I'm conflicted.... >.> What would you do in my scenario?

[ZetaFunction]

Should I reset? :/

Now... I suppose I should tell you the tale of the town of Lucanosa, and the reason I joined this nutty, fun, and exciting forum. When I began playing New Leaf, I had so much fun! I didn't have much, and I guess that made it so exciting to play everyday, since I basically had nothing, and I had to work to get unorderables and cool/rare items. When I found GameFAQs and joined, someone voided a villager who ended up plotting on my blue and gold roses a sweet dearie gave me; he was the first kind person I met. Well... that, and the fact my hair was all messed up from not playing for a week, I just thought..... I should reset. So I did. And after, I joined TBT, and I loved it. I bought and learned about so many cool items in game, and earned tons of IGB from giveaways, I became slowly rich. But... at that time, I just cared about the cool items, not about decorating, so guess where the items I obtained went? In my house. My mayor's home is literally nothing but piled unorderables and cool/unique/customized furniture. Just recently my secondary's home was actually decorated. And I really enjoyed making it. It was the first time I actually decorated something with what I wanted for the first time in any AC game. So... after I start upgrading the secondary's home, I worked on the lawn: hundreds of blue roses 'fenced' in with blue hydrangeas.

:') Guess what happens next? The ugly-af villager Snake moves in and smashes a ton of the blues and some bushes, trashing the little hedge I made that surrounded their yard. I was devastated. Uglee + perfect yard destroyed + lost blue roses = Anger. I took a week-long hiatus then, if you wondered why I wasn't inactive in the beginning of fall. So... I come back, and no matter WHAT I do, that bloody Snake won't ping me to leave :'D all my dreamies pinged me and left as soon as they could, but not Snake. Nope. The uglees have to stay. So I honestly could care less about villagers; Idrc anymore which ones plot and move now. Tbh if they didn't exist in-game I'd be so much happier.

And... when I first began, like I said, I hoarded. I HOARDED. My plaza is completely clogged in event items/gyroids/random misc unorderables. Beach completely clogged in hybrids/misc rare/ores. Private beach clogged in more random misc. Brewster's clogged in tickets/fortunes. Retails and area behind it clogged in over 200 fossils (identified). Behind the town hall, tons more gyroids. Behind my mayor's home, lots of random stuff (idek anymore). In a small clearing, is more random junk. And my gate is filled with unorderables. Storage: every space taken up with an unorderable. Mail storage clogged too. Same for secondary's storage; and let's not forget the mayor's house now. Every room clogged with crap. >.> So. Much. RANDOM JUNK.

So when I log on, I'm like UGH yay time to play in my ugly af town. There's random common flowers everywhere, almost no pwps, villagers plotting whereever they want, junk junk and more junk everywhere, with occasional patches of hybrids, and I just want a happy peaceful town like so many people have :'( You see so many gorgeous dream towns... and it's like how??!?!?! Hnnng how the heck did you get that like ghghghgh howwww

I just want Lucanosa to end. The town has done nothing but suffered, and idk what to do. I want to reset, so I don't have to think about it anymore, but if I do, I might regret doing it. If I don't reset though, and instead clean out my town, I'll always remember the torture I've endured in it, so I'm conflicted. e.e If you were in my situation, what would you do? Sorry for the long post... but... I just want some opinions on my scenario ;_; thank you for taking your time to read

 

[Belle of Pripyat]

If you don't want all of the things that are littering your town, you could sell them or host a giveaway. Aside from the mess, do you like your town? Do you like the map and the permanent PWPs? Don't worry about villagers because they come and go, as you know. In a new town, they'll still come and destory flowers from time to time. The best thing to do is probably gather all the things you like and want to keep and redecorate your first house. Get rid of the stuff you don't want. It can be done in a few days if you put your mind to it. Once you've cleared out some of the "junk," if you're still unhappy, you'll feel better about restarting with no regrets.

 

[mayortash]

I agree with Belle 100%. Tackle everything slowly. Those fossils that you said you have already identified? If you don't want them then sell them in Re-Tail. Yes it will take you a while but when you are done you will feel better. Then tackle the beach. Don't want it in your house? Sell it or give it away. Villagers will always plot in places that may seem inconvenient if you don't plot reset. Use it as another option to relandscape your town. And don't compare your town to others - there will always be other towns you think are better than yours, the truth is, most of those people also think their towns aren't as good as the ones they idolise from tumblr/Dream Suite. Everyone strives to be bigger and better, use this as your opportunity.

 

[ZetaFunction]

If you don't want all of the things that are littering your town, you could sell them or host a giveaway. Aside from the mess, do you like your town? Do you like the map and the permanent PWPs? Don't worry about villagers because they come and go, as you know. In a new town, they'll still come and destory flowers from time to time. The best thing to do is probably gather all the things you like and want to keep and redecorate your first house. Get rid of the stuff you don't want. It can be done in a few days if you put your mind to it. Once you've cleared out some of the "junk," if you're still unhappy, you'll feel better about restarting with no regrets.

Last time I tried selling it, it was a bust. I ended up selling 2 or 3 things, and for dirt cheap. I have absolutely no use for IGB, so after failing selling it for TBT, I tried auctioning it. Last auction I held, the winner forgot to collect all of the item, and only took some, and didn't pay me. They're inactive now. (basically they stole; but it wasn't anything that valuable tho, just some gardening items I think)
Repeated the auction two more times; second time the winner went inactive, and third time no one bid by the time the auction ended. So I tried a giveaway. And....... only a couple people took the stuff.

