The Confession Booth

[gnomie]

I have encountered the final sin that is stereotyped for a BJD collector. According to Encyclopedia Dramatica (18+ webpage), one of the big traits of a bjd owner is to sell their doll in order to get a new one. So, it's kinda related, I guess. Well, mine is even worse. I purchased a DOD Grey Kalix in a forum marketplace. A doll that I have been wanting to get since it came out. I had the money to buy it. I DID! But, I took a gamble that I thought was a small one at the time. NO REAL COOSH MONEY.
Karma bit me and everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. Like loosing my job, having car problems, and bills. Oh, the bloody bills!
Has anyone else out there been foolish enough to pull a stunt like this before? Am I the only weirdo O_O ? If so, what did you do to keep your precious resin? Did you win the fight or loose?

(If anyone responds, I will send updates on my epic dolly saga. )

[Greyhaunt]

Well, yes and no. I mean, I haven't had a string of catastrophes like that happen, but I have spent money on a doll only to turn around and need it to pay the vet bill from a suddenly ill pet.

The thing about selling a doll to pay bills is that inevitably you can't sell it uber fast because most people don't have the total up front, or you have to drop the price until you are losing money and in the end it doesn't help enough to be worth the loss of something you really wanted.

I say don't sell - you'll only regret it.

I always thought the final stereotyped sin was using your dolls as substitutes for sex toys and I'm reeeeaaally hoping that A) no one here does that and B) if they do, they don't confess!

[Resu]

Selling my doll for a new one? Heck yeah, I've done that many times (and I'm bound to do that again eventually), at least in the sense that the current doll's sculpt doesn't work for me anymore or I just get tired of the specific character.

Then again, I don't think my doing that is something specific to this hobby alone Long before I found the doll hobby, I scrapped many characters that I've written simply because I was tired of them.

[victoriavictrix]

I sold most of my Barbies to get BJDs, and have sold off dolls that didn't work for a character after I saw them to try again. So, meh, I very much doubt that is a sin.

However I would sell off every bit of my collection if I even thought we had no cushion money.

[DollyKim]

There's a sign over my door that says: ONCE YOU'RE HERE, YOU'RE HERE FOREVER I've given older played with dolls away but never sold one to pay for another, I can never see that happening. Growing up I was lucky to get what I got in the first place and learned to deal with it, now it's hard fighting the "something better" demon but never with the dolls. They aren't allowed to have that problem, except with Svetlana's 3 different Barbie bods waiting for the perfect knees.

I do fear that something stupid will happen to the car to take up my doll money, that's happened all the previous times with the Dollzone Xmas promotion. Last year it was bald tires, over loaded van, what's that noise, all I got for Xmas was a replacement gas tank X<

[Iwa_Hoshi]

There's a sign over my door that says: ONCE YOU'RE HERE, YOU'RE HERE FOREVER<

This sounds like an episode of Twilight zone.

I sold off the excess part of my figurine collection, mainly the characters i don't really care for. Even then they don't go for much and there's still leftovers >_<. Need to find time to rent a locker and sell them off again.
Now that I have dolls, the favored figurines and smaller action figures are in display cases. The only regret i have was throwing away some of my toys when I was much younger (She-ra and co in particular, a certain Barbie dress, Some of the TMNT)

[Stormlight]

Oh, I've done that. Or, I should say, I bought a doll I wanted for a particular character, thinking s/he'd be perfect, only to decide s/he wasn't and buying ANOTHER sculpt, instead. I've done that twice so far. However, I haven't tried to sell the first sculpts yet, although I really should because my collection is expanding beyond what I actually have room for. ^^;

If they were tinies, that'd be one thing. But these two characters are SD sized so I've now got nine SDs, not including floating heads and all the tinies and MSDs I have. It's just a little ... crowded. lol

Maybe one of these days I'll sell the two who didn't work, but the problem is I still LIKE them, even if they aren't the characters I'd bought them for. Darn me and my packrat tendancies. ^^;

[DollyKim]

Keep 'em if you love 'em. Dorobo Joe took awhile to find his purpose, outside of his skin tone, but he's still here.

[Kirahfaye]

Well, I'm kind of know by my local meet-up group as the member who runs through dolls! LOL! I have no problem selling a doll to get another one. I've done it many times and I've only been collecting for 1 1/2 years!

And I have had to use my dolly money for emergencies and such. Our TV died a while back and all my doll savings went to replace it. When we had to take our dog to the emergency vet, I helped out with doll money. And I offered to pay part of the cost of our new puppy out of my doll fund, also.

[delbelcoure]

I would sell my dolls to raise money for household expenses. I have sold my dolls to buy new dolls. My Pleasant Company Samantha paid for quite a lot of my Dollfie Dream. I cull my belongings regularly in order to have room for us all to live. I'm still a pack rat to some extent, but on good days I'm a tidy packrat
So I guess the gist of this is - sell your dolls or keep them there's no problem with either choice, or both choices, each used at the appropriate time.
Susan