Crazy high household bills

Were you using the thermostat from seasons? It can cause bills to be really high if your sims leave it on too much.

"melissalungu;d-948640" wrote:
Just went to play a family I haven't for a while, they live in the biggest mansion in Willow Creek and I just got a notification that their power would be shut off in 24 hours...the bill is over $90k!!! I also got told that the Dad is in line to earn irresponsible trait (he's an elder) so I think there may be something wrong with the game. I installed MC Command Centre recently...any known conflicts there?

We'll it could be your Elder is going senile, you know? Sorry, this made me giggle. Take a look at the aspiration/whims points to see if any of the Sims in your household has enough to purchase the Thrifty trait. That will help with the outrageous cost of utilities.

wow that is high. I noticed that the bills where going up but I couldn't figure out why. I didn't even think about the power used being the reason why it would go up. that just means that I need to be careful now since in the game im playing my sim is poor and saving money at the moment.

I've noticed the seasons increases the Bill's by an insane level....one time I shut them off right before the mail came and they seemed quite reasonable again, even though I had still been using the thermostat for the rest of the days prior....I wonder if you ran it until mail day then shut it off if the Bill's would react as if you weren't using it? Just a thought for someone to test, unfortunately my rl work schedule won't let me test it anytime soon

If anyone does test that however, please shoot me a message with the results :D

If you're interested there is a mod that brings those bills down to something a little more realistic, I use it, and now my sim's aren't afraid to turn on the AC when things get extremely hot. Here is a link to it, look in the Seasons section to read about it.
https://littlemssam.tumblr.com/post/175412396783/random-small-mods-sometimes-mods-are-sooo-small

"Voldarian_Empire;c-16747406" wrote:
I've noticed the seasons increases the Bill's by an insane level....one time I shut them off right before the mail came and they seemed quite reasonable again, even though I had still been using the thermostat for the rest of the days prior....I wonder if you ran it until mail day then shut it off if the Bill's would react as if you weren't using it? Just a thought for someone to test, unfortunately my rl work schedule won't let me test it anytime soon

If anyone does test that however, please shoot me a message with the results :D

I try to shut the thermometer off every week before the bills are due (I use MCCC & have autopay on), it does seem to make a difference in the amount. After the bills are paid, I turn the thermometer back on if needed.

How do you know when the bills are due?

"melissalungu;c-16749608" wrote:
How do you know when the bills are due?

Bills are delivered once a week. You just have to remember which weekday you got the bills (it can change if you're playing rotationally).

I'm having this problem too! My sims household bills were $17,000. My sims were living in an apartment before hand and I saved up to buy a $100k house I built for them. They furnished it and everything.

I've never had bills be this high before.

I think it's because of the thermostat. It's so dumb.

Check your inventory. I had this problem and once I cleared (cashed in) all but less than 100 of my produce (mainly my dragonfruit), paintings, etc. from the household and personal inventory of each Sim they were millionaires! Plus the amount of cash they have does not seem to effect the bills in the same way the inventory did. They now have over 2million. Go figure.