How are you making money in Cottage Living?
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...
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In my farming family none of my Sims have a job, but they earn money from their skills. The family matriarch is a musician (violin skill: 10) so every week she can license one of her compositions, and get daily royalties from it (around 400-600 simoleons per day).
The son is a knitter and sells his creations on Plopsy (including cross-stitch pieces). He has the marketable reward trait. He also looks after their llama, and sells its wool (though sometimes he uses it for his own cross-stitch projects). He's also a keen collector, and roams around looking for time capsules, metals, crystals, etc and then sells everything he finds. Early in the game he made a wish at the wishing well which resulted in him receiving a daily allowance for the rest of his life, so every day he also gets a small, random amount of simoleons (generally between 6-20 simoleons) because of that. If you're lucky you might get a more generous allowance.
The sister is the one who does most of the gardening and farming (it merely started as her hobby, but now it's a full business and the core of all gameplay). She sells the harvestables, the eggs and honey from the bees, and alone she earns more than the family actually needs. In fact, I have the constant problem of my family earning way to much, and then donating a lot of money either to the wishing well or charity to get rid of it.
At some point the daughter acquired a money tree from the aspiration rewards. I wanted her to plant and grow one because she has planted and researched every single existing plant, so after it grew I have used it a few times to earn extra cash, but then I removed it and placed it in the lot inventory, because it produces about 18,000 simoleons per day, and my family is already making way too much money with the other harvestables.
The lot in which they live is very small, so they only have 1 chicken coop and 1 llama, but if you have a bigger one with enough space for some animal sheds, you can make a pretty penny with the milk from the cows ad eggs from more chickens.
Another way to make a lot of money is to have a family member who enjoys fishing, and sending them fishing all day. Not only can you sell the fish, but often they will get expensive stuff such as the voodoo doll, tablets, etc which you can sell for extra money.
Painting is another hobby that allows yours Sims to make a lot of money very quickly (especially if you give them the "creative visionary" reward trait.
If your lot taxes are too high, you might consider getting the frugal reward trait for one of your Sims or possibly all family members (the more members have it, the lower the bills).
The son is a knitter and sells his creations on Plopsy (including cross-stitch pieces). He has the marketable reward trait. He also looks after their llama, and sells its wool (though sometimes he uses it for his own cross-stitch projects). He's also a keen collector, and roams around looking for time capsules, metals, crystals, etc and then sells everything he finds. Early in the game he made a wish at the wishing well which resulted in him receiving a daily allowance for the rest of his life, so every day he also gets a small, random amount of simoleons (generally between 6-20 simoleons) because of that. If you're lucky you might get a more generous allowance.
The sister is the one who does most of the gardening and farming (it merely started as her hobby, but now it's a full business and the core of all gameplay). She sells the harvestables, the eggs and honey from the bees, and alone she earns more than the family actually needs. In fact, I have the constant problem of my family earning way to much, and then donating a lot of money either to the wishing well or charity to get rid of it.
At some point the daughter acquired a money tree from the aspiration rewards. I wanted her to plant and grow one because she has planted and researched every single existing plant, so after it grew I have used it a few times to earn extra cash, but then I removed it and placed it in the lot inventory, because it produces about 18,000 simoleons per day, and my family is already making way too much money with the other harvestables.
The lot in which they live is very small, so they only have 1 chicken coop and 1 llama, but if you have a bigger one with enough space for some animal sheds, you can make a pretty penny with the milk from the cows ad eggs from more chickens.
Another way to make a lot of money is to have a family member who enjoys fishing, and sending them fishing all day. Not only can you sell the fish, but often they will get expensive stuff such as the voodoo doll, tablets, etc which you can sell for extra money.
Painting is another hobby that allows yours Sims to make a lot of money very quickly (especially if you give them the "creative visionary" reward trait.
If your lot taxes are too high, you might consider getting the frugal reward trait for one of your Sims or possibly all family members (the more members have it, the lower the bills).
