One doll is good enough!....or Is it?

To me, BJDs are like chips: you can't have just one. You fall in love with a beauty, get it and adore it, and then suddenly the doll world seems to open up, spilling its glorious contents onto you and showering your eyes with beautiful dolls.

Okay, slight exaggeration. But if you think you can stop at just one, you're wrong. Poor thing would convince you of its loneliness.

 

My mother was my first enabler with exactly this logic. I was terrified to order a first -- I don't often spend big money on things*, and when I was buying my first, I thought, "It'll just be one." Then I fell in love with another one from the same site, and when I said I couldn't decide between the two, I hear: "Get both then, then they won't be lonely." !!!From my amazingly frugal mother!!! I couldn't help but be surprised, and did end up ordering 'my first' as 'my first pair'.

She then suggested they needed a male companion when I pointed her toward a male sculpt in the same series I liked.

...I very much doubt she expected the growing army that followed.

*...before the dolls, that is.

 

Obitsu are like this they are like lay chips you just can't eat one lol. I well end up with 3 obitsu all together.

 

"..... yes only one not more!!" i say to my mother xDD

Hmm... i failed... xDD There are so much great dolls it`s very difficult to have only one. I think it`s ok to have more than one doll - bjd`s need dollfriends =)

 

I never really planned on having just one doll, but more then three sounds like work to me. Just one seems lonely and limited though.
That being said, I like having projects and if my doll ever became "complete" I would freak out and need a blank canvas. Right now two seems like my perfect number, but who knows how long that will last.

 

I thought I'd only have one. But then I found a beautiful sculpt for a character I was planning on the MP here and that was history haha.

 

I salute those who can keep to one doll. Becuase it sure is hard fighting the itch to get another one.

 

I do not think one is ever enough. At the time you may think so but once you have the doll of your dreams another comes along that you have to have and your mind says well it would be nice for my one doll to have a friend and then low and behold you have two then three and so it goes on.

 

I haven't gotten a BJD yet, I'm still saving but I SWORE that I was only going to be in love with this one company. That I was only going to love SD size dolls-- but then. . .it all came tumbling down. Now that I'm saving I can't help but wonder through site after site like ". . .oooor. I could just get an MSD now-- no no must resist!! It'll be worth it when she comes in!"

 

I never even tried to deceive myself or others on that front! I knew full well I would never be able to stop at just one. When my mother asked me, "And this will be the ONLY huge doll in our house?" my reply was... "For now, yes."
There was six months between the arrival of my first and second dolls. Number three is on his way.

Sitting back now and watching my friends and sister-in-law buy their first dolls, when they try to tell me "Oh, no, I really only need one. I mean, you can change their wigs and clothes, so one is all I need."
I just laugh... and tell them good luck.

 

I've never been interested in only having one doll. When I got my first, with her character I had the idea of a family concept, so I've always wanted to expand lol.

 

I only have one doll to this day, and though I still look at other molds from the company he came from, I never felt the need to buy another. I mean, I do find myself checking back on his company's website just to browse or see if they're having an even or a new release, but that's really the extent of it. I think I feel this way because when I was still saving up for my boy, I saved up specifically for the mold I knew I absolutely wanted out of all of the other molds I was considering at the time. It was really worth saving up a little longer for him.

 

I got my first doll in 2007 and had him on his own for five years. He looked really lonely on my shelf and I wanted a girl to dress up so I got him a girlfriend in 2012. Then they had a baby in January because I loved the idea of a tiny new born BJD. Now I have a 70cm boy on the way (my first doll's big brother) because I want to see what an SD feels like and I've bought my mum two dolls of her own too (who she's decided are my first doll's sister and nephew). I suppose in a way I can't resist the lure of having a bit of variety - size wise, gender wise, style wise - and I really love the idea of my dolls being a family.

 

Uh-oh, I only want one doll. I didn't know about the other stages. I am in trouble X_X

More seriously though, I really do wish that I can just own one doll, and be happy with it. Back when I decided I would get a doll one day I promised myself I would be happy with just one doll (and you actually feel that way), and went as far as to promise that I would sell anything extra if I found a new favourite doll. (For the record, right now I have zero dolls, but am waiting on my first that I've already ordered.)

But I think that's also the reason we can't ever be satisfied with just one doll. We want one "perfect" doll to focus all our love and attention on forever. But a perfect doll doesn't exist. We keep seeing and getting distracted by and falling in love with beautiful new sculpts from different companies, loving each of them for different qualities, which in turn opens our minds to even more preferences we didn't think of before. That makes it even harder to find everything we're looking for in a single doll, and I think in the end we can't even define what perfection in a single doll would be. Even over my own search for my first doll, I've forgotten a little how I wanted my doll to be. I'm already being distracted by many others...

 

At first I said "I only want one, and I'll never sell it. Keep it forever." Well I ended up not liking the one I got! Haha. I sold her and got a different one, and now I am working out buying 5 more... Is there no end?????

 

I too, said "only one!". The price is a problem for me, and I was afraid of neglecting my Angelo.

Now, I might be buying his wife from a friend this weekend. It took a year and half to get this far, but I started thinking about a second at least a year ago. But, it took a while for the situation to work itself out. I not only wanted her because they're a pair, but I really want to put dresses on her. I think that Angelo would be so upset in a dress, so it just wasn't going to work.

And, I know that after I get Angelo's wife, I'll want their kid. And then, I'll want their cousins. And eventually, I'll be getting a Bobobie Sprite, just because I love her so much. But, at least I know that two dolls will be good for a while.

So much for "only one".

 

I said "It's just one doll mom, just one." then one turned into two...You can guess what happened from there. I got a crew now...And I said one resin welp once I get money again I know that's likely not gonna be the case. My boy's got an apprentice/little sister to his character and I'll be darned she'll be coming home too...Least Resinsoul is affordable.

 

I respect those who have one doll. This is definitely a higher rate of development, when there is no race for the number and the ability enjoy the fact that you have already

 

I recently got my First doll last month, and now I'm on the prowl to get him a little buddie, he seems so alone without a friend. Then we add in my side of the story, I just want an excuse for more dolls XD

 

I feel you Rainbow. Dolls need friends too! And sisters and parents... I'm always whispering to myself: "just one more, just one"

But yeah, why stick to one doll if many would make you more happy?