Hi!

I'm the youngest of christiane2326's pets, and being rather new to Neopia I love to help out other newbies any way I can.

The most helpful thing that I've found is neoextreme.com, which brings together lots of other great helps. But I don't have much time each day to play, so I've developed my own routine to make quick NP. It took a while of saving up, but I got a neat darigan paint brush and matching Snuffly!

Here's what I recommend each and every day:
(in firefox, I right-click on each one and open it in a new tab...I love firefox!)
bank fruitmachine tombola shop till slorg np snowager(6-7,2-3,10-11) deserted tomb Coltzan's shrine

Besides free health care:
healing springs omelette snackbar http://www.neopets.com/ jelly/ jelly. phtml

Plus quick & effortless NP:
warriors fidosophy advervideo
(Note: fan3, benchwarmers, aly&aj, dev2.0, materialgirls, and travelingpants are no longer available, but "quizzes" like them appear occasionally)

Other easy NP (remember, even if you aren't 'good' at a game it brings some np, and you can get better with practice):

Tier I (biggest bang for buck, 20k in just 1 hour) turmacroll usuki monsterhouse hasee piratescarib hilaryduff cellphone brotherbear brotherbearSG repairhangar bullseye whack-a-kass cerealdrop robotdrop survey icecream bouncysupreme

Tier II featuredgame vibe licca-chan split-shot cars moveit tripletrack pacman 200m dash petpetherder crossword snowballfight cliffhanger kikomatch limitedtoomatch pterattack2 cannonball moonrock meercachase1 meercachase2 piratecompare animalcompare flycatcher turdles shootingstars majorityrules

Tier III orbs swarm2 moveit sutekstomb petpetrescue 7-11 juggler nationalneopian faeriebubbles snowmuncher destructomatch2 pyramids pawkeetslots

Non-daily NP:
monthly freebies cerealfactoids (scroll thru all the questions to collect 1000 NP) dragonquiz (the answer is B)

More Help:
If you have some capital to start with, you can make big gains at the FairyLand Employment Center (Basic Jobs refresh every 10 minutes, literally, and don't require a coupon) or the stock market (buy only at prices around 15-17 NP and wait til the value has gone up about 80% before selling) and maybe even the wheel of excitement (every two hours) and scratchcards.

If not, try the fishing cavern and money tree. Unfortunately, you need a fast connection to get items at the money tree or employment center, as well as when restocking from main stores. Goto11 has a friendly guide for the connection-poor. =} Other friendly guides include Demersneo Atablicryon lankandemon Babyblue0239 Hitakae Chuuchuri and Sprouston. If you're working towards a particular goal as fast as possible, try these guides (spoilers): Faenarra JillianAraca garmfay doni031459 neo__bori neo____zafara kipchipotto7. For even more information, see Bizmarc turmaculusguide ultimatebullseyeguide Dunger00 nargyim7 yibbo300 Doughnut_Don LeQuig Grephun. Lab ray is here if you've bought and turned in the pieces.

Personal note: Some people make huge profits from RSing (restocking: buying from the main stores when they refresh, and selling at a profit in private stores) but I don't rely on that for two reasons. 1) something about jacking up the price of things bothers me, especially since it's strictly for profit (as opposed to inflation). On the other hand, 2) many items have become devalued because they are so commonly available that their worth gets undercut by people trying to make a quick buck. If we all sold toy sailboats for around what they're worth instead of lowering the price to 1 np, people who get them from tombola or the money tree would get some value from them. As it is now, going to the money tree is only helpful if you get a food item--and food you can get for free any time, anyway. So I don't RS.