What are your top must have skills?

Cooking is the only one I consider a must have. I have one sim in each household work to build their skill as quickly as possible to get high quality meals that help to stack up good moodlets. The importance of the other skills varies based on the story at the time.🙂

I like my sims to have high cooking, gardening and handiness skills. It makes their lives much easier and they can enjoy their lives more.

Cooking and Gardening. My favorite skills to develop.

Cooking: less fires and more meal options

Gardening : the ability to fertilise plants but I dislike the level that stops the animation to weed by hands.

Handiness : enough to upgrade beds

Parenting : I like to see the outcome of parenting pop ups

Not exactly a skill but I like to level up spellcasters and werewolves to the point where all perks are available as an option

Top skill for all families with cats and dogs:

Veterinary

I'm a rotational player and as soon as I switch to a household with a cat/dog, it's sick -.-

And since we tell stories without mods, cc and poses they all have the:

Acting Skill

to add a little variety

We won't be without horses anymore, so the

Riding Skill

it is 🐎

And each of them has the 

Handiness Skill

maxed for instant upgrades and to upgrade the neon signs so they don't break in the rain. 

They are neon signs, made for the outdoors, why do they break in the rain? 😭

It's such a hassle.

And Photography 📸

Here Jack wrote that the Mosquito Trap reminds him of Saiwa because of their cute teeth ^^'

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Cooking, gardening and fishing 🙂 

Painting with most of them.

@LennyOggI didn't think of photography. It is a useful skill.

I have a sim in my game 'Fabian Fotograaf' with maxed skill who gets temporarily added to my sims household if I want a photograph of all the family.

That is a great and helpful idea to have a sim with maxed photography skill to add temporarily when wanting to take a picture of all the family @atreya33 🙂

I have one sim in my save who is photographer. has her own studio. 🙂

I add her in household every time I need portrait taken what needs bit more skills to be good 🙂   Or the opposite if I want their pic taken in "studio"😉

Just like @atreya33 

I also use this mod, so my photographer is good painter too 🙂 

https://scumbumbomods.com/paint-from-reference-anywhere