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

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.

Method 1

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General Approaches

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Exchange town fruits with friends and plant them in your own town. (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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3
Sell your stockpile of furniture that you don't need to Tom Nook.
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Catch bugs (bad in winter) and fish (good in rain) to sell to Tom Nook. See methods below for more details.
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Run past villagers in your town. Talk to them if they run up to you (sometimes they will give you furniture to sell).
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Put bells in your bank account at the Town Hall. Leave invested for 10% interest every month.
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Sell fossils that you will find buried in your town. 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.
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Sell all your junk/fish/bugs at the flea market for double the price that Nook would give you for them.
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Check the money rock. 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.

Method 2

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Time Travel

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Place all of your Bells in your bank account at the Town Hall.
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Clear your mailbox.
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Save and turn off.
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Change your DS clock to the year 2099 (As late as it will go).
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Load Animal Crossing again.
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Collect the interest in the mail.
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Save and turn off.
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Change your DS clock back to the correct time.
- You will get many weeds.

Method 3

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Bug Catching

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Wait until a coconut washes up on your shores, or shake one from a friend's tree.
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Plant the coconut in the southern fourth of your town. Make sure it's not right next to anything like rocks, flowers, other trees.
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Keep harvesting the coconuts and making more trees with them until you have a whole bunch.
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Late at night (after 8 or 9 PM, best at 1 AM) walk near your coconut trees and catch any bugs on them with a net. 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.
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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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You can earn twice as many bells by selling them in flea market.

Method 4

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Fish Catching

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Change your time to winter or spring.
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Keep changing the day until it is snowing or raining.
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Take out your rod and look for a very long and sleek fish.
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Cast out your rod, be very careful because you might press a (or tap) too soon.
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If your fishing was a success you will have a coelacanth (15,000 Bells) this is the rarest fish in the game.
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If you want to donate it do, but why would you...?
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Change the time to late summer or early autumn.
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At dusk, look in seas for a fish with a fin.
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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)
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Cash in! $$$ (best to sell at flea market for double the Bells!!)

Method 5

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Turnip Raising

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Wait or time travel to Sunday.
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Buy a load of turnips from Joan with your cash.
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Buy about 170 white turnips and a bag of red turnips.
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Keep all your white turnips in your home.
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Also keep your red turnip bag in your home.
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Wait for a day when the turnips price is more than what you bought them for.
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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.
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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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You will then receive a golden watering can from Tortimer.
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Plant your red turnips seeds and water them with this golden can.
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After they have grown, pull them up and sell them to that gullible raccoon for 100,000 Bells!

Method 6

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Fast Money

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Talk to all villagers (They might give you stuff later)
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Check the lost & found and the recycle bin.
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Send letters to all the villagers with presents in them. (You'll get some back.)
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Dig up all the fossils, and sell them to Tom.
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Fish until your inventory can't hold anymore, and sell to Tom.
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Plant non-native fruits, as much as you can. A full inventory of non-native fruit, when you sell to Tom, is 7,500. After awhile, it adds up.
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Have a sale when it's the flea market; you can sell the things you bought for nearly double the amount. (On the first Saturday of the month.)

Method 7

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Time Travel Without Loads of Weeds

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Find a friend with a different native fruit to you.
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Ask them to help you take 2 loads of full inventories full of that fruit.
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Plant every single one of the pieces of fruit.
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Time travel 4 days into the future.
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Come out of your house and save the game straight away.
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Restart the game and go back to the normal date.
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Leave your house to find loads of fruit trees just waiting to be picked. You will have a few weeds but they can easily go within a few minutes.

Method 8

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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).
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Leave your shovel outside your house in case you see a crack.
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Collect all the shells you can carry.
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Sell them all to Tom Nook.
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Save the game and then repeat. 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.

Method 9

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Lost and Found

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Go to the place where you enter and exit towns.
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Talk to Booker (the dog on the left).
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Select "Something lost?".
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Take everything from the lost and found.
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Sell it and make more Bells.

Method 10

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Bell Glitch

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Get a box, two coins and a bag of money.
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Place a Bell on the floor.
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Place the box on the bell.
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Stand not in the middle of the box but off to the side. Place a Bell down.
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Place the bag of money on box.
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Stand off to the side of the box and pick up the bag.
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Move the box and pick up the bag again. After you pick it up for the first time, another one appears.

Community Q&A

Question

Who is Booker?

CamelHey73

Top Answerer

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.
Question

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

Community Answer

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

How do I get the fortune telling shop?

Community Answer

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

Warnings

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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