Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-29625074-20170221181019/@comment-27701762-20170221203748

There is a way to get more gold.

You'll have to do quite a bit of backtracking, but you can go back to Snowdin via the River Person's boat, then head through Waterfall until you come across a small monster on a bridge who will offer to let you ride to the other side for three gold, which actually means that they will pay you three gold. You can do this as many times as you want.

Alternatively, since you have the stick, take the boat to Waterfall. Head right, then down-right to go to Temmie Village, where you can sell the stick for a decent chunk of money. You can then do one of two things: 1) Just buy whatever items you can and head back to Asgore; 2) Head back up and up-left to find Gerson's shop. He sells Cloudy Glasses for 30 or so gold each. Buy as many of them as you can (if your inventory gets full, use your cell phone to store items), then head back to Temmie Village and sell all of the Glasses for a profit. You can do this as many times as you want, allowing you to stockpile more money for health items, or (if you're patient) allowing you to purchase the Temmie Armor, which has good defense, heals 1 HP every other turn, and increases the number of invincibility frames when you get hit.