I shouldn't be buying things.. but... Mystery bundle!

Yeah yeah, so I was saving and i've been doing so well avoiding temptation but having been hospitalised my self restraint sort of went out the window. I don't feel well, and new dollies cheer me up.

I purchased a couple of small things on Ebay I had wanted for a while as a celebration, but those aren't here yet, but I also stumbled upon a mystery bundle of dolls on Schpock (I'm addicted to Schpock, I need an intervention)

£5 for who knew how many dolls in a big ol' tub. I could only make out a few from the picture. A few reboot bratz, some descendants, a lot of barbies. But I thought it was interesting and I just can't resist a mystery.
for a fiver it was worth a punt.

Turned out the seller was the same lady I bought those decendants 2 dolls from a few months back, she remembered me lol.

So I had a doctor's appointment today and my mother came over to help me out, so I wrangled a lift from her to pick dolls up too. I'm glad I did because omg the bag she gave me was HUGE.

Look at this thing!

I had a rummage in the car but had to wait to get home to really look at it all. heh.

An update:

So i've been AFK for several days.

There's a good reason and i'm so sorry to anyone who's been trying to contact me.

a brief break from the purge

Never fear, I AM still selling stuff. To see the things i've got for sale please check out http://flyingpurplemonkfish.blogspot.com/2018/08/ramping-it-up-on-sales-posts.html

But while I slowly and steadily save up for expensive stuff, I also encountered some interesting things in the charity shop today and being weak as I am, a couple of dollies came home with me (I KNOW i'm WEAK!)

Ramping it up on the sales posts.

OKay I know I got all angsty and blah but days passed and I couldn't stop thinking about those damn dolls.
And if you can't get an idea out of your head, how do you lay it to bed?

So I contacted a few dealers in a last ditch effort thinking "okay, if it's utterly impossible then I can let it go" but it turned out it wasn't quite so impossible as I imagined.

It's going to be bloody difficult certainly, but I now have ACTUAL costs in front of me:

The PURGE - part 2

Here we go, the boxes at the top of the wardrobe!

I did an intial pass over them but if I don't sell enough stuff I may do another more in depth purge. I'd rather not have to though, i'm running low on stuff i'm okay with parting with.

The PURGE - Part 1

Here we go! The purge begins!

This is the boxes at the bottom of my wardrobe, which were the ones I didn't need a chair to access.

Prepare yourself for a lot of uncropped pictures because i'm in a hurry and don't wanna edit pics.

It's time for another purge.

Some readers may wonder, "How does she afford all these dolls?" right?
Well the truth is, often I can't. I pass on a lot of things because I simply cannot afford it.

The budget is tight. I get £75 a month to spend on frivolous junk, which generally in my case means dolls dolls and more dolls. This used to go a long way, but these days it really doesn't go far at all.
Playline prices are absolutely sky high with fashion dolls coming it at around £20 or more for anything even vuagely interesting and I just cannot justify it.

Meanwhile the dolls I like to buy right now, things like bjds and high end collectable dolls are well over £100 EACH. So that means if I want a bjd or something of a similar price I have to save like heck and find money in other places.

Now, often I get money from inlaws and relatives for my birthday and christmas which will get me one or two dolls depending on deals or offers etc, but outside of those times I have to scrape together what I can by selling stuff I already have.

I trawl charity shops for vintage and collectable items, not just for myself but also to sell. Sometimes I find something I desperately wanted or fall in love with, other times I find something I KNOW is worth something to the right people and just needs the right audience.
But i'm not an expert at all dolls and often I do pass on stuff and later realise it was gold (like disney dolls, argh. I do NOT know much about disney dolls and i've missed several absolute treasures as a result)

While I might hit gold every so often though, the majority of the stuff I sell comes from my own collection. Stuff i've held onto for years that's all stacked in boxes in my closet because I don't have the display space.
Every so often I have to do a purge because a big expense comes up, there's something big I want and I cannot make the money the standard way (waiting a month) in time.

this is one such occassion.