So, what do you guys do to make money?

[Halloqueen]

In New Leaf I tend to sell beetles and sharks from the island, as well as anything else like fossils that I don't have any further use for or clothing and furniture that I don't plan to put in any of my characters' houses. I'm not much of a fan of taking risks, so I've never tried the Stalk Market.

It has been years since I played the GameCube game regularly so I don't recall, to be honest. I'd assume just selling expensive fish, non-native fruit, and excess items earned as rewards from running errands.

 

[Blood Eclipse]

2014

For anyone else still playing New Leaf, the fastest way to earn bells is unlocking Tortimer Island. From there, cut all the tree, bushes and flowers in the middle and leave it barren. The only trees you'll want up are coconut/banana trees. Go at around 7pm-8pm (the reason you want to go this late is to avoid grasshoppers and locust that might still be around) and catch all the beetles (the rarer they are, the more you'll earn) and sharks can net you a lot of bells, too.

Fill up your island inventory to the brim and go back to your Town and sell everything you caught. You can make 1/2 a mill or more in a single day using this method.

Other tips to make money:
Sell only items like fossils or silver/gold ore at your retail for 9,999 bells (the max any item can be sold). You can sell any item worth 2500 and up at this price without your villagers second thinking the purchase. Or sell regular ores at 4? the price minus one bell (the max price they can be sold without your villager questioning the purchase). If you equip a silver shovel, you can find ores easier when you hit a rock for bells.

Hitting rocks for bells:
everyday you can earn up to 16,100 bells hitting a rock with your shovel. To maximize the amount of bells that a rock releases, dig three holes behind you, so that you won't move backwards from the recoil.

Another tip to make a lot of money is selling all your your perfect fruit in another town for maximum bells

and lastly buying turnip every sunday and waiting for the price in the retail shop to reach its peak. this is the worst way to make money out of the other ways (imo) since time traveling will rot your turnips.

 

[Lavamaize]

To make money, I also just sell items I find around town. I usually make 10-40k doing this. I know, not much, but it is better than nothing!

 

[BriBunee]

I sell fruit in the day, fish and catch bugs then at night beetle hunt on the island, that usually racks in about 500k x)

 

[Speeny]

Usually by bug hunting & catching sharks. I'll always go around and find the money rock each day too.

 

[Snowesque]

Island farm for the higher priced bugs and fish. Selling perfect fruit would be more time effective (for me), but unfortunately my partner's town has oranges as well.

 

[pumpkinpuppy]

Sell fruit from my orchard every three days, and in between go fishing in the ocean or at the island.

 

[MapleCake]

I made millions once investing in turnips. Bought them for 80-90, and Sold them for 560 or so. Just kept doing this till my mind went numb and I turned into a turnip. Haha. It's been months since then and I'm still living off that money and I made enough to complete my other character houses, and reach perfect town.

In my old town, I had a bunch of royal crowns a friend had dumped in my town to get rid of, and did the lazy camper trick. Lazy personality animals in your camper will pay over full price for your items when you sell to them after beating them in games. You gotta keep saving inbetween each sell so that if you lose to them, you can simply reboot your game and try again. I made 100m+ that way. You can do the lazy camper trick on just about any item and make money that way. However, nothing will make you more than obviously the most expensive item in all of animal crossing. I was just super lucky to meet such a friend.

Easiest way to make up to a couple mil a day is the island beetle trick. Though I would suggest you catch any sharks you see too just to give yourself something extra to do in between the mind numbing task of creeping up on beetles haha.

Also lazy camper trick works for beetles and sharks too! They will buy for almost double if not more than double! I've made plenty of money this way. Probably best method if you happen to have a lazy camper visiting you. Best of luck!

 

[Stalfos]

In Animal Crossing for the Gamecube I used to catch and sell Red Snappers (3000 bells) and Barred Knifejaws (5000 bells) to make some money.

In New Leaf it's much easier to make money because there's a ton of beetles on the island that pays a fortune. Investing in turnips is another way to quickly make a ton of money without an effort, though it can be a bit risky if you don't have people to help you out.

 

[Alyx]

Hours and hours of beetle & shark hunting on the island, and selling fossils. Sometimes I'd run to someone's town to sell my perfect fruit at a premium at their Re-Tail.

 

[duvetmo]

I usually make my bells by selling my perfect fruits and any furniture that I have that I don't use. Also, fishing! Fishing!!!!! I fish so much especially on the island, and when it was summer I would catch the beetles on the trees. Sharks make a hefty profit.

 

[Laconic]

Selling everything, I do beetle farming, shark farming, rig Retail's flea market spots with everything I bought from Main Street, and I sell off everything my villagers give to me. Sorry, guys..
Plus whatever flowers they insist on planting, whatever falls from trees, gems, etc, etc. I think everything I do in the game is slowly building up money.

However, selling turnips is by far the most profitable, better than beetles (and sharks, which are better than beetles anyway, they don't get enough credit!), and takes zero effort.

 

[MarzipanDragyn]

I mostly sell all of the fruit in town as it grows back, but nighttime fishing on the island is definitely the way to go. Although, with my itchy trigger finger, it's a wonder I catch anything at all ': D
Selling excess furniture helps a lot, too, especially when you can talk your villagers out of making you pay for it first... And catching bees if you're fast enough to avoid them. (Yes indeed, we're shaking trees.)
And slingshot-ing everything you see in the sky will definitely pay off down the road.

 

[MelloDimensions]

I got some pretty awesome friends that have seriously spoiled me. Love you guys.

 

[BluebearL]

I sell lots and lots of perfect fruit (the fastest way I have found) sell fossils my museum doesn?t need if it?s not complete yet, go though unwanted locker storage and sell it every now and again and sell lots and lots of sea shells. I like to collect my gyroids so I don?t sell them

 

[Wyrex]

Beetle hunting!

 

[ivanfox13]

I wait until 4:30 and then I go straight to the island and catch all those exotic bugs and sharks.

 

[John Wick]

Shark and beetle hunting on Tortimer island early in the morning, around 6.00am made me loads of money.

I used to like seeing how many giant beetles I could catch, but my main money making method, was to only keep fish and beetles worth ten grand and over, and since beetles and sharks stop appearing after 9.00am, I'd usually have all the boxes full and I'd keep catching the most expensive ones, and replace the $10,000 ones with those until it hit 9.00am.

I used to do this almost every morning back when I had New Leaf.

 

[AntiJupiter]

I use the island method at 7pm!

 

[Koi Fishe]

Sell things on Nookazon lmao. People will sell their soul for Bubblegum K.K, it's insane.