27 Base Game Moneymakers All Sims 4 Players Can Use

[@sabrinaloizides-merideth9874]

Frog Breeding is one of my favorite passive ways to earn money. Just get the best frog in the game which has a base cost of $160 and breed two of them together. The best part about this is that if you have multiple sims in your household, you can pass the frogs through the inventory of each sim (including children) and breed them for additional money and that way you get around the cooldown period.

[@kmrazSilverSimmer73]

I love doing this too! Came in handy for my 100 baby challenge. Everyone in the household had a set of $100+ frogs to breed every few hours.

[@Leto85]

How clever. I didn't know about this passing frogs around. How did you figure thi out?

[@queencleopatra007]

You can breed frogs!? How?

[@zane6643]

tbh I find it hard to catch a single frog ;-;

[@kmrazSilverSimmer73]

@@queencleopatra007 if you have two frogs in your personal inventory you click on one of them and the option to breed comes up. There is a cooldown though of I believe 4 hours as I remember.

[@libbykenilworth]

If you have the new Nano Can from the daily rewards, it functions exactly as the same as the base game one but it only costs 300 simoleons

[@lilianschneider331]

I still don’t have any daily rewards. But very good to know if they arrive at some point :’) Thanks!

[@Meganthamac]

@@lilianschneider331working now for me 6/14

[@KathyD66]

@@lilianschneider331 my daughter wasn't getting them. She removed the mods folder and then logged in and got them.

[@SevillaLenahan]

Yeah the only difference is what they look like (which is honestly an upgrade) and that the expensive one is functional off-the-grid, whereas the cheap one is not 😅

[@slwrabbits]

​@@lilianschneider331 Check your game! They gave them to everyone. I'm so stoked. I don't even care about the money, I just like never having to empty them.

[@hannah_cotta_]

Even better than hosting partys is going on dates, if it's gold you get the 650 simoleons VIP bucket. So basicly have a date night with your spouse every once in a while...

[@rodh1404]

Once you get into the swing of it, you can really do some speed dating and get gold in a sim hour or two. Which means you can have multiple dates if you want. I often schedule an 8 hour "work day" where my sim just goes on 5 dates in a row and earns around 3k simoleons. If you're doing rags to riches, it's perfect because going on a date doesn't need to cost your sim any money at all. You can work on the Soul Mate aspiration at the same time to earn heaps of aspiration points. That said, the costume party (from the deluxe edition) earns considerably more money even though it does cost a bit to set it up.

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

Oooh an excellent suggestion! Dates sound very profitable!! Thanks for sharing Hannah :)

[@Rosalind_Jane]

for sims without the Klepto trait you can create a club and set swiping as a club activity. This allows you to steal anything regardless of mischief level but the cooldown remains

[@jayleensmile8900]

OMG LMAO I can just imagine whenever they meet they just practice swiping from each other

[@haileybalmer9722]

These are great! My favorite way to make money is not base game, unfortunately. It does come from one of the least popular game packs, though. If you take your sims on vacation to Selvadorada from Jungle Adventure, they can find treasures. You can make a very lucrative "career" of being an archeologist. Your sim is technically unemployed, but stacking tens of thousands of Simoleans per trip. Leisure time abounds when you're an archeologist living on your own schedule.

[@slwrabbits]

Can teens go on their own?

[@mc4dj1304]

I start my sim in the business career or as a writer so they have a head start to make $200k to pass the fabulously wealthy aspiration. Once I get the shrewd trait it’s smooth sailing because as my household bank grows so does the level of interest. That sets me up for retirement when my sim is an elder. Not only do I get the direct deposit each day from retiring in the top level of my chosen career, I get the weekly interest from being shrewd. Cha Ching!

[@ComradeBread]

Highly recommend the actor career if you want something that pays high and leaves you with a lot of free time to do other things. With the right fame perks you can skip the audition for the role and increase the pay per gig, with the actor aspiration trait it becomes impossible to fail the scenes and you only have to do a couple of the job tasks to ensure gold performance. All this combined with the distinguished degree with honours and you end up with a job you can pick when you want to work that pays out around 30 to 40K for what amounts to about 5 minutes of go to work gameplay. It's also guaranteed fame for your sim if that's your thing.

