I do it because while it would take 5 minutes IRL to wash a dish, it takes them an hour! Why waste time on such things when the hand of god can take care of it for them?
No, I make them do it. If they leave something where they can't find it, I'll grab it and leave it out for them and scold them for being so careless. Sometimes I really wonder how they managed to stick dirty dishes in places they can't get to - I mean, how can they put it there but can't get it back? Crazy or lazy?
I don't wait until night -- I do it whenever I don't have orders to give. Keeping all those multiplying water glasses from filling every available surface is a nonstop quest.
Nope. Half the fun for me is making my Sims clean. I wish they had more things to tidy up
hahhahahaha put a sink in every room and I bet you would have enough water glasses to tidy up I used to get my sims in a routine to clean until I saw a guru drag some dishes to a sink and I have been doing it ever since
Nope. Half the fun for me is making my Sims clean. I wish they had more things to tidy up
Agreed, I don’t think there’s nearly enough to tidy up. In previous iterations, houseplants used to need watering, trash would pile up on the floor if you didn’t take it out (as a matter of fact, all this time and I don’t think my TS4 Sims have ever taken the trash out and it’s never been an issue), there used to be way more puddles and dust piles and dirty counters and appliances.
Sims seem to clean up the two things in the game to clean up. Now it’s just water cups (that seem to only be a problem if they wind up lodged on half walls, high shelves, or in bookshelf nooks) and group meal platters. Bonus: laundry if you use it and patio drink trays that for some reason sour extremely fast.
I still wish Sims could choose not to make their beds up, but I have accepted that this is never coming back.
Only when I have to, but yes. I prefer not having to, but the way laundry and dishes can pile up in of the grid homes (especially that rely on ladders) I often cannot avoid it.
Nope. Half the fun for me is making my Sims clean. I wish they had more things to tidy up
Agreed, I don’t think there’s nearly enough to tidy up. In previous iterations, houseplants used to need watering, trash would pile up on the floor if you didn’t take it out (as a matter of fact, all this time and I don’t think my TS4 Sims have ever taken the trash out and it’s never been an issue), there used to be way more puddles and dust piles and dirty counters and appliances.
Sims seem to clean up the two things in the game to clean up. Now it’s just water cups (that seem to only be a problem if they wind up lodged on half walls, high shelves, or in bookshelf nooks) and group meal platters. Bonus: laundry if you use it and patio drink trays that for some reason sour extremely fast.
I still wish Sims could choose not to make their beds up, but I have accepted that this is never coming back.
Yes, but only on occasion, lol. I never helped my single sims clean or repair, you dirty it, break it, you clean and fix it.
My only drawback is when the handiness skill isn't high enough to repair electronics, or it's after a party and there a literally dishes and glasses everywhere and that's when I usually help out. But none of this maid or repairman stuff, pffffft.
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sometimes i do. i like to drag food into the fridge and throw stuff in the trash. sometimes my sims will do it and they keep putting the dishes down or the trash down. so even when i make them do it i still sometimes end up cleaning it up for them when they wont do it themselves.
Yes, but only because they wont do it after I've instructed them to or I have to select it 3 or 4 times before they do the action. Specially with washing dishes and it's just annoying.
I don't help them while sleeping, speed goes too fast for that. But I will help out in certain situations. For instance if they're doing a marathon cooking session to skill up, I'll drag prepared dishes to the fridge/trash for them so they can keep cooking. I'll drag out a platter of food for toddlers too and then drag it back to the fridge after they grab a serving. If they're having a quick bite to eat while in the red for energy and don't take care of their plate, I'll take care of it for them. Otherwise, I try to train them to take care of dishes/trash themselves.
Also, my Sims have never had a butler or maid, most of them aren't rich enough to afford one. The only time they've ever had a nanny was in a toddler challenge. Otherwise, nope. My Sims take care of their own children. Well, except for daycare for babies/toddlers, of course. Never had a gardener either, even with gigantic gardens. I don't trust them. Perhaps it's been fixed, but gardeners in the past would steal your harvestables from what I've read.
I don't often 'replace' anything broken either unless that Sim is very rich, they repair everything. Also, as others have said if a Sim puts down a dish somewhere inaccessible such as a high shelf, or under a computer, I'll take care of those for them too.
Lastly, since I own EL, those Sims always have the action to take care of dishes or trash canceled so I can drag it to their inventory to recycle or use to 'seed' a dumpster for diving when it's empty. I'll drag empty food platters to their inventory from the fridge for those purposes too.
Wowsers you guys were busy It looks like Yes is in the lead for now, aren't we all little mother hen's over our pixel babies hahahahaha. But there is a huge amount of No's too, I can see their sim's being in a good routine to get everything done Thanks all for your comments, very interesting to read
I should of voted no , but anyway , they mess, they clean
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As a general rule, no. There is only ONE exception: when they make food for the family and start eating before storing it on the fridge, and with the toddlers, where I leave the plate out for them to grab it and eat. And if the parents cannot get to it inmediately, I store them.
But otherwise, books, dishes, etc...I leave them until I make the sims get them.
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My Sims don’t grab water anymore. I must have disabled the autonomy for this action.
I still wish Sims could choose not to make their beds up, but I have accepted that this is never coming back.
Oh yea! How could I forget that one?!
My only drawback is when the handiness skill isn't high enough to repair electronics, or it's after a party and there a literally dishes and glasses everywhere and that's when I usually help out. But none of this maid or repairman stuff, pffffft.
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Also, my Sims have never had a butler or maid, most of them aren't rich enough to afford one.
I don't often 'replace' anything broken either unless that Sim is very rich, they repair everything. Also, as others have said if a Sim puts down a dish somewhere inaccessible such as a high shelf, or under a computer, I'll take care of those for them too.
Lastly, since I own EL, those Sims always have the action to take care of dishes or trash canceled so I can drag it to their inventory to recycle or use to 'seed' a dumpster for diving when it's empty. I'll drag empty food platters to their inventory from the fridge for those purposes too.
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But otherwise, books, dishes, etc...I leave them until I make the sims get them.
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