Hi Simmers! I have been watching a YouTuber simmer, Salise Plays, who, I believe, created this challenge. It's a rags to riches challenge where your sim starts with nothing on an empty lot with 0 simoleons, and has a week to survive in one neighborhood in a sim world in winter., using only the resources in that neighborhood. There are lot restrictions such as off-the-grid, simple living and reduce-recycle. The neighborhood is normally bulldozed, so the sim does not have access to free chips at the bar, for instance. There will be exceptions to this as apartments can't seem to be bulldozed in The Sims (so, San Myshuno will remain intact, just the businesses bulldozed). Also no cheats for easy simoleons, such as buying the decoration box and rummaging for decorations and then selling them. The sim she uses normally has positive traits such as loves the outdoors, self-assured, etc. You can watch her videos HERE.
But I will be attempting this challenge, with a twist. The sim I will be using will have all negative traits. A sim not very suitable for survival in a rags to riches style of play. Her clothes may change as she heads to different worlds, but her traits will always remain the same.
And here she is! Meet Allie Beck. Her traits are squeamish, vegetarian, clumsy and her Aspiration will be Fabulously Wealthy. I don't think any of these traits will give her an advantage in surviving the week.
An additional challenge rule that I created is that all holidays will be cancelled on the calendar, because with a 7-day week, Winterfest falls in the middle of the week, and you could get a substantial gift from Father Winter, so, nah, not going to happen. However, I am going to keep New Year's Eve on the calendar as that is our deadline to have a small furnished house, with bathroom, bedroom, kitchen (or outdoor grill), and living room areas (could be one open area). The challenge ends when Spring arrives on Sunday.
To have some starter funds, my sim will be allowed to take a selfie (5 pics) once she arrives on her lot in each neighborhood.
If you would like to attempt this challenge, you can post your sim and progress here if you wish, (you can create your sim with any traits and aspiration).
Using a randomized wheel spinner, the first world will be San Myshuno, and the randomized wheel spinner for the neighborhood will be Uptown. Skye Fitness Gym will be bulldozed and she will live there. Here's hoping she will survive!
Neighborhood: There are two community lots, the Skye Fitness gym, and the Stargazer Lounge. Both have been bulldozed. This area is surrounded by apartment buildings inhabited by Lily and Victor Feng and Diego Lobo.
Resources: There are 3 electrical boxes where you can collect posters; and 2 boxes of junk, where you can rummage for snowglobes, although other items can be found in here as well. They spawn daily. There is a food stand (on the 2nd level, which I didn't even know existed), and 2 public bathrooms near the Skye Fitness lot. There are various benches to sleep on (solo brown leather couch with the obstructor (fireplace) coffee table is the best with comfort level 5), and an area with a bubble blower. No fishing spots, no grills and no festivals take place in this neighborhood. There is a seated area with a podium, where you can give speeches (can you make simoleons from giving speeches?), and a Center Stage Performance Space (Must have Level 4 in guitar or violin to busk). There might also be a roaming Human Statue that you could tip $5 simoleons and then gain the costume to busk yourself.
Day 1: And here is Allie in her City Living winter attire. It is cold and windy on her first day in Uptown. And after cloudgazing, she takes 5 selfies. She keeps one and sells the rest.
She looks happy now, but how will she look in a day or two? So far, she has $35 simoleons. Since she has to wait for items to spawn, Allie decides to give a speech. Is she inspiring anyone?
Um, maybe not. Well, she heads over to introduce herself to a sim and he doesn't seem too happy. Maybe he's lost. She tells him a joke and then excuses herself to go and rip posters off of electrical boxes and see what she can find in some junk boxes.
Allie heads to the food cart next and tries her luck at "borrowing" another sim's food. Not that she is hungry, but better fill up while she can. The trick is to wait until they set the food down, and then click on it to eat it. And boom, one free caprese salad and one unhappy, hungry kid. Um, sorry.
Of course, there is the Welcome Wagon's fruit cake, but I cancel that, as in some worlds, there is no Welcome Wagon, so trying to make this part at least consistent. And she has a bit of red with all those Welcome Wagon sims now. Sheesh!
Allie has nothing else to do now, so maybe she can sing for tips. I am not sure if this will work because technically she is on her home lot.
After singing badly for a few minutes, a sim passes her and gives her a second glance. Oh my word...who is that good-looking sim?
Allie tries to compose herself, but ends up running after him just to say sul sul, but he mysteriously disappears. Maybe next time. So, she meets another sim, and it has now started to snow, so she can gather snow. Another way to make simoleons when you live off-the-grid. is sell water.
Allie continues to gather snow and give speeches nobody hears. At the end of Day 1 she has $1,015 simoleons. All her needs are good except hygiene, so it's time to start her house and buy her a tub or shower. All houses in all worlds will be a micro tiny home of 32 tiles. Nitey nite Allie.
