I guess I am lucky, I never really had to "come out" or tell my mom about it. I had a lot of toys when I was a kid which I love alot, but my mom assumed I would grow out of them and to make more space she donated most of them. Several years later when I was a young teen (after a huge anime obsession) I got into ponies again, I guess because of nostalgia, and asked my mom to help drive me to garage sales etc to look for ponies. She never seemed surprised by it, and even said she felt so bad for getting rid of my childhood collection.

Since then she's been supportive of me through my huge BJD obsession and the thousands I spent on that, then I was not collecting for awhile but now that I'm back into it (in addition to MH dolls) she still supports me on it, though she often reminds me to stop spending money haha.

Besides her, my dad knows and sometimes he asks questions about what I've been buying finding recently. If I had to introduce my doll and pony collecting to my grandparents, I think I would just show them a few and tell them its how I spend my free time (I showed one Super Dollfie to my paternal grandma but she didn't really care either way haha) Since they never come in my room I don't think I would bother saying how many I have or how much I've spent. Especially on BJD... haha!

I was thinking around 15$ (not over though )

He's a cutie! I love those blind bag boys, especially this one with his pretty green color!

Oh some cute plushies! They look so cheerful

Congrats dear, those ponies are waaaay too cute!

Wow sooo many beautiful ponies in one post, Congratulations on getting them ^^/

Oh I love bushwoolies, I have a soft spot for them since they were some of my favorite as a kid! Congrats on getting them all^^

This thread is very fun to read! But it makes me feel I may have not been very active as a kid. My idea of playing mostly consisted of looking at them, holding them and then setting them all up in one long line which I called a "pony parade". I didn't have any placesets or such. I did set up houses, shops, placesets for my barbies and act out stories if I actually had friends over. But overall I'd describe my play time as very quiet haha.