Dunne&Ias' Sims 2 Stuff

If a category actually has a bunch of stuff you do want to keep in there but also a bunch of categories you want to move, it can actually be helpful to put all the correctly categorized stuff on a lot, package it etc. Put all those things in one subfolder, clearly marked, and then hide all the stuff in it while you work on the rest.

Ellen got a makeover and they took their combined wealth and bought the house next to the McClearys.

Since their wealth was higher than 50.000 that means they can stay in the merchant class, but they won't be opening a shop (at least not now). Instead, they'll be trying to get jobs.

They had about 73.000 and after buying and furnishing their house with the basics, which is all they're allowed, they had 45.000 to put back into savings, which will be a nice little nest egg for their offspring.

Because Evan moved in a townie, they get to buy a new skill object, and Ellen had high creativity so she's going to try to become a writer, because journalism is a career reserved for merchant class and higher. Evan will be taking care of their home and doing some light foraging until something opens up that's suitable for him.

1. Spring - McCleary family

Aand we're done with the poor farmer families (for now) and it's time to visit the merchants! First off is the McCleary family!

They all get along tolerably well in this house, even though Gordon (redhead) hopes his brother in law Evan would move out soon. He does do the a lot of the household chores though, so Gordon supposed he shouldn't complain too much.

Elizabeth runs her bookshop.

No one told me bookshops were THIS unprofitable. She makes maaybe 200 simoleons per day. But maybe the rumours of her being a witch are to blame for the low turnout?

Gordon sometimes helps out with the shops but most of his days are spent learning mechanical. If he's the first to max this skill, he can look for a job in the architecture career.

Evan trains the dogs, Mr Darcy and Ms Dashwood. They both need to learn three commands before they can be bred. There's plenty of homes waiting for a chance to buy a dog.

I sent him to the square to look for a potential date. He found this lovely lady in yellow, whose name is Ellen Hamsterley, and they had two bolts but mostly chatted. Evan might be a pleasure sim, but he's not going to rush into things. I also spotted Adelia Miller out and about and chatting to teenaged townies. Good for her.

Gordon helps out in the shops sometimes while Elizabeth tries her saleswoman skills on Mr Pelehan. He bought one book at least, but the shop's profits are still very low.

On Wednesday, the family wanted a day off, so I sent Gordon, a romance sim, off to the temple to see if he could find someone to flirt with, but only dudes showed up at first and Gordon is straight and boring.

Eventually he ran into a townie he knew but she left very soon, but then Philomena the werewolf showed up and her and Gordon had themselves a date that was good enough to cure his aspiration level for the season.

Meanwhile, Liz had her "friend" Paul over for the day. His daughter Marianne sincerely hopes someone will tell Mrs McCleary's husband about all this so Paul can marry her instead and he and Marianne can move in and be rich like her.

Evan had a date with Ellen and they have great chemistry together. She's also a fortune sim, which is appropriate for the merchant class.

One day, this happens. While Elizabeth is pleased to have an heir to their business, she is somewhat concerned about not being 100% certain about who the father is. And it's not like there's a lab with paternity testing available.

Maybe I should remove that 24h pregnancy mod I have because they just fly by. Boom and twin boys are born, Cedric and Octavian. They both have Liz's eyes so she still doesn't know who the father is, but Gordon sure looks like he suspects.

(Of course I know that he's the dad but Liz wouldn't)

With babies around, Evan thinks he'd really enjoyed living somewhere else. But he'd miss the dogs too much.

Still, he can't move out alone, and him and Ellen seem to be agreed on most things in life, so one sunny day in late spring, Evan pops the question.

They waste no time on getting married in the garden and Ellen moves in. As a merchant, I rolled a d12 x 5.000 for her and it landed on an 8, which means Ellen has 40.000 in savings. With Evan's own 30K, that means they can afford to live on their own, so they'll be moving out in the beginning on the next round. And because I thought the name was hilarious, he's taking her last name and they'll be the Hamsterleys from now on.

On the last day of the season, Evan harvested some bland tomatoes and the dogs were trained enough to be allowed to breed. Chimes ensued so next round there'll be puppies!!! I haven't played with pet breeding in this game in literal years, so that'll be exciting.

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Tax: 550

Rent: 500

Total to pay: 1050

No debts

Savings:

Liz & Gordon: 78.750 after interest

This is some of my deco food.

Some. Some. Some of my deco food. More specifically, this is one subcategory of my deco food, stuff that might go in a pantry.

1. Spring - Miller family

Spring time is planting time and Jeffrey Miller and his oldest daughter Adelia are busy on their farm. Because the veg will need pretty much the entire season to grow, they're in a hurry.

