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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on May 10, 2012 10:55:13 GMT -5
I don't think my gf is thrilled about it, but she doesn't make too big of a deal about it unless I happen to get lucky and find like 5 figs I want at one time and the bill is big. But thanks to Mattel's crappy distribution, I usually never find multiple figs I want at one time anymore. lol
But I tell her what I'm looking for and she will look for me when she's out shopping without me, and I think she's starting to accept that it's just another hobby. There are plenty of other worse things in the world that I could be doing. I think she's just a little concerned that at 27 I'm spending this amount of money on toys. But it could be worse. I could be buying drugs or doing something illegal.
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Post by m0nst3r42 on May 10, 2012 10:58:26 GMT -5
my GF gets annoyed when we're out and i make a couple of stops at the stores to check for figures of if i'm on the forum alot... lol other than that, i have too many for her to notice a few new ones..
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Post by Von Hooten on May 10, 2012 11:15:15 GMT -5
I addition to what I mentioned earlier, My GF has knows me so well that when I get up in the middle of the night and decide to take the car for a spin she knows that I am not out with another woman having an affiar... she knows that I am at Walmart trying to get my hands on figures that are just being put out.
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Post by SlayKnotV1 on May 10, 2012 11:24:43 GMT -5
How did you guys break it to your wives or gfs? I tend to put off talking about it or showing off my collection as long as I can. Ive been collecting since 1994. i started with NHL Starting lineups then Spawn Figs then Jakks Bone Crunchers Ect. Weather it was one of my Ex's or my wife i told them all Flat out that i collect figures and if they have a problem with it then Tuff ****!!! Dont ever let a any woman stop you from doing what you like to do.
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Post by Zincdust on May 10, 2012 11:28:51 GMT -5
My girlfriend also thinks that it's "cute", but she doesn't shop for me... She can't keep track of which ones that I have/want.
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Post by pjm286 on May 10, 2012 11:38:23 GMT -5
I'm in the same boat as most of you. My soon to be wife pretty much hates it but tolerates it to a point. Though I do have about a dozen or so Hot Toys figures she thinks are cool -- I guess because they are more mature and adult looking collectibles -- not half-nude men. I try to explain to her that the wrestling figures and hot toys figures are the same thing to me, just collectibles, but you can't win that argument.
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Post by si4life02 on May 10, 2012 12:10:49 GMT -5
When my wife was my girlfriend she was very supportive, she would always hunt for me and suprize me with figures. When my wife was my fiancee she would look for figures if she happenes to walk by the toy area. Now my wife hates that I still collect......
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Post by wayneyb on May 10, 2012 12:38:54 GMT -5
My GF doesn't really like it and thinks the money could be spent on better things, like her.
I started buying the figures for my son - who has about 160 Mattels now, then started collecting them for myself to display. I've just passed the 100 figure mark. So she gets pretty annoyed that she is surrounded by these things, many in duplicate if both me and my son have them.
But I dont drink or smoke, and apart from the gym this is my only main hobby, and I pay the bills. So long as I don't go mad on figure buying she keeps quiet about it.
Sometimes I will get the figs delivered to my sisters address and pick them up when shes not around, saves getting earache from her when I come home with a stack of figures.
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Post by GreyHaze:Big Bad Booty Daddy on May 10, 2012 12:47:08 GMT -5
I'm single at the moment but I'd imagine it be a hassle to even explain to her that I collect figures. It's hard to do something I like while everyone else puts me down and criticizes even when I try to ignore them. I guess it's something I have to deal with.
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Post by Next Man’s Knowing Rock on May 10, 2012 12:53:42 GMT -5
How did you guys break it to your wives or gfs? I tend to put off talking about it or showing off my collection as long as I can. Well I met my girlfriend when I was 20 (I'm 28 now) and I didn't collect wrestling figures then. I had collected the Hasbros as a kid and a few Jakks in my teens, but they were all at my parents house. My girlfriend knew I spent a lot of money on frivolous things anyway (comics, DVDs, magazines, books etc) and that I watched wrestling, so when I started buying the occasional wrestling figure again, it wasn't much of a surprise. It was the Jakks Micros that got me back into it, then Build & Brawls and a few RA/CS if they were cheap. But those were a very occasional habit. As soon as I saw the first Mattel images, I was hooked, and it's been an addiction since. She was just here actually, and she asked me if I loved her more than the "inanimate plastic crap." I, of course, said no. Then I said maybe more than some of the bargain-store bootleg figures.
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Post by Quincy on May 10, 2012 14:33:45 GMT -5
My wife HATES it, but I don't care.
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Post by qdogg on May 10, 2012 14:37:16 GMT -5
My friends wife divorced him because of his toy habit. This guy used to buy tons of those expensive SPAWN figures, Starting Lineups, Superhero Figures and WWE ones. And he would buy every spawn variant and all that crap. He would drive to 20 stores a week looking for the rare Starting Lineups ones. His house had entire rooms with figures on the walls and stacked on the floor. He was a great guy though really cool but had a serious OCD problem or something.
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Post by AdamLofthouseTV on May 10, 2012 16:16:09 GMT -5
My gf doesn't care...she knows I do and really has never said anything, but to be fair I've never shown her my draws full of them
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2012 16:22:27 GMT -5
Supportive... lol... my girlfriend collects the Rumblers (figs and sets) and some Orton figs (all the different scans not attires in Basic and Elite form)
She will go out of her way to look for figs for me and even calls me from the stores or texts asking if I need any... Its just awesome
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Post by Mr. Show on May 10, 2012 16:46:07 GMT -5
She loves it and loves getting me toys.
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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on May 10, 2012 16:58:41 GMT -5
My ex bought me my very first Mattel (Series 0 Jericho) as well as a few CS figures as gifts. Another ex thought it was "cute". I'm pretty lucky so far.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2012 17:24:13 GMT -5
My boyfriend and I collect together, I got him Into It....we like to make customs together to
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Post by ckhybrid on May 10, 2012 17:46:56 GMT -5
my girlfriend doesn't care she knows it makes me happy, she has several Mattel Diva figures mainly of her favorites, she is somewhat helpful, she'll look when shes at Walmart or Target but rarely makes a toy run without me asking lol which is perfectly fine cause I wouldn't expect her to
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Post by jazzyxena on May 10, 2012 20:23:57 GMT -5
I'm a girl so....hmmmm I wonder how many there are who collect.
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Post by Chewdeezy on May 10, 2012 20:28:35 GMT -5
my GF gets annoyed when we're out and i make a couple of stops at the stores to check for figures of if i'm on the forum alot... lol other than that, i have too many for her to notice a few new ones.. Haha, same with my girl. She knows I'm on WFIGS and knows this site lol.
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