Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

It was snowing lightly when I started up the game today; that was a nice surprise. And thanks to the time of day, I was treated to the snowy version of the 5 p.m. theme. 😍

When I checked my mail, I found a goodbye letter from Wolfgang. The weird part is that I just got a goodbye letter from a different wolf yesterday in City Folk! Fang left me in ACCF, and Wolfgang left me here.

But the pleasant vibes didn’t last long. Moments later, Candi informed me that she was going to take my amber (one of my fossils I just got back in the mail) and there was nothing I could do about it. 😡

She offered me a cowhide rug or a playroom wall for it, but that’s not the point. I hate how villagers can just decide to take something from you. So I had to exact my revenge, by pushing her into the river. It’s a good thing that she lives next to this bridge!

Today is Sale Day (Black Friday, aka the day after Thanksgiving), so Tom Nook has some special grab bags up for sale.

The cost for each grab bag is equal to the current year, so they cost 2,025 bells apiece this year. That means the grab bags may be the only example of inflation in the Animal Crossing series (at least within one single game), where the price goes up every year. (Not that one bell a year is much.)

But I bought three grab bags (6,075 bells in total), and each one contains three items. Here’s what I got:

• Grab bag 1: puzzling shirt, parlor wall, red tile
• Grab bag 2: green lamp, classic clock, watermelon table
• Grab bag 3: kitschy wall, flame shirt, red tile

Unfortunately, there was nothing I really wanted…so I sold the stuff all back to Tom Nook. He paid me a total of 3,045 bells, which was almost exactly half of what I paid.

Back outside, Genji was talking about the snow. He even told me I should make a snowman! But there needs to be snow on the ground before I can do that!

Belle the cow showed me a letter she got from a tree enthusiast, and I enjoyed it for a few reasons…

First, there’s the nice accidental rhyme (Live well, Belle). And the descriptive language about life’s “creamy middle” almost sounds like a piece of chocolate…perhaps milk chocolate. And the clouds on the stationery matched the clouds on my misty shirt.

Baabara asked me for a new catchphrase to replace “daahling.” After some thought, I told her to say “I’m fluffy.” She didn’t seem to trust me (I wonder why), but she had no choice. 😛

Another feature of Sale Day is the guaranteed appearance of Crazy Redd’s tent. While I briefly considered buying out all his stock to activate the disappearing Crazy Redd glitch, I quickly changed my mind when I saw his prices today.

Over in Acre B-1, I met up with Wolfgang’s replacement: Oxford the bull. He said it’s best to stay indoors on nights like this…even though he was standing out in the snow anyway.

He has lived in Forest before, back in 2013.

I met up with Tom over by the dump. He said the best thing about the fishing tournament is Chip, who he called a “raving lunatic beaver.” Wow!

Unfortunately, he didn’t elaborate on why he thinks Chip is such a raving lunatic. I would’ve loved to have heard some stories!

See you all in December! Happy Holidays, everyone!

Last Wednesday (October 22nd), I received a goodbye letter from Rocco in the mail. I’m glad it was him that moved out, and not cute Hazel.

Static asked me if I’ve eaten any of the wild mushrooms this year.

But I haven’t eaten any, nor have I found any. But that’s because I haven’t looked for them; I haven’t played that early anyway. Static noted that he hasn’t seen Tom Nook sell any of them at the shop, so he thinks “Tommy boy” is keeping them for himself! 😆

A few minutes later, I met Rocco’s replacement, Wolfgang. He greeted me with a snarl.

He previously lived in Forest back in 2012, but he didn’t stick around long. Not that many villagers do, aside from the “Permanent 13.”

I had a little chat with Genji near a cliff, and he mentioned getting a good look at me. Ironically, I couldn’t see him at all where he was standing!

But he was just chatting about Halloween, saying he may play some tricks on me this year. However, I probably won’t be playing this game on Halloween.

Ursala promised me 1,950 bells if I answered a question correctly. But I did answer it correctly, and she refused to pay up.

