Buy a banana seed, plant the seed, and take care of it. Then, buy the seed harvester. The next summer, take your bananas and harvest the seeds. Plant a few fo the seeds, but sell the rest to Van--they sell for 750 a seed, and a tree will yield 30+ bananas.

Start cooking in your kitchen and choose any recipe type. Select only Ruby Spice and then press START--you'll have one more Ruby Spice. Repeat the trick to get up to 99 Ruby Spice, but don't create any more than 99. If you do you'll end up not being able to use all your bottles, and won't be able to continue living your Wonderful Life.

Befriend the scientist by giving him gifts, and he will give you the seed maker for free at the beginning of the second year.

Cat: Make friends with Romana, and during the fall season of the second chapter, wake up after your wife. Romana will give you a cat.

Duck: Purchase a pond from Takakura and, during the summer season of chapter two, wake up after your wife.

Goat: Van sells ducks when his shop is open during the spring season.

If you are having trouble making money, gather up all of your fodder. Fodder sells for 10 gold a piece and one sell of 99 pieces will get you 990 gold.

Select the Diary and choose to sleep. Save the game when prompted to, and then reset your GameCube. Load the save file you just made and you'll begin before you went to sleep but will be fully rested.

If you are disatisfied with your weather go to your TV and keep turning it on and off on the weather channel until it gives you the weather you want.