New Cleaning Option in Family Farm Seaside

Get out your rubber gloves and cleaning supplies, your mops and brushes!  There is a new cleaning option in Family Famr Seaside that allows Players to collect all sorts of random items, from Green Mystrons to OP and Power.  Visit your Neighbours' Farms and look for the large icon of a Brush above any Decoration.  You then will be given the opportunity to polish it.  Doing so will give you a Reward in the form of a Cleaning Bag.  It may be Purple or it may be Silver.  Where the Market Stall is concerned, the Reward will be a Blue Gift Bag.   When you arrive home, look in your Gift Box and 'Use' it to open it to find your Reward.  Rewards so far from the Gift Bags I have collected have included Gasoline, OP, Power, 100 Coins and Green Mystrons. 

The corollary to this is that any one who cleans Decorations on YOUR Farm will leave you Cleaning Gift Bags.  Tap on the icon of the Bag to collect it.  You then will find it in your Gift Box.  The colour of the Gift Bag is  based on the type of Decoration that is cleaned.

I have noticed a lot of posts about this in Family Farm Groups.  Players actually become annoyed with Neighbours who either do not have any Cleanable Decorations on their farms or have their Decorations behind Trees or otherwise in spots that cannot be accessed.  Really, though, is it not every Player's right to create and maintain his/her Farm in whatever way pleases the Farmer?  If you want to obtain Gift Bags, it really is YOUR responsiblity to place Cleanable Decorations on YOUR Farm.  That is my opinion, in any case.

Mind you, if you wish to entice your Neighbours to visit your Farm daily to fertilise your Crops and Trees, the best way is by placing Cleanable Decorations on your land.  

My own farm is clogged with Cleanable Decorations.  I have placed so many that it becomes difficult to find room for my Animals and Machines now.  I daresay one day I will become too frustrated and will remove some of the Decorations but for now, any Players who wishes to find a Cleanable Decoration that has not been cleaned by some one else on any given day should have a good chance of doing so on my Farm.

Another Farmer who has a large number of Cleanable Decorations that appear to be available for cleaning most of the time is:

 LikeMyFarmMisty'sFarm

There are many Farmers who place a fair number of Cleanable Decorations on their Farms but most of them are visited early by others and it is difficult to find a Decoration that has not been cleaned previously.

Cajun Country is a Farm with as many Cleanable Decorations as I have if not more, but they usually are cleaned instantly. Naboo Fawitjs's Farm has a few as well, but is another very popular Farmer.

By some peculiar logic known only to the developers, only certain Decorations are eligible for cleaning.  At first, I visited Farm after Farm to try to ascertain which of the Decorations were included, but then I discovered that one only need access the Decorations section of the Market to find out.  Next to any Decoration for sale in the Market that is eligible for cleaning, you will find the icon of a Brush.  The list is as follows:

Christmas Tree: 10000 Coins
Christmas Cake: 12000 Coins
Christmas Candle: 5 RC
Santa Sign: 8000 Coins
Little Christmas Tree: 3 RC
Market Stall: 20 RC
Snow Globe: 3000 Coins
Mailbox: 4 RC
Swimming Pool: 4 RC
Gift Hill: 4 RC
Snowy Arch: 12000 Coins
Sledding Hill: 25000 Coins
Willow: 5 RC
Snowlauncher: 6 RC
Snow Man: 8 RC
Bonfire Tent: 15000 Coins
Mini Beach: 16 RC
Chinese Pavilion: 3 RC
Panda Lantern: 5 RC

The irony here is that many of us put away our Christmas Trees and Santa Decorations after Twelfth Night but now are being tempted to bring them out once again... Curious really how many Christmas Decorations are on the list.

Of all the above, it is the Market Stall and the Flamingo Pond that give the most valuable Cleaning Gift Bag in the form of the Blue Gift Bag.  The others give Purple or Silver or in rare instances Coins.  The Purple and Silver Gift Bags appear to contain the same Items frankly.  The Coin Reward is given by the Snowy Arch and the Christmas Cake as well as the Bonfire Tent.

Other Decorations that were Rewards for Quests and are not found in the Market are eligible for cleaning but again, not every Reward Decoration can be cleaned.  Some that are include:

Scout Sun
Hot Spa
Nutcracker
Angel Sheep
Farm Beauty Trophy

Rosy Posy
Thumbelina
Gingerbread House
Chocolate Easter Bunny
Samurai Dog
Tea Table
Sun Terrace
Matryoshka
Dragon Statue
Flamingo Pond
Peter Pan Table
Angel Rain Egg 
Easter Bunny
Gnome
Egyptian Ship

The OP Sheep that is a Daily Orders Reward that will stay on your Farm for 90 Days can be cleaned as well.

I have many Decorations on my Farm, so I shall have to pay attention tomorrow to see which of the others I have placed are eligible for cleaning.  Come visit me if you want to use some 'elbow grease' to earn a special Reward.  I do not have the heart to bring out the Christmas Trees but I have kept out many other Christmas Decorations as well as Reward Items.

Note that when you visit any Neighbour's Farm, you will be able to clean only ONE Decoration, even if more still display the icon of the Brush.  This allows other Neighbours an opportunity to obtain the Cleaning Bag Reward from their Visits.  Furthermore, the Cleaning action is given in addition to the five regular actions that can be performed on any Neighbour's Farm on a daily basis.  In other words, you still can perform five actions upon Crops and Trees.


If you visit a Neighbour's Farm and an Item has been cleaned by some one else, you will see a prompt to that effect, but if it is a Decoration that cannot be cleaned, you will see the prompt: 'Oops, try to do something else.'   You ought to see a large cleaning brush icon above any Item that can be cleaned.

In the past couple of days since the option was initiated, I have discovered that you must be up very early in the morning if you wish to have any chance of cleaning the Decorations on any Neighbour's Farm.  There are a few Players who appear to go from Farm to Farm at the crack of dawn, cleaning everything in sight...  Nonetheless, you still can benefit from their visits to YOUR Farm!