How do you store your BJD, clothes, and accessories?

My dolls I store in their boxes. The clothes, wigs, accessories I keep in those decorative heavy cardboard weight containers that look and latch like suitcases. I display some of my dolls in glass curio cabinets out of the sunlight.
I have animals, and also want to keep them from getting dusty.

 

I keep my dolls on bookshelves pretty much. I keep the clothes in one wooden box and the shoes in another, both separated by size. The eyes I keep in those tiny ziploc baggies and stored in a small plastic tackle box with compartments so I can, again, sort them by size.
And while it may sound very organized, all my boxes are actually scattered all throughout my home.. I'm thinking of getting another bookshelf just for the boxes.

 

Since I also collect doll furniture, my dolls live in their rooms. The overall doll room has a closet, so the clothes, shoes, wigs and unused accessories are in the closet. The organization (such as it is) is aided by a wire frame desk converted to clothes rack for hanging things and shelves for plastic drawers.

 

I need something better. Right now they are just in a plastic container. I should get at least some plastic drawers to sort things, until I get something else.

 

Hrm...when I first started with the BJD hobby I was pretty "precious" with everything and got them a big ol' oak armoire with shelves and hangers and stuff. Walnut and redwood boxes for their eyes, jewelry, etc. I would sit there and meticulously hang everything up and have it just so.

But dude, I'm a creative person!...uhh.....Can't expect me to be organized as well! I just toss their clothes into a cool vintage hard shell samsonite suitcase. Done. <wiping hands> but uhh, that's just normally...I've been too lazy to pick up their clothes....or my own clothes even....okay, geez. Geez! I store them strewn about on the floor. >:{

 

lmao you sound like me! Only I can't leave them strewn about quite that much... but I have a growing pile on th living room wall unit right now... Irony is I'm suposed to be cleaning up and organizing for a new doll due in a few weeks LOL *snorts* not sure it's gonna happen either lol (the clean up ;p)

 

I bought a few large printed boxes with the magnets that you can find at craft stores and store all my clothing and items for a doll there. The pattern on the box corresponds to which doll the clothing is for. Not only are the boxes well constructed and secure they are also inexpensive. Not to mention they look positively pretty on my bookshelves!

 

When not in use, my doll things are usually stored in the boxes of their associated doll, which are in turn stored in a big black trunk that usually lives in my closet. But that's not the case, right now. I've recently gotten back in to the hobby, and I'm going through old doll things, deciding what to keep and what to sell. Everything is a mess.

 

My doll clothes are in an old Nerd Block box I got a few months ago lmao I keep my doll heads in a Horror Block box too and for a while my boys used to sit on these boxes :P

 

All my dolls are usually dressed and behind glass display cases (all blinds in that room stay shut unless visitors are over and would like to see the collection). Doll clothes are all individually packaged in zip-lock bags, sorted and stored inside large non-see through containers with labels). If the outfit pieces have a puffy nature, or if will deform if stacked on, I normally use stuffing paper to keep their shape, and fill the zip-lock bag with air before sealing that way they don't get squished.

 

The bestest part in that was that I actually heard the scoff in that snort!

Want to come home with me? I've got gainful employment strewn across my bedroom floor if you ever get bored. Cuz I like what I'm hearing from you! Man, if I could change one thing about me but keep everything else, it would have to be more organized.

 

@Vesuvia I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to visit a number of doll shops when I visited Tokyo earlier this year, and the idea of using zip-lock bags came from them. They actually uses a slightly bigger zip-lock bag, a card stock cut to exact size of the bag along with an upside down "U" in the center.. the shirt than goes over the tap than inserted back into the bag, with some description written on top. The bagged outfit/shirt/pants are stacked and inserted vertically in a box like bulk storage of comic books and you can flip through them and search for what you need and it saves tons of space.

 

Im going to try that ziplock and cardstock method once I get motivated. Good stuff that!

 

I just have one container for all my doll's clothes, but as of now, it's getting pretty full, probably because of my poor organizational skills. I might just have to buy another storage box for their clothes!

 

I like to use plastic pill boxes from the dollar store to organize eyes. I used to have a beading hobby and I use lots of those compartment containers for different small items like eyes, shoes, jewelry and other small items and accessories for my MSD dolls. I use ziplock slider baggies to organize clothes separately by season. I like using the large plastic rolling drawers to hold everything where I can get to it conveniently or move it around if I need to.

 

In the past I have used lots of different containers I have used snap wear containers and sorted by size or type of item I was storing. I got a small desktop size organizer with drawers I used to keep eyes in one drawer ect ect. I have bins I kept clothes in, and baggies and you name it I have tried it. I am downsizing right now so I am also downsizing the 'extras' that come with dollie ownership. I have a bag of wigs and clothes I am going to be taking to a meet up in the future to try to sell what is left I will post on here. I have managed to streamline what I am keeping and have folded, and sorted it and EVERYTHING fits in one of my doll boxes. So I have one doll box on the shelf with all my clothes and extra eyes and wigs and face up covers and hats and shoes and yada yada yada are there....and I hope to keep it so i stays confined....wish me luck!

 

I keep event boxes when i get extras from a doll order and fold the clothes and store them in the boxes in side a bigger box i have so everything is organized and neat.

 

I have a gallon sized plastic bag for each doll's clothes, another for all shoes, another for wigs, a box for eyes. And all of that is stored in a box that my fishtank came in. Random extra props and such are just in the box, no bag.

 

I may adapt this to my tinies. The wee ones could even work well with index cards!

 

My dolls are on a bookshelf stored in my closet away from sunlight. Doll clothing are packed in plastic baggies and stored in a air tight storage bin since I recently moved in with my father who smokes. (trying to ask him to stop)