No-Buy, Low-Buy?

I'd say I'm on no-buy for dolls, not sure about clothes and accessories and such though! Then again, gotta start from scratch with wigs and shoes and eyes and things.

With the dolls, it's a matter of room. My apartment's not huge; two MSDs is pushing its limits. I certainly have nowhere to display them. (The off-topic dolls took up one of the few available spots, but it's in the sunshine anyways so...) Besides, I haven't seen any as immediately "Holy crap, I love those!" as the current two, which is now my standard for whether I'll let myself consider buying a doll. So for now, only casually looking at dolls and putting my effort into working on mine.

With clothes/wigs/etc, I'm just focused on getting the two of them set up for now! Once I've got some stuff I can't really make myself, I'll probably shift into trying to make things on my own. Work on my sewing skills, use up the random balls of yarn filling my stash. Hopefully I can work on destashing some fabric and yarn, because my storage for those is full!

 

I think I'm pretty good with the resin I have actually, so I don't really feel the urge to buy more.

But there are tons of other stuff I am eyeing on the crafting front!

 

I never did, but I am planning to! I've noticed that I am more stressed about having any more dolls now that I have around 10, and I think my ideal number is around 15. So now on it is only very specific OC dolls that I want to buy dolls for. There are only 2 more, all the other dolls are already ordered or booked with the artist. Sometimes I feel anxious about the fact that I only get to pick one female and one male more, and I need to pass on all the pretty future dolls in this era when everyone is sculpting something!

 

I am currently in a reeeally low-buy situation because I am also saving up for important stuff. So, I can only invest low amount in hobbies. I promised myself too that I won't get more than four dolls. Either I will buy another one until the previous dolls are completed.

 

I'm pretty much always Low Buy as I'm lucky if I get a new doll every year lol I just can't afford to keep up with most people in this hobby. I need to know where some of y'all work so I can get a job there too!

 

@M_Kun009 I simply graduated and got a job other than the scholarship lol Still, I don't own super expensie dolls, just average/slightly below the average (considering their price vs size ratio). Anyway, it's not about the quantity but quality, so perhaps your one doll a year means three dolls for someone else for the same money. Like everything in the hobby, this also depends on many things. I hope you're happy with every doll even if it's one doll per year "only"

That being said, yes, I'd say I'm no buy-high sell. I decided to declutter a lot and not just my bjds, but my barbies too. I now look at my collection and like it a lot more. It has a lot more of those dolls I looove and not just 'I guess I kinda like". My current crew still needs some refining/trimming but I'm doing fine and having my share of fun. I noticed I like having fewer also because I don't like it when one doll gets all the attention and other get none. So, when I dress them up, I always want to make sure that none of them "feels" unfairly treated and dressed worse than the other ones. However, since I sold many of my dolly clothes, I have barely few to clothe my dolls. So, the fewer resin butts I have to clothe, the prettier each of them is dressed lol

But I got to say, I am really happy. I think I'd been low-key addicted to purchasing new items and always having something in the mail/checking the tracking number etc. Now I try to prolong the 'nothing in transit' moments and order things only when I really, really need them (so particular craft supplies to finish up some projects or particular type of dolly shoes I'd been looking forward to buying for ages).

Often, I also upgrade and exchange things. E.g. recently I bought a pair of shoes (and yes, I'd promised myself no more of these) but they were super similar (and even better!) than a pair I'd wanted to buy when the seller informed me that it's sold out. However, I have another pair among my current doolly shoe collection that I should part with as soon as this one arrives. Kind of 'one in-one out' rule, except for that I like to go by "one in - as many as possible out" lol

And now I look at my decluttered collection (the topic on 'refining it has inspired me) and I love it soo much more I don't need other dolls when those I have make me so happy

 

I went through a several year stint of no/low-buying. I'd get maybe 1 doll a year plus an outfit, wig, and eyes, then promptly stick them in my dolly cabinet and not touch them again. Recently I've gotten into a high buying period, but that's because I finally decided to do a big declutter on the dolls I wasn't interested in anymore and transition over to fleshing out the projects that I actually enjoy. It's amazing how many doll funds come rolling in when you decide to sell half your collection on a whim!

 

Nope. I mainly do layaways. (Stretch out the payments, and helps with the wait time tbh.) So if I see it and have the down ill get it.
The time in-between the layaways is my 'no pay' period I guess cause I go through period where there just is not any sculpts that jump up and yell 'buy me.' (Im thankfully very picky, despite having little impulse control.)

I probably should do a no pay for a few months though. I recently threw my entire bank account and my kidney at dollchateau and have four new dollies coming in that will all need outfits sewn and faces painted. And I wanna focus on them for a while rather than worrying about new anything. D:

 

I am still waiting on two dolls to arrive. One is from a preorder from December, and the other has been stuck in customs. I just bought several dolls, and I am iffy on the last two I got. I am not really feeling them and debating on selling them. After this though I am going on a no buy, because we want to move, and I don't want to have to move even more dolls than what I already have.

 

I don't know if I well answer but as I'm difficult in my choices of dolls, I don't buy news dolls often (after all, 2 off dolls topic last year and one petdoll this year... ) but I wish to take care the ones I already have. And, I think, we appreciated more your new dolls when they are rares.

 

I’m currently on a resin low buy stint, I have a small list of acceptable purchases if they pop up for sale, but I just headed back to school and have severely decreased my fun money leaving my doll hobby savings stagnated It was a tad depressing to decide but it’s only for a short time and I can focus on improving my face up and wig making skills

 

Everytime I tell myself to do a no buy for awhile and focus on my girls getting them dressed and completed then a doll I have wanted for awhile shows up. Then it all goes out the window.