Jeff's ACWW Blog

On Wednesday, I received my monthly bank statement from town hall. I earned exactly 50,000 bells of interest on my savings this month!

I’m now halfway to the maximum interest payment (99,999 bells), so apparently I’ll need to reach 20 million bells in savings to reach that. That will take me at least a few years, though. Earning money is such a slow process in older Animal Crossing games!

I found Pascal by the shore, and he told me some words of wisdom about selling things.

Yesterday, I heard someone fall into a pitfall, so I looked around. I found my buddy Bones struggling to get out. Aww, poor Bones!

Octavian was home, so I got to see the inside of his house. Much like in other games, he has a bunch of space items and a couple of robo items as well.

Today, Drift gave me a free item; it was a sleigh that he just found lying around.

You don’t think he swiped it when Santa was inside someone’s house delivering presents, do you? I hope not. (Maybe that’s why Wild World doesn’t celebrate Toy Day, because Santa’s sleigh got stolen.)

Peanut has still been sick this week, so I gave her more medicine Wednesday, yesterday, and today. I’m starting to think medicine in this game doesn’t actually help at all.

When I played on Wednesday, my weekly evaluation from the Happy Room Academy (HRA) had a nice surprise for me: My score went up to 277,100 points!

That piggy bank must have given me a nice bonus! I believe this is (again) my highest-ever house score in any Animal Crossing game.

But that wasn’t the only surprise I got in the mail. I also received a goodbye letter from Wolfgang, who left without warning.

I then made my way up to the town gate, and my timing was perfect: The UFO came right when I got there! I promptly shot it down.

I gathered up Gulliver’s missing UFO parts, and he rewarded with another Arc de Triomphe. Not what I was hoping for, but oh well.

Peanut has been sick lately, so I gave her some medicine Wednesday, and then again today.

Even though Wolfgang is gone, I found a house in the same spot today. I went inside, and I was pleasantly surprised to find Octavian, who just moved in.

Even though I didn’t necessarily want Wolfgang to leave, I’m happy with how things turned out.

Eloise challenged me to see who could catch a dung beetle first, and I agreed to the competition. It took me a while, but I eventually caught one. As I was catching it, she pinged me…

She asked to trade the dung beetle I just caught for a one-way tee! Basically, she was asking me for another dung beetle before I even gave her the first one. So I turned down the trade request. (If I hadn’t, she might have claimed that she won the competition!) So after denying her the dung beetle, I then gave her the dung beetle. (Complicated, isn’t it?) She rewarded me with an exquisite rug, which was a better reward than a shirt anyway.

I’ll be back with more next week! Have a fun (and safe) New Year’s Eve!

On Wednesday, I found this “Talking to Myself” post on the bulletin board. It’s about one of the pelicans making sludgy tea for her sister.

Yesterday, I put some bells into the bank, and I reached a major milestone: I’ve now saved up ten million bells!

Today, I received a letter from town hall. They congratulated me on saving ten million bells, and they sent me a gift! I was not expecting this!

I opened the gift; it was a piggy bank! I put it in my (mush) bedroom, moving one of my Master Swords to storage to make space for it.

Each time I use it, I lose one bell. So it actually works, except that you can’t get the money back out.

When I visited Peanut, she was telling me about this trendy harmonica she just bought. She said it was hard to use, so she wished she had just bought bought a discount harmonica instead.

I know this is random, but this made me imagine a new character for a future game: A special character who sells (or gives) you a different musical instrument each time they come to town. Perhaps you’ll hear a faint musical tune while walking in your town, and you have to look for the source (by shaking a tree perhaps). A bird flies down and gives you an instrument. I don’t know, just a thought.

Anyway, Drift asked me to stop by Bones’s house to make a delivery, and I agreed to help out. But almost immediately after ending the conversation with Drift, I saw Bones practically right there! That made the delivery super easy!

I handed Bones the gift (a red down vest), and then Drift gave me a lab wall for helping out. I wish all requests were this easy!

I’ll be back with another entry next week. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone!