How do you feel when you buy a new doll?

tension about the transaction until the doll is in my hands. extreme guilt, anxiety about how I should be working on my other dolls more instead getting something new, worry about clothes/wigs/eyes/ bodies if I just bought a new head. . .

Also happiness and excitement. It's like meeting a new friend, looking forward to a new project, new ideas to have and problems to solve.

I am just incredibly high strung and neurotic, hence all the negative feelings to go along with something pleasant

 

Excited, anxious...guilty. Sometimes "why the hell did I just spend that much on a doll?!" But mostly excited.

I think, other than actually receiving the doll, the most exciting part is shopping before you even buy it. Picking out the doll and the accessories...that feeling is so addicting.

 

Just like neato and AlisonVonderland, the excitement, anxious, guilty, happy, thinking about all the new stuff I have to get because I don't have anything for that characters style.

 

I feel immediately overwhelmed and exhausted by excitement. It's like giving birth almost, minus the pain. It's like Christmas.

 

At first I feel excited, Unbelievably so, and I feel worried and guilty. But when I know the doll is in customs I suddenly panic and convince myself I wont Like her, I spend hours looking on the internet at pictures to try and convince myself I'll like her but I worry up until I take her out of the box. When she arrives and she's so detailed and tiny and flawless, I can't help but love her, even if she's not right for me, I still know she's perfect and will make someone else really happy!
I bought one of my grail dolls, she is the apple of my eye and unboxing her made me dizzy with happiness!

 

I've just purchased my first doll - and she is currently in the making. At first when I was considering purchasing her, I felt a little (very) anxious because it was a lot of money for just a doll. But after thinking about it (staring at photos) I just had to. And now since I have never even held a Bjd I am a bit nervous + really, really excited. I feel that the wait is killing me, it's not even one month yet. But I believe she is worth every cent. :3

 

I feel overexcited and extremely worried at the same time.

Excited, because it is something new and quite expensive that I really want to have, something I find very beautiful and unique.
Also, it's really nice to plan what the doll will look like, what will I buy for it, where it will stay, etc. ... The part of planning a look is one of my favorites xD

And I also feel (very) worried, because I know I will have to deal with my country's postal services, which is so, so stressful...
I know I will have to wait for months until the doll is delivered to me after it enters the country.
I know I will have to pay incredibly high fees to retrieve her. I worry about the doll being somehow damaged, or about all sorts of issues that could happen.
Sometimes, when buying things from out of the country, I even consider if it wouldn't be better to simply travel there to avoid having to deal with Brazilian mail (seriously). I have given up buying many things because only thinking of the hassle of having to deal with the terrible service we have discouraged me.

But, anyway... after the dolls finally arrive, I'm always happy and the enjoyment of having them around never fades (at least, it hasn't happened for me yet). It's really great ^^

 

I feel very overwhelmed. It's like being a child at christmas.
When my first doll was delivered, my dad sent me a picture to my phone of the box she came in because I was at work. I made him pick me up from work that day, so I could get home quicker to open her! I was so excited. I was sat there for ages opening her, just staring at her. The next day, I had to go to my best friend's to show her off!
Same with my Pukifee: I rushed home and opened her and just stared at her for so long. My Honeydelf, not so much, because I didn't like him as a girl, but I was still excited!

 

Searching and finding the perfect sculpt is very enjoyable, all the fun research -wheee! Then, when I finally convince myself I had better hit the 'buy it now button' (as the doll is what I really want) I feel great. However, later I feel very guilty for spending so much on a luxury item.

 

Impatience... XD
I'm not the best with waiting, but it does pay off when I finally get them in my hands.

 

When I buy a new doll I get super excited and track the shipping progress everyday lol. Once the box gets to my house I take pictures of everything so I don't forget how awesome my new doll is.

 

I feel very excited after purchasing a new doll and excited/anxious until it arrives on my door step and into my hands. It's a beautiful feeling and It just gets better every time.

 

I collect dolls very differently than the OP, so my experience is very different. I don't do custom face-ups (I get the company default), I form my characters well before the doll arrives (sometimes even before I've ordered the doll!), and I can enjoy my characters even when they are wearing temporary eyes and wigs.

For me, ordering a new doll is hugely exciting, because it means developing a new character, which I find incredibly satisfying. Waiting for the doll to arrive is the time where I am most active in defining their character. Once they arrive, I get a second type of enjoyment which comes from being able to have this new character finally interact with my other characters.

I don't find that new dolls detract from my enjoying my collection at all, even when they require a lot of work to become complete.

 

A mixture of excitement for getting a new doll, guilt for spending so much money and anxiety for whether it's going to get to me all in one piece.

I used to feel these emotions a lot more for my first few dolls. Now I'm calmer about it all. I've never had a doll purchase go badly yet, so the anxiety is less. I'm also a lot more in control of my finances now and I don't buy dolls unless I can afford them, so I don't feel quite as guilty either. As for excitement... I still get excited, but I've had a lot of dolls come and go over the years so it's not such a novelty anymore.

Overall I would say I am quite reserved in my feelings towards buying new dolls, but the smell of new resin still gets me! I get giddy as soon as I open the box and smell my new doll

 

I feel realy excited at first, then as time goes on and I think about it I start to second guess myself and think "what if I don't lke this doll once I get it...?" or "what if she doesn't end up as pretty as all the other dolls in the same sculpt?..." But then I start to buy things for her and I get excited again. Then I start second guessing my self again until things for the doll starts to arrive.

 

When I buy a doll I get super excited! That hasn't changed...I'm four weeks into a wait on some dolls and I'm insanely excited still.

 

Well for me I get very excited when I press that order button, but mingled in with that there are are always feelings of anxiety that I might not like my doll when it gets to me. I feel that way right now as I'm waiting for my first Fairyland Littlefee Lishe, after only having owned teeny PukiPukis and Realpukis. My feelings tend to see-saw back and forth; when I look at pics of her online my heart melts, but at other times I worry that I might not like her default faceup or if she might not be everything I've hoped for. I guess I'll have to wait and see.

 

Anxiety over whether you will 'bond' & like the doll as much as you thought you would seems to be a comon theme, and one i can definatly identify with. As is the guilt of spending so much! Forming the character and choosing what to buy/make has been most exciting so far. The wait is horrible at first, then i managed to distract myself - it just stopped being quite real, and now i'm all impatient again because i know she is having her customisation and will be shipped soon from the Netherlands. This will be my first doll so it would get a bit easier.

 

I feel overwhelmed as well, but then again everything on this planet overwhelms me. >.>; When I buy a new doll I get really excited, but of course there's the waiting time... so I try my hardest to forget I've ordered anything and then TADAH there it is! And that's when I realize it has no clothes wig or eyes >.> lolll

 

Excited, of course, and mildly guilty about the cost. Then I start to worry about whether there will be enough time to properly make clothes and get them dressed -- and how will they fit into the doll family? Where are they going to live? (My dolls NEED rooms!)