Favorite way to make simoleons?

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.

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.

"Velvet_Lilies;c-18216295" wrote:
Depending on my sims' personality, I like using the kleptomaniac trait to burglarize the Goth's mansion but can only last as long as they have valuables.

I personally like writing more than painting, because it causes a steady influx of royalties and when the writer ends up maxing the writing skill the family gets access to the book of life! Useful in case of accidents!

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!

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.

"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.

Wow never knew this! Thank you!