Jeffrey Miller does NOT like not being married. Family sim aside, he's got debts coming out of his ass and no idea how he's going to have time to earn money this season since he's also got the twins to think of.

Also, he'd like some love. Meredith is not a satisfying dinner conversationalist.

The twins are Georgina and Walter and they're very cute.

Grains are going to be the family's only hope, and Jeffrey has his fingers crossed every morning that nothing will have happened to his fields.

I played the Millers last of the farm class because I wanted to give Jeffrey opportunity to show up on community lots and meet someone. While the person he's the most attracted to is Melva Smith, he also has good chemistry with this townie, Richard Delabere, so he invites him over to see how a date might go. It goes... pretty good.

The toddlers are really adorable but dirty, and spend much of their day hugging or playing in dirt.

Richard comes over pretty much every evening, giving Jeffrey a much needed break from only talking to plants and children.

The fields grow as the season progresses.

Somehow, Jeffrey's family sim secrets lead to two toddlers both being potty trained well in time.

Soon enough, Walter and Georgina grow into children.

And that means there are more hands available to help out with the vegetables.

Both Walter and Georgina try to befriend this stray wolf. It doesn't like Walter, but Georgina has better luck.

Richard has spent enough time in the evening for them both to have matching engagement wants, so I went for it.

Aaand I must have deleted a master. Sigh. I ignored it and let them get married anyway

Because he's a townie who married a farmer, Richard is now also considered a farmer class and got a d12 roll x 1000 to see how rich he was. 4.000, but he also had some stuff in his inventory that they could sell and also exchange for some indoor plumbing. A married-in townie also means they get to buy a skill object, and they went for a chess board.

On the last day of the season, the entire family was busy trying to get their tomatoes to better quality. They have to deliver 200 food points, and better tomatoes means more points per tomato, so better tomatoes mean they can keep and sell more of their harvest.

Literally last moment!

Also last moment, Adelia grew into a teenager who rolled fortune.

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Tax: 175

Rent: 250

Total: 425

Ingoing debt: 9.000

Paid (from Richard's inventory sales): 9.000

Added to savings: 7.000

Interest: 350

1. Spring - Weaver Family

Time to check in with the Weavers! Former sheep farmers, now makers of silk fabric. Hannes dutifully farms what can be farmed while James tends to the mullberry trees that will eventually give him silk worms. Hannes only hopes it'll happen before they run out of money.

Meredith, their only child, helps out around the farm and trains the dogs. They both need to have learnt at least three commands before they can be bred.

They were a nice family to play actually and while it's sorely in need of decorating and like, stuff, I liked their house.

The dogs, Ellie and Claw like each other, so that's a relief at least.

Meredith often tends the farm when her fathers are busy. She is going to inherit this one day, so she'd better learn about it.

James quickly starts eating for two. Of course. The break from babies and toddlers I got in the last household is already over.

Hannes went to the mining lot to get some iron going to eventually get some nails so he can make them some more furniture, but didn't find much this time.

Baby Grady was born and was cute and got lots of attention.

Mulberry leaves lead to worms but no silk yet. The clock is ticking though, so the question really is if James is going to be able to meet his quota this season.

Meredith does her home schooling homework and continues teaching Ellie tricks. It's slow work and she's got so many other chores to do too.

Ellie also finds time to challenge a werewolf to a fight, but turns out is too scared to follow through.

Claw doesn't have that problem and predictably loses.

Towards the end of the season, the silk cocoons are ready to be boiled and James eventually needs Meredith's help to make the fabric or he's not gonna be finished in time.

Grady grows up into a toddler and spends most of his days cuddling the dogs.

Hannes has insisted on the family still growing some hay even though they don't have sheep anymore. It'll come in handy, he thinks. If nothing else, maybe Mr Pelehan will take some hay instead of fabric in a crunch.

Meredith is a good older sister and in the end, her parents met their quota and were able to deliver 5 bolts of fabric and 5 threads to Mr Pelehan just in time for summer to arrive.

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The weaver had to pay

150 in taxes

250 in rent

400 in total

They had

6.000 in debt to Mr Pelehan

They were able to pay 2000 this season from what they had over after moving in

Interest was 240

1. Spring. Fisher family

It's time to check in on Paul Fisher and his teenaged daughter Marianne.

Their challenges this round:

Paul needs to catch enough fish to make at least 5 crates to deliver to Mr Pelehan

Marianne and Paul are both single and need to try to find someone to date. Paul because he'd like a bigger family and Marianne because she's a romance sim.

