Lies you tell yourself about BJD

"Just two more dolls, then I'm finally done" except I know I'll keep an eye on new releases and eventually something I like enough to buy will come along. And I'll always jump at the chance to buy a doll I missed out on a long time ago that's impossible to find.

So... two more and then I'm kind of done.

 

I will only have a few maybe… a few months later I was buying a whole huge cabinet… to then tell myself I will only have as many as I can fit inside this ONE cabinet… Now considering getting another one once we move hopefully into a house with more space lol … Oh and “I will not exceed 20” I am laughing hard now at this one lol

Jepp, same here and I got 6 doll chateau dolls now… and I REALLY want more lol They are so beautiful!!! But I do have boys and girls

 

"After this, no more new dolls!"

"Okay, this time no more new dolls!"

"Alright, alright. No more new clothes then!"

"No more new wigs!"

"No more new eyes?"

"...I probably won't buy any more shoes..."

 

"These are enough clothes for now."

yet every week at work I fill up my etsy cart with new goodies.

 

"Today is the day my package will arrive"

 

1. Only one doll!!! (I have 3.)
2. The dolls will have their outfit, wig and one pair of eyes - and that's it. (You don't wanna know.)
3. I will restring them every 6 months. (No matter how hard I try, I cannot restring them alone and I don't have help.)

 

I wont buy pet dolls, they so cute but they're really exspensive for what they are and the lack of posing would frustrate me *about a quarter of my doll collection is now pet dolls*

I will downsize my collection! *my collection just keeps getting larger*

As the outfits for some of my dolls is stuff you can't buy, i'll make them myself *4 years later still haven't done it*

 

1. I’ll finally buy my one neglected doll that outfit I’ve been staring intently at for several months (buys doll that has the most clothes even more instead)(pays for new face up for neglected doll- still no clothes) TBF he at least isn’t naked, just dressed in something he’d never wear in canon lol
2. I’ll restring the doll that I strung too tightly and restring the ones that came too loose (nope- I have restrung a handful of times and hate it/am a procrastinator).
3. I’ll buy stands for my dolls- so their butts aren’t fused to the cabinet where they’ve been sitting.

 

Okay that's way too relatable. I have a doll who has a lethal combination of proportions that fit like 3-4 dresses I have, 2 of which actually suit her character. Instead of getting her clothes, I'm planning a Mandarake order for Aura, who has so many clothes, and her sister who arguably is the only doll with more clothes than her. but here we are.

I also have a body I have to superglue the locking mech back into, and restring because she snaps all over the place. I got that body last summer.

 

"I'll definitely send you out for a faceup this year...I WILL FINISH YOU!!!"
lol I've been very bad at actually doing that. Partly because I'm so picky and partly because I end up buying something else with the money I saved aside for that.

 

"I will not impulse buy anymore dolls." I thought about Dream Valley's Rubin for less than a day before I decided to get him.

 

"I'm going to focus on my antiques for a while and leave BJDs alone."

I love my antique doll friends, but there's just a more consistently active community for BJDs that keeps sucking me back in. You can do more with customizing, too. While antique dolls are fun to sew/craft for, any customization beyond that and maybe replacing a damaged wig is out. Plus, I can take even a very expensive BJD out for photos without worrying about destroying a piece of history. One still has to be careful, of course, but...I just wouldn't feel quite as guilty if a modern doll got damaged, somehow. Still heartbroken, but less like I was the weak link in over a century of caretakers.

"I'll only have one, and never sell her!"

Cut to: 10 years and four dolls bought and sold later (including my first). I'm a bit of a revolving door collector, it turns out.

 

"I won't be buying any more dolls until I've moved and have more space!" - she thought to herself while placing another order.

 

Just one girl... and then came the second...

No dolls with fantasy skin tone (and I bought a rosy brown)

This is the last, no more dolls! (and then i got 2 more dolls)

Just msd... sure sure... I have pukifee, yosd and sd

 

I think I'm just going to add one and spread out the existing crew a little rather than hunting for two and getting a posse of new dolls to fill them.

It turns out that IKEA has discontinued both my Hemnes display cabinets and their matching bookcases... And the only ones I've managed to find for sale from resellers are now all so vastly over-priced that I'd actually have guilt spending THAT MUCH money on a pair of them.

One I can call a from-me-to-me birthday splurge.
Two? Yikes. Too much.

So maybe not quite as dire a lie as it could have been...

 

That I won't buy another doll. I don't like feeling overwhelmed by too much stuff and that includes dolls and doll items but sometimes I think another doll will fit in nicely with what I already have.

