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Early to bed, early to rise makes a sim healthy, wealthy and wise.
So I like my sims ready to leave the house in the mornings, fed, washed and in a relatively happy mood. Then they can have a good productive day at work.
To achieve this I make sure the sim goes to bed at a reasonable time and isn't hungry when they go to bed. That should mean they wake at a reasonable hour without being too hungry. Next they are sent off to the bathroom because nobody likes a smelly sim at work . Finally if they show any signs of becoming hungry again I make sure they have a quick snack, usually fruit juice.
At weekends or days off during the week they are permitted to sleep in and have cooked breakfasts/brunch.
Obviously when the sim babies come along the routine changes. The working sim is permitted to sleep through the night but the child caring sim is expected to get up and attend to the baby. This way the working sim, who also has first dibs on the bathroom, should continue to go off to work in a reasonable state. The child caring sim can sleep/fed/shower during the day depending on what the little one needs. At weekends where possible the roles are reversed so it is the working sim who gets up for the early baby feed or nappy change.
Finally by the time the children are of school I try to have a house with two bathrooms. Otherwise first thing in the morning sims are struggling to get through their ablutions in time to leave the house promptly. I also make sure there are leftover breakfast things in the fridge so that anyone who is still hungry can eat. Dirty dishes obviously go straight in the dishwasher. In a house with non working elders, which is unlikely because I expect them to keep working long past retirement age, the elders are kept out of the way until everyone else has left for school/work. Unless I can persuade one of them to cook breakfast while the family are getting washed and dressed :D
So I like my sims ready to leave the house in the mornings, fed, washed and in a relatively happy mood. Then they can have a good productive day at work.
To achieve this I make sure the sim goes to bed at a reasonable time and isn't hungry when they go to bed. That should mean they wake at a reasonable hour without being too hungry. Next they are sent off to the bathroom because nobody likes a smelly sim at work . Finally if they show any signs of becoming hungry again I make sure they have a quick snack, usually fruit juice.
At weekends or days off during the week they are permitted to sleep in and have cooked breakfasts/brunch.
Obviously when the sim babies come along the routine changes. The working sim is permitted to sleep through the night but the child caring sim is expected to get up and attend to the baby. This way the working sim, who also has first dibs on the bathroom, should continue to go off to work in a reasonable state. The child caring sim can sleep/fed/shower during the day depending on what the little one needs. At weekends where possible the roles are reversed so it is the working sim who gets up for the early baby feed or nappy change.
Finally by the time the children are of school I try to have a house with two bathrooms. Otherwise first thing in the morning sims are struggling to get through their ablutions in time to leave the house promptly. I also make sure there are leftover breakfast things in the fridge so that anyone who is still hungry can eat. Dirty dishes obviously go straight in the dishwasher. In a house with non working elders, which is unlikely because I expect them to keep working long past retirement age, the elders are kept out of the way until everyone else has left for school/work. Unless I can persuade one of them to cook breakfast while the family are getting washed and dressed :D
