rant: BJD family planning

Originally, I wanted one doll. My current, and that would be that. I always thought I only needed one, and that I'd feel uncomrortable with any more than that. Well, as it happens, my planned doll family is up to five, now.
Started with DnD Milk. Got a resin-obitsu hybrid this year. Waiting for BBB Lucky, and saving for PKF Zoe and Dollfactory Elf Beau. I think I'm in way over my head! But all this collecting and planning is addictive.

 

Yes, it's happened to me. Originally I wanted only PukiPuki's in my collection for my 1:12 dollhouse hobby. Then I discovered the PKFs and so my first bjd ended up being PKF Bonnie instead. My PKFs being 6 inches couldn't necessarily live in the house but I was ok with it because I fell in love with her and her size. So my plans for inhabitants in my dollhouse were put in the backburner.

Next, I ended up with another PKF because I just couldn't resist her I immediately made her the sister to my first. Within the same month I ended up, finally, adopting the PukiPuki I had first wanted but, because I was so focused on my PkFs and their story lines, I now didn't know how or whether to include her in my dollie family because she was so tiny and didn't look anyting like my PKFs (she's a Choco Puki Piki). So, to help that dilemma out I adopted a second ChocoPuki to be "cousins" with her so she wouldn't feel so alone. Within a year of this hobby I now have 3 PKFs that are related and a Chocopuki that now lives on her own in a 1:12 scale dollhouse. I ended up selling her cousin because I couldn't bond with her and it seemed my 1st choco puki was meant to live on her own.

Also, I thought having a boy PKF would be cute but they all were obvious girls until I received my 3rd PKF. I tried bonding with her. Bought a whole wardrobe with a character in mind for her before she even got home (which I normally don't do) and what happened? We didn't bond. It took 2 tries before I realized the girl I planned for, wanted to be a boy! Happily, I obliged!!
PKF Zoe with custom face-up-->Morgan-->Princeton-->Devon (a boy)

My dilemma as of today is that now I have another 2 dolls coming in. I fell in love with a 4th Pkf so I had to have her despite the fact that I didn't have plans for my current PKFs to have more siblings. I easily remedied this by making my 4th incoming PKF a neighbor, not a sibling. What's my problem then? I'm now venturing into the LTF size and I'm soooo excited to have her home soon but have no idea where her place in the family will be. Her height and the fact that I never believed I'd get her, therefore never planned for her, is catching me off guard. So, I'm resolving to wait to see who she "wants" to be once she's here and just roll with it since I believe dolls have a way of letting you know who they are. I guess she'll let me know....

 

I changed my dolly plans more times that I can count. I originally never planned to have more than one BJD even! It's fun to plan stuff out though. I just don't like it so much when I find the perfect outfit online for a doll that I have yet to purchase... because I always end up buying it and then I think, what if I decide I don't want this doll anymore and none of my other dolls will fit into this stuff? Eeps!

 

YES! Gosh, so yes! But it wasn't necessarily seeing the doll sculpt that did it for me..

My dolls are characters from my book series. In the beginning, I only had plans for the first book in the series and I had three characters from that series that I wanted to make. I was going to have a neat, little collection of three dolls.

BUT THEN

My mind went crazy and over-active, and I came up with this character that I LOVED but would not be able to squish into the first book....so I decided my book would have a sequel...which ended up with me popping out a twin for my original 'new' character and an extra on the side...and so it went on until I had four books in the planning stage and a list of TEN dolls that I needed to get. Sigh. Then I impulse bought a doll to be the daughter of one of my first dolls, and I know for a fact that I'm getting a Resinsoul Bao for Christmas...so...twelve dolls...hmmm

 

Yeah... I originally planned to only have one. Now I have four and two shared ones on the way. That's the "problem" with BJDs, one just isn't enough, there's always that one out there you MUST have. It can get really annoying. After the next two arrive (one was ordered two months ago and the other is one my girlfriend's been wanting for ages) I'm not buying any new dolls for at least a year. I need to save my money for other things, like rent, car payments, and trips to Europe...

