I feel like by the end of this, Bess won the Making Money challenge with how much she ended up asking for 😂

The irony that you chose an island to be away from everyone only to host daily yard sales is fantastic 😂

I “made” a million by entering the lottery, seeing I didn’t win, saved the sims name in my head added them to my household stole the money and kicked them out 😂😅

I love this series. I’m pretty sure Bess only pays you back once you call her out for not paying you back!

By the way James, you can actually steal boats and jetskis that aren't technically owned by you. You just have to get on and drive it onto your lot, then you can pick it up and sell it in build/buy mode.

James: sells earbuds Also James: “we’re having a problem with fun” “fun is a big problem” 😂

The true excitement every time Bess calls, makes my day

I said it once, I'll say it again : you should wear glasses more often, they look good dude

Good old Vlad, rocking up in his speedos, living his best life. Love that for him 💚

If you’re painting, writing, or crafting, you should really get the Marketable trait. It makes your stuff worth a lot more.

I had a teen spellcaster who knew the repario spell (level 1). He went dumpster diving and used repario on what he found and sold it. On day one he found a Princess Cordelia double bed and kept it. Okay, low level casters sometimes fail repario and set the object on fire instead, so do it outside the house. I don’t know that this is faster but it’s chaotic and fun.

Another way to do this: make Semaj a vampire with the eternally welcome perk. You can enter people's homes and steal whatever. No skills needed 😁

Challenge: Making 1000000 by collecting. You might need all the pack for that. That would be fun to see how long that would take.

I've been rewatching Rags to Repayment and the price of Ambrosia is wild - I wonder how long it would take with that!

Bess gave me §65,000 when I kept funding her start up, I think it was §10,000 invested. Not great, but not horrible. Loving this series continuing! Have to say it’s weird seeing the lot bonuses used at all, and upgraded things like kitchen appliances and beds from the get go as R2R is the norm lol. (Edit grammar)

Had no idea that the sketch pad was good for the painting skill. Also, you giving Bess money every time made me laugh.

Fun video, as always ! Just a tip, painting IS fun and will get your sim's fun up quite easily, if it's specified in his likes and dislikes that he likes painting. I think it's right for every activities, actually.

The trashcan bug has been in the game for ages tbh, I think it's every time someone knocks the bin over or someone uses it in any way, it's just no longer considered a functional bin xD Keeps happening with every bin in my game

Yeah, the trashcan thing keeps happening to me. I just have to buy new ones when they get knocked over. Makes the expensive trash can that gives you money worth it, since that one can't be tipped!

The Sims 3 would let you buy entire community lots and earn huge sums of simoleons over time, it'd be cool if something like that were implemented in The Sims 4

You were very lucky to catch that Voodoo doll straight away, wonder how much longer it would have been had that not happened

Radios are great for fun because you can have them listen while doing something else. It's perfect.

I feel... James gave Bess money on purpose just to see us get mad 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Instead of buying the minimum of a kitchen and spent time cooking, you could also buy those serving tables from either Luxury Party or the wedding pack and just buy meals from there

Just think how close you were. If you hadn't given Bess the moocher all that money you'd have made it then. 😂

You can get an even bigger boost by starting an art club on your home lot and using the points for the painting boost. The bonus stacks are crazy! Also if you set painting, fishing, etc. as their likes they will gain fun. Also worth mentioning again that if you turn on the earbuds while sims are awake it keeps their fun maxed out!

If Bess asks after you’ve given her like 2000 or something simoleons you can tap ‘call her out for never paying you back ‘ and you get money

Fun fact: On this "Oceanic Paradise" lot, if you swim, you will become inspired. That's basically what the lot trait does.

Best quote: "If you're going to bite my neck, can you please put on some pants?" 🤣🤣

Really enjoying these! I know if you say to Bess "no more money" or whatever she'll repay you with interest. Clearly she knew the best scheme for getting money! Ha. I think you can also use your points to buy the ability to sell items for more or like more often you get masterpieces, etc too. Can't wait for more in this series. Very creative!

I've been pretty lucky with a combination of the fizzing skill and playing for tips/composing songs. Retail stores are community lots, so sims are much more likely to tip you than if you were just standing near your home lot

13:33 -- If I remember correctly there's a hidden ""skill"" in painting and writing. The more you make something of a specific genre the more money you get, which is why suddenly switching to Classical got a lower return. As for Bess, you give her like... the least I've given her is 6k but I think i've also given her like 11k before she finally did the return investment =oc I'm not sure;;;

Listing on Plopsy is very much worth it once you're a level 5 painter or so. And unlike the selling display, you do not have to sit around "tending" and wait for sims to come by and purchase paintings. When I was level 10, I could easily get paintings to sell on Plopsy for $20,000.

