How to make money fast!

Have your sim obsessively write books. Each book only takes a few sim-hours or so to write, and the royalties add up quick, especially as writing skill increases.

"aaronrulz;15136576" wrote:

"NZsimm3r;15133726" wrote:
With very intense grinding you could make that money in two sims weeks with painting. Don't expect the sim to do anything apart from paint and drink moodlet solver drinks though. (Or use the club interaction 'Rally The Troops' from Get Together.) If you are going to do this small sized paintings net you more money over the course of the 2 weeks.

Are you saying the smaller paintings sell more than the medium and large?

No. But the time spent painting small paintings will earn money quicker compared to the time spent painting medium and large.

"DreamsInPixels;15136595" wrote:

"aaronrulz;15136576" wrote:

"NZsimm3r;15133726" wrote:
With very intense grinding you could make that money in two sims weeks with painting. Don't expect the sim to do anything apart from paint and drink moodlet solver drinks though. (Or use the club interaction 'Rally The Troops' from Get Together.) If you are going to do this small sized paintings net you more money over the course of the 2 weeks.

Are you saying the smaller paintings sell more than the medium and large?

No. But the time spent painting small paintings will earn money quicker compared to the time spent painting medium and large.

This. Tested it both ways and over the 2 weeks a sim can earn more by painting small paintings just due to the fact you can paint more of them quicker. :) Works best if your sim has the Creative Visionary trait as then your sim will paint more masterpieces. Also abstract small paintings seem to have the best results but just chose one genre and stick to it (either classical or abstract) as there is like a timing mechanism (not sure on the correct word) where your sim builds experience (sort of) in a genre and so the chance for excellent and masterpieces improves and when you swap genre it resets.

*edited because the quote messed up some how!

1. Join a painting club, put a bunch of easels on your lot and host the get togethers there. After the group have left sell all the paintings!
2. Join the science career and make a clone machine, then collect gems and clone the most expensive ones, over and over.

The violin idea posted above is a good idea. I did that some time back with my SuperSim to get her in a expensive house. She was in the house in two days.

Takes a bit more time, but gardening is a good money maker. Maybe this would be a good way to bring in money now, and you could carry the plants over to your new home to help pay those bills. Plus, it's a money maker that can be passed down to the next generations. UFO fruit, DragonFruit, and blackberries are all good money makers (from my experience, in that order of value).

Paintings and Writing are a little more time consuming, but can bring in some good money. I do writing when I want to have a steady flow of cash coming in even when I don't feel like having my sim work all the time (she can take a day or two off for fun, but she'll still bring in her royalty payments, unlike painting, which if she doesn't paint, no money flow). Though, I think (haven't tested, so this is just my opinion right now), that painting can be more of a money maker if you plan on just pushing out the paintings. I have had abstract paintings that go for over 10 grand.

"Bluebeard45;15136762" wrote:
How big is the house and is it loaded with custom content ? .I have never built a house past the $250,000.Dragon fruit and blackberries.

No it doesn't have CC but it does use all the packs. The only pack I don't have is Spooky Stuff so i'm all good there. It's a huge house, I think 5 bedrooms. I got it off the gallery. I'm going to make a few changes to it but it's beautiful and I really want my Sims to live there.

"Meegie1977;15136879" wrote:
1. Join a painting club, put a bunch of easels on your lot and host the get togethers there. After the group have left sell all the paintings!
2. Join the science career and make a clone machine, then collect gems and clone the most expensive ones, over and over.

The painting club is a good idea! Sell other people's work! haha! My Sim is a scientist so this I will have to look into!

"ChelleJo;15137167" wrote:
The violin idea posted above is a good idea. I did that some time back with my SuperSim to get her in a expensive house. She was in the house in two days.

Takes a bit more time, but gardening is a good money maker. Maybe this would be a good way to bring in money now, and you could carry the plants over to your new home to help pay those bills. Plus, it's a money maker that can be passed down to the next generations. UFO fruit, DragonFruit, and blackberries are all good money makers (from my experience, in that order of value).

How do I make money off these? Do I just drag them to sell from my inventory? I do basic gardening for my Culinary Sim so she had vegetables and herbs to make dishes, I have never gone that deep into the gardening aspect of the game to do the weird stuff like the UFO and DragonFruit....how do I even get these things? (without cheating) I'm assuming it's a grafting thing.

"aaronrulz;15137433" wrote:

"ChelleJo;15137167" wrote:
The violin idea posted above is a good idea. I did that some time back with my SuperSim to get her in a expensive house. She was in the house in two days.

Takes a bit more time, but gardening is a good money maker. Maybe this would be a good way to bring in money now, and you could carry the plants over to your new home to help pay those bills. Plus, it's a money maker that can be passed down to the next generations. UFO fruit, DragonFruit, and blackberries are all good money makers (from my experience, in that order of value).

How do I make money off these? Do I just drag them to sell from my inventory? I do basic gardening for my Culinary Sim so she had vegetables and herbs to make dishes, I have never gone that deep into the gardening aspect of the game to do the weird stuff like the UFO and DragonFruit....how do I even get these things? (without cheating) I'm assuming it's a grafting thing.

Yes, you need to do graft the strawberry with snapdragon to get the dragonfruit. To get the UFO fruit you need to use the rocketship and go on space missions. Blackberries are found on the paths around Oasis Springs Park. I have a outdoors sim who got rich with gardening and completing the aspiration for collectibles.

Woodworking. Get a bench, get to work. With handiness 10 and the Marketable trait you can churn out bathtubs that sell for around 3000 simoleons a pop.