Decorations & organizing detrimental to buying buildings

KrustyBrand wrote:

hgfxf wrote:
True, but when I pick up land to even out my OCD square of a town at $45k, $48k, and $50k, plus $40k worth of nickel & dime hedges, etc, it kind of resets the clock money wise. Especially with wanting to buy channel 6 when it finishes as well as the post office waiting for me. (Not even counting whatever comes available on Dec 5th) :/

I think this is me, hg. I read posts from users who manage to accumulate vast quantities of virtual cash, but I never seem to be able to do that. I'm always spending it on land or decorations. The most I ever had on hand was ~250K.

Me too. I'm only level 19 and i honestly can't afford to decorate since I'm right at that point of buying an important building everyday.. But I do it anyway. I guess most people kind of hold off on decorating until they have most of the buildings, but I couldn't handle seeing my town in disarray along the way. So with each building, I create a rightful spot for it and then decorate it. I've still never been above $60,000! Sometimes it's sooo tempting to create a huge house farm because then I wouldn't have to scrape by, but they're just such an eye sore. At least it only takes about a day now to get my bank back up, and I'm just happy to have a Springfield I can be proud of. I love my new gazebo park, even though all the hedges and large flower patches seriously put me in the hole.