advice on how to spend my BB?

Due to my recent piccolo boxes, I have accrued a few The Magic Hat which has helped my BB situation. With the Farm Wheel Jackpot Sale, I had a thought to buy the items for Party Magic Stalk Row I, or Row II. I only have enough BB for one. OR on a completely different train of thought, do I buy a slot in refinements as I only have 4? OR does someone have advice that includes something I have never even though of? Please share your wisdom
Thank you all in advance!

Some background about me...
I do not spend real money at all as I am a preschool teacher and childcare assistant and have no funds to spend on a game. I work M-F 9-6, sometimes earlier if called, so my only farming time is usually after dinner for an hour or two. If my weekend is clear and there are no trainings, workshops, or family obligations, I play on Saturdays while doing house chores. Sunday is our Family Day. My levels are main 97, baha 283, confectioner 2. I have rainforest open, 4/6 areas in Crystal Falls open (still have to finish those two quests), & all main fields are fully open. I do not mind tearing up my main fields for events, but never usually able to get to the magic stalk row reward, much less fully complete them. Baha I am always a little more reluctant to tear up. I never tear up Crystal Falls as my animal pens, trees, and manufactory placement work really well for me. I enjoy seeing my progress with FSQ, but am slow at them. If I participate in the season, it is usually every other as I need time to restock my barn. I do have all time reductions for carnations in my refinements.

 

I ahve been playing this game from 2010 without spending a single penny on the game. In this game I will focus on levelling up and space for animal stalls, EP givers etc.

1. I would focus on levelling up as it will open up our resources and make our playing easy.

So try spending it on buying PETS which increase your EPs of giver items. You can wait for discount days when sometimes they are offerred half BB price
You can also chooose cloud rows for BBs that give % increase in EP givers.
Baha Museum - in which you can put 8 of your EP Givers and it takes only in a 2x2 slot space.

2. Next I would go for Menagerie, Manufactory, arboretum etc - 8 animmal stalls/workshops/trees in a 2x2 space

As of now I can only think of these two as worth while. If i think of anything else I will let you know.

I too have save 829 BBs. I am considering how to spend it.

 

Both Party spin rows has advantages. Flower row speeds up with flowers and you'll need to grow a lot of flowers to do FSQ. Scarecrows gives +1 vegetables. They are both good rows to have.

I would not buy more slots for refinements, it was just a couple of years ago, when I finally bought them, I've been playing since 2011. I wanted to speed up one plant and have another instant plant at same time, when I finally bought them. I do not have much refinements, just those, which I have found helpful in my needs. I use greenhouse all the time to grow cress. Someone gave a hint to do that. Sometimes it gives something more useful than cress.

I would not buy Pets to increase EP, I'd rather use spin tickets, when there is something like Yoga guru (+20% EP/TEP from givers). If there is good prizes you want, try to spin. If not, take a peek, if there is better prizes after 8 hours. After playing a long time, you'll not have space for all of those givers. If I buy pets, I usually choose something which gives +1 something. Or buy upgrades to make some event giver better.

I also love Menagerie, Manufactory, arboretum and museum to save space. But updating them for 8 spots take a lot of resources. But the basic 4 spots are better than 1.

 

I'm with @-Päärynä11 on this one: both party spin stock rows are good. The flower one helps to cut down of flower production time by 10%, so just like using manure with paying for it (you need the rune in the Tree of Wisdom to get 10% from manure tho). The + 1 vegetable offered by the scarecrow cloud row could also be good for you, that +1 lasts 24h. You should aim at getting both at one point beacause in the long run, this will help tremendously.

Else, getting menageries as your first building is a must if you have animal pens out. Even in its lowest form, your menagery would occupy 2x2 space and let you harvest 4 animal pens in the same occupied space. Super handy. After that youshould aim for the arboretums and finally the manufactories because they're so expensive to run.

From what you writem you clearly do not have enough play time to complete event. I would suggest that you concentrate on your FSQs to gain stars and progress in the Tree of Wisdom instead. Unless givers are really good, you should skip events entirely.

You could grow normal crops on your main farm used for feed to get some good amount of CCs that could be used to buy seeds in the market. You could also mill thoses crops into food and sell them for a good price too.

Pets are also a good investment, but you can alos use the pet park for the spinning wheel givers too. They're quite decent EP/TEP wise and they'll help you level up. If your neighbours send you the giver as a daily gift, use them in a baha giver park, they'll reward you more TEP that EP and you'll be able to get Golden Bananas faster!

Good luck with your farm!

 

A good way to gain CC, if you need more of them, is to fill your fields with chickens (obviously you need feed for them as well). You can then sell the manure during events when they sometimes sell for a fortune. Don't be greedy, just set a price that will sell easily. When I first started I would buy manure up to my limit, wait for the event to start, then sell at a goodly profit, that was when manure was about 5 cc and event prices were just under 100cc.

 

I do the manure trick too. I've been buying larger storage space on the Tree of Wisdom, and I wait for high prices to sell some. Yesterday Market 37 had 12,000 CC as the lowest price per unit, so I sold mine for 7,000 per unit and in lots of 10. That way players w/o a lot of money can save a bit *and* take extra manure off my hands. Win-win!