holy bills!

I just got one.. $123,000. My Sims are rich, but come on?

So I'm guessing if you pay attention to the weather and only turn the thermostat on really extreme temp days your bills won't be as crazy? Can you freeze to death in your home if it's not warm enough or is the fact that it's a shelter just makes them uncomfortable?

One of my sims is a writer so all those published books cover the cost but yeah its high.

I have at least one with the frugal trait, does it stack?

If only we have fans to help cool or blankets for couches to help :)

Oh boy.. I have a 5 bedroom house and 2 bathrooms... so it's pretty spacious and now I feel like my Founder is going to be struggling because the thermostat will probably make their bills really high.. and she doesn't have a job as this challenge requires you to make money from other stuff. Good thing I have her cooking to 10 and working on her gardening skill + she has almost level 8-9 in painting skill. So, she gonna have to get to work! lol.

> @mollymegan30 said:
> I got my first bills and I started seasons on my game in late fall I turned on my thermostat to warmer costs more and my bill was $26,000!! haha (note to self set therm at cooler cost less!!)

Oh no, I'm half way through fall. Now I'm worried lol.

if I just have fires in the main rooms, and no thermostat on, will their bills still go up??

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> so what happens if you’re sim can’t afford to pay bills? I had my sim quit their job just before I got my bill :# because the household was making a lot of money fast and I don’t want them having so much. My bill was originally 10-12k and it jumped to 41.5k I only had it 2 days so far
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> His wife is still working and I have 380k now left but I don’t want to blow right through it...I was planning on killing him off too.

Painting and selling your art directly is pretty profitable. I use the wishing well to get skills to boost, use the night owl trait to make them grow even faster, and you get good at painting really fast.

Hey! One thing to reduce the bills if you are doing some sort of lets play or challenge where you need to save money, turn the thermostat on only when nessary, and turn the lights on auto lights. Anyway, hope I could help. Happy Simming! -@powers6180

What if you don't add a thermostat at all? Does the temperature fluctuate?

Most of my sims are poor...

@elanorbreton Yes, I do believe so. I'm not sure because I have never gone without one. It would be best to have one if you can use a money cheat. I highly recommend the cheat:
Ctrl>shift>c
Testingcheats on (or) testingcheats true (whatever one works for you)
money ______ (fill in the _____ with the amount you want in your household funds. If you want 25,000 household funds type money 25000)
Hope I helped! Happy Simming! -@powers6180