How to Make a Lot of Bells (Money) in Animal Crossing: Wild World

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Last Updated: October 21, 2021

Have you ever been frustrated at your DS just because you couldn't make money fast enough on AC:WW? Then read on and that will all change.

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(Each sells for 500 Bells.)
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Shake every tree in your town. Some will drop 100 Bell bags (and two will contain furniture that can be sold).
- Some trees might contain bees, so be careful. If you see any bees, run into a nearby building or else they will sting your eye. (And your animal friends will talk about it a lot.) Or, catch them to sell for 4,500 Bells each.
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Talk to them if they run up to you (sometimes they will give you furniture to sell).
Leave invested for 10% interest every month.
Get them checked by Blathers first and you can sell them, if they are not already at the museum. To double your money, sell them at the flea market.
Every day there is a rock to bang and money comes out. Try another rock until one of the rocks makes a sound and Bells pop out (This will happen to only one random rock each day.) The amount may vary. To do this, simply dig a few holes behind your character since when you hit the rock your character will bounce back causing less bells to come out of the rock. Continuously hit the rock until it makes a little twinkle sound. To get the maximum of Bells, try to dig as few holes as possible behind your character and use a silver shovel when hitting the money rock.

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Time Travel

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Change your DS clock back to the correct time.
- You will get many weeds.

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Bug Catching

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Make sure it's not right next to anything like rocks, flowers, other trees.
There should be Goliath beetles (6,000 Bells), atlas beetles(8,000 Bells), elephant beetles (8,000 Bells), and Hercules beetles (12,000 Bells). They are only there during the summer, though.
Keep a room clear in your house, so that if you catch bugs after Tom Nook's closes you can store your bugs there until the morning when you can sell them.

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Fish Catching

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If you did catch it you will have a, shark (15,000 Bells) a hammerhead shark ( 8,000 bells) or an ocean sunfish (15,000 or 17,000 bells)
$$$ (best to sell at flea market for double the Bells!!)

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Turnip Raising

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If you kept the turnips in your pockets they would have been spoiled in a week, and if you time travel the price will be below 100 Bells.
Keep your environment rating A+ for a week, how to do this is to put all your rubbish in the recycling bin, do not sell rubbish to Nook, plant a lot of trees and pluck up all the weeds.

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Fast Money

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(You'll get some back.)
A full inventory of non-native fruit, when you sell to Tom, is 7,500. After awhile, it adds up.
(On the first Saturday of the month.)

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Time Travel Without Loads of Weeds

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You will have a few weeds but they can easily go within a few minutes.

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Collecting Shells

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Go down to the beach with empty pockets except a net (in case you see a rare bug) and a slingshot (in case you see a present in the sky).
All the shells will be back. This can be tiring after a while but you might find a rare shell like a pearl oyster (worth 1,200 Bells) a coconut or a note in a bottle.

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Lost and Found

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Bell Glitch

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Place a Bell down.
After you pick it up for the first time, another one appears.

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Who is Booker?

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Booker is a bulldog, one of the guards of the town gate. He will allow you to access the lost and found, tell you who's visiting, and allow you to change the town flag.

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How many trees do I have to plant at the Animal Crossing: Wild World to get an A+ town?

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14 times a week, especially fruit trees because Tortimer loves fruit. Works on DSI as well.

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The fortune teller comes to your town which is once a week. You must get your fortune told 20 times.

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If you care for your neighbors, don't time travel. You may lose them!

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Time traveling gives you a vast amount of weeds, which take time to pluck.

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If you time travel, many people will no longer want to trade with you, as it is seen as cheating by many. However, there is no way to tell if someone has time traveled.

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