I'll be trying a massive entire-town auction and just repurchase the items I need since there's so much to go through, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was a bust again. And eh.... not including villagers, I guess it's okay, I mean there are better maps out there, so idrk. It's hard to judge it when it's completely covered in junk and just trashed and you see zero potential.

 

[Dinosaurz]

Honestly if you lost interest just reset

 

[ZetaFunction]

I agree with Belle 100%. Tackle everything slowly. Those fossils that you said you have already identified? If you don't want them then sell them in Re-Tail. Yes it will take you a while but when you are done you will feel better. Then tackle the beach. Don't want it in your house? Sell it or give it away. Villagers will always plot in places that may seem inconvenient if you don't plot reset. Use it as another option to relandscape your town. And don't compare your town to others - there will always be other towns you think are better than yours, the truth is, most of those people also think their towns aren't as good as the ones they idolise from tumblr/Dream Suite. Everyone strives to be bigger and better, use this as your opportunity.

You're right.... I just feel bad about selling stuff inside retail since someone on here might want it and I can give it to them instead, you know? :/ I guess I'll do it that way if no one else buys the stuff by then or no one wants it for free. I just feel so overwhelmed right now >_< like I feel like my town would be on the Hoarders: Buried Alive show but AC version XD Later this weekend I'll be posting pictures of the piles, but I guess you're right ;-; I'm still leaning on resetting just so I can forget about it all and enjoy my favorite season.

- - - Post Merge - - -

Honestly if you lost interest just reset

That's just it; I haven't. I really would like to continue playing and decorate, but it's just the overwhelming when inside is clogged with junk that you're reluctant to let go, and outside is just plain trashy with uglees and junk everywhere, and you're too tired to clean it all up e.e

 

[Manah]

I have four characters just so I can store all my stuff and don't have it lying around in my town. So yeah, I'd get rid of things you don't really need first and then see what you think about the rest of your town.

As for Snake, it seems the villager that moved in last never asks to leave. I've had Coco for one real year and one TT year and she never pinged me. (If Snake does ping you, I'll gladly take him off your hands. He's one of my second town dreamies.)

 

[Belle of Pripyat]

One good thing is that your character has a nice, large catalog of items. You'll lose all of that if you restart. It's going to be a lot of work either way. You'll either spend a lot of time cleaning up your town or you'll start from scratch and have to rebuild. You just have to decide which is the better option for you. However, since you're unsure, start cleaning up now. You can always restart at any time. Who knows? You may fall back in love with your town once some of the stuff is removed.

 

[mayortash]

You're right.... I just feel bad about selling stuff inside retail since someone on here might want it and I can give it to them instead, you know? :/ I guess I'll do it that way if no one else buys the stuff by then or no one wants it for free. I just feel so overwhelmed right now >_< like I feel like my town would be on the Hoarders: Buried Alive show but AC version XD Later this weekend I'll be posting pictures of the piles, but I guess you're right ;-; I'm still leaning on resetting just so I can forget about it all and enjoy my favorite season.

That's why I suggested going with your fossils first. Cause honestly? Everyone can get them. So don't feel bad. Also though it's admirable to want to give first dibs to people, if you have too much choice they'll soon get really overwhelmed. I would honestly sell 99% of stuff and maybe just keep to the event plaza and train station plaza for unorderables that you want to give away to people (that you don't want in your house obviously). That's manageable.

And if I can help then let me know.

 

[Dorian]

I think Belle and Tash have given you some solid advice here. It can be scary when you're at the jumping off point. What about this? You really only need enough items to fill one house. All the stuff you are hoarding is just stuff, right? At the end of the day, say your game corrupted and EVERYTHING was gone! Would it be the end of AC for you? I don't think so. You sound pretty affectionate toward the game. Sounds as if you are simply in a major rut. Perhaps it's time to break up with Lucanosa and start over. And break ups are messy. And we usually leave half of our belongings behind. I think your main problem lies with not wanting to part with your hoard. But sweetie, sometimes a makeover is just what we need to refresh us. Imagine a town free of clutter and mess where you can simply enjoy being there. Sounds pretty great. As for the need to make bells off all your collectibles... Well, why not just host a blow out giveaway where players with less can come over and help you clean by removing all that clutter. I think the mindset of releasing all your items is holding you prisoner and I think we all get that. I mean, who wants to lose their catalog of rare and DLC? But look at it this way. Say you store EVERYTHING in a friends town, delete Lucanosa and start up a new town. Then you bring ALL your stuff back. What have you accomplished with that? Probably another hoarder town. Like I said earlier, sometimes when faced with cleaning and not enough space, tough choices have to be made about what to keep and what to let go. You sound like a passionate player. I am certain you will find your way. Good luck, sweetie!

 

[MOON TRIPS]

yeah, definitely clean it up. if you like your town, there's no sense in resetting...!
I know it feels crummy to sell things to Re-Tail when you're on here and thinking someone could use them, but I've done several giveaways and there's always stuff that does not get picked up. or at the least, it's kinda hard to get rid of. for things like fossils, you're best just selling them off to Re-Tail, I'd say. tbh, because of this forum, there isn't all too much that's hard to get. even in terms of unorderables, a lot of them are not really difficult to get a hold of, I've realized. I actually gave away many unorderables(mostly Gracie) because I was really tired of them taking up space, and I knew they weren't going to be used.
I also sold off like, all my streetpass stuff because I decided I wouldn't keep it and wasn't bothered to give the things away.