Lies you tell yourself about BJD

"I'm only gonna have 7, that's a good number." - I passed 7 like it was nothing years ago and I have 14 now.

"I'm not gonna buy white skin dolls, it's too pale." - I think that I've got about five now? I like it more actually, although the yellowing is pretty apparent if you stick them next to each other. I did briefly have a zaoll who was paper white, and I didn't love that, but still I clearly didn't care that much.

I'm sure I could think of more, but it would take awhile, I laugh at these now.

 

‘This is the last one I’m going to get...’

 

"They're so expensive, I will only have a girl and that's it!" I have two, one more on the way and considering another. (Five is my upper limit which may be a future lie...)

"They don't cost that much" They are SDs with tons of clothes, accessories without counting the crafting stuff I got them. If I added it up, it would way more than what I previously spent on hobbies.

"I'll do everything myself"! Turns out, I am bad at wigmaking and incapable of doing a decent faceup. And I got sucked into buying clothes, furniture and shoes, though I am trying to do mo re clothes myself.

"I won't get WS or TS" My incoming doll is WS and the one I am considering is a TS...

 

They’re so expensive, I’m only going to have one...gonna stop at 5, I swear...no more than 7 and I’ll be happy...I’m totally stopping at an even dozen...seriously, absolutely no more than 20! (15 years of collecting later and I have a crew of 45.)

MSD size only! (9 SDs and a slew of tinies wandered into the collection somehow.)

Girls only! (Where did these half a dozen guys come from?)

 

I’m not buying any more dolls.....this time is the last time....if it’s not on the wishlist, it can’t come home.... Even with all this, my collection just keeps growing

 

"I only want one doll. I'll keep it behind glass, like a piece of art"

I now have five at home and six on the way...

 

- "I only want one BJD. I'm perfectly happy with just one."
I ended up with 4, with a 5th on the way.

- "I will only buy one outfit and pair of shoes/eyes per doll."
I have about 2 outfits per doll, and a few extra wigs, eyes, and shoes. I didn't go too overboard, thankfully.

- "I would never get a tiny, I prefer taller dolls."
I absolutely adore Lati Yellows now, and recently purchased my 2nd one.

 

I thought I would never get white skin and or any size other than 1/4, but now I've already placed an order for a white SD head and another SD. Will probably get a YoSD in the future too

 

@lyaam12 the "I'll make everything myself" got me laugh It's so true! One soon realises that while these things aren't that easy and rarely does it happen that one collector can craft everything for their BJDs I know I can't lol

The one I tell myself is about sewing for my bjds and it goes "I will spend only one hour of crafting and then go back to my duties! No crafting binge this time!

 

I will only have one. But he needed a friend. Maybe a girl too. Ok only 6. Maybe 13. No more than 26!! Ok 39. Then I realized I had way too many, sold most and set my limit at 13 again. My 14th is ordered with two more on my wishlist. What am I even doing??

Also, no girls. Ever. I currently have 8 girls, only 5 boys and one genderfluid. I finally figured out that I actually like girls better.

 

"I will have only one Minifee."
The biggest lie in my whole life lol XD

 

I’ll only buy one at a time, wait till that one comes in before I order another...oops!

 

I will eventually stop buying dolls!

GIANT lie.

 

"No more than 2 dolls."
*Has 3
*lurks on websites to see if there's any new release

 

"I will only collect MSD size" directly into "I will only collect SD size" after getting my first SD. I've bought 2 MSDs within the last month.
I also told myself I would only get boys and only get realistic sculpts, but nope! Everyone is welcome.

 

"No white skin dolls unless it's a ghost or vampire character." I own two WS dolls and neither fits that criteria.
I say I have too many, but recently got one and am eyeing two more...

 

“I only want one” I have four now.

“I’m never getting a Doll Chateau. They’re too creepy. ” My first doll was a Doll Chateau and they’re now one of my favorite companies. I had only seen promo pictures of the bigger sizes, not owner photos, then clicked on the DC kids thread out of curiosity and fell in love. Oops? Can’t say I regret it. I don’t find them very creepy anymore, just unique and pretty in their own odd way.

“I only want to have girls”. This one is still true so far, but I have been keeping an eye out for a boy. Someday I’ll find one I like enough to buy.

 

"I'll just get one... three... four... six and I'm done..."
"Just elves... elves and fantasy dolls... definitely no humans..."
"Only MSD... okay just the one tiny... definitely no SDs ever (again)..."

