Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

Today is Christmas Eve, and I received a letter from Mom in the mail. She wished me happy holidays and sent me a lady palm as my Christmas present.

I also got a goodbye letter from Lucy the pig, who recently moved out of town.

Of course, snow now covers the ground and there are also Christmas lights on some trees. It was snowing tonight, so that adds to the festive atmosphere as well.

I visited Static in his house–it seems like he’s usually outdoors–and he was as jolly as ever. In other words, not jolly at all.

And just one acre to the north, I stumbled onto something I wasn’t happy to see. What’s the opposite of a Christmas miracle? Finding out Jambette just moved into town!

This is worse than receiving a lump of coal in my stocking; it’s the nightmare before Christmas! Fortunately, she was already asleep for the night, so I didn’t have to see her.

I continued to look for Jingle the reindeer, but I was having trouble finding him. Instead, I ran into Curly the pig. He told me was unable to clean up his house because a cactus was in the way! He wanted me to buy it for 3,680 bells. No way!

But after nearly 20 minutes of playing, I finally found Jingle!

Unlike later Animal Crossing games, getting stuff from Jingle on GameCube requires that you find him five times before you even get one piece of the Jingle set! After that, you just need to keep changing your shirt to fool him into thinking you’re different people. But since I’ve already acquired the set in previous years, I felt no need to go through hours of that tedious process tonight. I found him twice, just to get a taste of the holiday, but that’s all I could take of my deer friend.

Talking to Jingle from that angle let me see that coconut on the ground that was normally hidden from view. I wonder how long it’s been there! Years, quite possibly.

Well that’s all I have for now, but I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I’ll see you next time! 🙂

Hector recently moved out of town, and I got his goodbye letter in the mail when I started up the game today.

Animal Crossing has its own version of Black Friday (Day After Thanksgiving) sales. It’s called Sale Day, and Tom Nook celebrates by selling grab bags of random items for 2,014 bells each.

Every bag contains three items, and I bought three grab bags. Here’s what they contained:

1. Fan, heart shirt, tiger pinwheel.
2. Manor wall, No. 2 shirt, old flooring.
3. Flower pinwheel, diner tile, baby bear.

Buying grab bags is a good way to get some pinwheels, since they’re hard to come by the rest of the year. It’s too bad Sale Day didn’t make it into later Animal Crossing games.

I soon found Crazy Redd’s tent set up, but I wasn’t interested in buying from him today. However, there is a Crazy Redd glitch that only works on Sale Day. To see a video of the glitch, click here.

I had a chat with Baabara, and she was the same snooty sheep she always was. She bragged that her house was the best and classiest in town, while saying mine needs a lot of work.

A chat with Ursala revealed that I haven’t spoken to her in four months! A bit surprising, but then again, she’s never been my favorite villager. She’s not someone I would actively seek out.

Gulliver was down on the beach, so I spoke with him and woke him up. As a reward, he gave me a Tokyo Tower.

Over by the wishing well, Belle tried to sell me an arched window for 8,332 bells, including handling charges. What handling? She’s trying to milk me of all my money. Bovine, please.

Hank asked me for a new catchphrase, so I told him to say “Mr. Chicken.”

I then met my newest neighbor: Curly the pig. I had him in City Folk before; he’s pretty cool.

Finally, I stopped at the post office to mail away some fossils and I then headed for home. See you next time!

A few weeks ago (on September 29th), my town passed its anniversary date. Of course the game doesn’t celebrate that fact or anything, but Forest is now 12 years old and still going strong!

It was raining in Forest tonight, so I got to enjoy the peaceful rainy day music. When I checked my mail, I got a goodbye letter from Biff the hippo. So long, Biff.

I had quite a few weeds around town, so I pulled all that I could find. In Nookington’s, I saw that Tom Nook is now selling candy. I don’t plan on playing this game on Halloween though, so I passed on the candy.

Over by the lake, Genji asked me if a wagon wheel he found was mine. I said no, and he admitted that it was really his. He was just testing my honesty (by being dishonest). But I passed the test, so he let me keep the wagon wheel.

When I spoke with Maple, she asked me if I like fish sticks. I said no, and she got all bummed out because it’s her favorite food. Well excuse me for having my own opinions!

In the upper part of town, I met my newest villager: Hector the rooster. He is one of the animals that has not made it to any of the more recent Animal Crossing games. He seems pretty cool, though.

After a stop at the post office and a quick scan of the dump, I returned home for the night.