Budgeting for dolls: How much do you spend a year?

I promised myself that I wouldn't use anything outside of my "doll fund", which is made up of gifted money, spare change, Swagbucks/app money, and miscellaneous things I didn't work for like tax refund money and things. Granted, maybe it'll be harder to resist temptation once my doll gets here and I can experience having a BJD for the first time, but right now, I don't even allow myself to buy cheap things on eBay if it's not with my doll money! I let myself buy little things from time to time if it's in a physical store and I know I could use it on my dolls, but that's probably because I figure the real threat to my resistance is online shopping. The only physical store "threat" right now is that Our Generation MSD sized bike, which I might just get on Black Friday or Boxing Day with non-doll fund money (if I can find it locally that is). lol

I'm also currently looking into the world of selling little doll accessories I've made.

 

I don't budget for dolls and doll things really but that's because I don't work (I do odd jobs every now and then but nothing consistent) so I have to save up for a long time. Obviously if I don't have the money then I can't buy a doll so I don't buy any dolls and that's really all there is to it. Like @Yami_Hanako, I also think about every purchase (doll-related or otherwise) for a long time before finally deciding whether or not to buy the item(s). I have no problem dropping a large sum of money all at once every now and then (ie. more than a year in between those large purchases) once I have thought about it for a while and decided that I really do want it and it really is worth it; actually I prefer it that way than spending small amounts regularly as that adds up quickly.
Since getting Nadeko, I have spent around $100-200 per year on doll clothing and/or accessories for her and that comes out of my savings so it's never more than that and sometimes (like last year) I don't buy anything at all.

 

I don't have a yearly doll budget per se; I go in streaks with how much I spend on dolls. I bought my first doll almost five years ago, and over the course of those five years I've accumulated about 15 dolls. That's about 3 dolls per year, and as of recently I'm done collecting unless a limited comes available that I really want.

 

Last year, I spent nothing on dolls. Not a penny. This year... I m not even gonna count. 7 dolls (and a head) + clothes for all of them and for some of my old dolls, wigs, boots, etc.
So it's really depends, if I am in the "dolls mood", or not.

 

I don't budget for dolls, exactly, but I do budget for leisure expenses, which is where my doll funds usually come from.

And after spending only about $20 on my BJD's between 2010 and ~September 2015, I'm apparently making up for lost time with a second hand Limhwa ToYou, and a Dollshe mini!Grant Phillippe on the way, not to mention the various wig/clothing items for them. But I've also been selling some of my old dolls/doll things from when I first joined the hobby in 2007, so it's kind of balancing out, at the moment.