The MLP Arena
Pony Talk => Off Topic => Topic started by: Cwk123 on February 05, 2012, 04:12:41 PM
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Does your spouse, significant other, parents, etc. support your collecting addiction? Do they think you're crazy?
My husband goes along with it...he collects some, too. My family doesn't understand collecting, as they don't collect anything.
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My friends don't understand but my family does. Thats why I am on here. I make friends on the net. May I say though that it cant be the only source of a social life. Don't take me the wrong way. Meeting people online is great and even makes every negative comment mean less. I don't care about what people think anymore.
Your not the only one who enjoys ponies me and everyone on here does.
So let me say face the day with joy and ignore the losers who don't have ponies. Make friends in many interest because you and everyone else on here are special.
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everyone would prefer that i didn't collect. mom and grandma buy me ponies, and my boyfriend has too. but they all aren't very happy that i collect. and my friends think its just lame. they make fun of me for it and think i'm crazy.
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Those closest to me like my husband, immediate family, mother in law, and some good friends understand my pony collecting. Pretty much everybody in my life accepts my love of The Lion King though and I'm much freer about telling people about 'my big Lion King collection'.
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My mom is a big supporter every since I got serious about collecting back in the early 90s (when I was in junior high). To this day we still go to the flea market together and she helps me spot ponies. My husband is supportive, but since we've got four daughters (and my collection is already pretty big), I don't make as many purchases as I did back in the day.
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My roommate has more ponies than I do. XD She collects mostly G1, but comes with me on my shopping trips. My dad doesn't know I like ponies, but buys me Pokemon cards and Transformers sometimes (bestdad!). I had an old friend over yesterday and he told me he's jealous of my toy collection. I've yet to come across somebody that has a problem with it, save for the odd looks I get from cashiers when I tell them the toys are for myself.
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My siblings are terrible to me about it, really. Well, my one sister is okay with it and even likes to see when I get a new doll or pony, but my other sister and my brother degrade me for it. It really hurts that they would think less of me just because I collect toys, but they really do. They can't understand why someone would want to collect toys at the age of 23, and I can't understand their complete lack of of an inner child.
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most people think it is odd at first until they get to know me! I am an artist and make toys (plushies, bjd, etc) and restore/ customize old toys, and i also write and illustrate books and manga/comics. I just never grew up! My boyfriend is addicted to yo-yos and rubix cubes so im in good company!
Then again i AM the art major on campus that wears animal eared hats almost all year round.. ^___^
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My OH is totally 100% supportive, he comes to bootsales and charity shops and helps me find ponies :) I live quite a ways from my family so I don't see them that often, but my Mum is super-supportive, my brother thinks I'm a little strange but goes with it, my Dad...I guess he thinks I'm bonkers but 1) he knew that anyway and 2) he's happy if I'm happy. I've got one of my friends into collecting, although I don't see her so much anymore, and my other friends thinks it's barmy and totally me :lmao:
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My husband carries a small list in his wallet of which g4 ponies I'm looking for. Both he and my mom will buy assorted ponies for gifts for me; last year when I started collecting my mom bought two random g4 ponies and put them on my birthday cake. Both of them put up with the assorted ponies all over the house.
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My parents and grandma don't support my collecting hobbies; they think I'm wasting my money buying kids' toys. My brother is somewhat supportive when it comes to my Transformers collecting, he'll get me Transformers for Christmas.
The only one who really supports my hobbies is my online best friend.
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When I lived at home my parents were fine with it, as long as they stayed in my room :biggrin: I had a job so I would pay for them all myself, they never bought anything for me unless it was a special occasion.
Now I live in my own place with my husband and have even taken over the spare room as my collection room so yeah, he's fine with it xD He collects Lego so its great at christmas when we get each other lots of toys....you'd never realise we didn't have kids haha!
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My mum and sis are great, sis scoured the county for McDonalds ponies so I wouldn't miss any, she understands since she's a fanatic Mickey Mouse collector. Mom will help any way she can, looks out for ponies at car booties and such. Dad and brother prob think I'm mad. My OH is somewhat supportive, he does buy me BBs and would get me others if he knew what to look for.
So in short I have something of a support system, but it's not as wide as I would like..
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My husband is supportave of it and tries to be interested or at least act interested. He collects coins so I sort of have to do the same lol. He let's me buy them and thinks me getting into customs is cool but I think he gets annoyed here or there because ponies are becoming a total obsession. My mom and stepdad think the collecting is cool and bring me to thrift stores to help me find them, they think its pretty cool.
