How are you making money in Cottage Living?

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My Sim is not making any money… He's trying to survive on charming mushrooms and fish.
He's doing grand.

I have been lucky so far only stormy in spring after I got through it was easier. But I only had maybe two a week which I was okay with

ROSES!!!!! i garden all roses

Last I played before my computer died, I was running errands for the Sims in town and selling stuff from my garden and such.

My Sims are trying to garden, but the crops keep reverting back to dirt piles all the time, so they don't get a lot of harvest from the regular crops. I'm not so much into growing oversized crops, they take too much time to grow and they don't look as nice as the regular ones. I only have few of them.
My Cottage Living Sims are not rich and it takes a lot of time for them to earn money without actual jobs. One of them is a freelance crafter, but she doesn't make much money because she never has enough "bits and pieces" to make anything. Her husband recycles everything he can, but there is never enough things to recycle to get the needed bits and pieces.

"Kimmer;c-17952771" wrote:
My Sims are trying to garden, but the crops keep reverting back to dirt piles all the time, so they don't get a lot of harvest from the regular crops. I'm not so much into growing oversized crops, they take too much time to grow and they don't look as nice as the regular ones. I only have few of them.
My Cottage Living Sims are not rich and it takes a lot of time for them to earn money without actual jobs. One of them is a freelance crafter, but she doesn't make much money because she never has enough "bits and pieces" to make anything. Her husband recycles everything he can, but there is never enough things to recycle to get the needed bits and pieces.

Have you tried the reduce recycle lot challenge you actively have to manage your trash out put every day. You can sort your garbage for compostables and recyclables and when you compost or recycle what is put in your inventory it turns bits and pieces

I make money with selling my products like plants, eggs and milk. I do the errands for the rewards. For example you can sell the animal clothes on plobsy and earn lot of money. I have birds and rabbits for helping me in the garden and getting gifts.
Some of my Sims have a pond for fishing. I only have expensive fishs in the pond.

I reduce the bills with water collectors, windmills and upgrading objects. My Sims are living in tiny houses and off the grid.

In the beginning you should visit the grocery stalls every day. Sometimes they sell very rare objects like cowberries or golden treats.

Animal treats are very helpfull. For example my golden chickens help me to get better plants so I can sell them for more money and they give me golden eggs. That's better than getting once 1 golden milk or 1 golden wool.

Currently my Sim has 16k $ and I don't know how to spend it. With the rewards and gifts it's so easy to making money even if your Sim has no job.

I'm taking things extremely slow Rags to Riches style with my Sim, Abbey Ainsley. She started in Spring with nothing on the secret cottage lot by the waterfalls in the Bramblewoods. At first she earned money by; doing errands for the Creature Keeper - Michael Bell, fishing and harvesting wild plants. She can only sell frogs and collectibles (fossils, crystals, etc.) via personal inventory. Everything else must be sold at the market stalls until she can afford a yard sale table.

She also has the Simple Living lot trait. So far she's been able to earn enough to get four oversized plant plots and plant; watermelon, lettuce, eggplants and pumpkins. She also grows Chocoberries, a variety of mushrooms and a couple other things, can't recall what they are at the moment. Her three bunny friends, Bun Bun, Hopper and Monty help with the garden and give her gifts too. So far, nothing has reverted to dirt piles. ?

Recently, she was able to buy a fenced in chicken coop and two chickens; a hen named Sophia Lorhen and a rooster named Cogburn. She herself still doesn't have a real home, but has some things on the lawn; a fridge, sink, portable shower, poo woo bush, stove, blow up mattress and one counter. That's it, no house. :D However, she did get one of the new bicycles. A necessity in my opinion for anyone living on that lot. I'm hoping now that she has the chickens, she'll earn enough to get a cow. Probably take awhile though, which makes me happy! I love this! <3

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).

So far, I'm really not. I did use the freerealestate cheat to get them into their abodes, so that the money they came out of CAS with is mostly what they're living on. That will change, once their crops are more fully mature and I turn to selling them. Not all of them, though, the family has to have something to eat, too. :open_mouth: