that ONE item you just can't get no matter what.....

i used to have the same problem, but with the mermaid vanity. i was so happy to finally find it on the island...
 
The Regal Clock, which frustrates me as for some reason I decided I wanted to collect and display every single clock in the game.

Now, I'm sure you are wondering why this is so hard for me seeing as the Re-Tail section of these forums exist and include several catalogue shops. It's quite simple. I have no easy access to wireless internet, so I can't interact with anyone online.

The Regal Clock has not appeared in the two years I have been playing this game and regularly checking the shops. Every other piece of the Regal Set has appeared. Adding to my frustration is in one of the fifteen streetpasses I managed to get, one had a Regal Clock she had customised.

That's kind of incredible in a way. In two years I got 80% of all the items created in this game (thanks for the gold badge last week Phineas). I got 15 DLC (thanks sixteen streetpassers). I found every single type of fossil. I am six off a complete art museum. I found the complete mermaid and cabana sets. I got every single Wishy/Spotlight item.

But the Regal Clock may as well be carved from the wood of the true cross for how elusive that thing is for me.
 
The Regal Clock, which frustrates me as for some reason I decided I wanted to collect and display every single clock in the game.

Now, I'm sure you are wondering why this is so hard for me seeing as the Re-Tail section of these forums exist and include several catalogue shops. It's quite simple. I have no easy access to wireless internet, so I can't interact with anyone online.

The Regal Clock has not appeared in the two years I have been playing this game and regularly checking the shops. Every other piece of the Regal Set has appeared. Adding to my frustration is in one of the fifteen streetpasses I managed to get, one had a Regal Clock she had customised.

That's kind of incredible in a way. In two years I got 80% of all the items created in this game (thanks for the gold badge last week Phineas). I got 15 DLC (thanks sixteen streetpassers). I found every single type of fossil. I am six off a complete art museum. I found the complete mermaid and cabana sets. I got every single Wishy/Spotlight item.

But the Regal Clock may as well be carved from the wood of the true cross for how elusive that thing is for me.

if you want it i can get it for you, oddly enough i got that item regal clock in store today lol
 
Thanks but there isn't much point in you getting it as I don't have access to wireless internet. I can't get on the train and visit your town to fetch it and I can't open my gates so I can visit my town and deliver it.
 
I had such a hard time getting the very last piece of art that I needed for my museum. It had been over a year, and I was about to give up and buy on the forums. It was the Proper Painting, this one:

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and the weird thing is that, one day I was reading the online newspaper, and there was an ad for some bartending school with a photo in it of a lady at a bar and it looked almost just like the Proper painting scene; I said to myself, this is the day! and sure enough, I loaded up my game, and there was Redd with the Proper painting. it was wild.

the other item I had trouble getting for some reason was the lunar lander. I asked for it on my birthday, and it took like six more months before it finally appeared in my shop.

the forbidden 13

what is that??
 
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For me, it was the cabana wall and cabana flooring. Took a lot of island-hopping to finally get them.
 
I looked for a minimalist minitable for like, 5 months once. I knew I could probably buy one on the forum, but I wanted to find it myself. Finally, I saw it in TIY one day and I nearly cried.
 
I think the robo TV gave me fits. I had all the other pieces of the set & could not find that one, either in the store or on the forums. I think it took me six months before I got my hands on one & finally finished off my set.

It's the reason I cataloged all the reorderable sets in my new town when I reset. I didn't want to go through that again.
 
Ugh yes that's how I feel about the fishing tourney set... but i didn't know the whirlpool bath was from the island and was rare.. I just sold mine that someone gave me a while ago.. :(
 
Mine is not a purchasable item, a pwp: the wooden bridge...
 
The tropical wall and floor and other rare island stuffs. Seriously tho, are they really that rare? I've been playing for almost one and a glad year now and never have I once saw any rare stuffs especially the tropical wall and floor. They hate ne I guess.
 
The Tammy photo, she doesn't want to give that picture and my other 9 villagers give me his picture already... I mean, i have 4 Rosie and 5 Whitney pictures, but Tammy just give me furniture that i will never use...
 
Kitchen Island. I've never seen it once in my island ever since I bought the game. But I managed to get one over at the TBT marketplace here on the forums. :) You can maybe try the TBT marketplace and get it there, although if you'd prefer to earn it yourself I guess that's fair. Hope this helped!
 
For me it's the golden wall torch. I got the rest of the set pretty fast because I was saving gold nuggets, but even after more than a year I haven't seen that torch.
 
For me it's the golden wall torch. I got the rest of the set pretty fast because I was saving gold nuggets, but even after more than a year I haven't seen that torch.

iirc, the golden object selection is randomly determined when you pay Cyrus; i think you may be able to quit without saving when you get the gold furniture you dont need, and try again for a new random result, as long as you hadnt saved after placing your order with him.
 
I've been needing a fireplace forever!!
Do you still need one? I can get it pretty easily..

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Weird.. The Kitchen Island was the first thing to show up for me, but I can never for the life of me get a whirlpool tub..
 
I've been on a hunt for the mermaid set for days now, got all the pieces except for the Mermaid Sofa and for some reason this item just won't appear on the island no matter what, I believe I already spent more 100k going back and forth to the island and no luck, I also time traveled a lot~

the funny thing is, while I was looking for it I found (and bought) other rare items like the silver axe, toy hammer, pink wet suit, whirlpool bath +
and each one of the mermaid and cabana set pieces appeared at least twice....but not that damn Mermaid Sofa~
I'm going to keep on trying but I'm losing hope...and money, lol

anyone else had a similar experience where they just almost lost hope or went broke trying to find/get that one certain item? :/

Ive been looking for the astro floor for probably a year now can never find it

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I have a golden wall torch i'm willing to trade
 
I can't get most harvey items so this list would be insanely long if I write down all of them here XD
I keep getting things that I don't need or worst of all doubles the only time he was generous with me was when I got cup ramen
 
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