 

I am only going to get one this year.
I am only going to get the ones on my list.
(I already broke these this year.)

Here is the big ones I already gave up on...
Only MSD and smaller ... (Buys several SD's)
Okay self... only 1/3 not uncle ... (Now, has 3 uncle sized boys.)
Only 1 SD girl ... (Ordered a 2nd girl this year.)
No weird sizes... (gets a Luts Senior 65, not quite 1/3 & not quite uncle.)

Honestly, I think I give up setting myself rules... I am just going to break them anyways.

 

"I'm gonna save up for my super expensive grail doll" *browses mandarake and buys other dolls other than my grail*

 

"I'm not interested in white skin dolls." This is still true aesthetically (I am a yellow-toned person myself), but my doll inspiration has veered significantly from the ancient world and has moved to the Renaissance world, and if you can imagine, the Renaissance world loves white skin.
"I don't like 70cm guys." A lie from my earliest days, as in my 17-yr-old, one MSD boy, onion. Now I see big boys and just CRAVE.
"I will have a set BJD budget." HAH.

 

"I'm going to wait until later this year to get my next doll."
"I'm going to give my other dolls new outfits and wigs before I purchase my next doll."
"I'm going to get my Dolls Leaves girl new hands before I get another doll."

Proceeds to purchase another doll that was on my wishlist.

 

“I’m going on a no-buy”
It took several tries to make that one stick but that lie finally became a truth. I’m on my second time of a ‘no buy’ ad it is feeling pretty good!
“I’ll only get one wig for each...” (said no one ever)
“I don’t need ALL of the Unoa 1.5 faceplates” (a most filthy lie, I DO NEED THEM!)
“I’ll downsize *next* year...” ...I have been saying that for about 5 years, still have not put even one doll up for sale!

 

"I'm not an MSD person, so I won't order any more MSDs or MSD things." ...bought a Wimukt article of clothing the next day and I'm eyeballing a Luts kid delf as we speak.
"No more floating heads." ...bought a secondhand event head two days later and ordered a BBB Apollo head two days after that.
"I'm never going to buy expensive eyes." ...my two pairs of Enchanted Doll eyes with four more pairs sitting in my Etsy cart beg to differ.
"I'm never going to sell my grail DD!" ...I just sold her today (admittedly, I'm going to use her funds to buy the same head sculpt but a different release because white skin is way more of a pain to deal with than semi-white).
"I'm going to sell this floating head." ...she's listed for now, but if I don't get a nibble here soon, I may just keep her. I wouldn't even be that upset about it.

Basically, I'm a dirty liar to myself about everything in this hobby!

 

Reads these responses.
Remembers how I was only going to "get a doll to see if I liked them." Then, "I will buy mostly used dolls and do most of the wig making and simple clothing myself."
Looks at my shelf with more then ten dolls on it. About half have bought wigs and most have clothing made by other people.
Well, that went different than had been planned.

 

"I'll sell these dolls soon" I've been meaning to downsize my collection for months and I keep on saying "I'll sell them next month" and then not selling anything u_u

On a more serious note, "This doll is worth the risk I'm taking to purchase it". Way too many doll companies give the buyer no protection, have production times well over any payment protection period, and regularly ghost their customers for months at a time... but I still ignore the red flags and buy from them. Part of me knows it's a huge risk to send hundreds of dollars overseas with no safety net, but the obsessive collector in my head makes me totally irrational about it.

 

"I really don't have space for more dolls."

- Yep.

 

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The first lie was: "I'll only buy one wig and one pair of eyes per doll. It's weird to change them constantly, right? So if I get something that doesn't really work, I'll sell it on and only keep The Perfect One."

My dolls each have multiple wigs (some of which aren't even vaguely in the same colorway) and a couple of them have multiple pairs of eyes. (But I still feel slightly weird about this. I want the eyes, at least, to be consistent...)

The second lie went: "I'll only buy secondhand. That way, I'll know exactly what condition it's in (if there are manufacturering defects, etc), and can ask for photos from multiple angles if I'm not sure. I also won't have to wait!"

HAH!
Yeah, that went out the door very quickly. Like, immediately, lol. I still prefer to buy secondhand, but I'm happy now to buy direct from companies as well. (Also, I fully admit my reasoning for this rule was sketchy. I had heard horror stories of certain company's quality issues, wait times well exceeding any purchase protections from PayPal, people getting sent the wrong dolls, etc, and I got spooked. I was REALLY nervous to try to deal with any kind of issue across a language barrier, and I had it in my head that such issues were pretty common, at least for English-speaking customers. Now I know that's really not the case. And when problems do arise, it's not as terrifying as I thought to get it corrected even if the company rep doesn't speak much/any English.)

