How much is enough?

My maximum is the number I can display prettily in outfits that suit their characters. At 6, I don't have a lot of shelf space left for more girls and their thrones, dress trains, etc 9 will be my maximum

 

Right now I want two to be my max. I like SDs and they are expensive. Two lets me have a pair of friends that can roleplay together. It would have been one, but you know what they say. Although if I can finally find/make a particular doll I want, that might go up to three or four. Those would be little ones though.

 

My maximum would be 4 SDs and maybe 4 MSDs and 3 yosds...
But that's because of my story!
I think as long as you can handle them and you have fun, then you can have as much as you want!
But that's just my opinion...
Why stop something that makes you happy?

 

Usually when mine hit 16, I get antsy and sell my least favorite. Now, though, I'm down to only favorites, about 16, and I still have a category or two I want to fill. So, I don't know!

 

Well at the moment one is enough. I'm still getting to grips with more clothing, wigs, shoes and accessories. I haven't found the perfect wig yet.
I like to spend some time with one and really get to know her character and how she poses etc. I have a wish list of three more but it might take me a long time.
I haven't been in the hobby long so ........time will tell.

 

At the moment I have five MSDs, two floating heads, an YoSD and an incoming MSD girl. I don't really have a maximum, but I want all my dolls to have a purpose haha. Therefor at least two of them have to go.

 

That moment when I read your post and go "wow, 16 dolls that's so many " only to realize that I have 14 derp

 

The most dollies I keep on regular display range from 6 to 10 at a given time, but I definitely own a little over 30 dolls.

Those that are not on display remain in their boxes until I want to take pictures. I love all my dolls even when I can't spend time with all of them.

 

I'm only allowing myself 4 new dolls next year haha!! I know I'm getting too many because I keep spending money I should be spending on completing my current dolls' looks on new dolls Time to put my foot down and give my current dolls the attention they deserve. I don't keep mine in boxes - they are all on display. So it's a constant reminder that they need shoes, faceups, wigs etc lol

 

I'm not completely sure yet. I have an Ange Ai Gaby but they don't take much space at all. I'm also getting a Popo Doll Wei Chen and he's going to be on the 68cm body so he's going to be much bigger than my little android. Maybe six or seven would be my max? It's less about space for me and more because I'm picky about my dolls--BJDs or not.

 

In my time in the hobby, I've owned everywhere from one single doll up to around 38 dolls and a few floating heads, and I've decided about 15-18 full BJDs is enough for me. When I get above 18, I get overwhelmed and sell, but I am too attached to sell enough to drop below 15 most of the time. I'm not counting off topic tinies or pet dolls. In general, I'd rather have a lot of clothes and accessories for each doll than a bunch of dolls lacking proper clothing, shoes or wigs.

 

i saw this meme on tumblr a while ago just remembered cause of this thread

 

I still can't decide yet...so many beautiful faces! But right now, I have 3 full dolls and 3 floating heads. And thinking to get 2 or 3 more full dolls *still debating with myself if I should get them* I think I will end up with more dolls than I need / can accommodate ^^;
They are all SD too...so they will take a lot of space in my room. >>> problem with collecting males dolls only -_-"

 

It's quite individual, of course! Personally, I'm looking to collect unique dolls that have a lot of time put into their overall display. I'm not bothered if I don't play with, or even think about, my dolls every day/week/whatever.

I'm a fickle hobbiest. My dolls will be there when my interest comes back around, and that's what important to me.

When I have so many that I feel ho-hum about them all... I think that's the limit. At two owned, one planned, and at least 3 more on the wishlist, i don't feel I'm at that point yet.

All the dolls that I look at are very, very different, and that's also important to me. If I get dolls that I feel aren't distinguishable enough from another doll, that's also a hard limit. THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE--

The limit is the point at which YOU feel you can't enjoy them all, and that makes YOU sad/anxious/etc. Like I said, for me, having dolls be a part of my daily life and thoughts is not important to me. When I'm at college, I leave my dolls at home and ignore them for months on end. I know that many people in this hobby leave their dolls stored for a long time (be it because they rotate their display dolls, or just because that's where the doll belongs in that moment) and it's ok with them.

Does it bother you that some of your dolls stay in the box for weeks at a time? It's ok to say no. In short, this is your hobby; the only right answer is what feels right to YOU!

