That’s how I did it too! That and a flower arranging spouse whose bouquets I also sold…

that’s amazing haha

That's so smart

I love coming into the comments of these challenges to get ideas lol. Good one!

Extortion! I love it.

Semaj.. wait... oh my god.. i didnt know this xD

Just blew my mind

Haha hes lucky to have two names that work backwards

I was today years old...

Omg i was deadass looking at that name and wondering why it looks familiar its fucking backwards 😂 i think semaj is an actual name though so i didnt even think to question it being backwards

its hard if you play through it but you could also marry daddy winter and be done immediately

27 days is awesome! I did it in 57 with a witch. It was a grind.

Hacks

Cool idea ! Actually I would love the no skill sim to be a permanent personality trait 😂

@@utube9056 I wish you could add a trait that makes them learn everything slower, like the opposite of the quick learner bonus trait. I like playing on long lifespan but it feels like they learn everything way too fast, I'd like the option to slow it down.

Me too!

@@queenbratbracken me when dating

Another gem from this video. "Alright, let's go somewhere we can earn some more money, and pee."

Right! That's what I thought too

The game is fixed so that no matter what you do, you do not gain skills. My sim did SO MUCH GARDENING, but didn't even get that first "You've discovered gardening" message. However, witchcraft does NOT count as a skill, and he was able to level up in that. COPYPASTO, for the win! And aspiration points for the money tree seed!

You could probably do that with MCCC, set skill gain rate extra low making it essentially impossible to gain skills

Using MCCC, you can set notifications for any Sim. One of those notifications is «Freeze skill». That prevent ANY change to all skills. Click a Sim and chose the MCCC option. Correction, NOT accessible with shift clicking a Sim. Simple click the Sim.

@@Kualinar I didn't remember that option. Do you remember where in the menus it is?

@@limiv5272 Edited to reflect the terminology used in the English version : Click a Sim. Chose MCCC. Chose «Flag (Mark) active Sim...» Chose «MC Command Center» Chose «Flag (Mark) for competence freeze». In my game, it's the last option of the list. In that same list, there is a marking to freeze the needs, one to make immortal, to stop aging and to prevent ghosts from getting removed. Note : I play the French version of the game, and translated the steps to English. My translation may be off, but close enough.

@@limiv5272 True, and great reminder! Our friends playing console should have the option if they’d like it, also. Maybe as a universal option after completing the scenario? There are plenty of PC/Mac players who don’t use mods, and it’s a great idea to have that option in game. It adds the first bit of challenge to Sims 4 🎊🎉

Yeah, not sure if I mentioned it or not, but that would totally be a way to just clone stuff, but we just did that recently too haha

@@JamesTurnerYT inferniate + repairio = magical insurance fraud aka easy money

Also the burglary spell so you could steal stuff without skills.

I did it in 10 days via insurance fraud only. Probably could have gotten it down to 8 if I had remembered you can get the curse cleansing potion in the rewards store

spellcasters are sorely underrated

I did this with interior decorator, too! Dumpsters didn't do much and I managed to plant some expensive mushrooms, so it took about 40 days (and one whole day irl)

Me too! I also used the exploit where if you delete an item with stuff on it during the gig you get to keep the stuff. So I'd do the bare minimum and then use the rest of the client's budget on princess cordelia busts, delete the table and off I go haha

I also am using interior designer and dumpster diving! But it's slow going. This video gave me some ideas

Commenting before i finish watching this but I was thinking scientist career so I could get the collectibles... looking forward to getting some more ideas how to do this efficiently :)

@@missDoubleU1 I used Scientist and completed the collections aspiration too. Took me 27 Sim days but I think it would have been faster if I'd skipped the dumpster diving with the freegan trait.

There are fears with the Slice of Life mod by KawaiiStacie

@@PetLover1903 I'm not looking for fears specifically. I just find the scared emotion that has been added to the Sims 4 to be a bit ridiculous. Not every Sim should be afraid of things like thunderstorms or ghosts. It would be more interesting if they could be assigned specific things they are scared of instead. It would give them more unique personalities and make the game more interesting. Like, your Sim is out and about and then out of nowhere a random freaks out upon seeing a person walking a chihuahua and runs for their life.

‘Father winter’ 🤣 why would you be scared of him? I guess he does breaking and entering every year so that’s one reason to fear…

@@claireglover1391 Exactly! :P Though, yeah... some kids freak out over Santa Claus (fake Santas they have to get their picture taken with) and some probably get scarred for life.

There is a redeem to make your sim brave (not scared of ghosts) but it is a ridiculous high price

I discovered this myself by accident, because I love rain, so I had my sim say he did too, and then realized he was never afraid in thunderstorms. But I do have to argue with him constantly during storms to keep him from going out and playing in them... and getting fried by lightning. :D

@@HughLlewellyn have tried locking doors during thunderstorm?

Thank you so much! Thunderstorms are my favourite weather and every full grown adult being terrified of them drives me insane, I always save up satisfaction points to get storm chaser but this will be so much easier

Drove me nuts recently... had a diagonal wall in the toddler's room of a tiny home where I put the potty beside the toddler bed and across from the kid's bookcase, on either side of the doorway. I didn't have MOO on at all when I built the house but I got so many routing errors regarding the toddler making a potty mess, like neither parent could leave the room, couldn't clean the potty, or access the bed/rocking chair because of the stupid puddle. I had to turn it into a corner so they'd be able to clean and keep the mom happy (she'd also freak out over the potty being dirty but I think I just forgot they have to "polish to perfection" instead of simply "emptying" like before; I regularly play with toddlers in my saves but hadn't played in months.) Shouldn't have been an issue though and took me forever to figure out what was wrong with the room lol but I probably wouldn't have figured it out at all if not for the Neat mom freaking out every time she went in there because I've never had a problem with the pee puddles before (and I think once there was an invisible puddle too until I shifted the potty from diagonal to facing the book case. I was like "WTF is wrong with you??" But she just knew it was there; I swear it instantly became visible after I moved the potty... although for all I know she simply peed after being trapped by the potty itself. It's not always clear what order things go in or what the actual hang-up is especially since I didn't check her for the embarrassment moodlet lol.) The amount of routing errors you'd think you can avoid is sometimes very stupid. Some routing is much better than past games but in other ways it's worse. This one took me by surprise; I've put the potty beside the door so many times in the past and I'm usually pretty stingy with how big any of my rooms are. It makes me wonder if something changed regarding the puddles or I just never had the diagonal wall situation before. I sincerely can't remember.

@@DoveJS I've been having a lot of routing issues too recently. My sims keep seeming to get stuck going through a door and end up walking partially inside the wall. There will be two rooms connected by a hallway. The sim is supposed to go through the door, into the hallway, walk along the hallway, through the other door, and into the next room. Instead of walking into the hallway and then down the middle of the hallway, they walk along the edge of the hallway with their body halfway inside the wall.

@SomeoneBeginingWithI Weird! At least that seems to be more of a clipping error ultimately since they eventually managed to continue on, but huh, I wonder if this has something to do with the Wedding Stories fix?

This is an amazing tip, thank you! I never go there hahaha

@@franklyfrankie1203 you also get cowplant berries. I have an excellent graveyard.

Great tip! Currently working on a legacy with a large plant collection, and building up dragonfruit has been a TASK

Like a Gallery owner

I have to admit this is one of the most unique and original ideas I have heard for this scenario fr

What a good idea! I'd love to see James playing a scenario in the mermaid life.

Probably because it doesn't have an immediate death risk, like the Unlucky Chef scenario does.

@@SageArdor I kinda wish death was a thing that could happen with this scenario, especially if you have Seasons

Imagine getting skill gains through gacha that you have to get currency to even roll... please don't give EA those ideas, I've suffered through too many gacha hells

PLEASE! Don't give EA any ideas!

If they do I'm never moving on to Sims 5 lmao. I was fine playing Sims 3 for years and years until I was satisfied with how Sims 4 was working. I only started playing Sims 4 in 2020

Clever!

Finished it took me 60 days but I also wasn't trying to speed run it either.

@@simba6359 Did you enjoy doing the scenario?

@@irishduchess7577 yes! I thought it was a fun new challenge for the game. I have been doing scenario for different generations to try them all out

I think the bonus trait from the social aspirations helps your social interactions be more successful too. Doing the fabulously wealthy aspiration was good to get money from investing but the bonus trait of earning more from careers is completely useless if you're not doing a career.

Yeah! I actually did this. No buy mode allowed. There's some similar challenge out there, but you can start with a few things in them. Completely locked out is funner. I used "replace" on burned furniture from dumpsters, so full price. The best part is how a home starts looking with nothing matching.

Didn’t he sort of do this for his eco lifestyle rags to riches? Or am I confused?

