My mom keeps messing with me about my Monster High collection, saying playing with the dolls rather than collecting them because I debox them and brush their hair. She says that 21 is too old for dolls. It’s really getting to me.
I know that there are lots of people on tumblr my age and older who collect MH. I know tons of people dress up their dolls and pose them.
I was wondering if we could pass this around the Monster High fan base and maybe people could talk about their collection, what they do as a collector, and how old they are? This might even bring people together. But I’d also like to get my mom off my case and to take me seriously for once.
People tell me my kid is too old for dolls. She’s 13.. so to start off, people can be full of it when they arbitrarily decide what ages are appropriate where doll collecting is concerned.
I’m twice your age, and am now able to have all the dolls I didn’t or couldn’t get when i was a kid.. It took me almost 20 years to say “I admit it! I miss my Barbies! I miss getting toys for Christmas!” Yes, I get shit from my mom about “growing up”. Excuse me but isn’t growing up eventually going off to live your life without your parents guiding your every move?
If its YOUR money, then no one else should be telling you what you can’t do or should like, right? My brother skips work to golf (and like me, has kids to feed), my sister takes unpaid vacation days for her sporting events, my ex takes days off for Super Bowl and Wrestlemania. He is not benefiting from that in the slightest, except for entertainments sake- yet no one judges them. I certainly don’t.
So you have a collection- it’s hobby, like any others. Is it any weirder than taxidermy or stamp collecting? Is it any weirder than reading romance novels or watching reality tv? I know elderly women who collect creepy porcelain dolls- are they immature, too? I know a little girl of 7 who takes grave rubbings and hunts for ghosts- isn’t that a little beyond her years? She doesn’t play with dolls, should we force her to, so she can “act her age”?
Who gets to decide what is “appropriate” as a hobby? Who gets to say at what age we need to stop and start doing things that they deem “more adult”? What IS a “more adult” hobby? Backgammon? Tennis? Lawn Darts? And like someone mentioned- do they have any hobbies that you question but don’t judge them about?
If it IS their money you’re spending, then its a whole different story, and I don’t know what to tell you. But I hope this gives you something to think about.