The endless craving for a "new" BJD

my word, no, just the opposite. Attached to every purchase was also immediately the stress of: "Ok, once she arrives she will need all this sewing and painting work, ande where will I find the time and energy, even though I would love to have more of said time and energy..."

And the wait was long but also a postponement of having to invest. Because why buy such an expensive toy if you aren't going to spend a lot of time with it, was my pressure.
I still managed to go through it 12 times over the years


But life is not slowing down at all, if anything it is getting more and more hectic and busy.

So I am not buying any dolls anymore. Just will try to eek out some time for the ones already here.

It's actually a sense of freedom.

 

I am a bit ahead of you and I still want them all!!!

 

I haven't even gotten my first bjd yet and I'm craving anything and everything out there. As much as I'd love to own so many, I can't justify splurging all my money on them knowing I have real life things to pay for. Crossing my fingers I'll win the lottery someday

 

The trouble is, there are so many kinds of BJDs - so many different sizes, different aesthetics, different companies and artists. I love dolls so much that I'm just really curious about all sorts of dolls. There are some that don't attract me at all; those are easy. But I wish I could have a gazillion types of dolls - mostly, I guess, different bodies.

I am glad to say I am calming down a bit (I bought 'only' one doll this year and am waiting for another ordered in December 2014; I easily got six or so dolls a year in my first years in the hobby), but my curiosity remains. I have trouble imagining that I will stop wanting new dolls...

 

[MENTION=69959]Chaz[/MENTION] Same! I only have pullips and co at the moment, though im super craving a bjd. As ive recently created 7 OC's for my 7 most wanted bjd's XD I don't know if im crazy doing that.

 

Right now I'm focused on wanting to get those few last dolls home so that I can be done with collecting. I've been in the hobby for quite awhile and my tastes have changed and refined over that time. But now I feel that I truly have it down and have chosen the perfect crew for myself...a dozen "forever" dolls that tell all the stories I want to tell. Unfortunately, this summer the remaining limited dolls on my wish list suddenly became available all at once and it's been a mad dash to bring them all home! After many years of getting a few dolls here and a few dolls there, I found myself suddenly in layaway hell. Fingers crossed I'll survive the summer, but after that I swear I'm done. I never got into this hobby wanting to actively collect forever...I always looked forward to there being an end to the perfect collection.

 

I think I'm addicted to getting packages in the mail -- the thrill of the new. Some days there'd be 2, 3 dolls arriving at once!

I've slowed down the past couple of years, and tried not to look at too many different company websites, though I browse the Marketplace regularly to see what's being offered. Thankfully, most of the time the dolls aren't of much interest to me, though I do have a running list of thread subscriptions, just to see what happens to them. I breathe a sigh of relief when one is marked "finished"; temptation removed! Still, temptations arise, and sometimes I'm successful in talking myself out of them, and sometimes not...

 

I honestly thought I'd have this feeling forever... but even though there are a lot of beautiful dolls that it would be nice to have since I finally got a new body for one of my dolls (I really wanted her to be short), the desire for new dolls is just gone. Now all I want is to make the ones I have super amazing. I was even planning three new potential dolls right up until I got the new body and now I just don't care.

It might come back eventually, but for now I'm quite content with what I have.

 

Just started collecting bjds about a month ago (when my first bjd arrived) and I still feel the urge to order more when I see sculpts that I like. It only gets worse when the sculpts fit the characters I have in mind!

 

Yes, the struggle against that craving is real... Especially because I like different sized dolls, and I can't have just one of a particular size...

 

[MENTION=70229]thekpopwolf[/MENTION] Haha I've created OC's for unowned dolls too! Makes it even worse because then you want them even more! I feel your pain

 

I'm only craving for some dolls. Not every new dolls can make me feel struggling to have them. In fact, most of my wish lists are the limited doll which had been sold out for ages and most of them are not that popular, so there is just a few possibility for having them even as a second hand T_T!!

By the way, every time I got my new doll, I feel extremely excited to unbox the doll despite, I already had seen it so many times in the review photos / videos. Lol~

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I always want more!!! If I won lotto.... Sigh...

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ah...
i told myself
this ends my crave and i will be good for a LONGGG time
it always turn out untrue


sometimes i wonder if it is because i keep on looking at other ppl's dolls
if i just live in my own world
maybe my crave will not appear

 

Sometimes I'll look at one that's not on the wishlist and obsess over them for a week or so, but that's about it. I'm very dedicated to buying certain sculpts.

 

I don't crave anymore. I did when I first came into the hobby as it was all new to me. Then I am slowly realising that, if I need one more doll, it would be an extremely good one which fits within my BJD family.
I am more interested in sewing and doing/touching up the face ups of the ones I've got, and making the outfits that suit each personality. I'd would like to go back to my other interests too and even if BJDs are now mostly the recipients of what I make, I am welcoming the lull of not buying any.
I am still surfing the net to check if beautiful new BJDs are being created, but it isn't with the same feeling.

 

To be honest, for the time beign i'd like to buy no more dolls and truly stop for a while. But, in a year's time I'd like to buy the doll I should have started with and dreamt of for a year at the beginning of my interest in the bjds The hardest part is: I have enough money to buy several, but I can't because they'll eventually go to something else that i have to wait with because of reasons (life and that 'non-buying' is like... super-difficult v.v

 

I'd like to think that I want the doll for itself and my plans for having that doll... Wanting a doll just because it is new just seem shallow to me--but sometimes I wonder if I like the excitement and the shopping around aspects a bit too much!

 

Yes, there is always someone else I want, no matter whom I have on order, or whom I just got. I always already have someone else on my want list. I am addicted and I admit it.

 

^^^^^ This is exactly my problem, especially as an extremely creative person! I just love making Ocs for dolls-- a bit too much lol.