The more expensive objects your sims have, the higher your bills. I believe paintings count as well, but I'm not entirely sure. Bills will go down a little bit as objects depreciate over time. However, it becomes quite the problem when you've been playing the same household for generations.
There are several things I do to help:
1.) This one's a given, get the reward Frugal with aspiration points.
2.)Inventory items count towards bills, so clean out your family inventory often. Rewards from jobs, prestigious events, and old furniture build up over time.
3.)Write a couple books. Book royalties last an entire sim's lifetime, and can really offset the bills.
4.) Live in apartments. I actually play with apartments quite often. Your bills stay the same price even if you buy the most expensive of everything. My sim has a super posh apartment and only pays $500 in bills.
Just to point out... royalties don't last a sims lifetime. They last 21 days. But, writing is a good way to make some extra cash for bills, just pop out a couple books, and it's money you get everyday, unlike in Sims 3. In Sims 3, royalties lasted 6 weeks and was paid weekly. In Sims 4, you're paid daily (even though only a certain number show on the popup, you get paid for them all) and last 21 days.
Painting is another good skill to have to help with bills. You can just pop out a few paintings a week (at higher skill level) and help with bills.
12k for a 4bed/3bath home. I don't really like having extra cash(we like the struggle life over here!) so the wife is the only one that has a real job.Occasionally, her husband will get inspired and write a book,but she normally makes enough in a week to cover the expenses.
I had my sim move to the Von-Windenburg Estate once (I had played on the same file for quite some time by then, so the Villareals had all died of old age, thus making it vacant), and I think I paid up to 17K or something each month. Way too much, and the place was too big anyway, so I eventually had him move to the haunted flat in the city. Now he pays 600 each month instead. Much better. xD
I used a big mansion from the Sims Community Gallery. And the bill costed over 100,000 simos. Because the mansion had lots of furniture and other expensive items.
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I know this thread is a year old, but I had to do a Google search, and though this is the first time this has ever happened... I have Jungle Adventures, and since the artifacts you find sell for high prices, I always put my sim on an empty lot and send them to Selvadorada to earn money to build them a nice house. Well, I decided to have them stay longer than the 7 days. Monday rolled around, and the bill came in. They only have a 2k lot with no house, but my bill was $21,334! I'm pretty sure this is some kind of glitch, and my jaw near dropped to the floor! That's all the money in their household funds right now! This is some craziness, lol! Needless to say, that's the highest bill I've ever gotten, lol!
Edit: And I just found another thread elsewhere mention that it was a glitch that happens when sims are on vacation. Good to know, lol. Thank goodness for money cheats to combat this!
Mine seem proportionate to the type of lot/home/expense... BUT I have found that I need to watch out that there is not excessive (valuable) stuff in the personal &/or household inventory of the sims or their bills can really inflate. Once I got a bill for over $165,000 when they had a bunch of harvested produce that was really valuable in their personal inventories, and once I sold most of it the bills became reasonable.
My household lives in a 5 bed, 4 bath house near the wharf in Brindleton Bay, and their bills are about $3,000-$5,000, depending on if I use the thermostat or not.
This is a difficult question because I don't just play one family. I have trailer parks/apartment families that only pay $300 a week. Celebrities and politicians that pay $50,000 or more. And everything in-between.
My current Sim, Faunus, lives in the penthouse apartment in the Arts District of San Myshuno. Even with a second story added, it's a 1 bedroom, 1 bath home. His bills (rent) are approximately §4,500/week.
Not totally sure since I'm planning on making a new Sim when I play tonight but the type of Sim I'm going to do, their bills are probably going to be expensive. My Sims bills normally are. Good thing I know the money cheat, lol
The family I'm playing at the moment has bills around the 8000 mark. They can't actually afford to play them right now so I've had them live at the magic HQ for a few days since they're all spell casters.
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Just to point out... royalties don't last a sims lifetime. They last 21 days. But, writing is a good way to make some extra cash for bills, just pop out a couple books, and it's money you get everyday, unlike in Sims 3. In Sims 3, royalties lasted 6 weeks and was paid weekly. In Sims 4, you're paid daily (even though only a certain number show on the popup, you get paid for them all) and last 21 days.
Painting is another good skill to have to help with bills. You can just pop out a few paintings a week (at higher skill level) and help with bills.
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Edit: And I just found another thread elsewhere mention that it was a glitch that happens when sims are on vacation. Good to know, lol. Thank goodness for money cheats to combat this!
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