How do you make a million dollars?

I have not attempted any scenarios, but if I were to try it to accomplish it ASAP, I would:

• begin in a tiny home to build skills faster
  
• focus on gardening and painting
  
• complete the fabulously wealthy aspiration for the shrewd trait which pays Sims 5% of household funds at the end of every week (ex. if you have 500,000 simoleons, you get paid 25,000).
  
• optimize lot traits, Sims' traits, and aspiration rewards/points
  

This makes me want to try it. :)

I'm focusing on her career and painting, mostly. I tried gardening again, but its still messed up, with plants reverting to merely planted status. I get fed up (again) and just leave them alone. My sim is living in Sulani, doing the Conservationist career. This means quick and easy work from home and lots of free time to spend on her fortune aspiration, and to make money otherwise.

I can't do tiny living, its just too small for me. Sure, skilling is faster, but I also don't have much room for everything I want/need. Not going to sit here watching my sim just read books for all their skills. I plopped my sim down on the Admirals Wreckage, which cost (after remodeling) a bit under 20k. Near the Wreckage, there is a fishing spot. It contains over 20 species of fish. Including some pretty rare, valuable ones. You also get lots of other things there, like the Sulani collectibles, cowplant berries, crystals etc. AND its a good way to clean up the islands, too, by fishing up invasive species and seaweed/driftwood. So, because fishing still works as intended, I do that instead of gardening. Until they can finally fix gardening, then its back to my green thumbs.

This scenario IS hard. I've only ever had a million once in all my years of simming. There's no need, even half of that is more than a sim or family needs. Unless you build them a 64x64 4story tall mansion. Plus a basement. Or two. The only time I've had a mill, is when my sim won the lottery last year. The struggle is real, there's just no getting rid of that money without cheating. There are no expensive items to buy, no luxury cars or second homes. Retail/restaurant just isn't attractive enough for me to get into, or I could have blown away a lot of money on that. TS3 had cars, and as far as I remember, a 72k jet plane lawn ornament XD I remember 2 of my sims getting that as a wedding gift, I believe from the Shallows hahah Now, THOSE are things we could be spending an obcene amount of money on. But alas....

I’d marry Judith Ward, move in with her, divorce her and move her out, sell the mansion, befriend the Bailey Moons, move in with them, move them out, sell the mansion…I think we’re getting close to a million there. If not, rinse and repeat. Just like in real life. ?

"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-18019339" wrote:
I’d marry Judith Ward, move in with her, divorce her and move her out, sell the mansion, befriend the Bailey Moons, move in with them, move them out, sell the mansion…I think we’re getting close to a million there. If not, rinse and repeat. Just like in real life. ?

Yep, been there, done that. I mean... Wait. I mean... Where are your morals, young man???!!!

(probably the same place as mine.) :lol:

You're giving me ideas, people :D If my girl wasn't a very happily newly married woman.....Not for money though, she found herself an unemployed beach bum! XD

Don’t have to marry anyone or even make relationships. Start a new game. Have your sim move from house to to in manage households. Tear down the house and move to the next one till you have 9,999,999 dollars. Save that sim to your library. Add that sim to any household and get their $ too. You can delete them after.
As for the scenario…
New scenario, making money, start with existing save, move new sim onto empty lot, then go to manage households and move them into a household that has at least a mill. Scenario complete!
Repeat over and over to get 5000 points for each household member.
Points are not transferable but potions are. Buy them and transfer them before you delete the extra Sims in cas.

I built a tiny home, gave my sim the collectors aspiration, and joined the scientist career. Also had a garden. I bought a ton of easels and made a painting club. At level 5 career I could make the cloning machine so cloned my sim three times. Once my sim had completed a collection I could sell collectibles to the Simsonium museum. I started at 0 and took 34 sim days to complete the scenario. :)

I only just restarted this, my new sim is a freelance photographer. He takes heaps of pictures and sells them for quick cash.

I did this with gardening (wasnt a goal, just incidental gameplay!). Starting with just ordering roses on the phone to plant. Eventually my sim had several greenhouses with lilies, birds of paradise and dragon fruit. Although it def helps to have the fortune aspiration perks.

One of my sims is going to get this thanks to a bug. They bought a money tree but everytime they sell the fruit it goes in their household inventory instead....they now have a money tree orchard! :D

So many new ideas to try, thank you!