 

YES. Happens to me all the dang time. It's how I wound up with 12 dolls and an entire long list of others I want too. Some examples of random things that have thrown my plans for a loop:

- The characters of Hotaru, Kaoru, and Akira popped into my head at random, with no previous plans. I wound up buying them within a few weeks to a couple of months of coming up with the characters. Akira wound up being my first non-Luts doll.
- Siofra came into my collection because I had wanted one of the Dollmore Model Dolls with a Glamour Bust for a while, and she was the first one that popped up with a face and outfit I also liked (I had liked others before but they were all sold out by the time I discovered them). I didn't even have a character for her when I bought the doll.
- None of my characters past Harumei and Ryuuki, my first two characters/dolls, had been planned at the beginning. ALL of them cropped up as I went along.

So yeah...I know the feeling :p

 

I have changing my wishlist so many times. First it was Oasisdoll Natalie and Crobidoll Zack. Then I scrapped them off when my style change. My new wishlist was Iplehouse Asa and Carina and Soa. Then it changed again and became Iplehouse Vito and Amy. Thank goodness I haven't bought anything yet or i will be really regretting. But it isn't changing again. Vito and Amy are on my wishlist for good until I got them in flesh, erm no, resin.

 

This has happened to me, already, and I'm still fresh to the hobby!

I've got a list of dolls planned or semi-planned out for the future. I even have them organized by the order I'm going to purchase them. I had it all planned out, then I saw a LUTS Honey Delf I wanted. So, I bought him before the DoC I was going to buy. The DoC was actually supposed to be the first, but then I decided I had to have my Iple boy, so...my poor DoC Krill may never get here!

 

For a long time I thought i'd have it set at 2, I'd get 2 vampires (boy and girl) and they'd either be siblings or a couple, I hadn't finalized that detail.

Then I saw the Feilian 3 and I had wanted her so badly from those stock photos, so I figured, OK! i'll get 2 girls and they'll be sisters instead!
As I started looking at feilian's before placing my order, I decided she wasn't for me. She was incredibly beautiful but something i'd been attached to in the Fei3 stock photos was just not carrying over to the real dolls. Some magic was lacking or something.
At the time I could afford to get a doll only if I did it fast, so I decided to order the Yume which my heart had been set on for years.

Since that point my "set" family changed probably 30 times at least.
Currently i'm pretty sure I have it set at a family unit (husband, wife, 2 daughters). Once I get them my resin collection WILL stop.

I eventually realized I don't like having single dolls without a companion, a sibling, or someone to be coupled with.
they seem out of place or lonely. This is something I can do with smaller OT dolls that are much less expensive. But it's not something i can afford to keep on doing with dolls that have a starting price tag of $230....

 

I've just bought my first doll too (about one month ago!) and I'm already planning my own little family with 2 boys and 2 girls, but I can't buy them because my parents don't want me to spend so much money (I'm still 16)

 

I am so far beyond family planning. I'm thinking more about population control at this point. When I bought my first doll [8 months ago]...I thought very carefully about it. Checked my budget, came up with all sorts of explanations for myself for why I needed that doll. Then I started watching them on auctions. A poor little Serendipity Alice came up for sale. She had a broken finger that had been glued back on, and no one was bidding. I bought her for $100 plus $9 shipping. First one was a SD, and Alice was a msd. I felt like I was providing a good home for an unloved child. I still dote on her the most.

After that, there has been an avalanche of dolls. I have high hopes and dreams for them all. Time will tell. Today was the first day I've told myself I have to make some hard choices, one way or another. Just TODAY I ordered Bella and Olivia, msd and SD Doll Chateau. Now, they really ARE different from all the rest. But it is time I choose, either sell some, or stop buying.

I am going to gather my resin village together and see who might want to volunteer for some adventures, and wouldn't mind ^^ a chance to travel the world ~ via our market place. Oh dear.

That won't be easy, but I still NEED to get at least the head of the new Elfdoll sculpts.
I love Sian and Yuan. TeeTh...they are so cool! Gotta have teeth...and on it goes, and goes...

I don't plan to keep all the dolls I have now. I want to make props, clothes, paintings of them, photograph them and make digital art including their images. I am a full time free lance artist so the plan all along was that we would be a working team together. So I knew from the beginning I wasn't planning for just a family of dolls. I'm even working on a grant proposal to get some funds for art made with the dolls.

Gotta dream high. If you aim low, you'll hit that target every time.

 

My plan keeps changing. I'm not getting any dolls until it stops changing.

Although that probably means I'll end up leaving the hobby without ever really starting, but oh well. Better safe than sorry.

