Talk:Seddie/@comment-3247345-20120505055926

Now I know why the Sims 3 makes you have one adult sim in each household. I have Sam and Freddie living together on their own, but money is so hard to come by. Even though both Sam and Freddie have a part time job 5 days a week, I've been playing for a week or two and I don't even have $5000. I'm teaching Sam how to paint, since that's one of the best ways to make money outside of careers, which teen sims can't have. But it seems like painting isn't bringing in as much as it did when I had Spencer paint. I wonder if it's the fact that Sam is a teen sim or if it's just that Spencer had the artistic trait and Sam is making small paintings, so she can complete the 30 paintings required for the challenge that makes sims paint faster in ASAP. With Spencer, I didn't even need to have him get a job, since selling paintings eventully left me with more money than I knew what to do with. But they pretty much have to ditch school if they want to maintain their jobs without burning themselves out. There's just not enough time in the day for a teen sim to sleep, eat, bathe, attend school, do their job and get their homework done. Trying all that burns them out and drains the fun meter, which means you have to let them have fun to avoid them being over worked and burning out. I've found that the plasma screen TV fills up the fun meter pretty quick, but it's so expensive and money is so hard to come by. Even if I could afford the plasma screen TV, I highly doubt my sims would have even the hour it takes to fill up the fun meter with all the other stuff they have to do. I just hope I can get Sam to master the painting skill and hopefully that will help with the financial situation. Otherwise I might have to bring Spencer back. Or maybe I could bring Carly back and maybe getting her a part time job would help me.