 

mine are all so badly dressed, or naked, because I prioritise new resin over clothing and shoes. I think I can only really cope with about 10 dolls if I want them all to be displayed looking pretty - I don't box them once I have them, so there's no escaping the fact they need clothes! But on the other hand I tell myself there's no rush - they don't actually NEED clothes - so my naked rabble continues to grow

 

Eh, I don't really have a limit. A lot of my dolls are in their boxes right now and it doesn't really bother me. I've sort of run out of room though, so I've been buying heads rather than full dolls lately. If I start to feel overwhelmed I'll sell off the dolls that have been boxed up the longest, but generally I don't feel bad if I can't give my dolls attention. It's not like they actually need to be cared for after all.

 

I have 19 dolls currently, and just ordered my 20th. I was done after 19 but I did not expect a character doll to be released of one of my favorite anime characters, so here we are. I would like to slim down my collection, but I love them all so much I couldn't decide who to part with. I don't really have a limit since I would make another purchase if I really loved the doll, but I don't really want to expand my collection much further than what I have.

 

Real estate is really my most limiting factor... I'm out of room in my cabinets to add many more dolls and I refuse to allow them to take over space outside of those. So, yeah. "No room at the inn" is my answer to how many is too many.

 

I'm at twenty dolls and this is tiny up to two SD. I think this is as many as I am able to deal with. My future purchases will be only for the very special doll. I'm tired of finding clothes, wigs, and shoes that fit. I'm out of display room too!

 

I have 13 on-topic dolls (10 SD, 2 MSD, 1 1/6th scale), 3 off-topic BJDs (1 SD, 2 Yo-SD), and so many other dolls.

I don't have a hard limit for dolls/BJDs, but I think I'm at about my limit for SDs (and perhaps MSDs). For some reason, I can justify having many YoSD/1/6th scale dolls just because they look pretty, but I feel like I must play with/craft for my MSDs and SDs, and have full stories developed for my SDs (with the exception of my off-topic SD).

For SDs, I'm beginning to feel like if I added another character, I wouldn't be able to tell them apart/develop an extensive story for them/use them to examine a particular social issue/aspect of society.

Because I'm feeling close to my limit, I have several dolls which may remain on my forever-wishlist, but never purchased (all are MSD or smaller). We'll see if this continues to be the case!

 

I'm not really sure yet, but I'm guessing about 5 will be my limit. I have only 1 doll right now, one on the way, and plans for at least 3 more; so I'm hoping that'll be the end for awhile since I want to be able to focus on wigs and clothes and fabric and stuff. But I tend to break my own rules so well see I suppose

 

Lol, happens to me, too. Two of mine are little DZ event dolls that are twins and then three little 16 cm DZs. I think the size fools me!

For me, even though I get antsy at 16, I find it hard to see any amount as too many, because so many people in my local group have many dolls. Lots of them have been collecting for a long time. The friend who introduced me to dolls must have well over a hundred, but she got them over a decade or so. all adorable, too. So, I think I have lost all perspective in too many.

 

I pretty much think that as long as someone can afford the dolls, pay all their actual life expenses first, and don't suffer socially or emotionally from the amount then it's not too many ^_^ I don't think 14 is a huge amount, I just keep thinking I have like 7 lol

 

Hmm, I had 13 dolls. I'm restarting my collection now and I'm glad... because I can't have that many dolls again. It was stressful, I could never build up enough shoes and wigs and clothing for them all, and I felt guilty just letting some of them sit around...

Max I want this time is 6, but I think I might end up only having 3 or possibly 4 at most. I'm planning in keeping it too the two YoSD sized dolls I have ordered, and one MSD I'm saving for. Then I'll see how I'm doing. If I find I'm able to get them all enough shoes/wigs and make enough clothing I'll get one more yosd!

I don't think it's a problem to have more dolls, but for me it's too much... I like to be able to build up a wardrobe for them and actually spend time with all of them. I can't do that if I have tons of them.

 

I have five that have never been opened and then I ordered four more that probably will not come out of their boxes, I guess I will retire at nine.

 

I've set myself a strict limit of 4, due to space constraints. I can only afford one doll a year, too.

 

I have no clue what enough is - I'll probably know it when I get there.

 

I want to be reasonable and say five or six but my own wishlist exceeds that. I guess it depends on how many dolls I can reasonably enjoy and how they fit into my collection.

 

I once thought 4-5 would be my max then I hit 20 a few years ago. That was too many at the time, so I sold a few. I'm still at 14 plus a few floating heads. I intend to sell two, but I'm also waiting for two and planning another. When I say 15 SDs it seems like too many, but when I look at the 14 in my bedroom, I figure I could get 4 or 5 more.
I think 15 will be max for now, but that could go down to 10 (honestly would probably just store some) or up to 20-25 as my living space changes. I do want them to have wigs, eyes, and character appropriate dress. Temporarily storing them is alright if I have them on rotation of which are boxed and which displayed, but I don't want to have so many that I never even look at some.

