What do you do with your collections?

MoonlightGraham · December 2022

Sul sul, everyone.

I thought it would be fun to try to collect as many snow globes, minerals, etc. as possible, but I want to do more with them than simply have them sit in my inventory. Do the shelves that are for sale in Build & Buy hold them, or do you have to resize them or use MOO to create a display?

How do you display your collections? Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Larrikateven · December 2022

I usually don't have complete collections because after a while I forget about what I was doing, but at one point, I do remember having a very outdoorsy sim that was collecting minerals. I built them a shed near the garden. Along the top of the walls, I placed several shelves so that they basically made a circle that went around the entire room. I believe it was the simplest little shelf in Build/Buy (it was the one that doesn't have any embellishments on the ends, because I had several of them right up next to each other and I wanted them to look like one continuous piece of wood as much as possible). They were high enough that I could put the flower arranging table/other garden-related objects underneath them and have a functioning shed. I never used MOO or resized anything.

RedShoe7 · December 2022

I play rotationally so it depends on the sim. Some of them keep certain things, like snow globes, others might keep other things to display or use. I use shelves and tables to display them. Some things won't fit on shelves but a lot of collectibles do.

simgirl1010 · December 2022

I just display my household's collections in the basement. On tables, shelving, etc. Pictures, like experimental foods, are on the wall.

Simmerville · December 2022

Yes, the shelves will at least hold the snow globes and dolls. Maybe the largest crystals need more space.

If you are fine with cc, there are good display objects over at modthesims (by TheJim007, based on those we had in TS3. I could not make a link, but you can search for "Display Cases & Pedestals from TS3".

You could assign a community lot to a collectors club, then if several households collect similar stuff, they could add their collections there.
Or, you could "donate" a full collection to a Museum, perhaps add a photo of the sim donating it, and then all can go there to admire the items. You would need to imagine the story/process, but I don't think you will need cheats to make it work.

If you have Cottage Living, perhaps collected items can be used for those friendly neighbor gifts.

MoonlightGraham · December 2022

@Larrikateven @RedShoe7 @simgirl1010 @Simmerville
Thank you for your wonderful suggestions!

Fish can be mounted and hung on the wall, so those are easy. Snow globes are definitely on the list of things my Sims will collect, and if they fit on standard shelves, that would be wonderful. The minerals are pretty, too, so even if they require special shelving, I'll be willing to see what will work for them.

EnkiSchmidt · December 2022

My sims only put some favorite pieces on display, the rest I store in chests or basement/attic.

But now I wonder if crystals, geodes and maybe also metals could get integrated into the landscaping. Doesn't have to be a full rock garden made of crystals, just a piece here and another one there. Or maybe sort your exhibitions not strictly by collection, but by other criteria, like color. You'd still have your main collection in its dedicated corner, but also, for example, a selvadoradan idol with a green gem inside next to green crystals on an end table in the living room.

mightysprite · December 2022

Akira Kibo in my San Myshuno game has a little bit of a hoarding problem collecting bug. Here's the main collecting area. His very patient wife and roommate are making this work in an apartment with 4 small children.

Their dining room wall is also papered with his poster collection. Almost complete.... almost....

Simmingal · December 2022

yeah if i bother to collect collectibles i mostly display them somewhere in my sims home but I find it frustrating trying to find tables/shelves that work for that purpose so I often end up having to moo something up myself

stacking dining tables, using platforms and walls to make it look built in shelf is probably the way i do most actual collection rooms

SelinaKyles · December 2022

The gems have an item in BB where you could place the cut version. I forget the word, I have never actually collected them but you send them out via the mailbox or if you’re lucky you’ll find one after thunder strikes the ground. You can place them inside it to be displayed.
Edit: I was confusing the gems with the element crystals, my bad.
https://sims-online.com/sims-4-elements-collection-guide/

crocobaura · December 2022

I don't usually keep the collectibles my sims find. I use some to decorate their house, but most of them I sell off as there isn't always enough space to display an entire collection let alone several. I did keep the bottles one of my sims found on the beach in Tartosa and made a feature wall in his kitchen out of them, but otherwise it is just one or two items of one collection and such. I have an experimental food restaurant and decided that whoever is going to eat there will take pics of their food and then put one up on the restaurant walls. And I have another restaurant with aquariums that I would ideally like to stock with different types of fishes some day, but I don't fish often enough and when I do the fish usually ends up in a dish.

The things I find in Selvadorada go in the Selvadora museum, well at least some of it, as I needed to sell some off to fund further expeditions.

MoonlightGraham · December 2022

@EnkiSchmidt Your idea about using the crystals as landscaping elements is a really good one.

The shelves I found look like the ones @mightysprite has in Akira's place. The one with the square compartments looks like it takes up an entire wall. I like that, but our Sims are living in smaller homes right now, so unless I resize everything, there's no room to fit something like that in their houses. I'm not sure I'm a good enough builder to create shelving like @Simmingal mentioned; I'm that bad at it.

The Sim that collects the most avidly is working on a snow globe collection. At least they're fairly small. The Elements might be even more fun to collect...thanks for the suggestion, @SelinaKyles. There's even a display case, especially for them, in BB.

I also didn't think about the bottles from Tartosa, @crocobaura. It's beginning to look like all our favorite households will have something unique to collect.

mightysprite · December 2022

Hi @MoonlightGraham it is this one

I like them because they are only one tile, and they're modular, so you can stick together as many as you want in whatever shape you want.
And they take the larger slot of item, not just the stuff that goes on the littler shelves. If it will fit on a dining table it will fit in this.

I think the one next to it, from the High School Years pack, works the same way, in case you have one pack but not the other.

ignominiusrex · December 2022

I would shrink each item down so as to fit more in less space and use a mod that adds more slots to things so as to increase storage options. The suggestions others have made are great. It's too bad the game itself doesn't accommodate the collections it encourages, on its own.

Mariefoxprice83 · December 2022

I usually only collect items to sell them afterwards. I haven't done the collection-specific aspiration for a long time.

WildIrishBanshee · December 2022

I tend to just throw it all in a chest unless I particularly like an item or have a sim that might display something.

bshag4lv · December 2022

My sims don't do collections, to complete them, just to sell the common stuff and keep and display the rare stuff. Really makes the decor rating go up. I had a sim open a museum with all his stuff from excavating, but lost it in the big bork.

I love the fishing, so I have done the fish collection and am in the process of doing it again. Easiest one in my opinion, lol.

JustinB113 · December 2022

At the moment my sims are moving around doing different packs and expansions. I will have the collections from that pack on display and everything else just in household storage.

Right now I have the snowy escape collections on display in my kitchen and everything else in storage.

ashcrash19 · December 2022

I have a huge collections room hidden by the bookcase "door" in my house!

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