Favorite way to make simoleons?

What's also quite insane is that the painting amd flower arranging that is already OP, can be sold at 300% markup using the street gallery or the (forgot what its called) yard sale table.

It used to be my fav way of an income when I wanted my sims to make money fast, but at the moment I prefer the rags to riches play style with restrictions so the slower the income, the better for my game.

Thank you all for the input! I am always curious how others play. I definitely love the struggle lol for whatever reason, so I avoid motherlode & get rich quick options, personally.

But I will say, if anyone is browsing this thread and looking for lucrative ideas - as mentioned here by a few people, painting is very profitable (and writing and gardening). I always sold my paintings at 300% markup on the gallery. I also used the clubs system to make a painting club and sell everyone elses paintings too. Lol.

Another very quick profit is from the street sale table, running a yard sale from home with very expensive items. I personally use the $12k statue head thing and place 4 or 5 of those on the table and sell at the highest markup. Crazy fast and easy, and no need to own anything other than the little table!

My sims usually go one of two routes

- get a job. This is for sims for whom the job is part of their story. I also use jobs when I have a lot of sims in the household and occasionally want to send some into a rabbit hole so I can focus on the rest
- earn money from home with painting, writing, gardening and occasionally collecting. These are usually sims who are focusing on aspirations, adventures like exploring the jungle, supernatural skills,... . Painting and writing are convenient because they are so overpowered. My sims only need to focus on money occasionally.

"notetoself00x;c-18216799" wrote:

Wait - what is the book of life?! Does it resurrect a sim? I've been an avid sims player for 15+ years and still learning new things every day lol!

If you achieve the Best-Selling Author aspiration, you develop the power to write the Book of Life. For each Book of Life, you can bind it to one sim (sort of like the voodoo doll). Once the Book of Life is bound to a sim, it has two special powers. If the bound sim is alive, reading their Book of Life will reset all of their motives to green (useful!). If the bound sim is dead, you can use the Book of Life to resurrect them. The Best-Selling Author aspiration is one of my most used for this reason.

i prefer to be broke or working class or middle class so i'm mostly focused on limiting how much money my sims make via my own rules tailored to each save. it's way too easy to become wealthy imo. i do stuff like make them focus on making money solely from 1-2 skills per life stage and no selling via inventory, start in a tiny home with only enough money for furnishings, pay a fee to travel outside of their world, pay a fee when i give them new cas items, etc. more fun :smiley:

"Simmerville;c-18217332" wrote:

"Eleri;c-18216909" wrote:

"notetoself00x;c-18216799" wrote:

Wait - what is the book of life?! Does it resurrect a sim? I've been an avid sims player for 15+ years and still learning new things every day lol!

If you achieve the Best-Selling Author aspiration, you develop the power to write the Book of Life. For each Book of Life, you can bind it to one sim (sort of like the voodoo doll). Once the Book of Life is bound to a sim, it has two special powers. If the bound sim is alive, reading their Book of Life will reset all of their motives to green (useful!). If the bound sim is dead, you can use the Book of Life to resurrect them. The Best-Selling Author aspiration is one of my most used for this reason.

Is this involve the Magic pack, or just plain base game Writers?

It's base game :)

I've always liked the Painting skill and career and that's actually the first way I used to make money on my first game that kept doing it with different Sims because it's such good money (especially with Creative Visionary and Marketable traits) and beautiful decoration.

Gardening. I neglected the gardening skill for a while when I first started playing Sims 4, now pretty much all my saves/families have a garden.
I have played with the Painting skill a fair bit but it’s not one I use a huge amount. Looks like I should get into it more!

I have a couple buddies living a very laid back life at Mua Pel'am on Sulani, who've become incredibly wealthy by fizzing coconuts, pineapples and plantains and diving for treasure and seashells. You wouldn't know it by visiting them though, they live inside the remains of a wrecked ship, and do little else aside from tanning, working out, swimming, cruising around on jet skis and flirting with female sims who happen by. (What little that requires electricity is powered by running on upgraded treadmills.) They do throw the occasional wild kava party too.

I like the freelancer careers, I know some have big payouts but I can choose what I want so if I want little or a lot of money depending on their skill level. I also love giving them a little office to go to away from the house so it feels like an actual career. Haha