Home Shopping Channel and Other Items


The home shopping channel sells various items and you can buy one each week.  These items enhance the functionality of your house and allow you to achieve other goals in the game.  You can buy one item each week.   Watch the second channel on the harvest sprite stations and look for items that you can purchase.  You will be able to tell if you can buy something because they ask for a currency called Karbos that you don't have and cannot spend.  The rest of the items are just there for comical effect and to pass the time between items you can buy.  Once you see an item you want, use the phone to order it between 10:00 am and 5:00 pm.  Thomas will deliver the item to you in 2 to 3 days.  You need to but several items to unlock the ability to upgrade the house.  Some items are only available after you upgrade your house.

Listed below are the items, their purposes, and costs. 

Decorations:
These items decorate the house and may have a secondary purpose.  The Big bed is only available after the house upgrade and is necessary to get married.


Decoration Items
Item Name Purpose Price
Coffee Table Decorates House 500g
Clock Tells you the exact time 1,000g
Big Bed allows you to get married 10,000g
Storage Containers:
The storage containers allow you to store the items you usually keep in your ruck sack.  Each of the has nine screens of 15 spaces where you can store items. You can stack up to 99 of the same item in one space.  You need to buy the first house upgrade to purchase most of them.

Storage Containers
Tool Box Stores Tools2,000g
Beauty Box tores Accessories2,500g
Fridge Stores edible items and ingredients 2,500g
Shelf Stores everything else2,500g

Cooking:
These items allow you to prepare food in the game
kitchen:
You need the second house upgrade to buy the kitchen
utensils :
Each utensil allows you to prepare more recipes. 

Kitchen and Cooking Utensils
Item Name Purpose Price
Kitchen Allows you to cook4,000g
Pot Prepares potRecipes1,200g
Steamer Prepares Steamer Recipes 1,200g
Frying pan '' frying pan '' 1,000g
Oven '' oven''2,000g
Mixer '' mixer''1,500g


Other items:
  These items are not purchased from the home shoppingnetwork and are not edible or used as ingredients.  This section is just to cover other items that appear in the game that aren't tools or other items related to animals or accessories.

TV:
You buy this from vans shop for 10,000g.  It severs to decorateyour house and is used with the DVD player.  It is needed to unlock one of Lumina's heart events. 

DVD Player:
You also buy this from van for 20,000g.  When used with the TV and DVD's it allows you to watch the background images from the TV shops from friends of mineral town.  You need it to marry Lumina.

DVD's:
These are bought from van and vary in price.  The DVD's are used with the TV and DVD Player also purchased from van.  They allow you to view the background images from fomt TV shows.  The show varies with each DVD.  You can unlock more DVD's by leaving the harvest moon friends of mineral town or more friends of mineral town game pack in your DS longer.

Records:
These are bought from the sprite shop and vary in price. They allow you to change the background music in the game. In order to change the music, you need to go to the fifth channel and select the new song you wish to listen to.  You need to buy five records to unlock the channel.  Note, if you load your game or use the teleport stone, the music will revert back to the default song for the season.  The songs vary in title.  They are all from previous harvest moon games.  More records are unlocked by linking the games.  You will unlock the seasonal songs and the ending theme from mineral town for 10,000g each.  Finally, additional records are unlocked when you get married and have a kid.  There are a little over 20 in all.  They cost between 100g and 10,000g each.