Tips for living as a homeless Sim

[Wai]

Thank you  thesimslover828,

I'm now going to mothball my current family for a few days and try out Henrietta Homeless.

[Schipperke]

This looks like an interesting challenge which I quite fancy trying.

However, can I just clarify:

Can I use my mailbox?  ie: may I write a book in the library or get metal smelted?
Can I use the base camp if/when I can afford to travel.
If I make it to get a final score, is there anywhere I can see how my score compares to others?
Can I consign items?

It depends how hard you want to make it.  In the game I tried, I didn't allow my Sim to earn any money at all until he had completed his LTW.  As I said earlier, I found those early days of no money and no focusing on money to be a lot of fun.

[Louise56]

I think Seasons will make a challenge like this a lot of fun!
Schip, I like the early days when my sim is dirt poor a lot. I think that is why I'm a chronic re starter lol.

[SimFreeek]

Live in a fire station, eat free food from the fridge, make and consign inventions.

[RainBeau]

What neighbourhood would you say id best for this? I started in Hidden Springs since I've never played in it before and I wanted to explore only to find there are seemingly no harvestable plants whatsoever. I'm moving to Riverview because of all the gardens (but not Twinbrook because that huge garden would make it too easy).

[Dreamweaver]

What neighbourhood would you say id best for this?

I went with Barnacle Bay, because everything (with the exception of the library) is fairly close together which saves on travel time. My Sims have a garden on their home lot which is made up to look like a park.

When I played the Homeless Challenge, it was in Riverview before the days of sleeping bags so they had to sleep on benches which kept getting stolen!

[AnnDruvez]

When I played the Homeless Challenge, it was in Riverview before the days of sleeping bags so they had to sleep on benches which kept getting stolen!

Not while you were sleeping on them, I hope! 

Just kidding and I know better, still I couldn't resist commenting as that's the first thing that sprang to mind....

Anyway, back to the topic. Writing is a profession, but I'd imagine that you'll be ok with it if you don't sign up at city hall. I'd say the same probably goes for alchemy, painting, etc.

[thesimslover828]

I highly recommend if you can, to use elixirs, my Sim has a boyfriend now because I used a jar of potent friendship on a Sim and romanced him. My Sim isn't doing to bad she has a tent, fire pit, laptop and MultiTab 6000. She has some money, not near §20,000.00, but I'm not sure I wanna quit at that level, it's really fun to play a homeless Sim.

[grimsoul]

I think Seasons will make a challenge like this a lot of fun!

That should add a new twist to it. Trying to sleep on a bench covered with snow.

[Turoskel]

When I played the Homeless Challenge, it was in Riverview before the days of sleeping bags so they had to sleep on benches which kept getting stolen!

I just started this, made a 10x10 lot hidden in the trees opposite the Grisby's house with a small pond, brambles and weeds and rusted up the mailbox and dustbin, my rusty old bench has already been stolen.

One thing not to do is wake up to phone the police, I did that before and the burglar stole my sleeping bag as soon as I got out of it 

[donatello]

One thing not to do is wake up to phone the police, I did that before and the burglar stole my sleeping bag as soon as I got out of it

Oh you cannot possibly be serious!

[Wai]

I would suggest that travelling be taken off the permitted list for this challenge.  Henrietta Homeless had made enough money by consigning harvestables and seeds (she has the born-saleswoman trait) and by smelting a few bits of metal to travel to China on Thurday morning (week 1).  She also had enough LTH points to get the seasoned traveller.  So, six days in China netted her 3 assassin bugs, and a substantial amount of metal (helped by two metal collecting adventures).  I sold the smelted metal from her inventory and had the required 20k before the trip ended.

I'm restarting her with travel firmly off limits.  However, because I don't have the EP with sleeping bags available, I am going to allow her to buy a tent (using buydebug) when she has enough money.  I know that sleeping in the firestation is allowed, but those beds give her too many bad nights!

PS:

One thing not to do is wake up to phone the police, I did that before and the burglar stole my sleeping bag as soon as I got out of it

I had a tent stolen the same way several weeks back.  I was so shocked!

[donatello]

Wai, we'd better design a homeless-person-alarm... Like a motion sensor at the tent door? A cheap battery operated one that uses almost no electricity.

[Schipperke]

If your Sim is homeless, why would s/he be sleeping on a "home lot"?  The home lot is only because we can't have a truly homeless Sim in this game.  If your Sim has nothing on the home lot and sleeps in a tent on public property (Central Park was where my guy slept), burglars are a non-issue.  In the morning, he would pack up his tent and head out to spend his day. 

[RainBeau]

Yeah, my guy has been sleeping all over--fishing spots, parks, you name it. Speaking of this, do you think you should apply to have this become a project?