hi, so one of the completion things in the fairy dormmother story is to complete XC tiers. for the collectathon fest you have to get really lucky with timer box & lite boxes, or spend money to unlock normal boxes, to get a tier. for extracredible, obviously you have to spend money. for spotlight, you don't have to spend money but IDK how you even do it if you are a small account. i always fail the fight / eavesdrop , but then when i win the eavesdrop, the spotlight doesn't go to me, so how tf am i supposed to get it??? so.. how do u get past this step without money?
collectathon fest is the way to go. just don’t open ur lite boxes and ur unlocked timer when a collectathon isn’t ongoing. u just need to make it to the first star (which is collecting 500 main drops) in the collectathon bar for it to count in the story pass, just reach the first star 8 times to pass it. it’s definitely based on luck and patience so u might only end up with 300 or 400 main drops and u have to keep checking if a collectathon is ongoing. if u have no more lite boxes/timer boxes, u can try lbh hopping, another great way to pass the collectathon fest is through flashes, depending on what you’ve saved up (dns and cps), u don’t necessarily need to spend real money for flashes, u can just go to one or two to boost up since collecting all three stars in the collectathon bar already counts as 3/8 in the story pass.
Just save your lite boxes and open them all at once and you'll easily get a few collectathon tiers. Do that a few times in combination with party drops or timer boxes and you'll complete that part of the story.
Don't forget that you get your 2 daily liteboxes from hitting parties and 2 extras for giving likes on the "rate my dorm" xc. 4 lite boxes a day right there!
Save up lite boxes. With the dorm thing you can now get 4 lite boxes a day pritty much. Easy to build them up
Like everyone else said, hoard lite boxes and open a bunch at once. They give around 100 drops each, and you only need about 10 of them to hit 3 stars if you got party drops or opened a timer box in the same hour. Considering that you can get up to 50 per hunt now, this shouldn’t take that long. It sounds like OP is opening lite boxes as soon as he gets them, which has no long term benefits over saving them.