They have a big debt to Mr Pelehan and need to try to get it done or at least not let it grow out of hand.

Marianne does some gardening and tries to find someone to date. The paper boy was not an option for the simple reason that Marianne is apparently a lesbian.

She handles the cooking and the cleaning and really supports her dad remarrying so someone else can do this bullshit. Marianne is going to become a wealthy fashion merchant.

I sent Marianne to the mining lot for some athletics points and she befriended Terrence Pelehan who thinks she's gross. Let's hope that's how he feels about all teenaged girls and not just Marianne. Terrence apparently thinks Saga the werewolf is super hot which could become a problem.

No townies showed up and that's when I remembered I hadn't generated any.

They both fish a lot. Like so much I had to decide not to take more pictures of it.

When there's six of any type, Paul packs it up into crates. He needs 5 to give to Mr Pelehan, and hopefully more so he can sell some in their shop one day. The shop did not have anything to sell this season.

I sent Paul to Sacred Grove to try to meet someone. He ran into Gordon McCleary and tried to befriend him. It's a little awkward. Gordon's wife Elizabeth was very kind to Paul after his wife died, and now he's got a bit of a crush on Liz. He's not telling Gordon about that though.

He met this random townie who liked him so much he gave Paul a computer. Paul doesn't know what a computer is, so he could sell it to exchange it for a large appliance or plumbing, and picked a good stove. So not a total waste of time.

Marianne, meanwhile, harvests her tiny mullberry tree and gets started on the silkworms. She's not entirely sure of how this works, but they seem to be growing every day.

She's trying to get some logic points to help with the no-school situation and even manages to get a couple of cooking points. Paul appreciates the nicer food.

Marianne heads to The temple to find a teenaged girl to get her first kiss from, but only runs into Terrence and some other people who are also adults. I have teen-adult interactions allowed but I try to avoid them unless they happen autonomously.

Paul has his friend, Elizabeth McCleary over for lunch. He's really into her, but she is married. Turns out it didn't matter to either of them. This isn't gonna help you get married, Paul. Liz is really rich and she's not leaving her husband for you, think of the scandal!

Marianne's silkworms grew to mature and have started cocooning.

Paul fished up enough fish and Marianne invited over Mr Pelehan to handle the handover of the season's official delivery. 5 crates. Does Terrence need all this stuff? Probably not, but it's not like he can do any work himself, he's the landlord.

Finally, a teenaged girl! Her name is Anne and they have two bolts. But will Anne want to be a fishwife - sorry Marianne, I meant wealthy merchant wife?

Well, she wanted to go on a date and the dated ended like most romance sims' dates do. Anne is a knowledge sim and exactly the kind of girl Paul would want for his daughter.

But he might not like this! No school -> no sex ed -> no birth control for teens. And thus ended the season for the Fishers

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Tax: 75

Rent: 250

Total: 325

Debt: 5000

Payment: 4000 because Paul kept being giving cool products to mess around with that he sold/exchanged for a good bathroom

Interest: 60

Outgoing balance: 1060

1. Spring - Carpenter family

It's time for the Carpenters. The lighting in their house sucked for most of this round and it actually made it less fun to take pictures, but I still had fun playing them. Meaghan is the town carpenter and had received her contracted logs and nails and the family faced the following challenges:

Create 5 pieces of furniture for Mr Pelehan

Only have one child because of financial and space reasons

Find something for Michael to do so he doesn't constantly go into aspirational failure from being a fortune sim with no job or access to ways of making money.

Not have Meaghan die from all the physical labour she'll be doing while probably a bit pregnant

Meaghan got straight to work on processing the logs into planks and then the planks into furniture.

While Michael did the farm class spouse thing and gardened and getting cooking points. He'd really like it if his wife would build him a work bench or skill object soon because he was very bored.

Meaghan got pregnant a bit too quickly (damn ACR), and her overall productivity suffered greatly from it.

Pregnancy passed quickly and Meaghan gave birth to twin boys that they named Jude and Jafeth. Meaghan was very displeased. They only had space and money for ONE kid.

Michael took a break from household chores and baby minding to head to the mining lot. He's only allowed one visit to a resource lot per round and this time he got some athletic skill points in the mine and got some coal to bring home. Maybe next time he'll get some iron and then Meaghan can get more nails to build with.

Meaghan never thought she'd think of gardening as something fun but it's at least a break from the grind.

She really wasn't doing that well.

Which is why it was a real problem to find out she was pregnant again. Two kids was bad enough, but three?