 

Well, since I don't really have any fixed plans which dolls I wanna buy - nope, hasn't. But I swear the LLT Ludwig will be the last doll I buy before moving into a larger flat. *gg*

 

At first I was planning on getting only one, an MSD girl. Then I fell in love with Crobidoll's Nia, so I decided I'll get an MSD girl and him. Then me and my friend started a story for our dolls and I eventually found myself looking for Nia's friends. At first I though 'Only 5'. But an other friend (that we were both limiting ourselves to 5) said she wanted to remove the limit because she wanted 6 I think? And so on so forth =v=;;; I have one (and a floating head) for now, but I already have plans for another 5-6 (+ a body for my floating head) and I recently added another to my list TT^TT There's no saving my wallet OTL

 

My friends from Manika Manila (Philippine BJD Community) are always talking about this BJD Family Planning, sometimes we joke about it esp to me and my other friend who got huge BJD Family. Personally, I always hold myself from being an impulsive buyer. I've been into hobby for 5 yrs and I bought my dolls 2-3 per year... When there's a doll I liked, I always think about it, considering what character it will have and what it'll be, will it fit to my current crew and do I really like the doll? When all of that got an answer that will be the time I'll decide if I should really get the doll.

Spacing is important for me... My friend and I agreed/planned that next year is our "break" / "no Dolls for 2012" so that we will have time and money for out other needs...

 

My wishlist and my family have totally changed. I did not initially have more than 4-6 dolls, because I write a story with them. But over time more and more characters were added (in the story). And so the dolls came to me. x3
I've made ​​up my mind that I buy now are very concerned what will and desire only wishdolls!
Currently my wishdoll UNOA Lusis will be only after being given to another.
In the end, yes, my family planning changes very often xDD

Sorry for my bad english. ^^°

 

Actually I never wanted to have a doll family. I wanted one doll, got her and the next doll her company released was limited and *perfect*! ^^ So I got her a companion. Then I got the idea for a character "between" those two and looked for good doll. I decided to make a hybrid since I liked the head of one company but the body was just not the right one. There was a winter event for the company I wanted to get the head from and since I wanted their little event doll, I got the head, another doll that I liked but that was not really planned and the event doll. Then I found a doll here on the marketplace and got it, before even thinking about the character. I also still had to build the character for the other doll I got from the event. Some time after that I got the body for the floating head. And for some time nothing more happened, until I got across another LE I really liked and got her and another doll I didn't really plan but got anyway. Another LE followed and I didn't really have a concept but I really liked her and since she was LE and I got the money I more reacted than thought. I also really wanted and got another doll, even though I had no concept of character for her and she wasn't even in scale with the others.
That's a total of ten dolls, when I didn't really plan any other than the first three. ^^;

 

Has any of this happened to you before? Planning for the perfect family, only to have all the planning spoilt after seeing a different doll or sudden thoughts of doll backstories popping into your head?

YES! All the time! lol I started out planning to have JUST Amir. but he needed a friend so I got Loki. Two "kids". perfect. no more...but.....I needed a girl...and now, almost 4 years later, I thought I had everything planned out perfectly. 18 dolls home or on layaway, 2 more in the works, done. then the floating head I was trying to sell (and had actually bought just to get the body) started growing on me....then my friend got me another floating head I'd been eying for xmas....so now I'm up to 22.....I may never be finished...

 

This happens to me all the time xD
I wont list every doll I wanted and in the end got or changed, etc.
In 2 years I have continually changed my wish list and I kinda end up not really making one anymore xD

My planning is horrible and even if I did follow it I would end up selling the dolls for other ones xP
And that's only thinking about the heads! Planning for bodies and accessories is a pain!! xD

 

Hahaha... I started off with the "ONLY TWO, one boy, one girl; that's IT". I'm still doing well in that I still only have two (it helps that I'm in a continual state of "broke") but I have a few dolls that, should I ever get the chance, I would buy if I have to trade my own limbs for them. Especially Nabarro's Wally, lol. I must've missed him by a month or so, dammit! Unfortunately I can't get any of them now, but should I ever find them.. oh man. It just isn't very easy to stick to a short list when you're bombarded with pictures of lovelies all the time!

That said.. I constantly evaluate my reasons for wanting a new doll, and pretty much, it needs to give me shivers from it's awesomeness to get added to the list. Otherwise the list would be two feet long! :P