Items that have been banned from your played sims households?

I completely forgot: coffee machines! If there is one in the house, I can bet a million simoleons someone will always want to make coffee, drink a cup and then leave it to spoil.

Also, umbrellas. I am so fed up with telling my sun immune vampires to put them away. Next time I play that house, they will have umbrellas! And I have to tell all of them to put them away AGAIN.

Two main things: grills and the bubble blower.
I love the aesthetic of the bubble blower, and it'd be great if everyone didnt just randomly cancel their action to go stare at the stupid thing. Gah! I had it in the main room of my sims house once, and all 8 of my sims like to go either applaud it or be horrified by it. To say I'd make a mistake would be an understatement.

The grills, oh man. Oh MAN. What is it with those things? Everyone will abandon -everything- to go grill themselves something that they're not even going to eat. Vampires doing so annoys me so much more, too—like, dude, you don't eat. You -can't- eat, (if they have withered stomach). You are burning, you fools. Get inside. Leave. the grill. alone!

"MaggieMarley;c-16723883" wrote:
Am I the only one who loves the talking toilet? It can deal with their bladder and hygiene at once! I love this.

I have 1 in my richer Sims homes, even my vamps but no lamps that use electricity, I need to lock up the regular bar, the globe bar. I have no highchair for same reason, I do allow computer but tv is in inventory until season premiere day is there then it goes back in the inventory, it's kinda funny sometimes to think of banning them but they are so funny.

"JC1979;c-16724098" wrote:
Highchairs are one for me as well. Either Sim will leave the tot sitting there, attempt to place tot in chair right before canceling the command and placing them on the floor instead, or Sims act like they have no clue how the high chair works. I have banned washer and dryers from my game due to the amount of piled up laundry and the annoyance of having to place laundry in the machine then also having to pick the option of wash/dry; common sense says you put laundry in washer/dryer to wash/dry.

That's why I never bought the laundry pack. I have fake ones that I use to make a laundry room.

The lump of clay!
Oh and pets lol I got so sick and tired of my Sims constantly stopping what they were doing to go pet the cat.

"vivica86;c-16725692" wrote:
The lump of clay!

I really dislike that lump of clay. So much. Just so, so much.

"ghilie;c-16725754" wrote:

"vivica86;c-16725692" wrote:
The lump of clay!

I really dislike that lump of clay. So much. Just so, so much.

Me too!!!

The Microscope for sure. With that thing around my sims don't get anything done. I don't like having the observatory either.

"Atreya33;c-16725209" wrote:

"duhboy2u2;c-16725181" wrote:
In my sim homes I place the computer(s) in a locked room. Completely locked to everyone and only unlocked for a specific sim at a time who may need it for work/entertainment (because the needs bar is too low). Couldn't handle them all fighting over it or getting mad because someone else was already on it all the time. They ignore bathroom, food, entertainment from other sources, talking to each other and a few other things in favor of fighting over those silly computers.

This is a good idea. I might try it for the doll house. So people don't destroy it all the time.

The items that are banned in my game are the high chair and the talking toilet.
I also have very few telescopes compared to the previous sims games. In sims 2 every household had a telescope but now they are just way to big.

I agree with this one as well. Truth is, virtually every household in previous games could have a telescope of some sort and now its just so large that only very rich families can afford to have lots big enough to house them. ...and the microscopes too. If it were a small desktop thing like the one I had as a child/teen, it'd be something I give my sims all the time.

"MaggieMarley;c-16725702" wrote:

"Kathykins;c-16725532" wrote:
I completely forgot: coffee machines! If there is one in the house, I can bet a million simoleons someone will always want to make coffee, drink a cup and then leave it to spoil.

Also, umbrellas. I am so fed up with telling my sun immune vampires to put them away. Next time I play that house, they will have umbrellas! And I have to tell all of them to put them away AGAIN.

@Kathykins I hate to break this to you but even if you have your vampires put their umbrellas away and delete the umbrella rack, the next time it rains the game will automatically give them new umbrellas. Which they will then also use on non rainy sunny days. Yes, yes it is very annoying.

That's the sad part, really. The aggrivation is quite futile. I constantly see my currently non-played sims running around with the blasted thing.

The issue has also been posted on the AHQ site, so its a bug that may or may not be fixed some time.