Adding newly made Sim to already active household.

[galaxied]

Okay, I know this is a newbie question (but I'm a Sims newbie, so..  ) and I'm sure it's been asked a bunch of times before, but searching around the forum I can't find what I'm looking for. So just move this or link me or yell at me to go somewhere else. Haha. But I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong, though I'm sure it's an easy fix.

I just created a new Sim in Edit Town mode and I would like to add her to the already existing household of the game I am currently playing under. Make sense? So I click the new Sim and then click the house that is my current active household and then click Merge With and then nothing happened. So I clicked the house icon again and I got an error reading Unable to Merge Households. So if someone could just tell me what stupid thing I'm doing wrong? I would be very appreciative. 

[MoMoll]

Are you doing this in edit town? I've never had a problem merging households, so I'd like to know what you did in the beginning.

[galaxied]

Yeah, I've never left Edit Town. Basically, let's call my current active household Smith. So I'm playing under Jane Smith right now. And in Edit Town in Jane's game I created a new Sim we'll call Joan. So after creating and saving Joan as her own household, I clicked on Joan's little picture frame and then clicked on Jane's house (I'm still under Jane's game) and then clicked Merge With. And nothing happened, so I clicked the green house icon again and got the pop-up error that households couldn't be merged.

Now, I gave them both the same last name. Could that be the problem?

[loveSims]

How many sims live in the house?

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[galaxied]

Just one. And she's in a 6 room penthouse, so it can't be an issue of space right?

[grimsoul]

Yeah, I've never left Edit Town. Basically, let's call my current active household Smith. So I'm playing under Jane Smith right now. And in Edit Town in Jane's game I created a new Sim we'll call Joan. So after creating and saving Joan as her own household, I clicked on Joan's little picture frame and then clicked on Jane's house (I'm still under Jane's game) and then clicked Merge With. And nothing happened, so I clicked the green house icon again and got the pop-up error that households couldn't be merged.

Now, I gave them both the same last name. Could that be the problem?

When you click on Joan's picture there should be a popup come up with a button that says Place Copy. Click this then click on Jane's house you'll then get another window popup with a Cancel option and a Merge option. Select Merge and that should merge them.

[galaxied]

Perfect, thank you! I was wondering if the Copy option was what I was missing but I didn't want to do it just in case it wasn't.

[grimsoul]

Your welcome, Glad to help.
And welcome to the forum and The Sims.