THE ONE-TILE BOX CHALLENGE - DAY 1 - WEEK 1
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Starting off, Grace takes a Selfie of herself. Maybe she is thinking of her strategy for this experiment. She also gets a pop-up stating that she likes Photography.
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She keeps the best photo, and then places the rest on the wall of her "box" and Uploads to Simstagram and Sells to Collector. She made $35 simoleons.
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Next, we're going to purchase the "free" wall mailbox from the Snowy Escape pack. For now, we place it on an outside wall, but this is going to be placed inside our "box" once we get some simoleons to expand. Then, we're going to change the Natural Light lot trait to Study Spot, which gives a bit of skill gain.
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As a teen, when you sign up for certain after-school activities, such as the Cheer Team and the Football Team. you get free gifts. If you sell these items, you get "free" simoleons. As part of the Goal-Oriented Aspiration, you can tick off that task.
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And just like that, Grace has $380 simoleons.
By joining a Team, you also get "free" acquaintances who you can speak with to help with your social. One of them is usually an enemy, but by texting and chatting with them, they can soon be an acquaintance, too. You can go through all the Teams, if you want, to get more acquaintances. Just sign up for an after-school activity and then join another Team. Then switch the Aspiration to Admired Icon, and add those friends to Social Bunny. Make a post and you're on your way to completing the Make a Post task. Then just send some friendly and funny messages through Social Bunny to get the friendship up.
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Switch back to the Goal-Oriented Aspiration and for your final after-school-activity join Scouts. This gives you a free Scout badge Board (we're keeping this one). You are now going to do your homework. This will get you a Scout Badge and a tick off the homework task.
Then switch back to the Admired Icon Aspiration and make a post about completing your Homework.
Around this time the Welcome Wagon will show up. Wait until they are all there and just cancel. They are not going to leave that fruitcake anyway. The members of the Welcome Wagon will now be in your relationship panel. More sims to socialize with! (This won't really matter to you if you have the Loner trait, but for others, social goes down quick.)
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Because Grace goes to high school, we want to make sure that she is still in good-standing when she finally leaves her "box", so we are going to make holidays M-F for the month. We are choosing, Art & Music Spirit, Give Gifts and Open Gifts. The wall mailbox will come in handy as other sims will send us gifts and we will be able to access them through the indoor mailbox and then sell them. We will also be selling items on plopsy through the mailbox.
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Now, it's time for Grace to check out the trends on Trendi. Hipster is Trending, so she Browses Trendi and sees the cheapest Hipster outfit for $165 simoleons.
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She purchases that. It is currently Neutral. She is going to promote that until it reaches Hot and then list it for sale on Trendi. And in about 20 clicks, she gets it to Hot, and lists it for $1,650 simoleons. (You can list it for any amount, I just added a zero to the number). Okay, let's hope she sells that. She now has $215 simoleons.
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Time to expand the "box" to 2 tiles. Grace now has $95 simoleons left. With that she purchases the Pile of Presents for $45 simoleons. Another option is The Attic Stack Decoration Box for $100, and she could purchase that by taking a few more selfies and selling them to get her the funds. The pros of the Pile of Presents is that you get more expensive gifts, but there is a cooldown period. With The Attic Stack, it is limited to decor, but with no cooldown. We shall see how this goes, and she might end up purchasing The Attic Stack as well. She now has $50 simoleons left.
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She adds a few gifts, and then Opens Present and Sneaks a Present. She gets a candle crib worth $85 simoleons and some starter fruits, which are 9 strawberries. She keeps both. She then places her Scout board in her "box" and Checks her Badge Progress and Collects her Scholarly Aptitude badge. She also receives a Scouting Manual, worth $20 simoleons.
Before she sells it, she is going to read it. So, switching Aspirations to Renaissance Sim, she reads her Scouting Manual and then sells it. She now has $70 simoleons. Next up, she is going to purchase the BFF Super Duper Friendship Kit for $30 simoleons. This is the fastest way that I have found for a sim to gain the handiness skill in a little over a day. Just cue up making friendship bracelets. The downside of this is that the friendship bracelets are not worth anything. The Cooldown for the Present Pile is not over yet, but we will keep an eye on that as Grace works on her handiness skill.
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Then Grace gets a pop-up that Lilith Pleasant wants to buy her Trendi outfit! Yes! She temporarily places the present pile and Friendship Bracelet kit outside her "box" and moves the mailbox inside her "box". And boom, she sells her outfit and is now $1,650 simoleons richer. It is also time to open another present, and she gets the tray chic perfume set worth $225 simoleons, which she sells. Grace now has $1,915 simoleons.
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At 5:44 pm she can Open and Sneak a Present. Grace is already at Level 5 of the Handiness Skill.
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Woot! She is into the simoleons now! With the motionmonitor gaming mat worth $3,750 simoleons. She also gets a bowl of fruit. She sells both of these. Grace's hunger is getting a bit low, so we purchase the Always Have a Snack Bag for $120 simoleons. This is cheaper than the cooler from Outdoor Retreat and gives the same options. It also can be stored in personal inventory.
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After a quick bite to eat, we move the present pile out of her "box" and put the wall mailbox back in. We donate 5 friendship bracelets to earn the Give back Scout badge.
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Time to open another present and it's the crystal clear digital camera worth $2,015 simoleons.. Before she sells this, she is going to take some photos.
And it looks like the end of Day 1 is coming, and we are going to expand Grace's "box" to a 7 x 2 "box". (The screenshot is for a 3 x 2 box, but the bed takes up 3 tiles, so needed to enlarge it again.) Time to buy a bed, and we opt for a bunkbed with desk and chair.
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Grace hasn't quite maxed her handiness skill and her bladder needs are really in the red. In order to craft a toilet, she needs level 10 Handiness skill. But that's for Day 2. I do buy her a woodworking table, though. And here is her little "box". Nitey nite, Grace.
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Notes:
I have watched several YouTube videos on this challenge, and most simmers start their sim off by taking photos with their phone and gain simoleons from there. Once they have enough simoleons, they expand the "box" by one tile and usually purchase an easel. I decided to do something a bit different and also do the challenge with a teen.
