THE ONE-TILE BOX CHALLENGE - WEEK 3
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I decide to look to see how much longer until Grace's birthday, and realize that her birthday is this week! What? No! A normal lifespan for a teen is 21 days...less than a month! Looking at her funds, Grace may not complete the aspiration. So, desperate times call for desperate measures.
First, I get her that Attic Stack box, which does not have a cooldown period, but gives you less expensive presents. Every little bit counts now. She gets these three items from her rummaging.
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And more hacking and painting. She is still selling the paintings through plopsy and I had reserved some other masterpieces she had painted, but not now...all those reserve masterpieces are being listed on plopsy. Sell! Sell! Sell!
https://i.postimg.cc/TPFW0yQC/one-of-grace-s-masterpieces.png
And yes, she hacked her grades again...and the bad news is, she now has an F in school. So, I bought her a school project to get her grades up, and she also did her homework for another tick on that Goal Oriented task. I wanted her to have an "A" in school, but she is getting the complete opposite! lol
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She gets her royalties, and, of course, she gets the bills. She had purchased a solar panel, a water collector and a roof wind turbine to help with the bills. In one of the thunderstorms, the water collector got struck by lightning and was unrepairable. I also purchased the frugal trait for her. Her bills aren't bad...but why now? She needs to make funds, not spend them!
https://i.postimg.cc/gkSbhtPM/we-dont-ant-bills.png
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Even with these efforts, I don't think she will make that $200K needed for the aspiration in time. Oh gosh! Instead of hacking, she must have switched to video games. Okay, she likes them.
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And then the computer breaks. Thank goodness she has the handiness skill so she can repair it.
https://i.postimg.cc/bvJXzrx0/coputer-is-broken-but-she-has-the-handiness-skill.png
There might only be one way to get the funds in time. So, I look at her aspiration reward points, and BINGO! she has enough reward points to purchase a money tree seed. But how long does it take for the money tree to bloom those simoleons? Just plant it...and cross your fingers this will work. (I found out that it takes 5 days for a money tree to grow).
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https://i.postimg.cc/c4PPzRjh/plating-that-money-tree.png
Will this be enough? I have Grace try one more thing. I decide to have her list another outfit on Trendi. Hipster is trending, so she purchases the cheapest hipster outfit. She promotes it to Hot and then lists it for sale on Trendi for $250,000 simoleons. Will she sell that outfit in time? (The wrong outfit is showing in the photo, it is the one above it for $160 simoleons that she purchased).
https://i.postimg.cc/BnBnvFZs/buying-streetwear.png
https://i.postimg.cc/s2SY0w3y/wild-tredy-outfit.png
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Two days before her birthday, and she is in a frenzy. The money tree has not sprouted yet and the outfit has not sold.
So, she is frantically going from the easel to paint and list paintings for sale on plopsy...
https://i.postimg.cc/Nf6txb15/painting-a-paiting.png
https://i.postimg.cc/BbChj8KQ/jasmine-wasnts-to-buy-painting.png
...then to the Attic Stack box to rummage for decorations...
https://i.postimg.cc/GprHQH81/rummaging-for-gifts.png
...opening and Sneaking Presents when ready....
https://i.postimg.cc/SQw89Qrm/opening-gifts.png
....then to the computer to hack funds. And Grace obtained Level 5 of the Entrepreneurial Skill. Yes!
https://i.postimg.cc/DyT0FS64/hacking-on-computer.png
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https://i.postimg.cc/wjRGVBKF/entrepreneur-skills-level-5.png
But then Grace gets a pop-up that's it's Energy Conservation Day! What? Noooo! She needs to keep hacking funds! Well, she can't.
https://i.postimg.cc/FshbJmb4/power-conservation-day.png
So, she crafts a bathtub on the woodworking table as she can just sell that, and it's normal quality and she only makes $755 simoleons. Oh gosh! Time is running out. How is she going to make these funds in time?
https://i.postimg.cc/kgNxqrWq/bathrtub.png
And just when Grace thinks all hope is lost...she get a pop-up that Vlad Straud wants to purchase her Trendi outfit! Yes, Vlad is going to save her!
https://i.postimg.cc/Kzwc1SKh/vlqad-is-going-to-save-me.png
And as soon as she ships the outfit to him....Boom....she has completed the Fabulously Wealthy Aspiration! Yes! Grace did it! Congratulations!
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Notes:
If I was doing this again, I would definitely play on long lifespan.
Using the money tree (which didn't bloom in time), and asking an enormous price for that last Trendi outfit was a bit "cheaty". I mean, she could have asked $1,000,000 simoleons for her first outfit and she probably would have sold it, but, again, a bit "cheaty". She was lucky, however, that Vlad bought the outfit when he did.
I would also just sell the paintings to inventory and not list them on plopsy, as there were still a lot of paintings that had not yet sold.
Instead of trying to complete the Scouting badges, I should have had her focus solely on making simoleons. Like 24-7 focusing on making simoleons.
Even though at the start making those friendship bracelets didn't get her any simoleons, I wanted her to be able to furnish some of her house with items she had made. And maxing the Handiness skill did help her when her computer broke and needed to be repaired because she wouldn't have been able to call a repairperson to fix that for her, since her door was locked.
