Money making tips for a young player

[BigZombieMonkey]

I've been playing Animal Crossing New Leaf for around 3 months now and just a couple of days ago I finally managed to get my daughter a 2DS. Thanks to some of the amazing people on these forums who have been very kind I managed to build my daughter a house on her character on my copy of Animal Crossing and so she now has a three room house and some lovely furniture, but this is all she has. The bells have run dry and she wants to get as many rooms as daddy has. I don't have a lot of spare time as I already run a Forza league for people my age as well as doing every day life things such as getting the girls to school, housework, etc so I only manage to make 300,000 bells a day via a good late night bug hunt.

So, my daughter is trying to make bells and yesterday decided stripping my town of fruit would be a good way to start so now I find my trees bare and my daughter still complaining she is struggling to make bells. This is where I was hoping for some help, could anyone give me any tips on the kind of things a 6 year old could do to make bells? She struggles with the timing of fishing so I'm trying to teach her to catch bugs but they tend to show up after her bedtime making it a little harder for her. I don't really want to TT as I don't TT myself and I'm trying to teach her not to "cheat" or take the easy way out. Can any of you veteran New Leafers give me any advise I can pass onto her to help her out? Cheers.

 

[ghostbab]

Make sure she digs up fossils and takes them to the museum to be assessed and then sell them for a lot of bells, you could always plant some bamboo as well and then she can dig up all the buried ones and sell them as well! I can give you some bells for her too if you'd like c:

 

[tamagotchi]

You could always go to the island, if you have it! Catching beetles and fish shouldn't be too hard. I made a perfect fruit farm so I could get a load of bells, too. I usually clean out my inventory if I have a whole bunch of spare stuff, and that racks up quite a bit. ;u;

 

[kasane]

I know/use these tips to earn me my Bells

1. Beetle hunting
Just go to Tortimer Island during the evening (anytime after 7pm), grab a net, and check the banana/coconut trees on the beach. There will be beetles which vary from 6,000-12,000 Bells each type. Also, you can find sharks in the ocean of the island, which also brings in a ton of Bells. Filling up a whole basket would take around 30 minutes and you would make 400,000 Bells.

2. Premium Selling
So everyday there will be an item on Premium in Re-Tail, meaning that Reese will pay a higher amount than usual. I usually grow a lot of my native Perfect fruit (Oranges), and store them until my Re-Tail or someone else's Re-Tail has Perfect Oranges as Premium.

3. Stalk Market
Basically selling with turnips. Buy turnips from Joan (you can find her every Sunday from 6AM - 12PM), and her prices are 90-110 Bells per batch (10 turnips). I usually buy a locker-ful, which is 180 free spaces, so 18,000 turnips, near 2 mil Bells gone. Now, check your Re-Tail every day, from Monday to Saturday, twice; once in the morning and once in the afternoon. Ask for the Turnip Price, and sell if the price is higher than the amount you bought it for. There are some patterns in which you have for the week, one of them being the price decreasing each day and not increasing. Check this out for more detail: http://www.thonky.com/animal-crossing-new-leaf/stalk-market/
You can also check on TBT, some (lovely <3) people have turnip prices ranging from 400-600+ Bells, and they let you over to sell. This can make a huge profit depending on how many turnips you bought and the price of the turnips. I usually get 10-13mil Bells after selling, minus the approximate 2mil...8mil-11mil as a profit.
Although there is a risk, in which case you would not gain a profit if you do not sell them by the end of the week. TT'ing will cause the turnips to spoil, and you cannot sell them.