@@felbarashla the "sort of" is what everyone else does. He still bought things to craft with and some other items you can't get from dumpsters. I want to see someone go all in 😀

@@Daiska_Plays Yeah, I don't have eco lifestyle but I'm curious what happens when you try to go all in on that challenge. Did you use the 3D printer to make furniture? What was your lighting situation like? As far as I know you can't find ceiling lights in dumpsters but maybe that's incorrect.

@@SomeoneBeginingWithI all I did was dumpster dive.. No crafted furniture, don't need to. I'll admit to finally buying industrial ceiling lights. The floor lamps from the flea market just weren't light enough. My excuse was that I built my home like a renovated factory, and it came with bare bulbs hanging from the ceiling but otherwise empty. I also put a dumpster in the back, with the same thought process. I wasn't getting a bin from the garbage. Everything else can be scavenged. The worst is having 5 different counters and cabinets in the kitchen, lol. I've never gotten things for toddlers either, but that doesn't mean it's not possible. They can always sleep on something else anyway and not learn potty train.

The worst part is the bikes they find, ride once and abandon somewhere. As they don't own them, you can't do anything about them. After my Sim had littered Evergreen Harbor with around 10 of them, I broke and installed the TOOL mod to get rid of them. (Thanks to Twistedmexi, cos I would have had to stop playing that Sim).

@@flockorock There is a comment by charity codes that said if you sell the item in build/buy and buy the item back that fixes the bug, because the game doesn’t recognize you as the owner of the item.

@@RayBMore. This is fab information, thank you.

@@flockorock Yw I am going to try it out as well

You don't have to buy dumpster finds using debug, you just need to put it in your household inventory and then it belongs to you!

@@FirebladesSong I haven't tried that, but I assumed it wouldn't work since that didn't work with the landfill lot items.

I would also like to add that collector trait helps with dust bunnies. You get so many rare treasures for that. Also, the dust system does not work on retail lots, only your home lot. Even though you enabled the dust system. It won't work at a store.

Ward Park is the cheapest lot, if you bulldoze it, it’s free

@@jojomomster3772 that must be a bug, but I didn't check lots that weren't residential. You'd have to change the lot type, but I see that as a great spot for a retail store. You can also run a selling table with a yard sale at the same time as a retail store.

Hey bro hearing loss is irreversible, listen at a comfortable volume and take care of your ears 👊

@@claudespeed13579 I like you’re profile photo.

Yeah when he said you could do it with gardening, I thought... probably not. Not unless you can buy a dragonfruit somewhere, but that could take ages in itself.

@@franklyfrankie1203 Can find that at the romance festival.

@@pitasjourney Yeah but no matter what way you find it, it takes time. Fishing might be the quickest way tbh.

isn't it because one side is for men and the other one for women? and if you click the wrong one, they'll just cancel the interaction

I think you forgot about gender specific doors

The gender specific doors was never a problem before for the two-part public toilets. You used to be able to click anywhere on the building and your sim would just go in to the appropriate side. Making you click on a specific part of the building for it to work is just unnecessarily annoying.

@@spookeymo It happened at home too. I've only had the problem in Sulani and Henford

That particular bathroom has always been bugged since Island Living came out. Sims will ALWAYS sit at that picnic table if you just click on the bathroom. You have to click on the ground to get them past the picnic table, THEN click on the bathroom to get them to go in. I've seen it in other lets plays and in my own game. Stupid bug. haha

Why marry Santa?

@@sgraccio He has half a mil. You could just move him in, but marrying him is more amusing.

You might want to check and see if the Sharing is Caring neighborhood action plan is on. That allows neighbors to just come take wherever they want/need from your lot. This has messed me up more than once so now I generally turn the NAP features off in the game options.

@@KimberlyRatliff thanks for the tip. I thought I had them turned off but my kids often play and could have easily changed things.

@@KimberlyRatliff God, I have had the NAP disabled for forever, and it doesn’t actually disable it for me. I’ll still get that notification that something was voted in, and it is incredibly frustrating. I have resorted to using MC Command Center to put in NAPs that won’t interfere with my gameplay since once there’s three already in place I haven’t had to worry about it anymore.

I am playing a family right now with a stay at home Dad who does 6 rummages in the decoration box daily and he makes $1200-$1300 per day just selling the decorations from household inventory & build/buy mode. Haven't tried selling any of them at retail or on the selling table with markups, though.

@@KimberlyRatliff Imagine a retail store where all you sell is decorations from the decorations box, and presents from the present pile.