She did finish her quota though, and then she turned to making some toys instead for a bit. She can sell toys in their shop, but they still haven't opened it because there hasn't been much to sell and twins are a handful.

Toddler twins, of course, is even worse. Jude in gray, and Jafeth in green. Their only toys are what Meaghan has made them and so far she only knows how to make canoes. But the boys have fun and manage to be fed and relatively dry every day.

"Mrs Carpenter, are you sure you don't need a loan so you can expand your home? It really is no problem, you know."

But Meaghan does not want to owe Terrence Pelehan more than necessary, and quickly hands over what she owes him for the season. Being pregnant and a mother of too many children is no reason not to fulfil her commitments.

Pregnancy soon ends though with the birth of little Letitia. Meaghan prays to the watcher that this one will be the last.

With the baby born, Meaghan can go the logging lot for her allowed visit to a resource lot to chop down some more trees. One trip is enough to keep her busy for a few days, at least if she has nails left (which she doesn't).

Little Jude, meanwhile, plays by the wolf trap. Well, I guess that's one way to solve the problem of too many children...

Michael really didn't do much except take care of babies and the garden this round, and hopefully his kids will grow stronger than the very bland tomatoes that were ready for harvest by the end of the season.

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Tax for two adults and three kids was 175

Rent was 250

Total: 425

They also had some money leftover from moving in and were able to put

3000 in savings

which gave them 150 in interest

3150 new balance.

1. Spring - Cedar family

Second home on Forest Hill belongs to the Cedar family. Newly wed and happy about it in their tiny little home with dirt floors.

Andreas heads to the logging lot next to their house every day to cut down trees. It's slow work in the beginning and on day one he had to go to the mines instead to pick up some athletic points, and even then by the end of day two he'd only chopped one tree. It was making me a little nervous, I admit.

Mary spends her days raising their ward, Arthur Brown. She's not really into taking care of children and teaching him to talk seems rather pointless. She also tends to their vegetable garden. As a fortune sim she spent almost the entire round with her aspiration in the red because she couldn't go anywhere and there's no way for her to earn money on the lot.

Arthur is really adorable and enjoys being outside. That's good because his foster parents will be putting him to work as soon as he's old enough, that's for sure.

Meanwhile, they start working on their "real" heir. I'm making them sound like horrible people aren't I? They do care a lot about Arthur and they're both perfectly pleasant people who autonomously play with him all the time.

Gordon McCleary, husband of the book merchant, came by to watch Andreas work.

"Looks hard."

"Yup."

"Bet you're pretty strong."

"Yup."

"Make a lot of money doing this?"

"Nope."

"Maybe you should get another job."

"And what is it you do?"

(Gordon is unemployed, that's why he has time to just hang out on tree stumps)

The logging log had a fishing whole and all the other playables came by at some point or other. From the left: Meaghan Carpenter, Clarity Ellsworth, Philomena the werewolf, Melva Smith, Jane Cedar, Devin Ellsworth, and Evan McCleary. They either do this, jump rope, or flirt in the bushes.

Mary kept worrying about her low aspiration levels and also their lack of funds and the fact that Andreas is struggling to meet his quota, so she got to plant some sunflowers. She also opened their little farm shop. It so far sells three things, lying on the ground, but if you want birds nests, branches or a bucket of coal, this is your one stop shop! She opened it twice during this round, I think.

Arthur grew up into a handsome young boy!

That meant the entire family could now go logging. And that's when I once again forgot that you need athletic points to cut down trees, so Mary wasn't able to help out as much as I'd hoped. But Arthur caught a fish and Mary picked berries and branches and stuff while Andreas kept logging. Now that his athletic points are higher he can cut trees much faster, and we're looking at meeting the quote at least, even if there's not much of a profit for the family.

Would you believe it took me five tries to get Mary pregnant? Andreas was too exhausted all the time. With a baby on the way, Arthur has been given the duty of taking care of the vegetable garden. Child labour is free labour.

What little free time Arthur has, he spends studying. He's not going to be the one to inherit the farm, so he needs a backup plan.

The pregnancy passed very quickly and little Mordred was born on the last day of the round.

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The Cedar family had to pay 150 in taxes and 250 in rent, equalling 400 simoleons.

1. Spring - The Smith family.

Hitting off the rotation with the Smiths! Ridley spends every day going to the mines to get iron and coal and every evening smelting the findings of the day.

While Melva takes care of the gardening and like a dutiful family sim gets cracking on those cooking skills. She's the town healer and her task for the community is to feed them comfort soup, so some cooking skills are useful to prevent her from burning food all the time.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that two family sims cannot go long without pregnancy. Their first born is a little girl named Hefina.

