This morning I made almost 400k in one trip. It took about 45 mins. I kept nothing under 8000. That amount is not usual for me, but I know why...because I finally broke down and gutted the island. No flowers left, three trees total, one in the middle and two on each side in the sand. I did leave my 4 red hibiscus

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but saw no butterflys. Just ran back and forth at the bottom of the island and there was a beetle on one side then the other almost every time. When that wasn't so, I did a sweep around the whole island to look for fins and scare away the wharf roaches.
I don't need the bells right now, so why do I keep going? I can think of only one reason...I'm starting my third town soon, and am obviously on the slippery slope (as hoodathotit aptly calls it) of being the mayor of multiple towns. Maybe I'll need all these bells for a lot more towns!
Course, I did drop almost 2 million today working on getting my catalog filled.
That was fun!