That once I've finished collecting everything I currently want that will be it.

 

I am going to stick to this ONE size (1/6th) and that is it, gets a bunch of 1/8th size dolls and isn't happy and sells all but one of them.
I will stick with just 1/6th from now on, gets a 1/3 and a few 1/4 dolls and surprise surprise isn't happy with them, sells them and says AGAIN I am going to stick to 1/6th and that is it!!
When will I listen to myself?! I know myself very well but yet I always think, well maybe this time or this doll will be different, it rarely ever is different and then I lose money selling a doll I just bought. My husband says we just like to waste money and I do feel guilty, but how do you know for sure whether you will like something or not?!
(My favorite dolls are ones I took a chance on, and the one I wanted the most ended up being my least favorite sculpt of them all! So there is no way to know until I have it! Oh how I struggle.)
Okay okay, obviously size does matter to me so I get a different 1/6th scale doll but waiting takes patience so I buy the same doll in a different skin tone because it is in stock NOW. I like the doll, but I don't love her as much as my other 1/6th dolls. Now I still have the other one coming and I am debating do I keep one or sell both?
I also get hung up on numbers. I don't like having too many and I didn't want duplicate sculpts but I want different skin tones of my favorite sculpt. I had one that I sold and want to get another one, at least I KNOW I will love that one. I said no more fantasy colored dolls because they are too tough for me to find clothes I like on them, but this fantasy skin tone was easy because it is gray and everything worked with it so why not?!
ARGH just typing this out I feel like I am ridiculous

 

It's the last one

 

If the doll is over my dedicated doll price range I will give up and not buy it......... (buys it 15 minutes later)

 

I am limited to buying only one doll this year (absolute lies).

 

I only need a few sets of eyes and wig combinations! (each new outfit/theme seems to need a new wig and new eyes!)

 

“I know bjds are expensive, that’s whyyyy I’m gonna stop buying them soon”
while my cats watch me clicking purchase on a bjd doll that very night

 

That I'm done collecting when I reach my current goal lol

 

I'm telling myself I don't want another fen jie xian. I don't need more...

(But I want more!)

;o;

 

It's not that expensive... (I say as I fail to factor in shipping, clothing, wig, shoes...)

 

*laughs in BJD collector* Ok so forever ago when I got into the hobby...

"I'm only going to have a couple and they will all be hot as hell woman." Looks at army of resin and how most are males, also just how varied the mix of gender identities is now. Though most of them are still hot, so that bit was only half a lie. (A few like the modded ones and young ones break that up and are not "hot" thus half truth.)

"I'm never getting a YoSD, or child like doll." I've a lot of 13ish year old looking dolls and 3 YoSDs which are like between 4 and 6 in age respectively.

Pet dolls are so costly for size I'm never going to get one that's not a free gift. I've paid for a few pets, and want to buy one of those really nice hairless cats dolls someday.

"Other then my doll that is a clone, and his DNA donor, I can't see my self owning more then one of the same mold." Welp broke that forever ago with no regrets.

"I don't think I could ever sell a doll." Sold a few that just didn't work out for me and do not regret it. (Protip If the doll doesn't work rehome it you'll be happier.)

Now of days I try not to make statements like "I'll never X" or "I don't/wont Y" to avoid this very thing. XD

 

"I'm just gonna get two to help me with my characters drawing and then I'm done."
"This year I'm only waiting for narmer and no more. He is going to be the last one."
"I deserve it. I need to get myself something wonderful."
These are lies I tell myself every time while I'm shopping online.

 

“I’ll only buy clothes and accessories I can’t make” (bought 2 whole outfits for my boy about a week after he arrived)
“He only needs one pair of shoes” (currently has 2 pairs with a 3rd on the way)
“One shelf is enough space” (he’s 62cm. And I wanted furniture. Clearly I’m bad at math lol)
“I’ll wait a year before I buy another” (I’m pretty sure that if one of the dolls I’m looking at rn goes on sale, I’d buy it in a heartbeat)

 

"I'm not a msd person strictly SD dolls"
"I prefer dressing boys rather than girls I'll collect more boys"

The msd size has become a huge favorite for me lol I find dressing them to be really exciting and I find more clothes I like for them than my SD dolls

My collection is almost entirely girls at this point XD now I rarely see boys that I'd like to dress

 

"I'll only get one."
I have nine with two on the way and twelve extra heads...

 

I am done buying BJDs.

 

I don't have a dolly addiction; I can stop whenever I want!