On Thursday, I got a letter from Mom in the mail. She said she’s going to start dyeing her hair purple to cover up her grays! 😮

Genji told me his catchphrase “otaku” might be going out of style, so he asked for a new one. I tried to think of something really random, so I told him to say “onions.” But only used it a couple times before deciding that it, too, was going out of style.

I wasn’t really to completely ditch the theme without giving it a chance, so I told him to say “with onion” instead.

Today, I received another letter from Mom. This one reminded me to use the bathroom before going to sleep, so I don’t want to end up like poor Uncle Dweezil. 😛

Genji told me that if I leave the village for too long, it gets overrun with weeds. He said they make the town look really shabby, with onion.

I found Gulliver washed up on the shore, and he gave me a stone coin.

When I spoke with Hazel, she just recited the time and weather. Then she said she just spaced out for a moment. Is she a robot? Or maybe a video game character? 😉

A few days ago, I posted my latest GameCube Moments video. Here it is:

And yesterday, I posted a video taking a look back at some memorable Halloween moments throughout the Animal Crossing series, from my previous videos. 🎃

Happy Halloween, everyone! I’ll be back with another entry in November!

Last Wednesday (September 3rd), Belle started complimenting my eyes. First, she said they were pretty…but then she changed it to “intense.”

She said I had the eyes of a wrestler, and said they’re not the eyes of someone who does a lot of thinking! Wow, I think that’s rude.

That made me wrestle with the idea of tipping her over, but then she’d be crying over spilled milk. (Just kidding. Be nice to cows.) 😛

Early September is the best time of year for ocean fishing, since there are no sea bass (or jellyfish) in sight. Last year, I waited for a rainy day and then fished for two hours to make a million bells in one night. I didn’t want to do that this time, though. Instead, I played (and fished) a little bit each day. I’ll recap how it all went later in the entry.

Last Thursday, Static informed me that I was looking as awful as ever. (My villagers all seem to love me so much.) He gave me a misty shirt to wear instead, and I decided to put it on.

I found Gulliver down on the beach, and he gave me a gift and said I wouldn’t find anything like it anywhere.

But it was a matryoshka, so I did find something like it…right inside the first one! 😉

As I was speaking with Kody near the wishing well, Tom came up and his face passed right through Kody’s umbrella. 😛

On Sunday (September 7th), I received a goodbye letter in the mail from Mitzi. I’m sad to see her go, but I’m used to this happening. The revolving door of Animal Crossing on GameCube goes round and round.

I found a note on the message board about a buried treasure in Acre D-1. Even though I didn’t specifically seek it out, I didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary when I passed through there. More on this later, though.

Tom said that Genji told him about money trees. He asked if I knew about them, and I said yes. So he wanted me to tell him about them, but all of the options were variations of “no.” I said “that’s my secret,” and he started crying!

I’m not sure what the big deal was, because he supposedly knew about them from Genji! 🤷‍♂️

Anyway, I’ve continued fishing most days lately, and the dump has been filling up with the junk I’ve caught from the ocean. Here’s how the dump looked Sunday (before the Monday pick-up).

Over by the wishing well today, Ursala said she found my blue bench for me. But she then took half the money in my pockets as her reward! That was over 17,000 bells!!

I didn’t have any pitfalls with me, so I started pushing her around and I hit her with a net. Villagers shouldn’t be allowed to just reach in and take our money. 😡

Mitzi’s replacement moved in today, and it’s Hazel the squirrel! She’s cute! 😊

While walking around the museum, I fell into a pitfall behind the museum that was completely out of sight! I checked my map, and it was in Acre D-1. This is the “buried treasure” that Puck left for me! Thanks a lot, old friend.

After some more fishing tonight, I noticed my savings balance was just 85k from a big milestone. So I went back out to fill up my pockets a couple more times. When I was done, my balance reached 25 million bells!

That meant I earned over 1.2 million bells just in the past week or so. I’d call that a productive September fishing season!

See you all next time. Never Stop Crossing!