Lie The Third: "I'll never buy a fullset."

Lolololololol~
It was Rosen Lied that broke me of this one. Them and their limited Holiday's Children. Strangely, once I broke down and bought the first fullset, I'm no longer opposed to the idea of buying more. They've got to be really suited to my tastes, though.

Lie Number Four: "I'll never buy clothes for my dolls. I make my own clothes, ffs! I can make theirs too, no problem! I'll only ever buy their shoes, and maybe socks."

Turns out that just because I can do something doesn't mean I always want to do it. Once again, it was Rosen Lied that broke me of this. Their little dresses were just so cute and perfect, I couldn't resist. In the end, I've bought three outfits from them, and will probably buy more in the future...(I still prefer to make most of my dolly clothes, though)

Lie Five: "No impulse purchases, ever! I have to want the doll and then go actively looking for it in order to buy it."

This went out the door instantly when I saw a certain soon-to-be-mine Volks DWC-02 on the Marketplace. I was actually looking for girl SD10, considering several headsculpts. DWC-02 was not on my list of possibles, and he was on a boy body to boot! But I fell 100% madly in love with him at first sight, and my fate was sealed.

After that little adventure, I tried to consider Oliver a fluke.

But then I spotted a Fairyland Erda on the Marketplace, at a pretty fair price. He wasn't on my list, at all. I was still looking for my perfect Volks girl, and also keeping an eye out for a couple different Idealians. I didn't have any plans, anywhere, for adding a 60cm fairy prince to the gang. I passed him over, albeit reluctantly, and began stalking the tag on Instagram in an attempt to get it out of my system. I told myself that if I was still pining over him in six months, I would order him from the company.

Then Fairyland announced they were discontinuing the Feeple60 line.

Friends, I panicked.
I waited about an hour and a half before messaging that seller and arranging to bring Erda home. And I'm very glad I did!

Now, hopefully that's all my fluke impulse purchases...

The Big Lie: "I'll never sell any of my dolls."

I sometimes feel bad about breaking this one. So far, I've only sold one doll, and I kinda regret it. But I'm considering selling a second one nevertheless. It's a hard decision, so for now, I've packed him up and put him away in the back of the closet. Eventually, I'll either miss him enough to get him back out and play with him again, or I'll know that selling him to someone who'll enjoy him is the right choice.

 

Bjds are gorgeous but I'm never getting one.. what would I do with it, where would it be kept?

Next thing I know I have 5, find my grail, sell 4 then buy my first msd, decide to sell him then decide I really can't do it.
What next? Feel like I'm getting jealous looks from Moth, my grail boy.
No I really won't be getting any more...promise...

 

"I'll stick with just the one I ordered, I don't think I'd fall head over heels for another one like that," I said before finding out about Wol. New rule is only the two MSDs, since there's only so much room in the apartment. We'll see how that goes.

"I can totally style this wig." No I can't. Hopefully I'm better at sewing them, because now I have to wait for the replacement materials to show up after I wrecked the (cheap, thank goodness) first wig. Curling synthetic hair is not my forte, to say the least.

 

Oh gosh, I can only imagine how serious the temptation would be with the Unoa faceplates, they're so gorgeous Congrats on keeping it to one Unoa. Maybe one of my lies is "I don't need a Unoa MSD."

 

@Subzerolover I'm currently waiting for dolls to arrive, but I wasn't really referring to a single particular situation so much as just a recurring issue. Thankfully I haven't been scammed out of my money entirely yet, but I feel like it's just a matter of time...

 

"This year I'm going to focus on getting bodies for my floating heads."

Every time I say that, I usually end up getting one or two bodies, but end up with another one or two heads setting me back to square one

 

MOOD.

Along with "oh, I'll just get them blank, and find a faceup artist I like to paint them!" which is followed by the corollary "oh, I'll just get the faceup this time and if I don't like I'll just get them repainted."

I'm not haunted by my WIP list at all, really.........

 

One doll is enough for me.
I'll finally finish the faceup tomorrow.
I will no longer spend on 1/3 furniture.
No more floating heads!

 

This will be my last doll.

Pfftt, yeah right.

