Earlier tonight I spent about 15 minutes (real minutes, not Sim ones) deciding what wallpaper to use in the living room of my rich, elderly Romance Sim in my test 'hood! I only created him to test a romance mod. Yet I spend all this time choosing wallpaper to make his living room looks nice! (The Paste grey paint that Maxis put on interior walls is so boring.) I'd already spent a lot of time making over the outside of the house so it doesn't look out-of-the-box Maxis, and refitting the kitchen with expensive stuff because I've decided he's a rich Sim.

I'm sure I can't be the only one who does ridiculous things for their Sims. What daft things do you do for yours?

(Note to mods: I've started a new thread because I can't find a similar one. And I've put it in the Common Threads category because I think/hope it could be a long-running thread. If you don't agree, please feel free to re-categorise it as General and/or merge it with any similar pre-existing thread.)

I know I'm boring, but I really don't. To me, Sims are pixels that are governed by code, and they are there to entertain me. I do plenty daft things, like spend ages trying to figure out why Sims doesn't want to work properly, but that's not for my Sims, that's for me because I enjoy the game.

Sometimes when I buy something, say, a chair, and the Sim turns toward the screen with the "what the heck were you thinking?" expression, I'll swap it out for a new chair.

I do stupid stuff like that too, damn it. It's a fricking test sim. You aren't even going to be here long. They don't need new carpet and matching dining room chairs or a chess table. They don't even need a bookcase.



LOL, I get that with hairstyles. They make disgusted faces in the mirror after you gave them a new one. I usually just say, well suck it up; it ain't changing lol.

I've changed my sims makeover at the mirror if they have had a terrible reaction to what I put on them. Although that depends on the sim.

I once let a teen sim give her poor grandmother dozens and dozens of terrible free makeovers so she could learn cosmetology- just one after another after another until she had to go to school and her grandmother could scrub the awful clown makeup off her face and snag a few hours of sleep...

I for sure do this, lol. Unless it's custom wrinkles when they become middle aged and deeper ones when they become elder. That one they have no other choice than to accept.
But up until now they all accept that. Either in silence or by laughing very hard. No sim has complained about those yet.

I use to obsess about maxing out all skills on all my sims (OCD much?) but now I have stopped. Mostly.

I go to the effort of waiting to open Homecrafter/Bodyshop to make them some new clothes/wallpaper/flooring! To the hue I desire/matches another wall!

I always use money cheats to make sure my sims have everything hey'd want. I just can't stand to see them without, if if their situation would suggest them being poor

With my original legacy couple (and their dog) I must have aged them down about 10 times now because I can't bear to see them die. Great grandparents at aged 55? I guess it's possible.

My SIL became a grandma at 48, the same age I am now. O_O