I found more blacksmith appropriate clothing for Ridley, yay

He gets working on the actual work in the forge. He needs to make 10 boxes of nails and two larger items of metal appliances.

On a trip to the mine I noticed these two were meeting, Devin Ellsworth and Marianne Fisher. Being the only teenagers in the hood I had of course hoped for sparks, but it seems it's not meant to be. Devin spent most of his visit to the lot bonding with his mom. Sorry Marianne, you'll have to look for your first kiss elsewhere, I guess.

Melva has been busy foraging around their home lot and decided it was time to open the shop. They were only open one day, but at least Meaghan Carpenter came by so she could deliver the boxes of nails to her. It'll be easier for Melva to run the shop once Hefina is older and she can help with the farming.

At least someone bought a bowl of soup.

One day in late spring, I let Ridley take a day off from the mine so he could help with the neglected garden. They also got to work on baby number 2.

With Ridley home, I sent Melva to the foraging lot, thinking I was gonna let her cut down a tree, but seems I'd forgotten you need a few body points so she just ended up fishing.

Jeffrey Miller showed up and apparently thought about approaching one of the only single sims in the hood, but he ended up just hiding in a bush. Geez, no wonder you're single, Jeffrey. Evan McCleary hit if off with Jane Cedar though, but she's too low class for him.

Ridley finished the items he had to deliver to Terrence Pelehan, so now he can spend some time making a tub for his own family, and eventually maybe one or two for sale.

Hefina grew into a very cute toddler while Melva's stomach started growing again.

Twins!

Meet Oliver and Ramsey Smith!

Uh-oh. It's that mod I have for death by childbirth.

Thankfully Ridley was able to win against the Grim Reaper.

The hood now has one medical emergency situation. We need 3 to unlock the medical career.

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That's pretty much all that happened to this family this round.

With three children the Smiths had 175 to pay in taxes, and 250 to pay in rent, totalling 425 simoleons.

The Carpenter family

Meaghan Carpenter is the town's, well, carpenter, and lives in a tiny house with her husband Michael who does pretty much nothing yet.

They're both agreed: one kid will be enough and instead of saving every penny they have, they're gonna leave their kid with an awesome house instead. Once Meaghan has time to build them more furniture, of course.

They're sure the kids will come soon, and in the meantime enjoy their time alone.

Through contracts, Meaghan will every season receive 15 logs from Andreas Cedar, and 10 boxes of nails from Ridley Smith. Technically, she gets these things from Mr Pelehan of course, whom she has to deliver furniture to every season. Michael is allowed to go mining or logging once per season to help her with more resources if he has time. There are very few jobs available for farmer class.

The McCleary Family

Successful Merchant family.

Elizabeth McCleary runs the book shop and is rumoured to be a witch. She isn't, because she only rolled 7 on a d12 and she needed an 8, so if she gets the option, she's going to go for it and then not tell anyone.

She's married to Gordon who is unemployed but his class lets him become an Architect if he's the first to 10 mechanical points and then gets lucky with the paper before Tor Ellsworth.

They also have Elizabeth's brother Evan living with them, and Evan is in charge of training the dogs and also help out in the shop when they need him to. Evan has some savings, but not enough to stay as a merchant on his own so he lives here until he either faces reality and becomes a farmer, or marries up.

They also have two dogs, Ms Dashwood and Mr Darcy, that they'll be breeding for fun and profit.

As merchants, the McClearys pay a higher tax than the farmer class, but it's not going to be much of a problem for them. Their greatest problem right now is that the Ellsworths have moved in across the square. While not rivals in business, the Ellsworths are rivals for the attention of Mr Pelehan, and them already having children is definite rivalry for the future marriage alliance the McCleary's have hoped for when they have children, to Mr Pelehan's ward or to a legitimate heir.

The Cedar Family

Andreas Cedar is the town's lumberjack. He's a fortune sim married to Mary, the redhead and another fortune sim. They're recently married, and when she moved in, Mary brought little Arthur. She promises Arthur isn't hers. He probably isn't, but he's gonna live with them until either his real parents reveal themselves or until things become too dire and they need the space.

Holding him is Jane, Andreas' sister who is going to move out because she's a servant for Mr Pelehan, but not an indentured one. In fact, Jane has a savings accounts.

So does little Arthur and so the Cedars might get one too since they are so far the only member of their social class not to owe the Pelehans any money. This is a big benefit for them because they will likely have kids of their own and savings might mean their kids can have a proper future. Farmer kids who don't get enough to start their own farms end up as servants.

If you do, or would, recategorize CC, where do you put it?

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