 

No character doll, I don't see the point, how boring it would be (today my absolute favourite dolls are from mdzs/the untamed)

only MSD! (I have also one SD, one yo-sd, and a few mature tinies)

no more than five! (I have... definitely more than five XD)

This doll isn't what I hoped it'd be, but I can make it work! (several face-up and a dye job later, I just hate the doll in question in spite of my efforts, and I'm trying to get rid of her but she's ugly and badly engineered, so my hopes are low...)

 

"I'm happy with how my first doll looks and fits in with my other dolls" (I'm now reshelling her because she really doesn't fit.)

"I definitely enjoy SDs and up better than MSDs!" (I decidedly do not, and am now stuck with a couple big dolls I need to get to new homes)

"No more dolls until I've finished my own head sculpts! I will only buy bodies intended for those heads!" (I have two full dolls on the way now)

...and so on and so forth, haha

 

''I'm going to stop buying more heads'' , I literally pre-ordered one a month ago and am about to order another.
If I do, then I will have a total of 6 floating heads

 

"I will buy no more dolls or heads until I have bodies for all my floating heads!"
Big, big lie.

 

I'll stop buying wigs.... ok I need that one. But that's the last one. I wonder what she'd look like as a red head? Monique is having a going out of business sale so the prices are reduced, surely that doesn't count. Oh my gosh a realistic looking Gibson girl style... and on it goes, never ending.

 

I told myself the exact same lie! Mine are across a few fandoms, but they did turn out to be way more fun than I ever expected!

 

I told myself no new dolls until the last one is finished (faceup, clothes etc.) Nobody is totally finished and I have two more on the way.

 

"I'm just going to get 1 of every size and that will be all" It will never be all. The minis have their own polycule relationship with one another, my sole SD will no longer be the only big doll in the house, and my eyes keep wandering over to the Tiny Doll Discussion threads for future members

"I'm going to flesh them out into a developed character first" Nope. Never happens. They always develop their own personalities instead the moment they arrive

 

Currently lying to myself saying “no more Minifees in my collection.”

girl, you know you’ll be ordering the next female Minifee they put out for the summer event.

 

I tell myself I’m going to collect about 30 dolls to start my roleplay of characters (I have a whole story I want to do) but i also keep telling myself I’ll be able to do it because it’s CHEAP

 

Me, looking at Doll X: "Okay, so that one's a really weird size... I mean SERIOUSLY non-standard... *Nothing* ready-made is going to fit him. No one else is even close to the height and proportions he is. You're going to have to custom pattern and then make every single thing the goofball ever wears. Every. Thing."

Also me: "No problem! I can do that! It'll be a snap... I mean, how hard could it possibly be to recreate [Outfit A] on that scale? We good."

ALSO also me: *throws seam-ripper across the room*... *shakes tiny fist at Doll X's weirdo proportions and non-standard size*

 

I don't like soom. At all. No ty, no touchy. Icky icky yuck.

But lately I've found myself eyeing those little winged cuties and a few of their larger sculpts.

Im still not gonna buy-- but that may be a lie in the distant future. >_> Especially if they come out with more hooved fantasy ladies in a larger size..

 

Just one doll and I will sew clothes and make shoes. Very creative hobby, you know...! Ok, one more in a different size, better to sew clothes for. Maybe one in SD, one in MSD and oh, there is such a thing as SD13 and SD17?
10 years and loads of dolls later (in various sizes, mind, that much was true), my newest idea was “This year I cut back on dollie spending”. Yeah, well, ... turned out to be not true in Mid-February...
Added bonus: I still have to sew a single piece of clothing yet...

 

Thank you, I sure do!

To my defence: I knitted/crotcheted a shawl and a jacket (in over 10 years as a doll collector).

But - I am about to clear the room we planned to be a craftsroom and then things will happen. I guess, you might hear of the outcome of this undertaking and I fear it might be in exactly this same thread...

 

i lawys tell myself that id only have one but i just see so many good looking doll!!

 

Where's that FB meme that looks like you're reporting a post to the mods because, "I'm in this post, and I don't like it"?

Right now? "I will only visit DoA on Sundays, because all those beautiful photographs just make me want to buy more dolls."

Hi, everybody! Is this my second or third visit to DoA today (Saturday)? Yes! Yes, it is!

 

"this is the last doll."

I keep saying it on the... next... last doll...

 

I told myself I wouldn't get a doll if I didn't have an OC to shell, but then I saw so many fun sculpts this year that I could make into OCs...and thus here I am now with 3 dolls on the way that didn't have prior OC designs established

 

"The wait time won't be that long..."