NEIGHBORHOOD RAGS TO RICHES CHALLENGE
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 sim...
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2 - CHESTNUT RIDGE - GALLOPING GULCH NEIGHBORHOOD (Part 2)
Allie's funds from yesterday weren't really enough to start her house. So, all she has is a house layout and a roof overhead. The floor is the 0 simoleon colored cement, as I felt that the grey would be hard to see in the snow.
I only purchased 3 items for the house. Thinking about all the travel time it took her to get around the neighborhood, I opted to purchase her a Base Game bike for $100 simoleons.
The second item was a planter pot and she planted the Elderberry. It is under shelter, as Elderberry is only in season in summer and fall. And the third item is an overhead off-the-grid light.
Making Simoleons:
In Chestnut Ridge, there is a Community Board where you can get Odd Jobs, and purchase horses, mini goats and mini sheep. Getting a job is not part of the challenge, and I felt that the animals were not part of it either. So, Allie didn't use any of the options on the Community Board.
Once her first day was done, her routine included breeding frogs whenever she could, collecting water and snow, and harvesting wild prairie grass. Sometimes she got other items in the wild prairie grass, and several times she got nectar (one was worth $1,919). This really helped with her funds and building her house.
With the help of her bike, she just whizzed through the neighborhood.
Allie also explored Deadhorse Caverns, and some of the reward items, she could sell (future cube, horse statue).
Obviously Allie wasn't the only sim to have an idea to use a bike for this neighborhood.
Allie also kept a look-out for celebrities to see if she could get some more autographs. That first autograph she got from Brytani Chu sold for $600 simoleons. And she was lucky on her last day to spot Brytani Chu in disguise and get another autograph! Yes!
Deadhorse Caverns:
Allie attempted this when her needs were in good shape. As mentioned, it's a rabbit hole. Allie's hunger and energy were the first to plummet. She only made it to Level 1 because she was blocked by a door, and needed to speak "bee". I knew that she needed a bee swarm in her inventory to get past this, but because of her limited simoleons, I didn't want to purchase a bee box. So, that is where she ended.
Here are some sample pop-ups that occurred in her exploration, and some of the rewards she earned. After Allie survived exploring the Caverns she got a dazed moodlet that lasted 6 hours.
Food Needs:
Food was scarce, especially since she was unable to fish with the stream frozen.
Thankfully, she could roast an unlimited supply of marshmallows at the fire pits. But this didn't fill her up too much.
Allie's greatest source of food was in the "extra" items she found while harvesting the wild prairie grass, and also from rewards in the Deadhorse Caverns. Most of the fruits and vegetables were "out of season" but she planted them under shelter and was able to harvest them. The fruits, flowers, and vegetables she found were Elderberry, Potato (winter crop), tomato, black bean, Holly (winter-from a seed packet she got as a reward), carrot, lemon (winter crop), and pomegranate (winter crop).
The winter plants were planted in the planter pot and then in build mode moved outside. If you try to plant directly outside, you will get a notice stating that it is too cold to plant. So, this is a way around it for plants in season.
Some plants took longer to grow than others, and her first meal of fruit salad was on Thursday, made in her own kitchen.
(to be continued...)
2 - CHESTNUT RIDGE - GALLOPING GULCH NEIGHBORHOOD (Finale)
Social Needs:
Allie had met one sim on her first day, Dani. There were other sims wandering around, but Allie didn't really introduce herself to them, as she was whizzing by on her bike intent on collecting. That might have been a mistake because for 3 days, a blizzard raged, and there was not a sim to be seen in the entire neighborhood. Luckily, she chatted on the phone with Dani at lot to keep her social needs up.
She also reached Level 4 in Gardening, so was able to talk to her plants.
At the end of the week, she had only met 5 sims, one of which was Brytani Chu, who she couldn't call.
The End is Near:
There really isn't too much to do in this neighborhood, but Allie explored every part of it.
Allie visited the grave of the unknown horse. It looked like a suspension bridge had collapsed and perhaps that is how the horse perished.
There is wild prairie grass near this area, so Allie came here quite a lot to harvest. In fact, one time she came at night, and thought she saw a ghost horse on the other side. Did you see that?
She was also freezing a lot. One time, she got a pop-up that she was now part of the Polar Bear Club, for taking a dip in the winter.
But mostly she was collecting even in a blizzard...
....and tired and hungry and collapsed more than a few times...
But on New Year's Eve, she knew that it had been worth it and she was able to finish her house.
Finished House & Final Stats:
Her house is a log cabin, with a front porch and a sheltered area in the back for her out of season plants.
When Spring was announced the next day, she had $22 simoleons left. On Allie's second attempt, she survived the week in Chestnut Ridge in the Galloping Gulch neighborhood in winter. It was a tough time, but Allie did it. Congratulations, Allie!
The Next Neighborhood:
Using the randomized wheel spinner, Allie will next travel to Brindleton Bay, in the Cavalier Cove neighborhood. Her home lot will be Bedlington Boathouse. Until next time...