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Unfortunately no one in my family understands or supports it :( My mom thinks it's childish and a waste of money and my mother-in-law and father-in-law also feel I'm wasting my money on what they see as "plastic ponies for children" :redface: My husband isn't too thrilled either, especially since I'm very actively collecting Disney dolls too but he bears with it and will buy me a pony or doll I really want occasionally :P
So no really big support system other than my fellow collectors here on the Arena :lovey:
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My boyfriend lives with me and he's been very supportive of my toy collections. Though he doesn't take interest it it himself, he will often go around to stores with me when the latest doll or pony that I'm looking for comes out and help me search. He collects coins and is really into keeping aquariums, so he has his own hobbies and we each respect the other one's interests.
My mother on the other hand thinks it's ridiculous, but she's one of those people who thinks anything that isn't absolutely necessary for living is a waste of money. She isn't as bad about it now, but I still catch her rolling her eyes when she hears about my latest purchases, so I usually keep quiet about it when she comes to visit. She likes some of the MLP's, just because they were such a big part of my childhood that they're a sign of nostalgia for her as well, but she doesn't understand why an adult would ever want to collect them.
My friends are a mixed bag. Some of them collect things like Transformers, Barbies, Heroclix, Breyers, Legos, action figures, Anime figures, etc. and can relate, while others just don't get it. Most are very polite about it, while others will make jokes every now and then in good fun.
I usually don't bring it up in normal conversation, and most of my collection is neatly arranged in my bedroom and office, which is off the beaten path for most of my guests, but most people who hang around long enough come to realize I collect toys. I can say that I've definitely gotten more positive reactions than negative over it, so either most people are genuinely fine with it or I just have really polite friends, lol. :lol:
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Mine are used to my crazy ad support me completely. Usually....
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Yeah my family gets it...they know I love girly things and my hubby sometimes wonders if I'm compensating for not having a little girl.
My parents will keep an eye out for ponies or MH dolls, but mostly for special occasions. My hubby doesn't mind me walking away while shopping to go snoop the toy department and sometimes joins me.
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I'm oddly surprised at how many of my friends and family I have told about my collection, but they all seem to support me. :) At first, my parents thought it was a bit weird, but then they were fine with it two days later, and ever since it's been fun!
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My mother hated it when I started collecting. I was a teenager spending my lunch money (from her...) on G3 ponies instead of actually buying lunch. She thought it was a waste of time and an abuse of lunch money. I had worked a part-time job the year before, but I unfortunately had to leave due to a long-term illness. When I started getting better and went back to school, I still wasn't ready to start working again. My siblings and I never received allowance, so at the time the lunch money was the only money to pass through my hands.
I completely understand why she was so upset, but I really liked these ponies and wanted to collect them. That being said, she no longer feels the same way. My mother is a really great person with a very loving heart. She started helping me look for certain ponies, buying me ponies for holidays, and encouraging my hobby with her actions even if her words chided me for spending money on toys. n_~ Now that I'm an adult, she still knows that I like and collect ponies. I still get to hear her worries about whether or not I'm responsibly spending my money, but that's because she's my mom! ♥
My husband is very supportive. ♥ He's my primary pony partner. He has a working knowledge of which ponies are in my collection and which are not, which makes him really handy for picking up new releases. He can identify most ponies by name, even though I own hundreds of them. He knows that I care about paint quality for eyes and Cutie Marks, so he pays very close attention and can choose the "best" pony out of a row of them. (Overall he's a wonderful guy, ponies or not!) As long as I don't spend my money irresponsibly, he never complains about how many there are in the house...and we live in a tiny, tiny place. Our kitchen has become pony storage... That's tolerance right there!
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I can't say that it's completely understood by the people around me. But I'm supported anyway. My husband often finds me great things and gets me what I ask for. My kids tend to feel the same, not really understood but they support what makes me happy. I actually think my younger son enjoy it almost as much as I do. Well the Show that is. He watches it often and if it's missed he'll youtube the episode :satisfied:
My mother would initially refer to me as a hoarder. Which crawled deep under my skin. But she has grown to understand that it's NOT hoarding and that it makes me happy. For what ever reason, it does.
