Favorite way to make simoleons?

Writing, painting, woodworking, etc. Most of my sims make money by making stuff. Gardening and collecting things also gets used a lot. A few of my sims do have jobs, but mostly for story/character reasons rather than money-making. I like the work at home and gig careers.

Painting. I love making my sims write as well.

"DaniRose2143;c-18216293" wrote:
Painting is really lucrative once you get to level 5 or 6 and above. It's bonkers if you give them the creative visionary and marketable traits too. It's easy with a max skill painter to produce 5K simoleon paintings, some of them well over 10K. I think the best one of my sims paintings fetched was 17K. I've read where some simmers have seen more than 20K for a single painting.

paintings sold in plopsy can give real big money. I thought first doing that in R2R , but way too big money at some point.

Being a plopsy florist can also be very lucrative if you have a high skill level.

For a couple of my sims who couldn't make enough money, two words...money tree. B)

Gardening, painting, fishing, dumpster diving, flower arranging, beachcombing, breeding frogs and sometimes archeology. Can make big money in Selvadorada excavating dig sites and raiding jungle temples. Plus if you get to a higher level in archeology, your Sims get artifacts in the mail to authenticate. They get paid handsomely when returning the examined artifact. With that skill alone, can make bank without ever setting foot in the jungle. Gardening is my absolute favorite way though, with painting a close second. :)

The money tree ? when aspiration points were easier to earn.

Art! The Sims love it, and the paintings brighten up the room. I sell them when and if I need to.

Ill throw this one out there because it hasnt been mentioned. Freelance Photographer is pretty insane once you get high in the career and max photograpy. Certain gigs take maybe sim hour to complete and depending on your daily gig options you may be able to double up on them. As long as you have a lap top and a tripod camera and model mark in your inevntory the job can be completed anywhere at any time. Once you get past the point where you have to mail photos and are just meeting with a fashion designer is when the money comes in. But yeah, you can easily make 15-30k a day for taking 5-10 photos and doing a quick chat on your laptop.

Side effect is you can actually get alot of really cool photos in your house when you want to take actual real photos and not just snap 5 quick shots of some random sim on a model mark.

The festivals. I never knew Romance festival had flowers to pick until recently. I knew about the Spice Festival plants.
I get 500 a sim for winning the jokester thingy. I can sell the microphones.
I compete in karaoke after the festival.
The Geek con, you can make a lot by winning the pc.