 

"I'll only buy animal or anthro dolls"

Yeah... that already ended and I'm only 3 dolls in. lol

 

'Last one I will get this year'...

 

"That's enough dolls for this year."

 

"Alright - you've got a couple layaways going down, just wait til they're finished before even looking at anything else..."

 

1. “I will buy only one doll and only one dress for her!” -> “I will not buy more than ten dolls!” -> “No more than twenty..” -> Now I’m not counting them… hhhh
2. “It seems like not my style.. blah blah” -> Wish to have them

 

I always say no more floating heads. Now I am not sure how many I have :’)

 

“Each doll only needs one or two outfits, I won’t change them that often.”

I now have more doll clothing in my house than human clothes.

 

"This is the year I will buy that body."

"I am going to get all these faceups done before fall."

"I think I'm nearing the end."

"No, I won't regret selling this / not buying this later."

"YoSD-down is my least favorite size." (The tinies are now competing with the SDs for 'most of')

"This homemade wig will turn out better than the other six."

"The odds of this grail popping up when I can afford it are a million to one."

"I will not buy a bunch of resin this year. I will focus on clothes, wigs, eyes, and shoes."

Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies.

 

My favourite one: "I will not buy new BJDs in several years." (I said this last year. Well, things escalated after that...)
"I do not want any new MSD dolls." (Currently dreaming of Lillycat Ombre & Constantine.)
"I don't want to learn how to sew." (Trying to learn!)
"This year I won't buy any new dolls."
"I do not need this spesific doll."

 

I will not buy any new BJD this year. And I haven't but I have bought 8 secondhand BJD's this year

 

I keep telling myself that I should buy a new doll because it's an "investment". The conversation in my head is along the lines of, "I need this doll because I don't have one with this body type yet! I can make clothes for it and get a whole business going." And then over time I ended up with way too many dolls in desperate need of clothes and no patterns.

 

"I'll never be interested in Volks, they're not my kind of dolls." --> Currently owns three bodies for hybriding and two full dolls, all SD13-SD17 range.

"I'll never get into MSD or smaller, SD is the perfect size." --> Currently owns seven slim MSD with two more on the way, two YoSD, one mature 1/6 with another on the way, and a 10cm doll.

 

I'm not the type to really give myself expectations when it comes to the hobby unless it's craft-related, but there was a time at the beginning when I said, "I'm so glad I don't like SDs. They're so expensive and take up so much space!" and then earlier this year I said, "Wow, I'm glad I'm not brimming with ideas. Once I finish my SD crew, I'll be done with buying dolls for good!" And then of course now there's four sculpts I want and a couple of doll concepts I don't have sculpts for yet.

 

A lie I tell myself is that my dolls will all have shoes before a new doll is put on pre-order.

 

"If I have more than five, I'll only go to 10!"

Yeah... the lie detector test said, that was a lie. When I receive the dolls I'm currently waiting for, I'm like oh that will make 13 so since that's an unlucky number I should cap at 15! LOL

 

“ I won‘t buy any more doll after this one this year.” Never happened

 

"This is my budget and I'm not going over it"

 

I will only buy SD dolls! they are the perfect size.. here I am on my 5th MSD doll lol

 

I would never get an anime like doll, realistic are the best!
Now I have two…

 

Oh that’s true too.
Never get a dol chateau one, too creepy and not practical for clothing…now I’m referring to don’t have the one from the 2019 Christmas event

 

"i'll slow doll getting dolls after this"
"I'll order bodies for my floating heads"

 

I'll never get a child/baby bjd.

I have enough dolls and clothes. I might get more if something interesting pops up in front of me, but I'll never go browsing for more.

I think I'm over anthros.

 

The max will be 12 dolls..I can't handle more.
Wel...i have about 16 now

 

Mine was that id just get 1 doll, possibly 2. And make sure to finish them lots of different outfits, i now have 3 dolls, 1 pet doll and 1 girl coming on the way! Oh well, time to try and finish some outfits i guess, i just get so distracted and full of new ideas that i want to create.

 

"I'm only gonna buy two perfect dolls for our OCs" I said, and now ordered a new one because I like the face a lot and could use that one as a second head etc. And now I'm already in the rabbit hole of "I will just sell off the spare body, I only wanted the head anyway"... watch me get a different head for THAT body to make another doll and so on and so on...

 

"Last doll I'll be buying this year!"
"I'll stop at [insert amount]."
"I'll be able to find a body for this weird head measurement."
"I plan on making [insert doll]'s clothing, I totally have the time/tools/material for that."

 

"I don't have enough clothes. I clearly need more."