4. Forums
You can sell some items you have on here, or sell your villagers in an auction. Popular villagers can have a buyout of 25-40mil, but that'll depend if you want to sell them or not. And people are willing to buy your TBT Bells (displayed below your Avatar and details on the right hand side) for an exchange rate of in-game Bells. The highest I've seen went for 100TBT= 800,000 Bells

Hope this helps! ^^

 

[BigZombieMonkey]

Make sure she digs up fossils and takes them to the museum to be assessed and then sell them for a lot of bells, you could always plant some bamboo as well and then she can dig up all the buried ones and sell them as well! I can give you some bells for her too if you'd like c:

Actually that brings up a good point, she wants to complete her fossil collection but I've just recently finished mine so she could dig up the fossils in my town I didn't actually think of that so cheers for that
I couldn't take your bells though, I did win 5 mill in a raffle on here which paid for most of her house and also for a bunch of items she wanted in it. Now I want her to learn how to earn, I think it's a good life lesson for her, kind of like an early job haha

I know/use these tips to earn me my Bells

1. Beetle hunting
Just go to Tortimer Island during the evening (anytime after 7pm), grab a net, and check the banana/coconut trees on the beach. There will be beetles which vary from 6,000-12,000 Bells each type. Also, you can find sharks in the ocean of the island, which also brings in a ton of Bells. Filling up a whole basket would take around 30 minutes and you would make 400,000 Bells.

This is what I do but as I said in my opening post, I don't have a whole lot of time to do this and her bed time is 7pm so she can't stay up that late most days.

2. Premium Selling
So everyday there will be an item on Premium in Re-Tail, meaning that Reese will pay a higher amount than usual. I usually grow a lot of my native Perfect fruit (Oranges), and store them until my Re-Tail or someone else's Re-Tail has Perfect Oranges as Premium.

This is great but as you can imagine, she's not very patient being 6 years old lol I have planted perfect oranges in her town but obviously they take time to grow.

3. Stalk Market
Basically selling with turnips. Buy turnips from Joan (you can find her every Sunday from 6AM - 12PM), and her prices are 90-110 Bells per batch (10 turnips). I usually buy a locker-ful, which is 180 free spaces, so 18,000 turnips, near 2 mil Bells gone. Now, check your Re-Tail every day, from Monday to Saturday, twice; once in the morning and once in the afternoon. Ask for the Turnip Price, and sell if the price is higher than the amount you bought it for. There are some patterns in which you have for the week, one of them being the price decreasing each day and not increasing. Check this out for more detail: http://www.thonky.com/animal-crossing-new-leaf/stalk-market/
You can also check on TBT, some (lovely <3) people have turnip prices ranging from 400-600+ Bells, and they let you over to sell. This can make a huge profit depending on how many turnips you bought and the price of the turnips. I usually get 10-13mil Bells after selling, minus the approximate 2mil...8mil-11mil as a profit.
Although there is a risk, in which case you would not gain a profit if you do not sell them by the end of the week. TT'ing will cause the turnips to spoil, and you cannot sell them.

This again is a great tip but not very helpful for my daughter as she can't play until after school and neither of us have enough spare time to check every day without fail. It's a great tip but not very helpful for a younger player like my daughter

4. Forums
You can sell some items you have on here, or sell your villagers in an auction. Popular villagers can have a buyout of 25-40mil, but that'll depend if you want to sell them or not. And people are willing to buy your TBT Bells (displayed below your Avatar and details on the right hand side) for an exchange rate of in-game Bells. The highest I've seen went for 100TBT= 800,000 Bells

Hope this helps! ^^

I'll keep that in mind, that could be useful every so often to boost her up, cheers

 

[Bunnii]

She could hit the fake rock to get ore and then sell it (or turn it into furniture) and also find the money rock
setting the ordinance to bell bloom might help
also digging up fossils and gyroids and then selling them
planting perfect fruit trees everywhere
and fishing/catching bugs is good too.

 

[Darumy]

Not quite sure a really young person would have the patience to farm the island! It gets you 250k average at least on bell boom per filled box, but it may get repetitive going back and forth for her. I don't know though, a child's patience for things is really sporadic haha. She could be super into it, or not...and it's really dependent on whether or not her timing is good enough to catch sharks/beetles. (it's simple enough but things are different for everyone!)


