How are you making money in Cottage Living?

With this pack, the most money I've found so far is the golden hen. I always check out the stalls during festivals on Saturdays, and got lucky that the golden treat was available for purchase. It was pretty pricey at over 400 simoleons, but once you have a gold hen, the gold eggs can sell for 300 a piece. During festivals, I think you can sell the eggs for more, if your sim can haggle. Birds and bunnies you've befriended can give great gifts too, including animal treats. I watched one of Carl's videos on YouTube and he replaced all his animals with birds. It was pretty amusing to watch him 'farm' for gifts. I'm thinking I may actually give this a try as a rags to riches, once I've gotten further along with my current household.
And if your sims knit, the llama neck wear can sell for 1000 simoleons on Plopsy. Even without a llama to provide the wool, the profit is still about 700.
I'm sure there are other ways, I'm still discovering things as I go. I haven't played too much yet with oversized crops. They seem to require a lot of fertilizers which are quite expensive, so for now I've only been using them on crops that I'm planning to enter in festivals. The rest are used for canning or cooking.

I just barely finished McGregors farm, and haven’t moved them in yet ( male and female adult, and a hunting dog ). They have a spare room for their grandson ( child ), and granddaughter ( teen ), because they visit a lot, sometimes they even move in with them for awhile. Currently they make a little money from gardening, they have a green house I have moved over to the lot they will be on ( the plants reverting to dirt piles bug is annoying me with them though ). She knits and sells things on plopsy or the sales table ( since he fishes too they make trips to Sulani often.and also collect shells and dig for treasures to sell ), and he does woodworking, and has a part time fishing job he will quit to farm. He will still fish on the side as he loves it. I liked the house they were in, in Brindleton Bay so I uploaded it to my Library and changed it a bit making it fit into HOB. I gave them 2 sheds and a chicken coop with room for one more coup at least, ( hopefully they will be able to afford it, if not I will delete the coop and sheds until they can afford them ). There is room for a later shed for for fizzy drinks and candle making ( they haven’t done yet ). She usually does the gardening, but I think I’m going to have her start the Maker career in Eco living. He will quit his part time fishing job and make furniture ( hopefully with her Maker career she can also make furniture ) as well as farming, with the animals. They have also started dumpster diving…. Lol. I’m thinking of giving them the 20x15 lot or 20x20 lot in town for a furniture/grocery/ trinket store, later when they can afford it. They have big dreams of moving back to their homeland and starting a real farm, and hopefully their own business someday!

My sim has a freelance job that she can do in-between farming tasks.

"Yolee;d-992726" wrote:
Im trying to just earn money from crops, selling knits and those hoops, and selling eggs and crops. But falling short due to the size of my bills (about 4K after reductions). I find I have to sell a painting or two on Plopsey to make ends meet. Please share your moneymaking tips!

@Yolee if you have enough satisfaction points, think it's 1500 or 2000, you can get the frugal reward trait which reduces your bills by 25%. Another thing I just learned watching James Turner's lets play yesterday is that some roofs actually *increase* your bills. He changed a roof to the eco living solar roof & his bills went down a good bit. Also learned from that video is that apparantly if more than one person in a household has the frugal trait the bill reduction increases (ie: if 2 sims in household have it bills are reduced 50%). Hopefully these will help you.

I built a greenhouse and planted Dragon Fruit and Quill Fruit. I can sell them directly or wait until the fair and sell them with a profit.

I made a separate section of the greenhouse too where I have plants just for food or for errands.

My Sim’s dust bunny gave him a money tree seed! Now he doesn’t have to worry if he spills the milk. ?

Eggs (gold and obsidian), wool, and crops. Sell on Fair days for +10%, +25% if you successfully haggle. I also do things like separate items by quality between my various sims' inventories so that I'm not selling everything for Poor quality prices (or whatever the lowest quality I have in my inventory is)

A prior career as a painter yielding the Fabulously Wealthy reward trait, plus a big nest egg to generate interest. Never fails.

Golden eggs and Dragon Fruit. It took ages, but all my chickens (4 and a rooster) are golden and I have about 8 Dragon fruit plants. Perfect thanks to golden scrambled eggs. I struggled for ages, but now they're earning on average 15k simoleans every 2 days.

I garden and have eggs and milk, oversized crops can bring in a decent amount if you are willing to take the time. With bunnies and birds and bees and an occasional fertilizing its not to hard to get the largest size. I also have my sim can and make preserves though the week to sell at her sales table during thr fairs. My bills are only 700-800 and I manage to have 12000 in savings. Thats also managing their two toddler daughters, washing clothes by hand and bust the dust to the mix.

Once the bloom family hits 20k they will sell their house and move to a 50x40 lot and hopefully get a little bigger garden and add a Llama. After all their children will need their own rooms and at least another bathroom eventually and a school room. I plan on homeschooling the girls and any future children as my Sims are only halfway through YA so when the mood hits them I let them Woo-hoo and have risky turned on with MCCC so you never know when she get pregnant.

Skills
-helping take care of garden
-helping take care of animals
-helpping cook
-needle point
-knitting
-work toward mastering child skills
-work on adult skills that are unlocked
-journal

Haven't decided what else yet. I'll probably make a club and add the kids from Henford into it and have a play date on Sundays or meet up during the fair.