Do you get obsessed when a new doll is coming?

I definitely am quite guilty getting obsessed while waiting for my dolls to come in. I'm excited from when I place my order and have spent a lot of my time on the forums reading/researching and playing with ideas for when they finally arrive. I like to plan out things I want to get for them so that it doesn't take long before they'll at least start to resemble the character they are suppose to embody and I like browsing around to see if anything sticks out that might quicken the process.
Due to it being such a long wait I come back to it a lot but not to the point of driving myself insane with it, I have just kept reminding myself that they will arrive soon. With the shipping notice however I'm certainly obsessed all over again because I don't want them to arrive with no one home to take them and it's very exciting thinking that they really are on their way and the wait really is all the more closer to being over.

 

YES!!!! I'm sure my husband thinks about planned trial separations for doll waiting periods. I just can't stop talking about it!!!!! It's so exciting. Like when all someone can talk about is there upcoming vacation or something. Dolls are our vacations

 

OMG. I really do. It is insane. I didn't realize how far it has gotten until today, actually.
I do the normal things, like look at the blank face several times a day. Look at the body several times a day. Look at the full set (even if I'm not getting the full set) several times a day. At least I hope that's normal...
But today, my family was over for Mother's Day. And I was just...going crazy. I was showing every one the BJD's I already own. I was showing every one how they worked. I was showing every one my new girl that is coming in. I was showing off her head, her body, etc. I was just so excited. I wanted to share my excitement with everyone. Even though they didn't really share the same excitement I did. And probably thought I was going insane.
My grandma thought the dolls were pretty. My mom really liked them. And every one else was ready to put me in an insane asylum...bahaha.
It is hard to be so excited about something and have no one else really get it. I mean, my boyfriend gets it because he's the one who introduced me to BJD's. But I see him every day! That's different.
Hopefully she'll arrive here soon. I'm thinking tomorrow or Tuesday. *crosses fingers*

 

Yep, My boy already has alot of clothes at home waiting on him that I've made, and I constantly check online for accessories, shoes, and other clothes for him. I constantly look at owner photos, box-openings, and other things related to that specific doll every day as well, as well as stalk the order status XD

 

Just commented about this on a similar post. I'm fine until I know the doll has shipped and then all of a sudden, I turn OCD and I don't relax until I have the doll in my hands. Part of this has to do with a bad experience when one of my dolls was damaged in customs.. the experience has certainly helped to crank up my anxiety levels.

 

I'll go nuts counting the days, looking at photo's box openings ect...Ask questions, look at wigs, clothes, eyes....I contain it though...I think I scared several people off on a forum when I started on a: "What is a BJD" ramble.

They ask they get the full summery....

 

Totally! I end up spending all my time shopping for her. Wigs, clothes, shoes, props...everything.

 

Since the only doll I've purchased so far was adopted and I only had to wait about a week and a half for her, I haven't had the real waiting period experience to know how I would act, but I know that between the time I made the sale arrangements and the time she arrived home I was very much preoccupied by thoughts of her. I spent the week looking up and saving tons of patterns and sewing her an outfit to wear when she got home.

 

I definitely do get a bit too excited/obssessed for my new doll.
I check the website every week to see if there is any news or change on the status. And once I get the email for shipping I check the EMS Tracking at least twice a day until the shipping day which I check every hour.
I also do shopping for my doll for shoes, wigs or materials to make clothes.

I get super antsy once from the shipping day til it reaches my hands. I can't think of anything else

The only thing that helps is to sew like a madman or shop

 

Well, the instant I click the "order" button, I get super excited and shop like a madwoman for a few days. (I don't really buy anything, I'm just mostly planning.) Then I sort of lose that excitement, knowing it'll be a long wait. But when I get that shipping notice... Hoo boy. I go insane, checking the tracking number every spare moment I get. It's like when I was a kid and I could barely stand waiting to open my presents on Christmas morning. My family must think I'm nuts, haha.

 

God yes. When my last doll was on the way I constantly checked the status and shipping reports....then I think i watched about 5 hours of box openings every day!

 

Yes, I'm absolutely obsessed about new dolls. From the moment I send my payment I am lost. I look at owner pics all the time, spend hours and hours online to find the perfect outfit, wig and eyes and constantly think about the perfect name. When I get my shipping invoice I check the tracking number every few minutes and the day when the doll is supposed to arrive I wait at the window all day long for the mailman. I'm with Eryx, it's like waiting for Christmas presents as a kid.

 

i couldn't think about anything else for the weeks i was expecting my LTF! pure obsession haha.

i don't even know when i'll be ordering my pukifee/which one i want & i'm already obsessed with thinking about it :P

 

My obsession usually begins before ordering a doll ! ^^ When I know I will have to wait for a long time, I'm a little less obsessed than I know I will receive a doll in a few days or weeks.It's like waiting for Christmasor something I can daydream about for a long time. But when I know the dollis is incoming, I'm as excited as in the beginning of holidays, or before a long awaited show !

 

Heh, like MarchuiseAtemise... My obsession starts before hand. Sometimes years before hand. Right now I'm obsessed with getting an IoS doll, but it will be months before I save enough to get one! I guess I'm just pretty ABJD obsessed in general.

 

Very much so. My first boy is still "before shipping". However, I've already gone out and bought all the stuff for blushing/face ups. I'm in the process of making him a carrying bag. I've already got a bunch of wonderful fabric to make him clothing. I have 7 different eyes... all of this...and my doll won't ship until maybe the end of this month or the start of next. Obsessed. You bet ya.

 

I haven't bought my first doll yet, still saving up, but I am probably pretty obsessed. I have a whole bookmark file just for her and the wigs and clothes, etc., that I want to buy for her. I have her back story planned out, and I'm going to start writing it soon. I'm probably going to buy everything I need for her immediate character before I get her, so that when I can finally afford her she has everything ready. I think this is the only way I can keep myself from going crazy over not having her yet.

 

of course! My first doll i cant wait for it to come. Im always thinking of it and when they shipped out my doll.. i keep checking on the tracking and wonder why has it not reach my country! When it reach i still need to wait for another day to reach my house. Actually i am very excited when it comes to doll items as well

 

As soon as I issue an order, I get really crazy. ) It's hard not to think about it, especially since that's about a month or so of waiting! I remember buying my DOD Ducan (Lucy) over summer break, so I was so tetchy because I had no schoolwork to keep me occupied. I get even worse when I receive EMS notices because I get paranoid about customs (he got sent straight to my home, thank goodness) and just combust of overeagerness because he's so near yet so far.

I have to re-learn this insanity, though. I haven't purchased a new doll from overseas in awhile (I got my Claude from a friend here), so we'll see how impatient I'll continue to be once I place my next order. XD

 

Yes of course! Who doesn't? How could I not? It's just so exciting waiting for a doll! Especially your first!! I always look forward to getting a new doll in the mail! It's just way to exciting to not be excited! I just love waiting to get a new doll! The main reason for it to be so exciting for me is because of the wait, it just builds up the suspense!