What is the worst part about being a BJD collector/owner?

Right now there are two thing that i hate the most: the cost and the lack of time to be able to play with my doll T_T

 

The cost is a big drawback for me. Luckily it's a hobby that I love, so my patience to save money is very strong.

 

The worst thing for me is that I have no talent for sewing or crafting. I have so many ideas of things to make for my doll, but I always have to find someone to take on the commission. It can be hard to find individuals with the exact right crafting skill I need for a particular project. Once I get it though I am always so happy and satisfied it makes it worth it! But I still suffer from shame and frustrating that I'm incapable of creating anything myself. Yes, yes "practice makes perfect", I've heard that before. Well, after spending so much money on supplies and winding up with a mishmash of garbage after every attempt (not to mention the immense regret and feeling of personal failure that comes along with that) I'm thinking it's really just more economical and emotionally safe to commission pieces moving forward. The dolls are meant to be customized and help me keep crafty by at least designing ideas, even if I don't execute them, but I think finding the limits of my own craftiness to be so close are probably the worst thing about the hobby to me.

 

Like several people here, I accept the cost.
Someone mentioned the difficulty of finding wigs both the right size and right color. This is what I'm going to go with as my (current) worst part of the hobby. Allow me to add, wigs that are the 'correct' size and don't fit.

I have a very specific idea in mind of what my doll needs for his poor head and I just can't find it. Just going to have to learn how to make them (because my hobby needs a sub-hobby)!

 

I agree with what kollos said about the sizing. Not just wigs but also eyes; some eye sized suggested make a doll look like impending roadkill or the reverse where the eyes sockets are just too small for the eye ball, showing us nothing but iris. Urg.

But kollos also mentioned that the hobby is inspiring a desire for new skills develop, and that's a great thing. But, like Anneke pointed out, it also can show one (quite harshly) were there just is no skill to develop. I have that with modding resin. Big mess; like huge, like URG.

 

Having so save up for a doll you want NOW!

 

The urge to sew, and not being able to. I have attempted sewing countless numbers of times, but just fail every time. But what I am making now, I am definitely going to make it work!! I have to! I spent 6 hours making a sweater for my doll, only to realisze that I made the ugliest thing I have ever seen, and would never consider it "clothing"
On the other hand, I can whip up nice jewelry for my dolls in no time!

 

Before I ordered my doll I thought it wast the price. But now I have ordered her it is the waiting and not being sure if I like her ones I open the box I have watched many pictures and she is gorgeous but what if I don't "bond" with her? Or if I think she is to big?
I also have this hudges fear that I or somebody else will break a doll of mine

 

I do not feel bad about keeping BJDs, but my bank account has something to say XD

 

Hum... for me the worst part is the fact that I'm completely addicted to this hobby. I can't seem to stop wanting more and more clothes, wigs accessories, new dolls... it's never enough. wherever I get a new thing I'm already thinking about what I'm going to buy next. It's weird because I'm completely aware that I'm spending a lot of money on DOLLS, and I do feel like I should try to control myself, but It's never easy. I find myself trying to make up excuses to justify this "compulsion", like... because I'm a professional photographer and illustrator and do use them a lot in my work as drawing a photography models. But sometimes I have a glimpse of mental sanity and can't help to think that it's a bit futile to spend this much money in this kind of stuff. The sanity moment never lasts long though :P
And yes... having to wait so long it's really annoying.

 

Same here!!

But the worst part for me is meets...when the talk turns from dolls to other things. I don't know much of anything about a lot of other subjects so I tend to sit in silence, and feel left out.

 

Like everyone else said,not having enough time or money to do everything I'd like to do with BJDs. Another thing is,just when I think I don't "need" anymore dolls I'll see a beautiful sculpt and obsess over it until I get it. I only intended to buy one doll you know,but certain dolls just won't leave my mind once I see them.

 

Being unable to resist spending money on dolls when I should be saving it for more important things. Also living with parents who don't really understand the hobby; I had one of my dolls sitting with me to watch television one night and my mom said that I was "too old" to be playing with dolls.

 

For me, I suppose the three worst things are these:

1. Once the doll is shipped, I get nuts with worry that the parcel will get smacked around and the doll hurt or lost.
2. The worry that when you buy parts, the resin won't match, or the clothes won't fit, etc.
3. That once you have a character complete, you want more dolls to match that character... And just finding those dolls is really difficult since you have a specific look in mind, and there won't necessarily be any doll out there that looks just like that...

 

Oh dear, yes. That. I currently own a floating head that I modded to look like one of my favourite anime characters. I'm still saving for the body, and yet I find myself already looking for other dolls, suitable to be his companions from the show.

 

The cost is definitely the absolute worst thing about it, I don't care about anything else in the hobby, but it's dolls or food with this hobby

 

For me the worst thing's are:
- Cost for the bigger bjd like the 70cm ones
- The waiting after I save enough buy one
- Wanting a bjd that you can't buy yet because your still saving

 

I have to say that for me, it is the cost, but not necessarily for the doll, but for the accessories that go with it. Since there is no place for me to go and try out things on my doll, I'm taking a chance on ordering an item online that I might not like. Then I usually have to wait weeks for it to get here, and if it turns out to be not what I'm expecting it to be, I have to go through the process all over again. And some of the accessories cost more than what I would pay for the same item for myself. If try to sell the items I don't like, I don't usually get what I paid for them, either. I guess another thing would be not knowing if you can trust the seller, whether it's a doll company or not, because the wait time is usually way longer than the payment method's protection. I always get nervous about that, no matter what their feedback says.

 

Shipping!!!

 

For me, it's cost, and with it falling for Limiteds that have been gone for years, or ones I simply can't afford when they're released.
Second off is always wanting more. That's probably my fault, but of course when you collect it happens.