Cottage Living Rags to Riches (Sims 4)

Kendrick Barker-Ito and Willow Fitz-Moon became best friends as children, just like their moms from my Snowy Escape Rags to Riches LP. They are now teens and similar to what their moms did as teens, they are now ready to embark on their own rags to riches adventure, for them it will be in Henford-on-Bagley!

Challenge Playlist (this will go live at 1 pm Eastern on Aug 7, 2021)

Cottage Living Create a Sim overview (this will go live at 12:45 pm Eastern on Aug 7, 2021) *

Goals for this Challenge:

1. At least one, probably both, will complete the new aspiration. Note that Kendrick is the main sim who needs to complete this aspiration.
2. Raise animals (a cow, a lama and chickens).
3. Try to befriend both bunnies & birds & get at least one of each to help with the gardening.
4. Complete some village errands.
5. Complete and keep as many cross stitch patterns as they can (between the two of them).
6. Buy/unlock as many animal outfits as we can.
7. Willow will complete the Knitting Aspiration and we will try to unlock as many CAS knitting items as we can.
8. Before aging up to young adults they both need to:
   • get a grade A in high school,
   • max the manual labourer career (part time), and
   • have at least 4 positive character values
9. Hopefully these best friends will become something more and they’ll end up having a family together once they become young adults.
10. Both will complete the fortune aspiration.

Note we will start with the following lot challenges:

1. Simple Living (Cottage Living)
2. Off the Grid (Base Game)
3. Reduce and Recycle (Eco Lifestyle)

To remove the Off the Grid lot challenge they will have to pay a fee of 10,000 simoleons. We may remove the the Simple Living lot challenge once one of them maxes both the cooking and gourmet cooking skill, however they will still need to buy the ingredients except for seaweed (there’s currently a reported issue with that, see EA AHQ link).

Rules:

1. To start with nothing with a goal to get rich (in this case to complete the fortune aspiration as noted above).
2. To not use painting as a way to make money until they have at a minimum completed the first three tiers of the fortune aspiration (the only exception is if we decided to work on the painting aspiration before they meet this goal, they may sell their 3 cheapest paintings to the collector for the second tier of the painting aspiration).
3. Generally to follow the rules from my Rags to Riches guidelines, one exception is that our sims will have part time ‘jobs’ as teens since that’s included in my goals noted above: https://maplesimmer.video.blog/2020/05/05/sims-4-rags-to-riches-guidelines/

Note the lifespan I’ve chosen is ‘long’.

Here are our sims and their traits:

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Gallery link if you’d like to play with them: TBA

* Cottage Living Create a Sim Assets

By Age Group:

Screenshots of my spreadsheet breaking down Cottage Living Create a Sim content by age group:

By Clothing Categories:

Screenshots of my breakdown of how create a sim assets are categorized in categories other than everyday (only done for the age group ‘teen and up’ 😊 )

Where to Contact Me:

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