Hello doll lovers!! Today's post is another one of my rambling posts, sometimes these turn out good other times you wonder if my sanity has left the building, let's see where this goes..... As you see by the title I am asking the question, where do you draw the line when it comes to collecting. As you can see I am a collector of many things and at times I focus on a certain thing for a while then back off for a bit. Doll collecting has been something that I haven't backed off on for a couple years now. Well.... I did get into collecting pyrex for a while but it was right back to dolls.
As of right now I have about 5 totes of dolls in storage and you know how big totes are and how small dolls are so you can imagine how many dolls I have right now. Now I will say most of them are waiting to be cleaned up and a lot of those will be sold (I hope) but wow that is a lot and I just keep looking for more. I have recently ventured online to purchase dolls which is something I NEVER did but with yard sales not going on and the thrift stores being bare I needed a fix. Which I know sounds bad I mean come on you can't hold off on buying dolls for 6 months...... I told myself that from now on I will not purchase any dolls off line if I can't get them thrifting I don't need them.
Now that problem is solved (I guess) let's talk about the problem with my 5 totes of dolls in storage. First off there are many different types of dolls in my "collection", they range from barbie to monster high to liv dolls to bratz dolls I mean if there was a doll line of something I probably have it. So it got me to thinking exactly what dolls do I really want to collect and the fact that a lot of times I only buy certain dolls because I find them at a good price. That is no good cause then you are collecting everything and driving yourself nuts. I will say that when I was lurking online I looked up a lot of doll lines and thought why are you looking these up??? You don't need anymore and that is just crazy, like if I would have seen them at a good price would I have bought them??? Probably..... And that's a problem.
It's a problem because I have hoarder tendencies anyways (check out my hoarder post on here for that good time) and I just don't need all of the extra items. I can't display any of my dolls right now cause of space issues so they have to be stored then when I do have space they have to be able to fit and buying every good deal doll will not fit in any space. So I have decided to start only buying dolls that I want to collect and nothing extra no matter how good of a deal it is. A good example of this is a couple of posts down I bought a ariel doll that lit up for $2 brand new at walmart because it was a good deal, do I need that in my collection, no I am not 5 (but she is really pretty). The only exception I am making is if I know it will sell good and I can make some money back buying something not in my collection, but this is a slippery slope because most of the dolls I ended up with are dolls that I thought would sell well. Guess I am just going to have to manage my expectations and keep myself in check 2021 needs to be the year I say no to myself and mean it!
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