Christmas Eve

Today I got a letter from Mom and Dad:

Dear Jeff, Your father and I picked out the perfect present for you, just in case that certain someone leaves you another lump of coal in your stocking this year. Happy Holidays! -M and DThey sent me an orange check tee. I think I’d rather have the lump of coal.

Anyway, I decided to make a snowman. As I was making it, a balloon present flew by overhead.

A balloon present flies overhead as I roll up a large snowball.I made it right on the edge of the cliff. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a perfect snowman, but I still thought he looked pretty menacing from the lower level with his large presence looming overhead.

A huge snowman stands on the edge of the cliff, overlooking the land below.I also decided to finally redecorate my house, at least the main floor. The gorgeous set went back into storage, and the snowman set came out. The farting gyroids remain.

Snowman furniture and a large festive tree in my house.…jvgsjif?

A JVGS pattern on the ground, next to a Jif peanut butter logo pattern.Later on, around 9:15, I opened up my gate. Yann came over to visit, and Jingle was in town for the Christmas Eve festival.

Jingle: All that white, fluffy snow everywhere! Ooh boy, I just love it! And how romantic!If you don’t know how the festival works, it goes like this: You have to find Jingle somewhere in town. He can be outdoors or in an animal’s empty house. (He won’t be in a house if the animal is home). Talk to him and he will give you a piece of Jingle furniture. Once you leave him, he respawns somewhere else and you can do it over and over.

Each piece of Jingle furniture sells for a whopping 12,240 bells, making Christmas the best holiday to earn lots of money. The only catch is that you have to change your hat (or accessory) each time, to trick Jingle into thinking you’re not the same person. But even if you don’t have tons of hats, you can use each pattern as a hat as well. And his memory doesn’t cover the entire night, so you can eventually re-use old hats.

Jeff, wearing no hat, stands next to Jingle on Christmas Eve.Yann and I were finding him pretty quickly, too. But after hunting Jingle for a while, I noticed that he hadn’t been in Bob’s house at all. I figured it was because Bob had been naughty.

Jeff: Bob's been naughty. ;)Jingle did eventually end up hiding in Bob’s house a few times though.

At one point, I saw three of my animals clustered in one nook. I decided to trap them there. I also saw Sally nearby, so I added her to the prison zoo.

Four animals trapped in one small area.Robin had a totem pole in her house, so while Yann was talking to Jingle, my inner Totem Rocker came out and I played that thing’s sound effect over and over and over and over. I’m sure Yann appreciated that. 😀

Jeff stands at the totem pole as Yann talks to Jingle.I helped Yann complete her Jingle set by trading her duplicates for other items she needed. I didn’t collect the set this time, I was just using it to make money. Apparently I collected 23 pieces in the two hours I played, since my total earnings for the night came out to 281,520 bells.

Tom Nook: Thanks much! Anything else I can do for you?Merry Christmas, everyone!