Dollieh Sanctuary

How many dolls do you have in your collection?

All told...19? Not sure, and it will probably go down pretty soon here since I'm thinking of selling a bunch.

I'm guessing because I haven't counted them all in a long time but I think somewhere around 450-500 but they're mostly thrift Barbies and dolls I got for my birthday and Christmas not dolls I bought at full price. I've been seriously collecting dolls since 2002 or so, though I had a couple of Barbie heads and my 2 wet and drink dolls from my childhood before that. My Mom tried to throw them away when I was 10 but I rescued them and hid them. I didn't have that many dolls as a child. 4 or 5 for my whole childhood and my first one I lost in a truly devastating way. I have never forgotten that. That's probably half the reason why I am so nutty about them now, can't stand to give up even one, but I really, really loved them and I wasn't happy when she did that. It was my call to make and I would have never thrown them out on my own. Now, I'm doll crazy. It's play therapy in a way, I suppose. As a kid I barely got to play. My parents were down on toys and real big on chores. Now that I am an adult I make some time to play and have plenty of nice toys.

I do have some Tonner sized dolls but most of my dolls are the 9-12" playline kind. I know several people who resell toys locally too and I'm always getting non-vintage Barbies in trade from them. I know a lot about dolls. Sometimes they pick my brain or I help them out at the flea market and I get paid in dolls. My biggest collections that way are of Barbie and the My Scene dolls though I do have some Bratz, Liv, and Jem dolls and various other dolls like that from Hasbro etc.

Most of them were not the expensive collector's dolls though. I don't go there often. Probably 90% of my Barbie stuff is thrift store/flea market/garage sale finds. I do some auctions but not a lot. I get the big dolls from my family. That's all I ever want for my birthday or for Christmas and they know it. I've got them pretty well trained. They want favorite meals cooked, errands run, computer help, pics taken, or whatever? I get paid in little dolls or Target cards, lol. Big holidays=Big dolls.

Dad actually had me outside today spreading mulch in the front garden and he knows I totally hate yard work. (Besides which sun is toxic to me.) He had to bribe me with the offer of a new 12" doll. I get to go to Target tomorrow to shop! I guess I really should count them again, but I'm kind of afraid to. I mean it's one thing to guess you have a few hundred dolls it's another to know you do to the last proper digit. Hundreds of dolls, that's a "darned doll museum" as my roommate says, but I am unrepentant. I will keep collecting dollies till the day I drop, even if they completely take over the house and I have to ask the roommate to move out....

But it's not as big of an investment as it seems. I'm not one of those doll collector's that drops thousands every year on dolls. Couple, three hundred maybe. I'm a budget doll collector. The "walls have dolls" thing that does kind of fit though. I have to rotate my dolls 3X a year at this point just to give them all out of box time. Sometimes I do feel like maybe I should cut back though. I had to lug the stored ones all out yesterday, all 12 of the 30 gallon storage boxes worth so an electrician could work on the wall behind them. Between that and the mulching my back is just killing me...

7 MSDs and two on layaway, 1 yosd and 1 on layaway, 3 heads, and two Monster Highs. o3o

I have 2 SDs with another on layaway and one in consideration, 1 YoSD, 2 1/2 MSDs (because one is a work in progress that may never be fully customized), 1 resin 1/6, 1 anthro (Freya), 1 Obitsu 1/6 whose body and head are still packaged and 1 tiny.

My daugher has 1 SD, 1 MSD, 1 YoSD, 5 Monster Highs, 1 Dead Doll and 1 Disney princess along with a couple of Livs,

5 MSDs
1 YOSD
1 Tiny
3 21-27cm Obitsus.

Many? My oddest doll is a jointed bone doll from Alaska - perfect pocket size toy, too. My largest is a vintage walking doll by Madame Alexander. Between fashion dolls, balljoint dolls, vintage dolls, antique dolls, and artist dolls I probably have at least 500 myself. I try not to count them, it overwhelms me. But I know all their names! LOLS!

3 SD, 2 MSD, 1 YoSD, 3 Tinies, and three floating heads (2 SD and 1 YoSD). Still quite a collection.

Not counting my 4 to 10 inch action figures - 19

1 x 50cm Obitsu
16x 23-30cm Obitsu ladies, Gretel girls, Volks WTG and hybrided Obitsu/Volks/action figure bodies (2 Medicoms and 2 something that I consider to be more dolls than Action Figures since they have removable clothes and articulation like my dolls )
2 x- Hujoo Freya cats



As for my action figures and my not very articulated sort of dolls that don't make up the current doll team, they probably can't hit 100

Wow. And I thought I had a lot! It's nowhere near the 400 range. Then again, I don't have many Barbies and such anymore and the ones I do still have I don't play with. I consider only my BJDs as part of my collection.

Lessee now: 31 altogether, plus 3 more (bodies) on the way, and one tiny on layaway.

Broken down that makes:

13 SDs, plus the two F60 bodies on order. And I guess my Soom centaur is also technically an SD, although he's shorter than the rest of them. He's definitely longer in the ass, though. lol

7 MSDs, plus the minifee body on order for the floating head

10 tinies of varying sizes, plus the Soom faery legend girl on layaway.

TEH DOLLIEHS ARE TAKIN' OVER!!!!