Animal Crossing New Leaf megathread: The economy of Bells, Fruit and Turnips.

How long did it take you to get all of the shopes/complete your house? I feel like it's been taking me too long, but I just can't seem to earn enough profit =\

Turnips are the only way to really make the big bells. If you get a full cupboard of them(~1.8million bells) on a really good week you can get upwards of 10million back. Of course, fruit trees with non-native fruit are helpful to get started too. Going to the island and beetle hunting in the evening also works pretty well.

As for upgrading shops, just keep buying things. The only real roadblock is the last upgrade where you have to rely on a random event to occur 4 times before you can, which took me forever to occur.

Though I will say, if you're playing animal crossing for hours a day, you probably are going to get burnt out on it. There isn't really anything major you can do to the process up (and that's by design).