Vlad in that Speedo gave me a shudder worthy flashback to my distant youth. I was an innocent young lass at a water park, throughly enjoying the day, when a man as pale as Vlad (though this gent was on the portly side) wearing a white banana hammock waltzed into my sight line. As an adult I can both commend and appreciate his confidence and zero f**ks given attitude, but as an American preteen I was a bit weirded out (the Speedo was WHITE). Enjoy the metal picture that conjures and have a happy week everyone!

I was dying of laughter at about the 7th time Bess asked for $1,000.

You should have invested a bit into handiness so you could get the upgrade for the sketchpad at level 4; makes painting even faster with it. Also, I believe the Marketable trait would have increased the amount the paintings are sold for with the yard sale wall as well. Also I like how you sold the postcard instead of using the inspired aura it gives you. Could have saved a little bit of time as you'd no longer have to go cloudgazing (not that it takes that much time in the first place, but uh...)

It was pretty funny watching James get scammed repeatedly by Bess.

Somehow, EVERY time I play with an artsy Sim I forget the digital sketchpad exists. Only run into it somehow when its not relevant for what I'm doing 😅😅

I'd really like for you to continue doing this as a series. It'd be cool if you also did a ranking at the end of each video, depending on how long it took you to reach the million simoleons.

A few of the bins are bugged. The wheelie bin is the only one I use now because it's one of the only ones that isn't bugged. It's been a thing for a while, and not been fixed

some say semaj is still giving bess sterling 1,000 simoleons to this day.

I heard the Cupcake Machine "bakes"a lot of money. 😊😁 I love these videos

This is my new favorite series. I'm currently trying to see how long it takes me to make a million just from a dumpster. Probably could be going faster if I didn't get side tracked so easily XD

I make my painters music lovers and put a radio nearby. So long as they’re listening to music they’re fun stays up.

Ahh, This is how I did the challenge. Of course not as fun as watching James do it though. I also always learn something new watching these. If you want Bess to pay you back, you need to click on the third selection in the menu. I really really am curious to see what she pays back based on what you gave her.

I feel like clubs are the missing element to make this go even faster. Especially if you do gardening again, you could use a gardening club to help tend your garden for free from the beginning (instead of hiring a gardener)

James, I have to tell you, your videos have really been a life saver to me. My mom recently passed away from covid and my dad is bed-bound from it and im his caregiver. I take a break and watch your videos and it gives me a little boost of happiness and fun. (fills my needs bar). Thank you so much for sharing your amazing energy and giving us a much needed fun boost!

Make a million Simoleons with the Batuu pack.

You should have woohoo-ed with Bess! That gets the social and fun up at the same time haha

Love the $1,000,000 Simoleons series! It's so much fun to watch :D

Awe man I was hoping so much that the last bit of money would come from Bess. Awesome video♡ love these!

I mentioned it in another video, but a good method for making money through fishing is to dig a pond on your lot and stock it just with the most expensive fish available. For basegame, that's the treefish from Sylvan Glade.

I like to use your challenge rules to start this scenario, but extreme rags to riches. And sims can ONLY sell via table/painting wall. (Nothing from inventory) ❤ So exciting to watch these versions of earning a million simmoleons

So happy to see a new video in this series!

I love these videos! It's so much fun to see what you can do!

I love this series! Please continue making those kind of videos🙏

I really like this series! Keep it coming!

Was absolutely pissing myself when she gave you that £20 postcard

How did you know I just finished watching the whole $1,000,000 series thirty minutes ago

I love the shade he throws at Deli every episode. "I could marry for money, but that's cheating" 😅

I've been enjoying these a lot!

This series is so fun. Lovin it.

$10,000 to Bess for no payout lol

i think another factor that could have helped would be utilizing holidays. setting them from the beginning so every day has a tradition or painting or something and getting the extra aspiration points from that to get a ton of reward traits

I'M in love it this gameplay, is like a new series hahahah, bring more and more

I love this series!!

Kool :) Here's a fun idea for you: Make a million, 19th century style. Simple living, no power (and thus no digital pad)... It's still doable, but a lot more challenging. I eventually went full Dracula, so as to cut down on the food annoyance and have more time to paint. Seduced five "brides", and had them paint as well, lol.

I love these kinds of videos James, this was so fun to watch😉👍🏾 I think Bess won on this one as well🤣😂lol

Create arts club, have club meetings on your own home lot, add lots of easels and make painting only club activity. Have looooong club meetings, sell painting as fast as they are ready and you have plenty of money in no time! Cheaty, maybe, but it's not your fault that they leave their paintings behind...

I would love to see the million simoleon challenge done where you can only make money by selling things you steal.