I'm trying to avoid TTing/marketing here haha 8'D that's something that older, more...self-aware but intent players do. The stalk market is a bit of a complex/dutiful concept for a 6 year old, and players are really strict here with visitor-host etiquette; I don't want your daughter having a bad experience with someone yelling at her. @_@; aah there really is nothing beyond the canon game of fish, bugs, seashells, and fruit selling! Try to multiply the perfect orchard in your town so she gets more per fruit when she collects, but keep an extra basket or two in your account so you can replace the dead trees.


Sorry if I'm redundant/not very helpful! I played this Animal Crossing when I was younger too, but I was three years older than her give or take and kids grow really fast. I was extremely dutiful with bug/fish/fossil collection, so she may enjoy it! though your daughter sounds quite a bit more active in other things than I was haha.

 

[ghostbab]

Actually that brings up a good point, she wants to complete her fossil collection but I've just recently finished mine so she could dig up the fossils in my town I didn't actually think of that so cheers for that
I couldn't take your bells though, I did win 5 mill in a raffle on here which paid for most of her house and also for a bunch of items she wanted in it. Now I want her to learn how to earn, I think it's a good life lesson for her, kind of like an early job haha

Aw, that's good! Maybe some day she could put it on her resume, special skills: excellent at making bells!
Oh also, don't forget to shake the trees for bells and get some cool furniture too, just watch out for bees! (One way to avoid them is open up your gates c:!) And maybe plant bell trees as well ^-^

 

[aimeekitty]

really the only FAST method of making a ton of bells so her house can be big is to do the turnip method. In my experience you can find someone with an over 500 sell point for turnips if you look for a little bit on one or two days. I think you will find that this is probably the most efficient method for you, the adult, if you want to give her bells. You can turn 2million into 10+ million with about an hour or two of work without time traveling.

However it doesn't teach her patience or how to earn it herself or to appreciate the slow qualities of the game. The trouble is the best way to slowly get money is rare beetles on the island. but they are only there int he morning before 8 am and in the evening after 7pm. I know you say you don't TT much, but a very LIMITED TT might be a good compromise, but since she is so young, I'd be tempted to do the TT for her and then let her play after you have TT-d her game for her. The idea being, just TT the game to 7pm so that she can catch rare beetles on the island, sell them at Re-tail and so then she feels like she is earning the money relatively slowly (but still much faster than fruit selling…)

If you don't want to do that then certain day butterflies are worth more than others on the island… a nd the other option for her is to make an orchard of perfect fruit and sell them in your town. But she must be careful to regularly replant the orchard and keep a few perfect fruit so that she doesn't run out, etc.

Goodluck!

 

[stardrop-crossing]

However it doesn't teach her patience or how to earn it herself or to appreciate the slow qualities of the game. The trouble is the best way to slowly get money is rare beetles on the island. but they are only there int he morning before 8 am and in the evening after 7pm. I know you say you don't TT much, but a very LIMITED TT might be a good compromise, but since she is so young, I'd be tempted to do the TT for her and then let her play after you have TT-d her game for her. The idea being, just TT the game to 7pm so that she can catch rare beetles on the island, sell them at Re-tail and so then she feels like she is earning the money relatively slowly (but still much faster than fruit selling…)
Goodluck!

I think this could be pretty good idea? I think you should be in charge of any and all changes to the clocks and you should make it clear that it's a special instance, since you wanted her to learn without relying on TT-ing and fast money. The other thing is, some of those beetles show up after 5/6pm, so she can still do it a little bit without changing the clock!


Also, if you have a lazy camper in your town, you can win the games easily to sell your things for way more than re-tail would pay you. (more info on that here: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/997811-animal-crossing-new-leaf/66641546 )


She should practice fishing, since you can fish around town and still make some money. The trick is to listen for the sound. Sometimes i don't even watch the screen, I just press the button when I hear the sound!

If fishing is really not working, she can catch bugs around town and on the island during the day.

Diving works too! But I think it's a little difficult.

To make a lot of bells relatively quickly, what I end up doing is selling good/rare items on here that I don't want/am not going to use.
I think a lot of people on here who have big money get it from being really good at turnips and/or selling popular villagers.

Good luck!