Doing the millionaire scenario

"invisiblgirl;d-995183" wrote:
Just for the heck of it, and because I seem to be out of fresh ideas at the moment, I'm trying the millionaire scenario. I always build my own houses, so I started with a pre-made house so that when my bank account was emptied to zero, I'd have enough money to build a house after I bulldozed the existing one. (I was afraid that wouldn't work, and she wouldn't get any money from the bulldoze. You do get the $16,000 or so that the house and furnishings were worth, however.)

The first task was to get enough skill, and then upgrade all the cheap stuff in the house. I had my Sim in the Renaissance Sim aspiration, so she's had to change jobs three times, but the third put her in the tech career, so she's also playing the tech guru aspiration. Oh, and she's high maintenance, too.

This is going slowly - I'm determined to play the scenario without any easy in-game money-makers, such as painting. We've made it to $15,000 so far, from working, selling a few of the perks she's earned from promotions, and a phone app she made (for tech guru aspiration). She also does programming side-jobs, as they count as her 'homework' for her job in the tech career.

What are you all doing to make your million?

Hi! I started this scenerio and it will be a long time playing. I do use painting, woodwork, fishing, collecting, gardening, anything that will bring in money for my sim. I bought him a small house in OS before the game took the rest of the money. The first thing he caught was a cowberry...whew, groceries. :D I too am not using any money cheats, but I am slowly accumulating the things he needs. He went to the Art Center to paint and make and sell woodworks. This is very challenging for me but I'm determined to finish this, it will just take a long, long time as he only has $29,000. Yes I'm using mods, if not for the faster painting and fishing it would take even longer. :)