Nintendo is charging an arm and a leg for storage space in Animal Crossing New Horizons 3.0, which means you'll find me and many others back in the turnip mines

Animal Crossing: New Horizons' big 3.0 update is finally here, bringing the new hotel feature to everyone's islands as well as Zelda and Lego collabs and plenty of clutch updates to make island life that much more inviting.

One of those smaller, but nonetheless greatly appreciated, quality of life updates is the ability to increase your home's storage all the way up to 9,000, a pretty huge jump from the previous limit of 5,000 items. Sounds great, right? And, you can also now store trees, shrubs, and living flowers in your home storage. Pump the brakes, though, because the combined cost of the two storage expansions is an eye-watering 3.3 million bells - 1.5 for the first and 1.8 for the second - and that's only if you're going into the situation having already settled all possible home expansion loans with Tom Nook, itself an incredibly pricey affair.

I never got heavy into the whole turnip market thing, mostly because I much prefer the slow pace of catching and selling fish to Animal Crossing's version of a stock market, but I may have to temporarily change that. I still haven't paid off the final 2.5 million loan I have from Tom Nook, so if I want the full 9,000 storage slots, I would need, in total, 5.8 million bells. As far as I know, the quickest - although not very reliably - way to get that is to buy a bunch of turnips and hope the bells are in my favor, and then do that over and over and over again. Thankfully, I'm not the only one looking at my current storage situation a lot more favorably after learning how much the upgrades cost.

I think I might pass on expanding my storage lol from r/AnimalCrossing

"Time to turnip prophet," quipped a punny Redditor in the thread's top response with more than 450 upvotes at the time of writing.

It's also worth pointing out that Tom Nook wants his money up front for this, so adding on to your existing loan or opening another isn't an option. And, just for some extra salt in the wound, you can't pull the money straight from your bank, you have to actually go to the ABD machine, or whatever, and withdraw the full amount into your pockets and then hand over that 50-pound sack straight into Tom Nook's ridiculously deep pockets.

Of course, I'm not surprised to find plenty of Animal Crossing players in the above thread with more than enough bells to cover their own storage expansions and everyone else in the comments. Some are even offering to donate, which is very cool, but judging from upvotes heavily favoring the less fortunate, they're the outliers. The rest of us are going back to the turnip mines and staying thankful we don't have to sell feet pics.

Deleting my Animal Crossing: New Horizons island has changed the way I play, and it feels like returning to 2005's Wild World