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MAN this order took a while to get here.

I preordered this girl on Oct12th via Amazon.

Now this was a gamble as last time I preordered with them they "forgot" to dispatch for like a week after stock appeared for next day delivery on the site so I was pretty pissed.

But the release date was SUPPOSED to be the 26th.

So the 26th came and went, still no stock.

I kept checking. Smyths came into stock briefly then went out of stock again.
Amazon still had no stock.

the 28th came and I finally got an email "your amazon order will be delivered today before 8pm!"
awesome, I thought. I'll wait in for it.

Oh I should have known. I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN.

at 5pm after no courier showing up I got another email from Amazon. "we have been unable to obtain your order and don't know when more will be in stock."

so... what happened to "will be delivered today"?

So I got them on private chat to complain about this bullshittery. For bullshittery it certainly IS.
Waiting in for a parcel that never bloody existed because Amazon are a bunch of lying twits unable to manage their own damn preorder process. -_-

this is the third time they've fucked up a preorder for me. Yes, third.
I often wonder why I bother preordering with them when they seem to be utterly incompetent at it.

So Amazon gave me a £5 "sorry we lied to you and made you waste a day" voucher (BAH) and I cancelled the order as they had no idea when they'd get more stock (they still haven't) and Smyths DID have stock.

So I ordered via Smyths and it dispatched next day and arrived promptly the day after via Hermes (not my ideal choice of courier but oh well)

But FINALLY this meant my damn doll was here!

So after that damn rigmorale, let's see if she was worth the wait.

Ebay is dangerous

I mean seriously, I need to block it. It's too tempting.

More Charity and Ebay funtimes.

Some of this is actually stuff I was supposed to add to the last lot but I sort of forgot and it went live before I could edit.

Whoops.

I'm a bum okay?

Anyway,

i've been TRYING to be good with spending, I still have one more downpayment on this bjd layaway but man, poor mental health combined with interesting things hitting shelves after a looooong drought, it just.... it makes it really difficult not to spend money.

And charity shops are my biggest weakness.

Maybe thankfully our local charity shop doesn't get dolls in that often anymore and those they DO get in are often massively overpriced (£4 for a barbie doll? Are you crazy?) so that does rather ease the burden on my wallet.

Still,

let's delve into this

Another stuff I bought this month post!

The real problem with buying something on preorder is the wait. You're waiting months for something you had to pay for up front, so not only do you not have the thing, you also have like... no money either.

It's frustrating and kinda stressful.

then Mattel barges in with new stuff you want and it's like "WHY!???"

it's made worse when fate decides that this is the point all those things you've been lusting after for ages should pop up on Ebay as well.

I swear the universe loves it when i'm broke. It loves to MOCK ME.

Anyway, here's the stuff I bought this month that I probably couldn't afford but whatever:

Creatable World by Mattel

Well Mattel dropped this on the world suddenly and out of nowhere huh?

All "SURPRISE!"

I like to imagine jazz hands.

In case you haven't seen the bajillion bloody news articles already talking about this, or the several paid reviews mattel flooded Youtube with, Creatable World is a new Mattel line of 10-11 inch scale dolls designed for everyone.
Boys, girls, whatever, dolls are for "KIDS" they say (nah bro, dolls are for everyone!)

Anyway, they're being marketed as gender neutral dolls who can be whatever you want them to be, which is nice.

They sold out on Amazon pretty fast so I had to trek out to Argos to pick up my first one. I wanted two but I only had enough for one so yeah.

For some reason Mattel are shipping these in individual shippers, one doll per box which feels a little wasteful but I suppose it allows them to very precisely distribute exactly which ones are most popular to the right areas or something.

Anyway, let's get down to this!

Wild hearts Crew by Mattel

Mattel annouced these a few months back to a lot of excitement, rapidly quashed when we all found out they were store exclusives and worse, US ONLY exclusives.

BOoo hisssss.

But I really do love me some alternative dolls with interesting hair so I sort of put a cheeky bid in on a couple on ebay and sort of... accidentally... ended up winning.
Oops?

Import fees were a bit painful but considering this line is fairly unlikely to get a global rollout (haha watch, that'll happen now!) i'm glad at least to have my hands on two of the set.

Stuff I bought

I'm not supposed to be buying stuff, i'm kinda stressing about money and I have a big layaway i'm slowly paying off but you know me, i'm weak and when i'm feeling a bit down well... stuff happens.

Also when I am trying to be good all the great deals hit. ARGH...

So here's the things I bought this month/stuff I fixed up: