do sell off a few from time to time to balance things out.
You neglect the dollies No, they are all pretty well cared for. I don't really customize but I like to fix up dolls especially if they are damaged in some way. A big complaint is that I don't take a lot of pictures of some of them, I don't really have the time or desire for more photography between work and the zilla. I photograph dolls when I am in the mood to and I don't always post what pictures I do take as I am a merciless self critic (Lunatic Alice and Queen both had three photoshoots each but I was never satisfied with the results so I never posted them ). With some of the dolls like Harley Quinn, although I love her I try to avoid posting photos of her as I get a flood of offers every time I take pictures of her ^^;
Zomg you are buying up all the dollies and now I can not has them I don't intentionally go out of my way to snatch dolls out of people's hands. Yes, there is a finite number of dolls out there but with some dolls like Papin she was widely available for over four years pretty much everyone that has been in the community for a while had a chance at getting her. At least three of the Papins I own were considered bait and were in fact rescued from on top of Requiemart's bait pile (it's not that she would not have turned them into something else lovely, I just like to save them if at all possible). A lot of my duplicate rare dolls have issues, I knowingly bought some dolls with issues (although some show up a lot in a lot worse condition than advertised) so I can fix them up.
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I have no intentions of quitting pullips or stopping collecting, I will continue to collect until I decide I want to stop (or if they stop making them). I work very hard to be able to do what I want, I am through apologizing for it. I don't really care if you dislike but if anyone has any issues with me that they feel the need to discuss, I prefer they deal with me directly rather than have stuff randomly filtering back down to me. Thanks :D