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Well, I think my family knows about it that I collect. As for my husband he doesn't want to hear too much about how I like ponies. I think hes ok with it because he collects video games and anime. I still buy them regardless and trade with people. Unfortunately, I think the only people who understand how much I love ponies are pony people on here or the MLPTP. :(
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I am an INCREDIBLY weird, quirky person, so it didn't take my mum & brother long to get used to it. :P
My mum gave me some disapproving glances at first when ponies started popping up in my room, but she's fine with it now, as long as I don't clutter the place. She definitely prefers the pony collection to my obsession with serial killer books. :silly:
My dad moved out before I started collecting, & I know for a fact that he would not be happy about it. He's a major control freak & has loads of problems with my personality & interests. But screw him :lol:
I only have one friend who collects, but I openly tell people about my hobby if they ask. Everyone on my uni course thinks it's pretty neat. :3 They thought I was a G4 collector at first, but I got two of them into G1s. xD
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Humm..
parents have accepted it though dad will sometimes get in a playful mood and tease me a bit (the ponies are watching the rocket launchers---when I get upset, that might be something he says).
BF kind of had no choice, he was dragged into it from even before day 1 xD And friends are ok with it too :)
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My father doesn't at all get why I like ponies or any of the toys I love collecting.
But he knows it makes me happy and he's fine with it.
His girlfriend is surprisingly supportive and loves to see what I'm adding to the collection. She was also marvelous enough to gift me her childhood ponies once she found them.
Most of my friend are as geeky as I am, so they don't think it's very odd at all.
More then one has told me they think it fits me somehow, the love for toys and other geeky things is a part of me, and I wouldn't be myself without it. Many of them also collect or at least enjoy things like transformers and game figurines and such, so they can relate.
I do get an occasional grin, or jibe, at the sudden inclusion of ponies in my otherwise fairly "boyish" collection of toys, but it's all in good fun.
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Of course. :) My husband is very good about indulging my whims, lol! He'll call me at work to tell me about ebay auctions, and he helped me sort through en entire box of blind bags to look for the few I wanted. My mother supplied the vast majority of the funds for my collection in the early days (early-mid 90's, when I was too young to have a job) and she still looks for ponies for me when she's out. Dad found me my very first Sea Pony shell at a flea market at least 15 years ago, and his boss at work sent me a lavender Dream Castle he found while cleaning out his attic (best day at the office ever!).
Mr. Skeen recently walked into my pony room, announced that he likes Pinkie Pie the best, and could we please watch the new episode over dinner? Then he wanted to know if such a thing as a cherry changa exists, and if not could I invent one.
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I guess.
My parents don't seem to mind, as long as I keep the ponies to my room for the most part. My oldest brother doesn't get it, my other brother though has a passing interest and asks me questions about stuff and he's found my ponies in charity shops before.
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My husband is very very supportive and often encourages me to make purchases I wouldn't normally make, he also allows my collection to live in the living room for everyone to see! My in laws don't know much about my collection and don't come over to the house often where they would see it so I don't think they care one way or the other and then my mother really doesn't know about it and even if she did I doubt she would have anything to say about it.
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My mum is the one who has to "suffer" the most....she is amazing...she doesnt think its "normal" but she also brags to people about my collection and dedication and she is always nagging me to get my collection sorted so all the ponies look beautiful! So I would say "yes" the person most important to me is more than supportive of my collecting...she even checks the supermarkets for me now for G4!
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I think my mother just added it to the growing list of things that make me 'unique' lol.
My partner is very supportive, but I am always careful not to go overboard and the ponies live in my study so they don't invade the rest of the house.
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My boyfriend actually encouraged me to get back into collecting! He collects Transformers, Star Wars, DC Universe figures, and comic books, and he likes Friendship is Magic. So he was really happy when I decided to start collecting again. So I'm lucky in that the person that matters most thinks it's awesome. But when we move into together I am afraid of where we are going to keep all of our stuff...
My parents... I don't know yet. My mother was supportive when I was collecting G3s in high school and would buy them for me. I've been kind of nervous about what she is thinking about all of these packages coming in for me the past few weeks. My dad never really seemed to get it and I doubt he'd be happy about it now. I'm not really close to my parents though and don't talk to them much, so whether they do or not it's not going to be a big deal, but it's easier when they do I suppose.
While I don't have many friends, close or otherwise, those that have said anything about it seem to think it's cool. Pretty much all of my friends are into anime and D&D and other nerdy hobbies, so toy collecting isn't that bizarre to them. Plus a lot of them are 'bronies' and such...
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My mom, boyfriend, and best friend support my pony and other 80s toys collecting. They keep a look out for toys all the time--lol. I have my boyfriend collecting vintage GI Joe now. And my mom and best friend collect baby face dolls now too--lol. My brother and my dad think I waste my money and I have too many toys but they still listen to me talk about toys. I just tell my dad the resale value is good and my brother doesn't seem to mind when I buy him vinatge TMNT--lol.