With the funds Allie has earned, it's time to build her house. It is a simple start, and she places her selfie and a poster she found on a piece of wall. I will try to use build mode items from Base game and City Living for her house. I later swapped out the poster for an Uptown poster, and switched the light for another one.
She also voted on a Neighborhood Action Plan (NAP) for Back to the Old Days, and bought a pile of books to comply with the NAP.
Making Simoleons:
Her days are pretty much the same as she goes to each electrical box grabbing posters (they actually spawn every few hours), and rummaging for items in the junk boxes (these spawn daily). She makes pretty good simoleons from this, as some posters are worth $200 simoleons. And, of course, she collects snow whenever she can to sell on her bills. There is a cool-down period for collecting snow. In fact, she collected so many posters that on Wednesday, Allie completed the Poster Collection and received a plaque in the mail.
Allie was lucky to see a Human Statue in Uptown and tipped them $5 simoleons, so she could get the outfit and busk herself. Even though she did this everyday, by the end of the week, she had made $0 simoleons busking for tips. What she should have done was concentrate on her charisma skill at the podium, and at Level 7 she could have asked sims for a Small Loan. Oh well.
Allie did see celebrity Brytani Chu in disguise in Uptown and was able to get an autograph from her. (Appraise the autograph and then wait 2 days before selling it as it is worth more then). She made $600 simoleons from the sale of the autograph.
Allie also saw celebrity Judith Ward, but she wasn't as lucky in getting an autograph from her.
Food Needs: Even though Allie had a fridge and counter, due to the Simple Living lot trait, she had no food to cook any meals. She could have ordered a grocery delivery; however, I was hoping that she would have found some seed packets in the junk boxes, but she didn't. Most of the time, Allie "borrowed" food from other sims. However, the food stalls change in Uptown, and at some food stalls, sims just stood and ate their food, so Allie didn't have a chance to "borrow" any. Food stalls in Uptown are Gourmet (eg caprese salad), Japanese (ramen), American (hot dogs) and Cupcakes.
So, when that happened, Allie had to pay for her food. Allie got to know the vendor first and then haggled with them. Most of the time, she was successful and got a discounted meal.
Sometimes, Allie was lucky, and food items were just sitting there waiting for her to retrieve them. So, yes, she found some free food, too.
Allie hung around the food stalls a lot, waiting to "borrow" food from sims, and also to busk for tips. But the vendors didn't seem to mind, as Allie also helped clean up the area for them. She was then able to rummage in the garbage cans, and rummage in the dirt piles. She found a few items (post cards, Blarffy), which she sold, and with the rummaged piles, she dragged them into her inventory and then placed them on her lot. The dirt piles then turned into trash fruit plants. Yes, Allie ate trash fruit to survive in Uptown.
On Wednesday, a sim visited her with a free gift, which happened to be an Uncommon seed packet with blackberry seeds in it. So, Allie purchased a planter pot and planted one of the seeds.
And with the others, made her first meal of a family-size fruit salad. Now the fruit salad did go bad, and when she clicked on get leftovers, if was greyed out. However, we know that food was in there. So, if you choose "Open", she can grab a serving of the spoiled food this way. Yes, I made her eat spoiled food, too.
Social Needs:
That good-looking sim who glanced her way when she was singing badly introduced himself to her. Akira Kibo became her first friend. If this was a true rags to riches legacy, Akira might have become a romantic interest, But, Allie's focus was on making simoleons this week. So, sorry Akira and Allie. It's not meant to be.
Allie was pretty social during her week in Uptown and, got a pop-up that she was Outgoing.
The End Is Near:
Aside from grabbing posters rummaging through junk boxes and busking, Allie did do some other things during her week in Uptown. She took part in a protest...
...and made a speech that someone actually liked.
She saw that the homeless population was on the rise, which spurred her to work harder towards her goal...
...even during a blizzard...
....and when she was so exhausted that she collapsed in a heap.
But, the good news is that on New Year's Eve, Allie had enough simoleons to finish building and furnishing her house. She looks excited...albeit a bit dirty! lol
Finished House & Final Stats:
When the banner flashed that Spring had arrived, the challenge was finished. Allie now had a nice loft in Uptown, had gained some skills, and even had $1,026 simoleons left! Congratulations, Allie! You survived your week in San Myshuno in the Uptown neighborhood.
The Next Neighborhood:
Using the randomized wheel spinner, Allie will next travel to Chestnut Ridge, in the Galloping Gulch neighborhood. Her home lot will be Palomino Junction. Oh gosh! I don't think she likes that idea! Until next time...
I welcome your comments and any suggestions you might have on what Allie could have done differently. Thanks for reading and commenting. Have a great day! :)
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