New Player, Need Advice On Keeping/Selling/Using Things

[Fopeano]

I have tons of fish, spring produce, foraging assets, resources, etc. I am consistently broke because I never sell anything. With the community center, gifts, crafting, cooking, etc, it seems I should keep everything because I might need it. Am I missing the point or getting it?

For instance, I have many fish with the colored stars. If I wanted to sell fish to make money, should I sell the ones with the stars and keep the base version for CC/gift/craft/cooking, or the other way around?

Can anyone explain how I should be liquidating things without inhibiting the plot development?

[Xpliciit]

You should keep maybe at the most 20 of each item.

You should sell all fish above base quality, the base quality ones depending on the fish can be used for cooking recipies amongst other things.

You can keep everything without selling anything until you need to buy something. This is the more advanced early game strategy wherein you have no money at all times and only sell what you need to upgrade a tool or buy a building. After the first year using this strategy is no longer necessary. It is also viable to sell everything as you get it.

Everything is profitable regardless of how you sell it. Crops grown from seeds sell for more than the cost of the seeds, Mining for anything to sell is free money, catching fish is free money, foraging is free money and so on.

Base value stuff like Crops, Eggs, Milk, Truffles 'should' be turned into their Artisan versions such as Wine/Jelly, Mayonnaise, Cheese and Truffle Oil. This is not necessary as the base products will still make a profit but doing so will make more profit.

Edit: Also with regards to the CC, completing that should be priority number 1 over all other things. So if you get a product for that, then that comes first before something else.

An Exception to that would be perhaps a thing or two that could be donated to the museum in which you could attempt to use elsewhere.

[Vimpster]

Personally I hang on to a certain number of any item I collect. The number I hold onto depends on the type of item it is. For fish I hang on to at least 3 of every fish. Anything in excess to that I sell, unless it can be refined in some way to be made more valuable, such as crops being turned into wine for instance.

From my understanding quality does matter with regards to gifting. So if you want to get the most out of your gifts you should gift the highest quality items you can. However, when supplying items asked for from the bulletin board or from a quest received through the mail, the quality does not matter.

[Fopeano]

Fantastic answers! Thank you! Just one clarification:

If the CC wants an artifact, give it to them instead of donating it to the museum? I'm inclined to keep everything new I find until the CC is complete. Then I can donate, liquidate, etc. Is that a logical approach?

It seems obvious that if that if CC want fish or crop X, the most basic example will do the job, right?

[Xpliciit]

Yes CC before Museum and Museum can be done second but Museum is only really needed until around 60 donated items.

[Fopeano]

Originally posted by red255:

Like I sell my fish, because who wants a fish thats been sitting in a crate for 2 years?

If I have a crate almost full with different kinds of fish stacks, is that unnecessary hoarding and should be sold off?

[CalhounMKZ]

Originally posted by fopeano:

Originally posted by red255:

Like I sell my fish, because who wants a fish thats been sitting in a crate for 2 years?

If I have a crate almost full with different kinds of fish stacks, is that unnecessary hoarding and should be sold off?

Unless you intend to cook with the fish very few are useful to keep.

[Cal Thang]

Originally posted by fopeano:

For instance, I have many fish with the colored stars. If I wanted to sell fish to make money, should I sell the ones with the stars and keep the base version for CC/gift/craft/cooking, or the other way around?

Yeah, just sell those fishes with star.