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It's interesting hearing everyone elses stories :-)
Although my boyfriend isn't exactly an active supporter (he gets up too late to come with me to flea markets! x) he's generally pretty cool with it though, and listens patiently while I natter on about the newest episodes of FiM and show him my newest pony finds. The only small problem is that he doesn't really like the ponies being in the living room where we have guests, which I can understand, so I'm planning on getting some shelves in the bedroom/spare room when we move into a new flat :-)
My mum seems a bit confused that I've started buying toys again at age 21, but other than that she doesn't seem to mind as long as I don't overspend (she's partly financing me since I'm at university and can only work part time).
My uni friends think I'm slightly crazy, but they knew that anyway! My old friends from school thought it was pretty cool though I think, my best friend even let me adopt some of her childhood ponies, which is amazing because I remember playing with them as a kid ^.^
So yeah, tl:dr - all my friends and family know I'm a bit quirky anyway, so I guess it didn't surprise them much when they found out I started collecting kids toys!
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My friends and family and partners all support me thankfully :)
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My mom is totally supportive. She says it's nice that I have a positive hobby and we enjoy thrifting for ponies together.
My friends think the sheer size of my collection is insane and love to tell people about it.
My girl... Idk. I don't think she likes my collection much, but she likes FiM and watches it with me sometimes. And when we first started going out she sent me a My Little Pony wallpaper for my phone which I thought was adorable.
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My mom thinks I don't need anymore plastic horses in my room. My dad....he understands my collectors mentality. I believe I got it from his side of the family anyways.
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My roommate has more ponies than I do. XD She collects mostly G1, but comes with me on my shopping trips. My dad doesn't know I like ponies, but buys me Pokemon cards and Transformers sometimes (bestdad!). I had an old friend over yesterday and he told me he's jealous of my toy collection. I've yet to come across somebody that has a problem with it, save for the odd looks I get from cashiers when I tell them the toys are for myself.
You know I buy birthday cards with mine. Sadly I don't have the guts to say they are mine. I barely make it out of the toy isle without wondering what people are thinking about me.
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My mom finds it ridiculous and says she will never understand why people buy nirvanas for so much, but she agreed to let me have some money so I could buy the Paseo Heart Throb from a seller in Argentina after I explained how much restoring ponies means to me. It's a birthday gift, by the way. :)
As for my boyfriend, I guess he just tolerates it and somewhat supports it. Though when I was sick for a few days and the previous wave had just come out, he texted me to ask which ones I didn't have and got them for me. He also is buying me a Peruvian Applejack for Valentine's Day but is paying me back the money since I'm the one with the PayPal account, hehe. Applejack will look lovely with some flowers and candy. *excited*
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I am lucky in that my family is extremely supportive. My closer friends know I collect and have even bought me ponies, but not everyone knows the extent I collect. My coworkers do not know- I work in a medical setting and I am afraid I will not be taken seriously :yikes:
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my sister supports me and i support her with her action figure and random figures collection she has a really nice dungeons and dragons dragon lion cross figure i want to seal it!
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My parents, and my sis-in-law are my biggest supporters. My spouse, gives me some AMAZING creative ingenuity advice on mechanics of my customizing. He also does leather work, and donates strips and scraps of his leather to me for my customs, lol.
There are haters, though. And it's hard. Art groups on deviantArt; the staff of the groups shun my work every now and then because they think "ponifications aren't art". They think I just slap paint on a pony and call it art, and they refuse to listen when I explain the craft I put in- I don't BUY them looking the way they are, I do the expressionism paint textures, hair plugs and styling, hand-sewn outfits, metal craft and leather craft and resculpt body and face features...
they either go "LALALALALA" with their ears plugged by their fingers, or they simply tell me they can't assist me any further. I point out that they're discriminating and in a way, censoring my art by doing that just because I don't use a human doll base for my custom dolls, but because they hate ponies, I still have to leave the art groups.
I really wish there was a rule against staff members of groups behaving that way.
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My parents, and my sis-in-law are my biggest supporters. My spouse, gives me some AMAZING creative ingenuity advice on mechanics of my customizing. He also does leather work, and donates strips and scraps of his leather to me for my customs, lol.
