The household I’m playing right now seems to have some invisible trash at the front entrance of their house. Every one who visits does the the “trash rant” before they knock. I’ve tried clicking in the area, there is a rug there so I tried moving the rug, replaced the rug, I even bought the auto vacuum hoping that would do it. Visitors are the only ones who notice it. My household is oblivious to it when they are around the area. It’s starting to annoy me. One even has the neat trait. Has anyone else had this happen and if so can you tell me how to find this invisible trash everyone sees but my household? I’m no newbie to this game but this has me stumped. Ps. I don’t have EL so that’s not a factor.

Perhaps a child started a mess there and was interrupted? That causes invisible trash.

@Admiral8Q I don’t think I have a trash can out there but I will check. I try anything. Thank you.

Sims react negatively for no reason. They complain at everything even taking care of the baby. They point and then throw their head back and shrug. It's a bug. Sims always react in disgust has it's own thread. My Sims in my current save live in an apartment and anyone that comes to the door does it. There is no trash by the door. My sims do it almost every time I tell then to do something. If I pause the game and zoom in on faces every sim looks sad and even though their green and happy. When I look at the Sims down on the street they appear sad also. With everything going wrong with this game and I have been building and not playing. It's no fun to play with sad complaining Sims with no gardening in the game. It's broken also.

I think it was just a glitch. No trash can out there. So it wasn’t that. They have a maid and even he ignored it. I gave up, closed out the game and I cleaned out my caches and went back in. That seemed to have fixed it... for now. It wasn’t that big a deal. I have been playing Sims 4 since it came out so I got pretty good at trouble shooting these minor annoyances. But this one stumped me. Thanks to you all for the helpful hints.

@Sadiesue Could have been a floating plate or something. Who knows. Glad you solved it.

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14 Replies

alanmichael1
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
Perhaps a child started a mess there and was interrupted? That causes invisible trash.
kacie48
Seasoned Vanguard
5 years ago
Good suggestion but there are no children or toddlers in the household. They are all YAs.
Admiral8Q
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
I had this problem after the patch for Eco Living. A house with a 'normal' trash bin outside was always stinky and causing reactions since then. So what I did to solve that was buy a new one in build mode and delete (sell) the trashy one. (Pardon the pun) ;)

@Sadiesue I don't have EL either.
kacie48
Seasoned Vanguard
5 years ago
@Admiral8Q I don’t think I have a trash can out there but I will check. I try anything. Thank you.
GroovyLady1968
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
Sims react negatively for no reason. They complain at everything even taking care of the baby. They point and then throw their head back and shrug. It's a bug. Sims always react in disgust has it's own thread. My Sims in my current save live in an apartment and anyone that comes to the door does it. There is no trash by the door. My sims do it almost every time I tell then to do something. If I pause the game and zoom in on faces every sim looks sad and even though their green and happy. When I look at the Sims down on the street they appear sad also. With everything going wrong with this game and I have been building and not playing. It's no fun to play with sad complaining Sims with no gardening in the game. It's broken also.
kacie48
Seasoned Vanguard
5 years ago
I think it was just a glitch. No trash can out there. So it wasn’t that. They have a maid and even he ignored it. I gave up, closed out the game and I cleaned out my caches and went back in. That seemed to have fixed it... for now. It wasn’t that big a deal. I have been playing Sims 4 since it came out so I got pretty good at trouble shooting these minor annoyances. But this one stumped me. Thanks to you all for the helpful hints.
Admiral8Q
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
@Sadiesue Could have been a floating plate or something. Who knows. Glad you solved it.
Daravi
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
I've seen that my trash can had something on the ground around, which looked like the woodcovering from it would be rotten, but I couldn't make it away, because I don't have the specific recycle lot trait. After deleting the whole trashcan and buying a new one the complains about the mess stopped until the next trash can began to rot. I think that's a bug.

https://i.imgur.com/jOIwMJ8.png
cheekyimp
Rising Hotshot
5 years ago
I had one were the family were getting negative buffs, couldn't see any thing at all, I ended up emptying the room and eventually found a tiny piece of food (the feed pet from plate type?) that had been under a table so wasn't being cleaned up, drove me mad trying to find it
Admiral8Q
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
"Daravi;c-17584425" wrote:
I've seen that my trash can had something on the ground around, which looked like the woodcovering from it would be rotten, but I couldn't make it away, because I don't have the specific recycle lot trait. After deleting the whole trashcan and buying a new one the complains about the mess stopped until the next trash can began to rot. I think that's a bug.

I think that's what happened to me too after the EL updates. Even without having EL, it's in base game now.