Lost my damn mind (“impulse” buying)

I came back from a 7 year hiatus in 2024 and impulse bought 4 fairyland dolls and 1 Soom doll that year. It started out as just one for my birthday. Then it was just another because I’ve always wanted a bunny doll and she was on the MP, then another for a Christmas present to myself, then another because he was an artist doll I’d been following for that year and I HAD to have him on layaway, THEN I got a Christmas bonus right before Christmas and saw another doll that I could use with that money…..so yeah. I’ve definitely impulse bought a few. Maybe.

 

I got our of hiatus and impulse bought 4 definitely regretting right now lol. Also just sent 2 out for faceups so my wallet is hating me hard

 

lol I got into those stupid labubu’s and bought two of them AND a blind box mjd sugary girls for my Christmas this year because I knew what they were but didn’t *know* what they were so I 100% see you!

I think blind boxes are so much harder to not impulse buy cause they’re a lot cheaper. $40 as opposed to $400+! I “just have to move a few things around to fit them all and it’ll be fine” right!

 

I got some labubus when they were at the peak but I sold some off before the price drop so I got most of my money back thankfully.

I still prefer quality items than blind box doll right now.

Just need to find some time to scrub all my old dolls that I bought cause they're as yellowed as a banana

Bought:
Volks f-12 2002
Dream of doll zen 2004
Unoa light (resin) 2005
(Non-bjd) Qlywork Bebe bisque

Collecting the ancient dolls lol

 

Ahhh! Lucky! I love the Qlywork Bebe!!

 

I find that I won’t be interested in new dolls for months and then all of a sudden all my fav companies start making knock outs and I want them all I do try to restrain myself, but I did impulse one doll last year. And I love her! So no regrets. I do try to sleep on it for a few days if it a marketplace find. Or wait til the end of the order period for new dolls. So it’s not too much of an impulse.

However! In 2021 I was buying and selling dolls like crazy! My house was a revolving door of dolls. I think we all go through a period of finding out our taste. To be honest, I’ve forgotten how many dolls I’ve had and sold It might outnumber the amount of dolls I currently have in my collection.

 

I'm crying so hard on how expensive faceup artist is now

What do you mean it costs 300 USD for a faceup....

 

Whaaaaaat? No one is worth $300 for just a face up. That’s wild!

 

I feel this so hard. I stopped buying in 2020 and just sat with my collection for a bit. I had primarily minifee, latidoll, and dollfie dreams. But I had zero motivation to do anything with them, and I finally realized that my tastes had changed.

In the past year, I have completely replaced my resin collection. Came back into the hobby and bought 10 QQDoll heads and 4 Lati Yellow. Zero regrets, only the pain of having to wait for bodies for the QQDolls- they're being put together slowly but surely.

I also realized I like buying dolls with faceups already done? I used to love commissioning and I'm still super fond of the faceup artists I've worked with, but it's so much easier for me to bond with a doll if I know what it'll look like in the end.

 

I have ADHD. 95% of my collection was impulse buys. The other 5% are Alans I intended to get instead of just finding them for sale and snatching them up

 

Absolutely. I have bought way too many in the last month. It is hard to hold back when there are so many pretty ones out at once…lol

 

Yes and yes! I myself have been keeping eye of this hobby since I was just fifteen years old, and now fifteen years later I’ve finally landed fulltime job and purchased my first bjds. After so much waiting and patience I now have kinda hard time to control myself from impulse buying (＞д＜）

 

I feel you! It's why I have to keep reminding myself "you are trying to save up money. DO NOT buy the first doll you see!"

 

Soooo many impulse buys over the years relating to dolls.
I have such a clear idea of what I do and don't like with them now. My current boy's faceup was totally an impulse purchase too but I adore him.

I hope your doll brings you so much joy! Think of it this way, dolls take a while to produce so maybe you'll get him by the end of the semester. He's something to look forward to!

 

I'm gonna be the one to come in and say: good. And be a bit of an enabler. I'm full on YOLO these days.

As long as you're impulse buying within your budget and not literally doing it when it's the difference between food/rent and a doll. Go for it.

I promised myself to get a doll when I graduated college, (it was the difference of like 6 months). By the time it happened the company had folded and so... I never was able to buy it, or even find it. *cries over the Lee-el Tinman she never got* So after that as long as I can afford it, I get the doll when I want it. Not to say I buy every doll, because I do think it over quite a bit; I'm low on space and energy these days (BJD as a hobby is a lot of energy I find), I let myself be ok getting an 'impulse'. Especially as I've found that a lot of my impulse buys are some of my favorite dolls.

 

Absolutely! I've been keeping up with BJD since I'd first discovered it in my young teens. Honestly, the moment I realised I finally had enough money to get one it seemed like the gates had opened. I have to wrestle my hand away from the 'buy' button. After getting back into browsing websites (so bad for practicing impulse control...). I'd ended up ordering my first doll, finally after so many years.

Then, not long after that I ended up buying one of my dream dolls, back to back. There was a slight guilt, and sometimes I look back and wonder if I made the right decisions. Ultimately, the answer I always end up with is, yes.