How to Wake Up Cyrus in Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Last Updated: July 23, 2020

In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Cyrus is Reese’s husband who works at Re-Tail with her. At the beginning of the game, however, he is asleep. You need to wake him up in order to unlock his services, which include creating custom furniture and modifying furniture. There are a number of prerequisites to be done before you can wake up Cyrus, but they can be completed in any order.

Steps

1
Sell 100,000 bells worth of items to Reese. One of the quickest ways to sell 100,000 bells worth of items to Reese is by selling identified fossils. Another great way is by catching rare bugs on the island at nighttime, and bringing them back to sell at Re-Tail.
- You can sell almost anything to Reese over at Re-Tail. In order to do so, enter Re-Tail and talk to Reese by pressing A.
- Choose the option “I want to sell!” then select the items that you wish to sell by tapping on them.
- Hit “Confirm” located in the lower right-hand side of the window, and Reese will then tell you how much she’s willing to pay; to complete the sale choose “deal!”
- Ore is worth a lot of money. You can obtain these by hitting rocks with a shovel around your town.
  - Gold nuggets are worth 4,000 bells each.
  - Silver nuggets are worth 3,000 bells each.
  - Emeralds, rubies, sapphires and amethysts are all worth 2,000 bells each.
2
Have 100 pieces of furniture in your catalog. The catalog in Animal Crossing: New Leaf keeps track of how many items you have obtained at one point or another in the game. The catalog is located in the Nooklings' store T&T Mart.
- This prerequisite does not require that you have 100 items of furniture on your person or in your inventory at one time, merely that you have obtained 100 unique pieces of furniture at some point throughout the game. Therefore, if you got a kiddie couch from a villager as a reward and immediately sold it, it would be recorded in your catalog and count towards this goal.
  - Even picking up an item from the ground and putting it down straight after will add it to your catalog.
- You can obtain free furniture in many different ways.
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3
Have 50 pieces of clothing in your catalog. This works the same way as the step above. You need to have come across 50 unique kinds of clothing throughout the game in order to fulfill this requirement.
- You can get clothes at the Able Sisters shop or Kicks, villagers may also give you clothes as a reward for helping out.
4
Play the game for at least seven days. You will likely fulfill this requirement while attempting to fill the others, but just in case you zoom through the above steps, make sure it has been seven days since you started your Animal Crossing game.
- You can time travel if you want to get through this process faster.
5
Speak to him every day. Every single time you play, walk up to Cyrus and go through a dialogue where Reese shouts at you. Repeat until he wakes up.

Community Q&A

Question

Is it required to play consecutive days or just seven days in all?

Community Answer

It does not have to be consecutive.
Question

Is it just nighttime, or does evening count for catching bugs on the island?

Community Answer

You can catch bugs at any time of day; the ones that sell for a lot, however, are only around at night.
Question

How do I know how many things are in my catalog?

Community Answer

If you go to the store run by the nooks, at one of the upgraded stores there should be a small machine in one of the corners. This contains your catalog.