There are haters, though. And it's hard. Art groups on deviantArt; the staff of the groups shun my work every now and then because they think "ponifications aren't art". They think I just slap paint on a pony and call it art, and they refuse to listen when I explain the craft I put in- I don't BUY them looking the way they are, I do the expressionism paint textures, hair plugs and styling, hand-sewn outfits, metal craft and leather craft and resculpt body and face features...
they either go "LALALALALA" with their ears plugged by their fingers, or they simply tell me they can't assist me any further. I point out that they're discriminating and in a way, censoring my art by doing that just because I don't use a human doll base for my custom dolls, but because they hate ponies, I still have to leave the art groups.
I really wish there was a rule against staff members of groups behaving that way.
That's absolutely awful! I'm so sorry you're treated this way. I suppose it's best to stick with pony-based art groups on DA, huh? :(
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My aunt supports it, but my mom doesn't.
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Pretty much all of my friends and family knows. My close friends are cool with it, but I think a few of my other friends think it is a little weird. They don't say anything rude, but I can tell they don't understand.
My parents are pretty supportive of me. Mom helps me with buying ponies online since I don't have my own PayPal yet. Dad sometimes buys me ponies if we are out shopping and he has a small AppleJack army that I put together for him. Sometimes he 'teases' me about it a little, but nothing really bad.
My boyfriend is really supportive about it. He wasn't too sure about it at first but I got him into FiM and helping me care for my collection. This weekend he even helped me pick out G1 ponies for my want list. He does have a small herd of pony customs I have made for him and a McDonald's Rainbow Dash.
I don't really think my Aunts and Uncles really know too much about my collections, but I had my one Aunt say to me before that she didn't really care to see my "kiddy stuff". My Aunts and Uncles has thought I was a little weird my whole life and I have been slightly ridiculed about it for my whole life by them, so it's nothing new. Thankfully I don't have to see them that often.
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I suppose it's best to stick with pony-based art groups on DA, huh?
That's the safest bet... it's nice to just take risks and bite the bullet now and then and join groups based around the subject matter of your customs. A lot of those groups send me invites anyways, it's only been 2 groups that have been completely biased over the fact my doll bases are ponies.
I don't really think my Aunts and Uncles really know too much about my collections, but I had my one Aunt say to me before that she didn't really care to see my "kiddy stuff". My Aunts and Uncles has thought I was a little weird my whole life and I have been slightly ridiculed about it for my whole life by them, so it's nothing new. Thankfully I don't have to see them that often.
lol, I think we all can relate with that. XD After my grandma died, I've pretty much lost touch with all my aunts and uncles... if you're not a millionaire, you're automatically "odd" to them.
A way you can think of it, is people who are comfortable with themselves (and are happy with who they are) aren't afraid to support their friends and family members in what ever it is that makes them happiest.
A person can harp on you about liking ponies, while they turn around and run into their closet squealing over Legos and Yu Gi Oh! cards.
It's all about insecurity...
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My mum somewhat supports my pony and MH collection... if there's something she wants, she might buy it, but usually it comes out of my own money. Sisterling is indifferent, sometimes gives me a little tease about it. Rest of family don't know.
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My family have always been fine with it, and have positively encouraged it at times in the past, too. Sister doesn't actively collect any more but still has playing-with-ponies moments (the other day she was making patterns with various versions of Applejack just because she was bored...
I have ponies in my uni room and nobody has made any comment on it yet either way, but I don't think it's particularly a problem there. Everyone's pretty diverse anyway, so it's just another thing like that. In fact, some of my online friends from a non-pony site are starting to get into G4 and driving me nuts by spamming me with clips from the show and pictures and stuff like they just discovered the holy grail xDD. It's quite sweet but a bit bewildering having folk who were all like, "meh, ponies" a few months ago suddenly quoting Pinkie Pie all over the place.
I dunno -I think maybe new MLP has made MLP more mainstream acceptable (though I still haven't decided whether I like it that way yet?)
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Some of my family and some friends understand it. My mom and my friend helped me find some ponies at the flea market on Sunday. Others probably think I'm crazy. But I'm happy collecting ponies as there are so many different ones to collect.
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I am incredibly lucky and incredibly spoiled lol
My husband is a huge support and has bought me several ponies including nirvanas.
My parents are always on the lookup and every year they ship over the advent calendar from Denmark.
My sisters and inlaws have bought me ponies for christmas, friends and workmates have brought stuff back from abroad and also saved their McD ponies for me and my best friend, who is into Warhammer has done several symbol touch ups for me.
The only thing that noone seems to get is the waking up in the middle of the night to win an auction lol
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Yeah I guess I do. I get a little flak from spending too much from my folks and my fella.
