Storytelling players: Do you ever use cheats to set up your stories?

My Sims work for their money xD
But I am in 4th/ 5th generation, so they have enough money anyways and I always play this one save.
Only once my storyline got messed up when I had a poor couple who should really work hard for a bigger house and so on. I was 3 sim-days in playing them and it was the lottery day... They won a million simoleons and bought the biggest house, but I wish I had cheated the money away xD