Jeff's ACWW Blog

My recent snow shortage seems to be over; it’s been snowing the past several days in Forest.

Saturday was the day of Nookington’s point special; they were giving out five times the normal amount of shopping points. So I bought out all of the furniture, wallpaper, and carpets they had on sale. That took me from 3,222 points all the way up to 4,547!

Since I was so close to the 5,000 that I needed to reach silver status, I ordered a few more items from my catalog. I ran out of cash, so I had to withdraw some money from my account. But I met my goal.

On Sunday, I got a letter from Tom Nook in the mail. Well, actually a bunch of them, if you include all the things I ordered. 😛 But Tom Nook thanked me for the business, announced that I was a silver member, and told me I now get a 5% discount on all items. Nice!

A model of Nook ‘n’ Go was attached to the letter. It’s too bad that New Leaf doesn’t have most of these town models that the earlier games had.

Today, I got this letter from Mom in the mail:

What. The. Heck. Seriously, Nintendo? That’s kind of a depressing holiday letter! Poor hamster.

But then, I found a note in a bottle on the beach. I couldn’t believe it. This letter is even worse!

Two depressing letters, and on Christmas Eve of all days! Wow.

Anyway, Rosie saw me and thought I looked broke. So she gave me an illusion wall for free, and told me to sell it to get some money.

She said she was broke too, but friends have to help each other out. She’s so sweet.

Just a few other quick notes:

• I gave Benedict medicine Saturday and then again today.
• Margie tried to move out Sunday, but I stopped her.
• Crazy Redd had a perfect painting for sale; I didn’t need it.

No change in my town status yet. I have been a bit busy with holiday stuff though, so I haven’t been planting as many trees as I need to. Hopefully at some point soon I’ll get there.

Happy holidays, everyone! Have a great Christmas (if you celebrate) and I’ll see you next time.

It was finally snowing in Forest tonight, for just the 2nd time this winter. That gave me a nice break from having to water my flowers. I ran into Saharah, and she told me she lost her map.

Wait…what? This dialogue didn’t sound familiar to me. Could it be…? Is it possible? Believe it or not, this is my first encounter with Saharah in Wild World! My town is 3 years and 2 months old… So how in the world did I go without seeing her for 38 months?!

Admittedly, most of the days I’ve played have either been Tuesdays (Crazy Redd days) or Saturdays (Lyle/K.K. days). But still, I’ve played enough other random days that I should have seen her before now! After all, I have seen Dr. Shrunk, Gracie, Pascal, Wendell, Katrina, and even Gulliver’s UFO…all multiple times! It’s weird that Saharah has eluded me for this long.

Well regardless, I had a job to do: Saharah asked me to make some carpet deliveries for her!

The first one was addressed to Phyllis. It was still Pelly’s shift at town hall, so I wasn’t sure if I would have to wait until later tonight. But fortunately, Pelly took it for me.

I ran into Kabuki, and he was being unusually nice today. He said he appreciated the fact that I came to talk to him even though it’s snowing out.

But on the other hand, he later gave me the nickname “Crazy J,” so maybe it evened out after all.

It took me a while to track down Saharah again, but she thanked me for making the delivery to town hall. Next, she wanted me to take a carpet package to Tom Nook.

I headed over to Nookington’s, and I couldn’t help but notice something: After years of making deliveries to animals for Tom Nook, and receiving ordered items from Tom Nook, this is the first time I’ve made a delivery to Tom Nook.

When I went back to Saharah, she told me my work was done. She offered me either a blue tarp or a western desert. I chose the latter…though after seeing what it looked like, I had no intentions of keeping it.

Well, working for Saharah was a new experience for me. Definitely not something I was expecting when I started up the game today. I guess I hadn’t even thought about not seeing Saharah yet in this game. But I do like how the Saharah experience is different in each Animal Crossing game.

On GameCube, you trade-in carpets (and pay a fee) to get new carpets. In Wild World, you make deliveries for her. In City Folk, you ask all your villagers if they have old carpets/wallpaper for her. And in New Leaf, she redecorates your main room’s carpets and walls for you.

Just a few other quick notes about today:

• I bought a satellite at Nookington’s for my space room.
• Mint was ready to move out, but I changed her mind (after many attempts).
• I delivered a letter from Goldie to Big Top. Goldie rewarded me with a chic wall.

Happy holidays, and I’ll see you all next time!

Gracie was in town yesterday, and I hadn’t seen her in a while, so I made sure to chat her up. As she was, uh, taking my measurements, all the girls in town came over to watch! Rosie and Margie pinged me, and Mint was just walking towards me.

Once Gracie was done measuring me and moved on to a pop quiz, the girls all lost interest and walked away. 🤣🤣🤣

She gave me a certificate saying I was a true fashionista. I didn’t get a prize or anything, but now I realize that I should have kept talking to her more, and I didn’t. Oops. Maybe next time.

When I mentioned “all the girls in town” above, that wasn’t entirely true. That didn’t include Goldie, who had been sick for a while. She was in her house, but she was finally feeling better today. She gave me a conga drum (and a kiss?) to thank me for the medicine.

Even though I’ve been playing more frequently over the past week, it’s not because of snow. In fact, it hasn’t snowed again since last Tuesday! I was thinking snow was more frequent once winter started, but that hasn’t been the case so far.

Today, I spoke with Teddy and he asked what happened to my face. And no, I had not been stung by a bee. He was just being rude.

Anyway, he asked me if I thought all he does is work out and get big, and I answered yes. That’s all he ever seems to talk about (when he’s not being rude), after all. So he got mad at me for my answer, gave me a “How DARE you,” and basically called me ignorant.

I am SO ready for him to leave town. As much as I like him in other games, I’m starting to strongly dislike him in Wild World.

At the other end of the spectrum, I just seem to be liking Margie more and more. She was talking about how much she loves Forest. How cute. 🙂

Goldie was in her house again today, and she was talking about designing. I didn’t quite understand why she told me she didn’t have a pencil in her house, though.

After having Blathers identify my fossils, I went to Benedict’s house. He has been asking me for a fossil, so I gave him an archaeopteryx. He gave me an exquisite rug in return. I wanted to see if he would display the fossil, so I left his house and then re-entered. He did indeed display it, and he joked that his house was like a new mini-museum.

When I spoke to him again though, he asked for another fossil. I gave him a plesio skull and he gave me 500 bells. At this point, I stopped talking to him before he wanted any more fossils. I’m losing out by giving them away for rugs and 500 bells. But he sure seemed happy with his little museum. 🙂

I found a striped cone in the recycle bin at town hall. It’s not particularly worth much, but it seems rare to find much of anything in there in Wild World. So I’ll take any freebies I can get.

There hasn’t been any change in my town status, despite the flowers and trees I’ve been planting. But I’m going to keep trying! See you next time!