I did have that trouble in one game. I ended up just getting a new washer. My bug I keep having is the outside bin fills up with garbage and it won't go away. My sims don't like being outside in the yard because they get uncomfortable from the stinky trash.
I just got the Get Famous EP and I'm playing Shane Dawson (yep, the YT I found on the gallery) as an actor. He's just now getting some fame but he still has a long way to go. I sent him to a celebrity's house not knowing he wasn't famous enough to even knock on the door. However it didn't seem to stop Shane from skinny…
I don't have any pictures but my worst wedding was when I was trying to get two old guys who had been together forever to finally make it official. They were throwing a wedding when one of the guests, a vampire, suddenly died of starvation. (Remember when the game's vampires were absolutely stupid?) Everyone was mourning…
With it being Simfluenza season, they're just being considerate of each other by not passing potentially harmful germs while miming what they would do if they weren't contagious.
I once had my sim at home but his icon said he was at work. I clicked on the little lightning bolt (where you can choose to make him work hard, slack off, etc.) and hit the Leave Work Early option and it cleared that problem up.
Try sending your sims somewhere else. When this started happening in my game, I sent my hungry family to the park to use the grill to cook. When they returned home they could once again use the fridge and stove. I'm not saying this will always work but at least give it a try.
This started happening to my game. I packed up the family and sent them to the nearest park where they could cook on the grill. When they returned to the house everything was back to normal and they could use the fridge and stove again. So I would recommend travel first to see if that will "reset" the house so to speak.
Yes, and as already pointed out, it usually has to do with the different (rounded, triangular) shaped counters. Yet even with your run-of-the-mill square counters I'll have sims go stand in front of the stove to talk and the eye will turn on or smoke like its cooking. Even after this newest patch they were still doing it.
I like how (for the first time ever in the game) I've seen other sims fishing. Also like that my sim is able to eat the veggies in her inventory. However, I am also having the problem of strangers coming into my sim's home and never leaving. It makes me afraid of throwing a party for fear the guests won't go away. Still…