 

For me, I have one MSD right now.. I'm thinking about a maximum of 3. Perhaps another female and a male. That would be it doll wise, or at least bigger doll wise. I want a few pets and maybe a few small ones. But I don't know if I could handle 9. So perhaps 5 dolls total. 3 MSDs, and two dolls smaller than that. I don't think I'll count pets.

 

I currently have 1 BJD, and I've realized I will probably end up with more than 2-3. However, at this point in time I doubt I could handle more than 4. I don't have money right now so I don't need to be worried about falling down the slippery slope for a few years at least.

 

Well, I am now done putting my crew together. 10 human dolls, one dragon. And the thing with the attraction...I realla have no idea.

 

At one point, I thought more than 5 would be enough. Then I hit double digits and thought anything more than 15 would definitely be more than enough. Then I had 15 and 20 became my limit. At 20, I upped what I thought would be enough. And then I saw dolls that were characters of mine and I somehow had 30 dolls. As of today, I have 39 dolls and I will shortly be ordering another and sometime later in the new year when my wallet recovers, his partner.

When is enough for me? I suppose when companies stop making dolls that embody characters of mine that demand to be shelled.

 

I once thought 5 was already to many dolls. Then I bought more and more BJd but I tried to stay under 26 BJDs (one per letter of our alphabet) Now I'm close to 40 BJDs and I don't feel overwhelmed!

 

UGH.

It's the second-worse thing in the hobby for me. The first is yellowing, but then trying to limit and plan my doll family is... getting out of control.

When I started in 2009, I had a clear plan, and it was about 6 dolls. Over time, that plan has mostly stayed solid, but slowly, one or two more concepts creeped in, changed a little... so now, that doll family plan has become 9. That by itself is reasonable, especially since 3 of them were tinies and the others were MSD.

But somehow I fell to the temptation of a couple impulse buys... three, to be exact. They're much smaller, much cheaper, than my others, so that all three put together cost the same as my most expensive MSD, and I plan to pamper them much less, but it bumps my number up to 12. I wanted a hard limit of 10!!

And then on top of that, doll companies are finally wising up and making all sorts of amazing mature minis like I longed for when I first found BJDs. Iplehouse FIDs, Luts MDFs, and Raccoon Dolls too. I want to shell between 3-6 characters as mature minis now, and this is all going to drive me crazy, I swear! The number's at 15 and counting, and I KNOW I don't want that. Having too many different dolls will start to make me anxious to spread my attention and such, and that totally ruins the point.

I've considered letting go of the tiny cheaper ones but... ugh, that feels impossible when I look at them... I want to think of them as toys or props rather than BJDs just so I don't have to add them to my BJD count OTL .

But for me, ideally it'd be 10.

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Ugh.

I remember that when my second doll (my first SD) arrived, I thought that three (my third would be an SD too, I already had his head) would be the limit of what I could handle. Well... by the end of 2017, I will likely have 27 dolls. I'm waiting for three dolls (one MSD, one SD, one tiny event doll), and I still need a body for a floating MSD head. My current doll count is 23. They all have a face-up, a wig and eyes, and all but 2 have clothes - but only half of them have their definitive look, and of those, I'd like to restyle a few now that I can make better clothes and have more fabric...

So I guess that I probably have too many. But I couldn't part with a single one. That's just not an option. I love all my dolls and I continue working on them. It tends to be in little bits, but... No, I don't want them to go.

Mind you, I've told myself that when the 2017 ones are here, that really has to be the end of it. Then again, I've said that at 10, at 15 and at 20. Not sure I trust my resolutions anymore :P. Also, I tend to forget to count my small dollies because they don't take up much space. So I always think I have fewer than I have in reality.

Like I said: ugh.

 

"Enough" always seems to be a few more dolls than I currently have.

Actually I do feel like I have too many to keep track of now (somewhere around 40), and I'd like to make my collection more focused.

 

I thought one would be enough when I started. Then it was four. Then six. Now, I figure I'll know it when I reach it, and based on my plans for further characters, I'm not there yet. Currently I have 37 or so, with 3 more dolls/parts on orders, and I have no problem keeping track of all of them. I only have trouble keeping count.

 

I never had a "hard" limit but I think I'm getting there. With 14 dolls at home, 6 heads and 4 more on the way, that is, I feel like I have just enough with room for maybe a couple more.