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Like I mentioned last week, it’s easy to make money in The Sims 2. For a while I tried to bleed off excess cash by giving ridiculously expensive gifts to passing strangers.
“Hello! I know this gift box looks small, but it’s an eight foot-tall statue.” “Why aren’t you wearing pants?”
I gave up and made a new rule: for each generation, I’ll add a new 12×6 wing to the house. Each wing can be posh, but everything has to fit inside (i.e. no expensive chess sets out on the lawn).
This will also help focus my attention on each room. In Sims 2, just like in real life, my interior decoration tends to be skimpy at best.
I celebrated by adding on a new wing for Garamond.
It took a little while to get it furnished, because I had told Frank to quit his job. For several days the entire family slept barracks style against the unfinished drywall.
Frank has a Lifetime Want to max out the Dance career. While I waited for a job in Dance to roll up in the job listings, I had him earn some extra money by giving financial advice online.
Would you drop $250 on thirty minutes of financial advice via AIM? Because if so, that sounds like a pretty sweet deal.
Garamond grew into a teen with strange fashion sense. (Or is that redundant?)
The default outfits that ship with the game are terrible. But I can’t bring myself to buy a fashion expansion pack, not with Sims 3 coming out in five weeks.
One day while everyone was outside making snowmen, Death finally came for Ernesto. I have to admit, I was a little sad to see him go. He had been such an ugly baby, and such an awful adult, but he was very sweet as an old man. He did a surprisingly good job with baby Garamond, if not with his son Frank. And he made Makoto happy.
If you lead a happy and fulfilled life, Death whisks you away luau-style.
On the up side, Ernesto’s heirs really cashed in with Ernesto’s life insurance policy. I scored them a sweet kitchen!
Nothing takes the edge off mourning a dead relative like a full set of brushed stainless steel kitchen appliances, and new kitchen counters to match.
Tags: Sims Sunday
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Ya might want to give those grieving Sims a sink. Ya know, to catch the tears.
Comment by kmkat —
April 26, 2009 @ 9:42 am
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I love that they have an aebleskiver pan. You can use knitting needles to turn them in the pan!
Comment by knitopia —
April 26, 2009 @ 2:46 pm
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Death luau style? That is one wacky idea indeed.
Comment by Rain —
April 26, 2009 @ 3:08 pm
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I would be scared to *death* if a neighbor offered me a gift in his underwear. No matter how pricey. Seriously.
…And Death is wearing a lei. That just makes me giggle.
Comment by two silver cats —
April 26, 2009 @ 4:28 pm
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If the Sims becomes even more popular, I wonder if there will spring up a Sims religion (complete with the holy & justified getting luau-style upon their deaths) just as it is now supposedly legal to list “Jedi” as one’s religion in Great Britain.
Comment by fillyjonk —
April 27, 2009 @ 4:31 am
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Eventually I will start dealing with Death in a Lei; however, I’m still trying to wrap my head around the Cow Plant. One thing at a time, one thing at a time.
Comment by Ryan —
April 27, 2009 @ 2:42 pm
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Frank will live on forever in Makoto’s memory. (Particularly if he keeps that Cow Plant alive…)
Comment by gayle —
April 27, 2009 @ 9:03 pm
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I just wanted to say that I can’t believe someone else exists who likes knitting and Sims (though I haven’t played for a while). You’re posts make me laugh! Thank you.
Comment by emmasphere —
May 1, 2009 @ 2:53 am
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