Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

Did someone in town eat ham for Thanksgiving instead of turkey? That’s what I wondered when I found Hambo’s goodbye letter in the mail. I’m sure he’s in a better place now. Even if it’s just Tom’s stomach.

When I walked along the edge of the cliff, I saw a snake lurking in the grass below. Well, technically it was Snake hiding behind a tree, but what was he doing? Once a ninja, always a ninja, I guess.

And being the day after Thanksgiving, today is Sale Day! In Nookington’s, the entire first floor had nothing but grab bags for sale, at a price of 2,016 bells each.

Each grab bag has three items inside. I bought two bags and got a kiddie wall, a bear pole, cabana flooring, a straw shirt, a pink pinwheel, and a striped pinwheel. The straw shirt looks autumn-y, so I put it on. I also started carrying the striped pinwheel.

The pinwheel made for a funny conversation when I spoke to Static. As the pinwheel spun in his face, Static asked what it was, and asked if something was stuck to his face!

I also had a chat with Hank, and he told me he painted my roof! So it’s now green, like him. But I’m not paying him for the work! Not even one buhk buck!

Speaking of green, I met a new villager today: Leopold the lion. He’s my mane man. He also lives in my other GameCube town, Ohio.

If you look closely, you can see a dig spot in the lower-left part of the above picture. I dug it up, and I got a Tennis NES game! It’s not every day that you net a free game. I’ll have to set this in my house; I’m sure I’ll have a ball with it.

Mayor Tortimer was over by the wishing well, sharing some words about Sale Day. He said more stuff is sold on Sale Day than on any other day of the year, and that’s good for the merchants in town. But he said that he does his own shopping online!

At 6:00, Crazy Redd’s black market tent appears. I wanted to do the glitch that only works on Sale Day. So I went into Redd’s tent and bought all three of his items. Once you do that, the tent will be closed up.

If you leave the acre and re-enter it, you’ll see the tent is gone. But not permanently, it’s just moved to another location. The interesting part is that the tent, and Crazy Redd, will now be at different locations! If you find the tent again, do not go in it. Keep looking until you see Crazy Redd standing by a sign post. Talk to him, and after his usual banter, he will walk into the sign post and disappear!

After witnessing that, I returned home and ended my game for the day. See you next time!

It’s been a while (7.5 weeks) since I last checked in on Forest, but I ended that streak today. I found a goodbye letter in the mail: Goose is cooked.

Many of my villagers were talking about Halloween, which is coming up on Monday.

It didn’t take me long to find Goose’s replacement. Over in a spot where Jane the gorilla once lived (many years ago), I found Snake the ninja rabbit. I’ve had him in my City Folk town before. Those eyes though…they’re a bit disturbing.

Even though I don’t plan on playing on Halloween, I thought I would buy a new shirt for the occasion. But the store didn’t have much in the way of spooky clothes, so I settled for this danger shirt. At least it’s orange and black, right?

There seemed to be a party going on at Static’s house, with Hank and Hambo joining Static, all hanging out there. But the happiness didn’t last. Hambo apparently said (or did) something that made Static steaming angry, while Hank just kept rotating in circles while standing next to a rock.

When I chatted with Hambo, he said it feels like autumn. But then he immediately changed course, and said it doesn’t feel like it yet. Why would he try to deny that it’s autumn? Could he be afraid that we’re going to serve ham at the harvest festival next month?

When I passed by the wishing well, I saw that Belle was mad. But I continued my walk around town, pulling lots of lots of weeds. Once I was done, I returned to the wishing well to verify that Forest was back to perfect town status. Even though it had been nearly ten minutes, Belle was still angry! I think this mad cow has some serious anger issues.

If you like the older Animal Crossing games, be sure to check out my new Wild World Blog! I’m updating it regularly, so I hope you’ll follow along with the ACWW version of Forest too! 🙂

I noticed that Puck was hanging out in Acre B-4 today. That’s the acre where Candi lives, but more importantly, it’s where I use a glitch to push animals off the bridge and into the river. I don’t recall using the glitch on Puck before, so I figured he was overdue for a good bath.

I was tired of wearing my whirly shirt, so I tried on this green tie-dye shirt at Nookington’s. I decided to buy it and wear it.

Today is Labor Day in the U.S., so I went to visit with Tortimer at the wishing well. He spoke about the holiday, telling me that I shouldn’t work my fingers to the bone for the example.

He also suggested that I could use him as a role model. And hero.

If you haven’t played on Labor Day before, he will give you a shop model. But I got mine many years ago, so I didn’t get it again.

I then found Gulliver washed up on the beach.

After waking him up, he gave me a compass. I think he needs this more than I do, as often as he gets lost.

And since it’s early September, this is the best time of the year to earn big bucks! There are no sea bass in the ocean, so any ocean fish you catch will be worth at least 3,000 bells (as long as you avoid one specific acre–see the September Fishing Guide for more info).

I emptied my pockets and filled them up with fish. I also caught a piece of garbage (a boot), but I dropped it back down for now. (Ursala actually applauded me when I caught it. I may include that in a future video). I kept going until I had 15 fish–that included nine red snappers and six barred knifejaws.

That earned me 57,000 bells. If you have the time, you can keep doing this over and over, earning hundreds of thousands of bells in a relatively short time. If you wait for a rainy day, you’ll also catch coelacanths, which sell for 15,000 bells each. That will really speed things up.

No villagers moved in or out this time, but I’m sure that won’t be the case next time. I’ll see you all then. Happy fishing!