But then I get a phonecall saying they've seen this doll here here or they've picked up ponies for me there, or there was a Transformer in this place xD
I've encouraged my boyfriend to bring out some of his old collections and expand on them, and in return he's supportive of mine and helps me out with it.
I also have a few friends who work in charity shops and the moment ponies come in the tell me :D
And then there's the Arena too. But on the whole, yeah I have a good one. And I consider myself lucky for it because I know not everyone is so fortunate...although I think most of them put it down to me being the mad arty type or something. :P
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This is what my friends and family think my house would look like, if I lived alone; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mqtGECIT3I
I've got almost everything in storage now, but my room used to have ponies everywhere. I can't say I have anyone who really supports my collecting. They just tolerate it =P
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Mom and beau both think I'm a little nutsy, but don't really mind. I prefer to do all the pony hunting myself. If I asked anyone they'd be too embarrassed to go in the toy section bringing them to the cash register.
I've never had a problem with that, but I can understand how most other normal people might.
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This is what my friends and family think my house would look like, if I lived alone; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mqtGECIT3I
I've got almost everything in storage now, but my room used to have ponies everywhere. I can't say I have anyone who really supports my collecting. They just tolerate it =P
*looks around my room* Nope, don't look like that at-aaaaalllll....
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My guy tolerates the shelves of ponies and dolls and stuff but he is not so crazy about me spending money on them. He would rather I spend money on sensible things first since right now I am studying so he is the only one working. Luckily I try to trade when I can and I also try to get things cheaply like at thrift stores or on clearance.
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Everyone tells me they support me...but they have a hard time with it. G4's I can go buy 1 a month to save money. I sometimes wait until a special day to get them....but sadly no one likes to get me pony. So they say yes we support you but we wont buy you any....:P
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I have enablers on all sides! Even my neighbors bring me ponies! :lovey
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We collect together! Our friends think we're crazy but sweet and most of them love the ponies!!!
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My partner is an absolute darling about it and is constantly on the look out for ponies (he has a list in his wallet too!). He only casually prods me when the paypal bill gets too high ^^; His parents haven't seen my office, but they heard about my love of the ponies and my mother-in-law started to look around for things for me! My auntie and mom think it's cute and they sent me a box of my old ponies, though I suspect I'd get some weird looks if they saw how many I've accumulated!
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My husband is..um..tolerant of the ponies, so long as I don't spend a whole lot of money on them...lol. He thinks it's weird that I like them so much, and actually thinks my Breyer horses are a better collection..even though they are WAY more expensive than ponies! LOLOL
My mom is a collector, and also a bad influence because she gets great ponies for me all the time.
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I have enablers on all sides! Even my neighbors bring me ponies! :lovey
My boss has gotten to the point where she's seen enough of my WIP pictures and finally asked the other day, "If I find ponies at the thrift store, do you want me to get them for you and bring them in?"
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Mother does, the others just ignore me.
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I have a great support! My kids LOVE it (daughter is 3 and son is 1, haha) and my husband has bought me lots since I started (in August). My birthday, Christmas, and Valentine's, all I got was ponies! It's been great, but I will say, I'd like other things sometimes now, haha. But at least he knows what to get me now!
My parents are 'understanding' I suppose. They hate when I talk about it though, and go on about how I should get a job or something because I'm 'regressing'. Sigh. I thought they knew me better than that. When I get into something, I GET INTO something fully. Crazy, really. They dont' have any issues with me liking Mario or Zelda stuff... I spend more on those games/systems than I have on ponies.
And my husband collects Transformers and Star Wars... I've supplemented his collections since we've been married (ok... all he had/bought himself were the Star Wars books and his childhood transformers... all the rest came from me, haha)
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I live in another state so my family does not know about my rapidly expanding pony collection. My sister knows I'm into Ponies, but she has no idea that I'm collecting them. My boyfriends family thinks my collection is cute. My boyfriend does not support me at all. He hates the fact that I like ponies. His friends also tease me about it. Whenever I talk about G1 my boyfriend says, "You can't refer to ponies as G1 Transformers are the only toys allowed to have different generations." -.- My boyfriend is honestly a good guy...he just doesn't like ponies.
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Most of the people around me eventually understand, they all agree its "weird" but I don't really care, I generally explain it to someone that just found out that I have a pony collection that we all have weird quirks, and this is one of many of mine ;) but yes, all my friends & family are cool about it, my last to ex's were fine with it as well, the most recent one I actually met through ponies, and the one before found it strange, but he used to fly model planes which I found weird, so we were even ^^ I supported his hobby, so he was fine with mine.