Dolls you SWORE you’d never sell…….and then DID

When I was 18, my car broke down and I decided to sell my grail, delf Soony. If I could go back and keep all the dolls I’ve sold, I would.

 

I never thought I'd sell my first doll when I got her but with every doll I sell, it gets a little easier.

 

I never thought I would sell any doll... and there they go... 4 dolls left my crew at first i feel really bad, but now Im just like
"it's circle of life"

 

I never thought I would sell my Bobobie Apollo. I've had him forever. But his sculpt is really too childlike compared to the other SD males in my doll family. He looks sadly out of place. So today I decided to put him up for sale and listed him on a couple of Facebook sites. I want to re-shell his character with a more mature looking adult male doll.

 

I was also a "I'll never sell any of my dolls" person, but I didn't think I would buy a doll and then not "bond" with it, aka enjoy it in person instead of just looking at photographs of it, so I've done two trades (one full doll and one head) and two sales in my time in the hobby. But it made room for dolls I enjoyed more, so no harm done imo!

 

Hmm, my Dream of Doll Camine. He was my boy Kio for several years but I eventually decided I needed to reshell his character. Funny thing about that though is that I waited two years after I sold his shell to buy a reshell.

 

Mymeadow moppet Mae

 

Technically I didn't sell him yet but he is up for sale, I don't think I've sold any doll yet.
He was a very specific character, and I hunted for years to find the perfect doll, but it was probably too specific and I've lost interest now. I'll probably keep my doll characters more vague now.

 

Oh, yes, at the beginning I thought that I would never sell a doll, but unfortunately money doesn't grow on trees and sometimes things come up (another doll, or just good old bills to pay), and some go up for sale... and sometimes those I swore I'd never sell...

 

The main reason I’ve sold in years past was to refine my collection, and I’ve been quite content with those sales. (I think we all go through a period of honing our personal aesthetic.) But there was one doll I swore I’d never sell that I wound up selling to fund another doll. I did this only once, and it seemed perfectly reasonable to me at the time. She was a super-tiny Realpuki Pupu, and her character had grown so much, it had eclipsed her tiny body…and the doll I wanted was my absolute grail! So I sold her, determined to re-shell her into a larger doll, and bought that grail doll which I still adore to this day (see my avatar.) But…re-shelling that long-lost, tiny Pupu turned out to be way harder that I ever realized. It turned out that it was her unique face that really made the character, and finding anything even close to her look in a larger size was daunting at best. I did, thankfully, wind up re-shelling her into a Fairyland Realfee June (and did her faceup myself to achieve the correct look.) But it took me 8 long years to do so, and I was miserable during that time because I missed having her character around so much! Lesson learned…never again!

 

Year ago, I had a problem with my car and I needed extra cash urgently. I sold my Shiny DOC Petsha back then and I still regret it. It was around 2008

 

I think the one doll I truly regret selling was the Limited Dollectable Souldoll Mayu. I swore up and down that she'd never leave my side. I had her in all her fullset glory but for some reason I decided to sell her to buy another doll [which I also ended up selling ] and I regret it to this day. Never seen another one of her pop up too sadly. I've kept my eye out though. I feel like I just keep missing her.

 

somehow i managed to buy back all the dolls i sold except one...i sold my first fullset doll: minifee kyle tyr because bills and regretted it for years but it turns out the person i sold him to still had his head so i was able to get him back! i sold my minifee vampire woosoo and still kinda regret it and want to find another someday...

 

For me it would probably be Dearmine Angela. I went into getting her with the intention of making an anthro girl version of my cat Pacifica. It was something I at one point was very excited about. I'd had plans to make a gray/cream color wig out of either yarn or mohair, and go crazy with dyeing the resin a medium blueish gray. I had such big plans for her—

But after a while....I realized anthros really weren't my thing. So, in the end...she was re-homed. I later ended up commissioning an OT bjd artist for a more traditional jointed cat done in my cat's likeness (Evedoll, older short-hair cat version). I don't regret re-homing Angela; I just hope the new owner is giving her the love and attention that I couldn't

 

Sold my Dollstown Maru. She was a sculpt I loved at first sight, and I bought her head directly from the company shortly after I got into this hobby. But I could never find the right body for her, and I had convinced myself that SD dolls weren’t for me. Then I got my Maskcatdoll Willow head, and BOOM, now I love SD dolls. I wish I had kept her and persevered with finding her a body. But what’s done is done. Hopefully her new owner loves her too. I try not to look at her photos; I can’t bring myself to delete them.

 

I'm in the "swore I'd never sell any of my dolls club", but I ended up selling my fairyland pukipuki and am about to sell several others. Im horribley sentimental so it's kind of hard for me to let go of them but I've accepted that my collection will inevitably grow and change the same way I will.

 

The doll I swore I wouldn't sell was my rap1993 anie and I did it for another doll. I do have a bit of regret, but I know there's always an opportunity to get another one.

 

My first doll, Luts Delf Harang. I told myself, I'll keep this doll forever, he's special because he's my first! Oops, so much for that. It was so long ago that I can't remember why, and since he was my first doll, I do sometimes wish he was still around just so I could proudly say "This is my very first BJD!!!" But I sold him for a reason.... and I'm sure I would quickly remember what that reason was if I replaced him

 

I regret selling my IOS Infernal vampire boy if anyone bought him off ebay I hope you hug him everyday and love him but bills had to be paid and it was hard letting him go.

 

I know this doesn't technically count because they aren't resin, but I swore I wouldn't sell my DD Sakura Miku, but then I won the DD Icon lottery. I sold Miku to fund my Icon. Then I swore up and down I would never sell her. And I gladly sold her to help me fund my SDGr Marie Antoinette. I'll never say never again, but I'll hold her close!