[@Frost_Blizzard]

This came right in time for my Rags to Riches lol

[@ninhachloe1843]

I love fishing because you can get Cowplant berries and every Cowplant is around 425 simoleons and you don't have to wait for it to grow, just plant it, go into build mode and sell it. You can also get many expensive things sometimes just because, like violins, cameras, toys, the future cube and even a digital sketch pad sometimes. 😊🎉

[@Leto85]

I didn't know the trashcan at the beginning provides money based on how many Sims there are in your household. I mostly play with 1 Sim at a time and thougth this method was rather slow to even earn the money back for having bought the thing in the first place.

[@deirdrechilds2288]

I always buy the Nano. Yet I am also just learning that bit of info. Leave it to Petey 😊

[@HipHopOtaku]

I love the trash can. The money is nice, but what I like even more is that it never needs to be emptied! (And it can clip to the changing table like the regular diaper pail, but the diapers don't automatically go in.) Because we don't have time to be taking out the trash. And this hi-tech can works even off the grid. I don't get that, but I am here for it.

[@Leto85]

@@HipHopOtaku I would expect it to need electricity, indeed it doesn't. In basegame I'd use it, but normally I prefer the good old dumpster.

[@lilianschneider331]

For paintings sell them on the flea market and mark up the price to make even more simoleons.

[@HipHopOtaku]

They had an update on the stoves, so you can make cupcakes on the stove if that's more your style. :)

[@sophiepomerleau708]

Thanks ! I didn’t know how to fit the cupcake machine in my beginner house 😂

[@camillarainer2158]

There is also taking food as an actor and selling it on the food stall ;) I saw James taking food at work in his video and immediately thought about selling it for profit.

[@ZialShade]

I just recently found your videos and I love them! The guides and explanation videos like this are very in-depth and super helpful. I especially like the videos that have suggestions for new ways to try playing the game, they're really creative! Looking forward to more of your super sim's shenanigans, in the meantime thank you for this new guide!

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

Thank you so much for the really kind comment Zial! :) I really appreciate it!

[@sophiahousen3973]

I know this is an old video but another cool way simoleons instead of purchasing the seeds during the love festival if you have that pack you can harvest the flowers you can collect birds of paradise, roses, lilies and tulips you could sell them or plant them

[@crystalphillips3213]

I’m really happy to have found your channel, I always find what I need to do in your videos, what a great help 😊

[@Charlee1776]

Another great guide, Pete! Thanks! Since my sims tend to want to get burn out every other day I have been mixing what they like a bit more and combining things like painting and handiness just so I can jump back and forth when burn out threatens. I try to choose based on their personality (for example painting and handiness would be good for a creative genius) or maybe cooking and nectar making if they are creative and active. I always use the 3rd trait for a "flaw" to spice things up as well recently... I just can't bring myself to use a few traits like "high maintenance" because I feel like the issues are too easy to solve and it's just more annoying than challenging.

[@kmrazSilverSimmer73]

Yet another great video! I love Rags to Riches gameplay! I love coming up with new, fun (non traditional) ways for my Sims to make money. I hope you're having an amazing day as well! Take care!

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

Thank you so much kmraz!! It's definitely good fun using out of the box money making methods! Hope you're having an amazing day and week too legend :)!

[@Madmonkeman]

If you have Get Famous then buy the video station and the drone. Film yourself doing literally anything, like maybe something in this video, edit it fully and publish. You earn a lot of royalties and if you do this every day it'll really add up. It's also much faster to do than writing or making music.

[@bowesa1095]

I love how helpful your videos are. Very refreshing content. I love educational channels ❤

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

Thanks for the kind words :D

[@LuxTheDemigirl]

I once discovered the trash can. I've been using it for literally anything ever since.

[@elainal6847]

You can license one song per week per instrument. So if you master violin, guitar, and piano you can license 3 songs a week. Did you test making cupcakes in the oven to the machine since the update to allow baking cupcakes that way?

[@RosheenQuynh]

Thank youuu

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

A really great call with the music licensing being per instrument. Thanks so much for sharing! :) Also yes I'm pretty sure that sadly excellent baked cupcakes made in a normal oven can't be sold the same way that the ones made on the cupcake machine can.

[@jennw6809]

"Here ya go, Petey! Try and pay it back when you can."

[@JustAndreaEdna]

👏👏👏 I don't do a build without the nanocan.

