fav way to make money?

"stilljustme2;c-17198061" wrote:

"Kimmer;c-17197372" wrote:
Definitely gardening.
If I start a new game I start it usually on spring and go to Willow Creek's cheapest neighborhood to get Snapdragons. Then I plant as many of them as I can and because they don't take a lot of time to grow, soon I can expand the garden. My Sim sells them for decent amount of money every day.
As soon as I get an announcement of Romance Festival I take my Sim there to get Birds of Paradise flowers and plant a lot of them. They will make my Sim rich quite fast so I can upgrade home or even the whole house. Usually I delete half of the garden later, I just keep few planters to have money flowing every day, depending on what my plans for the game play are.
If my Sim ends up being a gardener, then he/she will be super rich really fast, especially after he's able to get Dragonfruits. My favorite gardener Sim makes about 80 000 Simoleons every day (during autumn) with just them. His wife is a painter who paints a lot of masterpieces, so they and their 2 children are the richest family of all my saves.

Isn't dragonfruit one of the small bush-type plants (rather than a tree)? You could transplant it to a small pot, keep it inside and get that money all year round. B)

Yes, I usually put some of the Dragonfruit planter boxes inside the greenhouse when winter arrives, but it's not always necessary, because they make crazy amount of money on autumn alone (especially if they're perfect). I almost always use bigger planter boxes with 4 plants.

Painting and flower arranging (I wouldn't have thought of the latter) are very lucrative when done with higher skill levels, and gardening is essential for many aspects of my game play, but I recently discovered retail and, if money was my only concern, retail would be my choice. I usually make 500 to 700k per 24 hour shift (with Never Weary and Steel Bladder). My biggest problem now are taxes. None of the careers can compete with the money/time ratio of the activities I mentioned above.

Painting, writing

"lisamwitt;c-1719699 wrote:
The one thing I never do for my Sims is cheat. I do occasionally cheat if I'm setting up a townie's story, to get them where I need them to be, but not with the Sims I'm playing.

I used cheats at first.. but after playing a bit, it becomes harder to make sims struggle financially than to make them succeed. The normal stuff they want to do makes money. Plant, paint, harvest, etc... just completing their whims makes money. Use the NanoCan trashcan thing, and it's hard to make a family have any money problems at all.

Marry unattractive rich townies who "mysteriously" meet their demise shortly thereafter ?

It depends on the sim, some work actual jobs, most do freelance or work-from-home jobs, some paint or write, and then there are the sims who I do use the above method for...

Selling paintings and having the trait were your sims steals or takes things accidently form places. Then you can sell the things they took.

Painting is a favorite and it builds up every home with art so I don't ever have to buy any paintings from build mode. Yard sells are a good money maker as well. I overcharge for everything there.

Painting. My sim loves to paint and he does it all the time so I can sell paintings really often.

Painting and writing, or selling stuff my Sim found while walking around.

Fav noncareer way is Writing and Painting. Career wise it's Culinary or Athletic. I do wish every skill was profitable though. Imagine making money off of tutoring with Logic or by doing speaking events with charisma or from personal training with Fitness. Handiness should also be profitable beyond the woodworking table. I haven't gotten Island Living yet but I hope the odd job aspect focuses more on handiness.