Getting Rid of Imaginary Friends

When they are dolls in the inventory, I just gift them to someone I have a high relationship with. Problems solved.

I just use "object delete" on the dolls, and that's usually the last I see of them. NRaas Story Progression mod also has an option to keep them out, if you're not opposed to using mods.

I delete them, I thougth they where funny when I just gotten Generations but grew more and more annoyed with how they hogged all the attention of their Sim and stopped them from doing other things, now I can't stand them anymore.

They sound like little brats :D

I've never had one passed my sims toddler age
when i first got generations one of my toddlers got one, he created a really good bond with him
tbh i thought it was just a doll that was named cosmo
Until i saw the picture of children with their imaginary friend as my game loaded up, and i though 'that looks a lot like Cosmo.."

But Cosmo ended up disappearing somewhere
and as for the rest of my kids, well they never created a good bond with them

but.. my current sims are expecting.. so maybe this will be the first time i ever get to see one :D

I don't like them. I only use them for my sim to have someone to play with. If it's a challenge, the imaginary friend may become their lover as an adult if I can't find another sim. Otherwise, they don't last long.

you can put them in the parents inventory or the kids inventory if you don't want the doll to appear at that time I usually do it when I want them to get around for school than I put the doll out during the day so when they come back the doll comes back.

I think in the inventory of the sim that owns the doll there is a glitch where the doll can be accidently removed from the inventory and it will look like both IF and real sim all at once. So if your sim family that has an IF doll make sure you take them out of their inventory if you want that sim to be played by the computer.

Edit: The IF dolls should automatically reset when owner of the doll days the IF friend no longer exists in the game world and a new sim can use the doll for the full potential; However, the doll in toy form even in non mystical mode will still give any sim the IF playing moodlet as long as they are toddlers.

I do not like them! My sims are obsessed with them, and if I don't control what they do they will only play with their IF. :# hehe I didn't know you could delete them though!

I like them for some sims, and not so much for others. I have this mod installed so that I can control which kids get them.

I think they are really creepy. I remember having a invisible friend being a child (IRL), but these dolls are just nothing like it.

I have tried to sim with them: let the toddlers play with them, make them real, incorporate them into the family; but they do get in the way, and their looks as adult big dolls... it's just scary and does not fit my play-style (except in apocalypse-challenge).

I try to not pick up the mail when I have a newborn (that's when they arrive, and I always choose Life Time Reward 'no bills' from Ambitions EP first, so I don't bother with the mail). I cannot stop the toddler from playing with it but avoid it later in the sim's life. But this particular sim I have now, constantly gets messages to 'repear relationship' with it, and I dont know how to get rid of the doll. I do not use mods and don't like to write cheat codes (I think it eventually corrupts the save?)

Does anybody know of a 'legit' way of removing them?

It's like the developers had the knowledge of the cultural phenomenon of a childhood invisible friend, but from the parent's or a fright-focused culture's perspective, so it just borders on the "scary clown" - IT-movie, chucky, gremlins etc. Or maybe that was the point...

Dun-dun-dun!