[@joeybernbaum3853]

The new one is awesome because it actually matches with decor

[@JustAndreaEdna]

@@joeybernbaum3853 Right, I'm been wanting it for so long. It was the best freebie ever.

[@SaraTheHappyOne]

​@@joeybernbaum3853And it only costs 300 simoleons!

[@slwrabbits]

​@@joeybernbaum3853 oooh I have to check that out!

[@JustAndreaEdna]

@@joeybernbaum3853 Yes, they were the best freebie ever. I gotta say, it's been a long time coming.

[@docette2015]

I love how you make sure to include both the most standard stuff and stuff that some people wouldn't think of, like just constantly asking friends for loans or using the special nanotech trash can. XD And licensing songs would be a lot more lucrative even with the "one a week" cooldown if it didn't take SO FREAKING LONG to write songs. Like, if you make your Sim sit down and do it, you can churn out books like no one's business, but songs take FOREVER! I disapprove. :(

[@UnassumingLlama]

TIL you can make guitars and violins from the woodworking station 🤯

[@fotoreportaze5797]

I have been playing Sims 4 for years and this is the first time I hear that Nano trash can give back money. Now I will place them everywhere.

[@Leto85]

But what to do with all the money once you finally get it and that huge mansion has been build? Investing in real estate with For Rent is one thing.

[@Charlee1776]

Challenge yourself to open one of each type of business you can think of and build them all up to be worth at least 500k each.

[@Leto85]

@@Charlee1776 That sounds like fun. You did yourself already? And how was your experience?

[@Charlee1776]

@@Leto85 Honestly I set odd challenges for myself in The Sims constantly. It's the only way I've managed to play continuously since the early days of The Sims 1. I had a lot of fun and actually. My absolute favorite is to turn on every lot challenge, pick 3 challenging lot traits - dog and cat hangout, etc) and pick the Making Money Scenario. I then follow James Turner's every lot challenge rules with a few personal tweaks. It's SO fun!

[@Leto85]

@@Charlee1776 And you do that WHILE starting with 0 simoleons? Okay, now I really need to know more. I ususally go with everything set to making my Sim as accomplished as possible, including benficial lot traits.

[@Charlee1776]

@@Leto85 I do that sometimes as well, but honestly, I get bored with that as soon as I've "mastered" whatever the gimmick for a new pack is. I think you will find that having a good amount of chaos in the game can bring a LOT of unexpected fun (and even laughs). 😄I wish you a ton of fun trying out some new fun ways to play! Happy Simming! 🤗 *oh and feel free to ask any questions you like, this community is generally super helpful and nice!

[@Wintermist-SWE]

Me, flower arranger, selling orchid arrangement for 27k on plospi :D (granted I don't know if that is base game or not anymore, the lines blur...)

[@slwrabbits]

I believe the flower arranging comes from Seasons and Plopsy from Nifty Knitting, but that's a pretty shrewd strategy if you have those packs! I definitely don't use Plopsy enough.

[@Demon_sans_official]

I thought the rockets were from get to work

[@HealerOfLightAndDark]

Ohhhh! I thought the Nanocan trash can gave 10 simoleons for each piece of trash thrown away in one go, for example picking up 2 plates of rotten food at once and throwing them away would give 20 simoleons. I wondered why it wasn't consistent and chalked it all up to a bug. Now I know it's actually 10 simoleons per household member. Now I'm wondering: Do roommates count? If I have an 8-sim household and 2 roommates, would the trash can give me 100 simoleons or just 80?

[@tarutomoe]

i love your videos soo much

[@tyreecepeterson3988]

The dragon fruit ain’t no joke

[@maxmorgan8736]

They freed the cupcakes let's go!!!!!!!!!

[@micsdlt1087]

1st place on hillock 2 grants 5k i think

[@ChristabelNappo]

i dunno if you'll see this comment, what about ways to spend money for rich sims Petey? :D please!! nappusina

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

Omg Nappusina! Ooohh I'll have a think, that could be fun! Might have some ideas that are different but kind of along a similar theme :).

[@Anne_Boleyn647]

Type money 99999999

[@haileybalmer9722]

The people who do this are the same people who complain that the game is boring. Maybe because they're not playing a huge chunk of the game? Who can say!

[@NZUCreamy]

When are we getting the next episode of the super sin series