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Every single item you have in your SDB won't be available for check off here - there are just too many items, and any items over 5000 neopoints aren't found here.
However, the best way to use this site is to mark off items as you buy them and earn NP like usual. When you've got some spare neopoints, head over and use the lists (such as by price) and then buy the cheapest items and mark them off. Here is how the checklist info is set up:
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<-- Image of Item | Rotting Driftwood | <-- Link to Shop Wiz | ||
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<-- Price & Checkbox to Add/Remove Item <-- Link to edit item & data <-- Link to check if item is in SDB | ||||
New items will frequently be added, so aim for the ones that aren't checked off that you still need :D Good luck reaching 1000!
How to Find the Cheapest Items
Always refresh, refresh, refresh on Shop Wiz! :) The prices here are averages, so therefore you can usually find a bargain of the item selling for a lot cheaper. This will help you save NP to purchase other items.
Special Items: Omelettes/Jelly
Instead of buying partial omelettes and jellies, instead purchase multiple full ones and then feed them to your pet as needed. It normally costs more to buy a 1/3 Cheese Omelette than it does to buy a full Cheese Omelette and then eat two portions.
Items Not Here
If you get an item as a gift, from a game, etc. feel free to toss that in your SDB too! Most people have a fair number of items already in their SDB for safekeeping purposes, and those count too. There's no need to go out and buy additional items to reach 1000 if you can temporarily put some gallery/shop items in there.
More tips!
The following guide is excerpted from xanitablakex's Pack Rat Avatar Tips page and we have been graciously given permission to include the following below - thanks! :D
Hi and welcome to my tips! Some PackRat Avatar Tips! I don't know how much this is going to help anyone, but I'll put it up anyway in case anyone starting out wants a few tips on how I got my PackRat Avatar.
1.) Be prepared to spend some NP. I started out with about 100 items in my Safety Deposit Box. I also had about 96,000 NP in the bank. I highly recommend having a good amount of NP in the bank before you start. Besides, when you start collecting a good amount of interest, (Say, 100 np a day) that's at least one item you're getting money for. Make sense?
2.) Be patient! Like I said, I started off with about 100 items and it's taken me a few months to get this avatar. I haven't been as dedicate as I could be, but unless you have a serious amount of NP, it's going to take some time.
3.) Search for the lowest price! Even if you have to search ten times, get a decent price on all of your items. Remember, you're spending a lot of Neopoints, but unless you plan on keeping and using all of your items, you get your NP back!
4.) Buy more than one item per shop. Also, see the tip after this one for further explaination. I usually have three tabs open when item hunting (I use Firefox, so if you us IE, you can have three seperate windows). They are: the Project PackRat site, my Safety Deposite Box, and then one last tab for the shop wizard. Let's say I'm searching for an item that's minimum price is 99 NP and I buy the item I'm looking for, but I see something else for half the price that I know I've never seen before-BUY IT. Chances are, it'll be either worth more and/or an item you don't have. However, this is also why I have my Safety Deposite Box tab. If you're weary about buying multiple items, check there first. Is this a little unclear? See the next tip for more clarification.
5.) A note about Project PackRat. This site is based on prices. Let's say I'm looking for Black Nail Varnish which is listed to be about 120 NP. And then let's say I stumble upon (in the same shop) a War Chia Top which is selling for 20 NP. Now, I know I hadn't seen the War Chia Top prior to the Black Nail Varnish, so chances are it's either worth more Neopoints or an item that wasn't listed at PPR. I always buy items I haven't seen that sell for lower.
6.) Get other avatars. A lot of my items came from buying things to get other avatars like the Codestones Avatar, the Mad About Orange avatar, the I'm Smelly avatar, etc. Any avatar that requires you to have a number of items. Killing two birds with one stone is always helpful.
7.) Free items. There are some items you do NOT have to buy. This includes items you can easily get from the Advent Calendar, Monthly Freebies, Underwater Fishing, Faerieland Healing Springs, free jelly and omelette's. A tip about omelettes, get as many different kinds as you can and at least three of each. 2/3 of an omelette and 1/3 of an omelette both count as one seperate item! So, you can have a sausage omelette, 2/3 of a sausage omelette and 1/3 of a sausage omelette and it counts as three different items. The same is true for jelly. If you get two of the same, keep one whole one and then have one of your pets eat half. You now have two items! Just keep your eye out for free items. Heck, I created a Yellow Tuskaninny and when I went to my items, I had a Lemon Tuskaninny Pop in there. You never know where you may find some. :)
8.) Buy from The Neopia Food Store. If you're not worried about spending the least amount of NP, go there and buy anything within your budget range. I always shop there because MOST (not all), but MOST of the items there sell for higher than what you can haggle them for. Maybe this is true for other shops, I don't know. I do know that I bought a rare shirt for 1800 NP from the clothing shop to get an avatar and when I looked up it's value in the shop wizard, it only sold for 400 NP. >_@ You can also get good discounts on items from the Igloo Garage Sale, but the Food Store has more items and is a little more dependable and usually has more items for sale.
9.) Sell duplicate items. Ya know how those beautiful codestones just magically fall into your lap sometimes? SELL them if you already have that one. Like I said before, unless you plan on keeping and/or using your items, they are worth NP! A codestone can get you quite a few items in return.
10.) Collect sets. This is a bit more for people not using Project PackRat, but it could be for anyone really. Try to collect sets of things: Lipstick, Collars, Faeries, Caps, Tops, Plushies, etc. You'd be surprised at how fast items can rack up.
11.) Extra note. If you're really worried about neopoints, here's a good way to get lots fast: Pick 10 of your favorite games. Play them three times, earning at least 300-350 per game. After the ten games, you should have anywhere from 9,000 NP to 10,500 NP!
12.) Sand Sculptures, Instead of buying those sand sculptures that cost close to 100 np, look at the colors in the bottle. Those bottles are the results of using the Cooking pot on Mystery Island! Just look to the colors in the bottle and mix those up in the cooking pot. It will be much cheaper and you might get lucky like me and spend 15 np on something you might have originally spent 70 np on! (Submitted by hermionegranger93)
I guess that's all I can think of to help you get the avatar. I do wish you the best of luck! If you have any tips, suggestions or questions, please feel free to neomail me. I'll get back to you as soon as possible. However, please do not neomail me with guild invitations, asking for my items v_v or asking about things already stated here. I don't mind if you're confused about something I wrote in here, but if you neomail me, asking, "How can I make more neopoints?" It might tick me off. Just please be considerate. :) Thank you and good luck!!
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