Favorite way to make simoleons?

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:

In the past I played most houses for just 1 day per stop on rotation, so income was rarely my main focus. Only the bills needed to be paid, I rarely bought a lot of new stuff either. If storytelling required it, I might make us a reason why they suddenly got some cheat money, LOL.

In general I try to spread my sims on most careers and also have most freelance/from home jobs covered. Painting is always a rescue, but also digging up stuff and dumpster diving might easily raise some quick funds especially if multiple household members can help.

"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?

"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!

doing a regular job where your sims leaves house for 5 hours is not only bad gameplay but earns little simoleons, gardening is probably the way to get rich fastest, i like gardening, painting, and if you a writer you can name you books.

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

I have a mother and daughter in HOB. They farm and the mom does odd jobs and paints. Daughter sells her knits.