I did this challenge like you did with base game only and the farming bit oh and thank you for the marvelous tool you created to turn off the packs. You're such a genius! (I mean that sincerely). It took my sim 45 sim days to make it. I'm interested in seeing how this one goes.

Right on time! I was just about to launch the sims! Instead, I'll watch this because I love this series!

Let's be honest, the real winner of this video is Bess.

This was great as always, Bess was hilarious. I’d be curious to see how fast content creating would be for this scenario.

The trashcan bug happens to me too. To get around it, use the trash chutes from city living. Doesn't make much sense for a house, but sims can't knock them over.

I love you dude I found you when I was super sick and depressed your voice and ya jokes made me laugh

Not me watching this and just thinking about how much I love that tiny island shack and wish I could download it 😂 I love every series you come up with James, it's really fun 😁

I love this format so much

it'd be interesting to try gardening again but with all the packs so you get the tiny living lot traits!

I’d love to see this challenge but only with stealing stuff! 😂

I must say, I love James' evil laugh

if you have a fitness pack thingy, and have the earbuds, you can actually just turn it on and your fun will slowly goes up, so I always take it and just turn it on while my sims do their own stuff and they'll never get bored

Damn, those lot traits can really make a difference, can't they? And yes, selling things from home is so overpowered (watch Carl making frantic notes on how to nerf it in his overhaul. . .). Nice work!

i love these $1 million simoleon videos!!

A million from junk. Get a cheap lot to live on and another lot as a retail lot. Set to landfill lot and skill your sim's handiness up. Build up a shop selling the junk that people bring. You can fix the broken stuff and add a dumpster to get even more junk. I also added a woodwork table and a fabricator to mine. You make, find and fix things to sell at 100% markup. It's not quick, but it's fun

Making Money Scenario Ideas: 1. Frog Breeding and Selling 2. Fishing 3. Combing the Beach for Shells 4. Diving for Treasures 4.1. Combining nr. 3 and nr. 4 5. Dumpster Diving and selling whatever you find 6. Playing the piano/keyboard, playing the guitar, playing the violin 7. Singing 7.1 Combine nr. 6 and nr. 7 8. Completing every single collection in the game, check what everything gives you combined by selecting all in the inventory and de-select anything that isn't a collectible, like empty glasses and plates and earbuds 9. Every skill you can earn money off of, but takes time earning a lot, which depends on how high the skill is, like Writing, Playing instruments, like the ones listed in nr. 6, singing etc. There's just so many ideas for a Rags to Ric... I mean Making Money Scenario, which, in hindsight, is the same as Rags to Riches, lol

12,000 $ you gave her

James: buys a bike for fun when the ocean was right there to swim in... But this was so fun to see- I didn't know about the sketchpad or selling street feature- love this series :D

I'd like to see a speed run where you combine everything. The little house looks like a Yurt.

Thank you for these videos they're great for my depression.

Im thinking - start the day before winterfest, wait for father winter to arrive, marry him for his money, and don’t delete the gnomes, let them spawn their weird seed packets and sell them in build mode. I used to pay all my bills by having like 10 gnomes in my yard spawning seed packets.

i would love to see a video of james completing the grilled cheese aspiration

I usually put the headphones 🎧 on the sims and just let play. Fun never decreases then. Learned that for writers and painters

keep up the speed runs!

I was going to do the gardening one, but I miscalculated and it was the middle of winter in my scenario save. Yikes. But Winterfest was a couple of days later and with a micro home it was really easy to make Father Winter my best friend in minutes. Add him to the family, steal his 500,000 bucks, kick him out of the family. Easy peasy! Half way there in a couple of days.

The Perfectionist Trait would have been a good idea. It increases the chances of higher quality paintings and grants high-level moodlets after crafting high quality items. More money and better moodlets as the Painting Skill goes up would have been quite helpful for this. Especially, since one of those moodlets is an Inspired moodlet that lasts for a few hours, making the paintings even better. I use that trait a lot since it helps with every kind of crafting from painting, to knitting, to woodworking and so on.

I always have sooo much fun biking in the sand! It would have been funny if they made a unique bike animation going painfully slow and the sim struggling to ride if they’re on sand with a frustration moodlet lol

I love being early to this style of content, these challenges are so fun to watch!! also I agree with the other comment, glasses suit you !

Thanks for another great video and by the way the bin glitch has been around for months, i am sick of having to replace bins.

Also, an idea: idk if the scenario stops you but, if it doesn't: When you try the next one, try having a kiddo with you, get them the science table and just have them mainline the Mental skill until they can make "Health Potions". Free moodlet solvers. Could also turn them loose on fishing and collectibles, to help, if you did like... a collectible/fishing run :3