Great question so let me speak my thoughts and opinions.
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So a family or probably close friends to my family will be able to preserve my memories and since I'm known as an artist, most of my dolls will be treated as one.All of us whoever you are in this world, whatever you are, hope not to spoil too much content, dies. We all die at one point and that is either unexpected or accepted. Whatever happens to my belongings is for the living to take care off since I'm dead, I don't have any physical form to nourished my collections but of course, there are collectors out there that has mini-museums of their collections. If you don't have friends or family members in contact, no one will treasure that memory including what you collected. I don't how your family tradition is but I'm Asian 100% and we abide to a tradition that someone has left their memory in our behalf, on which case my collections. (Unless I possess one of the dolls heheheheh lmao jk)
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I don't know how long have you been a collector or depending on the length, when I was younger, I collect bottlecaps and Yu-gi-oh cards and I still have them today undusted because they're placed in a safest book for cards...
If you've been entering the world of collectors or been there but don't know that there are types of collectors. Passive Collector, Active Collector, Collecteror. Let me explain to you each so you get the understanding.
Passive Collector
These are the collectors that go beyond their limits. They are actively collecting but don't know what to do with the amount of things they collected nor have any knowledge where to put them. They also disregard the limitation of space available for them so most of their collections go on dust or has been contaminated with bateria. Usually collectors on Passive is unhygenic due to the fact they usually find it hard to move around the pile of their collections. We usually call them "Hoarders"
Active Collector
These are collectors with discipline, know their limits, know the capacity, and prioritized the safety of their collections. They are very hygenic and kept the place clean for their collection to stay clean at all times and place them on a place secured and safe for them to last longer. This collector are active in taking good care of collections and keep them looking new all the time.
Collecteror
These are collectors who collect stuffs for a short period of time and disposed them by either selling them, throwing them away, or giving them as a gift. The samples of this behaviours are often present to photographers who collect massive amount of objects specific for Photography until the popularity of the photos dies with it, they either throw away their collection to give room for more. They don't care the worth of the items because they re-earn more cash doing the photographs for the said collections. Usually there are some who preserve it longer since the longer the item is, the rarer they get and more expensive they sell.
Now, which type of collector am I you ask. Well I do a weekly cleaning of my room despite of my busy schedule. I do photographs of my dolls so if they're dusted, it will be shown on my photos. I monthly powder my lifesize dolls while I weekly comb all their hair including my BJD with spray of bottle water and usually take me an hour to do all of their combing. I found it fun since I treat them like my daughters. I pretty much have more space on my house and know my limits although if I want to expand my collection, I need a bigger house or if I can build an annexed to my room.
So since all matches, I'm the Active Collector type. If you collect something and later on sell them, you're a collecteror. If you collect things and don't want to get rid of them but also don't know what to do or care for them, you're a passive collector with a mental illness called "Hoarder."
I hope you got my pointers.
My family and friends are okay with my doll collections so that's a plus. As long as I'm not collecting drugs, gun collections, etc. they're okay with it so this indicate to me that they know how much I love my hobby and how much I treasure them. I make money with my dolls, is there so much to say how much they're important to me?
As for life size doll collection, I'm planning to do an Asian race doll collection.
Here are the dolls in my check list chart::
The one with green checks are the dolls I already acquired while the red marks are the dolls I'm planning to get.
After that, I'll just focus more on BJDs, etc. until my capacity or limit is reach but it will take me years to get all the Asian dolls and since more dolls coming, it would a difficult task but since this dolls on my chart are based of my favorite Asian actresses, models, personality, which are famous in specific country and my Asia top 1 would still be Japan's Inoue Mao.
As you can see the similarities of this Asian Actresses to the dolls I'm going to collect. Because of that and I'm a big fan of them is adding another reason to collect them.
Hope you enjoy my response. C: