playing the sims, but i can only make money by selling CUPCAKES

[@_cass.r1255]

stanley is the sims barbie. he has thousands of different job roles and is iconic

[@BernadettSuvak]

Now he just needs someone in his life that's job is boyfriend

[@ReputationSwiftieAlways]

Nahh stanley is Mrs. Rabbit from peppa pig

[@Aiddertot]

This made me laugh out loud fr. You are so right HAHAH

[@lionelrichie57]

He dosen’t have a Dream House, he has a Dream Pee Bush.

[@christianzombievampire]

Also he is an unrealistic beauty standard (hotdog figure is hard to achieve)

[@princessjellyfish98]

I'm kind of surprised that "pursuing a fake romantic relationship with Johnny Zest to take advantage of his trailer" is a first for Stanley, it seems like something that should've happened by now

[@sirgaykrovos]

right?? he's done it to so many townies already, it feels weird that smn as iconic as Johnny is only get his chance now lmao

[@ratboygirl]

i think stanley has a soft spot for johnny so he waited until he could form a proper (wholesome) connection with him before crashing at his place lmao

[@hayliearp7835]

i think we deserve a “humphrey inc” mansion build, with a room dedicated to each successful business, and a dingy basement for all the failed ones‼️‼️‼️ omg i didn’t think so many people would agree w me, thank y’all sm😭😭

[@KianaeJ]

THIS!!

[@amynellibabi]

Ooo that would be so fun!

[@bryliehambrick3464]

THIS THIS PLS

[@mothhann]

WE NEED!!!

[@CamiVillalba]

YES, please!!!!

[@Arwen_xx]

“7am and he’s completely exhausted still” Stanley Humphrey just like me fr

[@ladyofthemasque]

A lot of people don't know what "red velvet" means. A true Red Velvet (cup)cake is actually made with a specific type of cocoa powder, plus brown sugar instead of white. The color can be enhanced by food coloring, but to be a *true* version, food coloring is the last thing on the list, because first it needs the right ingredients. Before the use of Dutch Processing for stabilizing cacao beans for processing, it could actually oxidize. (I may be slightly off on the details as it's been a long time since I learned about this, but basically this is why it doesn't look "traditional chocolate brown.") That chemical change (oxidation, iirc) gradually over time would turn the cocoa from a dark brown powder into a sort of reddish-brown powder. It still has a chocolate flavor (a good one, not bad), but while it is chocolate, plain non-processed chocolate isn't as strong a flavor as Dutch processed chocolate. AKA, it doesn't make you immediately think "obviously chocolate" when you taste it. As a result, chocolate items made with this oxidized powder didn't look or taste like what we in later decades now think of as "traditionally chocolate." BTW, Dutch processing simply means fixing the acidity of the cocoa beans by washing them in an alkaline solution, rendering the cacao bean's normally more acidic pH into a nice neutral pH 7. This actually makes the chocolate taste chocolatier, as well as giving the side effect of fixing the oxidation color issues and increasing its shelf life a little. However, some people genuinely liked the reddish version, in both flavor and color. In fact, by mixing it with brown sugar instead of white sugar, the reddish color would be enhanced. Plus, retaining the molasses in the brown sugar (extracted from white) further alters the flavor into something distinctly different. So between the oxidized cocoa powder and the brown sugar, this is why Red Velvet doesn't *taste* all that chocolatey. The ingredients are simply different from the very strong version of chocolate we know & enjoy today. Lastly, Red Velvet Cake was *NOT* invented by the Waldorf-Astoria chefs! They were simply improving upon an already existing series of recipes (which good cooks do), intensifying the color of the cake, etc, and then marketing *their version* as "their invention." Red Velvet Cake was already known in the U.S., and was particularly popular across the South, though it was not wide spread. As a result, all the Waldof-Astoria chefs did was make THEIR version very glamorous and thus very famous. (I suspect that the reason why so much red velvet cake was made in the South was because of the high heat and humidity. These conditions would have increased the chemical changes in the cocoa powder over time, especially if your tin of cocoa powder wasn't properly sealed. Things that are more acidic or more alkaline are much more prone to chemical changes than things which are chemically neutral, after all! Plus, brown sugar would be cheaper than white sugar, so it tended to get used more often in Southern cuisine, where the fine white sugar was used in ways that would visually impress guests, mixed into things where color was the important, such as in the buttercream frosting traditionally paired with red velvet (cup)cakes.)

[@FlowerCatEnthusiast]

Thank you for this information! I'm fascinated! 🧁

[@meggy3635]

this is so cool

[@troebeliewoep]

Thank you for typing that all out, how interesting!❤

[@troebeliewoep]

Thank you for typing that all out, how interesting!❤

[@Studio_Rae]

that's so interesting. red velvet is my favorite flavor so its fun to learn something new about it!

[@moustachegoatee9388]

Lilsimsie!! The poolside chairs/loungers are only $50 and your sim can sleep on them! No need to buy a $200 bed!

[@1997Jenna]

I never thought about this, that’s a great idea !!

[@mel_diamonddove9913]

Great idea!

[@Lilnaturefreak13]

Never thought ab that!!! Rags to riches can be SO MUCH EASIER

[@mer_acle8101]

do they give better energy than the dirty double from eco lifestyle? (cos you could use that too if you don't forget about it like i always do lol)

[@mimipcy]

geoffrey landgraab the deadbeat dad calling to say he heard u became friends with JOHNNY ZEST and he’s pretty cool should just be illegal 💀

[@princessjellyfish98]

Simsie's repeated abuse of 3x speed finally coming back to bite her 🤣

[@zoesimmons8429]

The loading screen at 2:57 was a paid actor

[@ChyAF]

Seriously though 😂🧁💚

[@fuckitupvince7063]

i just love how all of your videos are so adhd friendly 😭 plus you talk kinda fast and i just love that, it makes it so much easier and more pleasent to watch your videos if that makes sense🥲. the way dan cuts your videos as well, like ahh i barely have fun watching other lets plays since they seem so slow but yours dont. i dont get impatient, or stressed, or anything like that! just pure fun and enjoyment 💞 your videos and streams are just great in general and so much fun to watch! youre seriously great 🩷🙂‍↕️

[@Lilnaturefreak13]

Her twitch streams r adhd and autism friendly too!! The chat uses tone indicators and everything ❤️💕 love this community

[@anyah_g]

omggg her and james are like the only sims 4 lets play i can actually get through a whole long video of 😭 Lilsimsie is awesomesss

[@hayleynoel2073]

This is the absolute cutest house Stanley has ever owned during a rags to riches attempt

[@goldaged]

omg the lore of geoffrey watching johnny’s life from afar and secretly letting his boyfriend know he thinks they’re cute together… crazy stuff

[@dappernahrwhale]

One of my fave rags to riches that's low effort high money is nectar making then selling it with a 300 percent increase on the table. Once you get high level it's more than 1,000 a bottle. And programming is an easy one to do as well, not quite as much fun tho EDIT: also letting them age till fine to get more money and getting some crafting quality increasing perk traits like visionary or entrepreneur to make things excellent quality

[@maggs810]

I'm actually doing the nectar aspiration rn!! Thank you for the tip!!

[@dappernahrwhale]

@@maggs810 👍 also letting them age till fine to get more money and getting some crafting quality increasing perk traits like visionary or entrepreneur to make things excellent quality

[@pathogenofdecay]

That's a bug I wish could get patched. Customers from your yard sales thinking they've been invited over, so they invade your house and start eating your food and using your stuff. It's also been going on for years according to the EA Answers HQ, supposedly fixed at one point, but it looks like the bug returned some time after Growing Together.

[@bellindajane8452]

I literally just watched the old cupcake video yesterday, and I will never understand what possessed the sims team to look at the cupcake machine and go ‘yep, this is a great item our players will love it’

[@jesileigh]

Love this! I did a thrift store R2R once after Eco Lifestyle came out. My sim spent the evenings dumpster diving and fixing the items they found, then they'd stock their retail store and sell the items during the day!

[@robinbernhart8565]

@@jesileigh that’s a great idea actually, thank you!!

[@paintbrushjewel]

This makes me want to make a little food stall build but hiding the cupcake machine in the back would be a TASK. Thanks for making my day better!

[@FreddyKruegerTheDreamDemon]

You can make cupcakes using an oven, it's under baking

[@paintbrushjewel]

@@FreddyKruegerTheDreamDemon how did I forget this?!?

[@GiannaMichetti]

You can also size down the cupcake machine a bunch, it still works but the animation will obviously be a bit glitched.

[@pnlpzh]

There's also a cupcake maker mod by RVSN

[@friendlyneighborhoodnecrom4556]

Stanley's little pink house is so cute!

[@ChristopherSmith-il6fo]

I like how Stanley became "Wholesome" between wanting to woohoo for fun and doing so in a bush

[@J.Reilly]

i’ve been playing the sims 4 since release and i NEVER had designed a house that i liked after watching ur videos i finally achieved the super pretty and cute house i always wanted thank you so much!

[@alexile_]

17:56 “this is a way more pleasant view now” I know Kayla hardly ever played the Sims 2 but I thought that was funny

[@SiennaPineDew]

Is anyone else mildly upset that the Home Chef Hustle table didn’t come in a hotdog swatch?! They named the Crystal Creations gemology table after him knowing that Simsie would do rags to riches with Stanley using it, so it’s weird that they didn’t at least put a hotdog swatch on the food table knowing that she would test out the tables’ rags-to-riches-ness with Stanley! And it wouldn’t even be that weird, because hotdogs are food, and it is a food-selling table anyway. (it would've been like a secret reference!)

[@SiennaPineDew]

@insertname1857 trueeeeee😧

[@sophieje6039]

I never noticed this but underneath the hotdog costume, Stanley is actually REALLY handsome

[@johnboylovesyou]

Love this video, best rags to riches is gardening, when it works. Getting plants from different places (the different festivals, out in the worlds etc) then grafting plants to make other plants so there's one plant that grows like 3-5 plants on one.

[@Katti1010]

Gardens always do it for me. I try and try to make a save that doesn't include gardening, but I never manage it, lol! My favorite rags to riches was when an 'annoyed' dust bunny brought us a 'questionable' fruit or produce and it was a normal-quality dragonfruit. Yeah, that Sim did just fine. 🤣

[@ratboygirl]

gardening in the sims confuses the hell out of me. weeding and watering is easy but the grafting completely loses me LMAOOO

[@pitrku175]

4:58 historians said they were a really good friends

[@Stefanos-bo9cy]

I've never thought of ever even placing down the cupcake machine let alone use it to make money lol

[@maxsalmon4980]

Spellcaster. Get to the perk that lets you buy magic items for half cost. Note that you still resell the magic items for a reduction on the full cost, but that reduction is less than 50%. That means that with this perk, you make more money reselling books and other magic items than you spend buying them. Then just go and start buying the most expensive tomes you can afford, and immediately sell them. Not in a shop or table, just...out of your inventory. It's fine. Then use that money to buy more tomes, and...in short order you have as much money as you have the patience to repeat the loop. Meanwhile, getting to that spellcaster rank almost certainly means you don't have to pay for food, or cleaning or repairs, and if you spring a few hundred simoleons for a cauldron you can just insta-refill all your needs at will, for the cost of a few apples. Infinite income + Very little overhead = rags to riches.

[@liliespetals19]

Now i want a hot dog 😂 Eta: my favorite RtR set up used to be collectibles but since they stopped putting collectible spawners in the new worlds its been hard.

[@ladyofthemasque]

Agreed. Why can't they put more in the new worlds?? Yes, it's absolutely important to have them in the base game, but putting them in the new worlds would encourage more people to buy the new world packs!!

[@jennw6809]

This is the cutest Stanley build ever! Also I love seeing you warm up to the cupcake machine

[@arrow_awsome]

my faviorate rags to ritches method is usually writting since that gives risuduals and i dont need to worry about doing it every day

[@larkendelvie]

I always do a combo of rags to riches -- starting with selfies, throw in some painting then try different things until I find my new sims favorite. The selfies and painting on a tiny home lot is just too good not to do. Usually I'll throw in an extra challenge like two teenagers each raising their infant siblings on the same tiny lot - can't miss school except for vacation days. And just to up the pressure my last one started in winter.

[@siriusbinx]

You can sell at higher prices and get more purchases the higher your charisma is. I have my current sim maxed out her charisma and the skill of what she was selling (she sells jewelry) and those things I can sell for several thousand. she goes home with 30,000 or more now :)

[@sarahlaprof631]

Loved this challenge! My favorite rags to riches is by far dumpster diving! Every single time i tell myself "not this time though", i slip and fall... Into a dumpster.

[@starl1ghtw0lf]

My favorite rags to riches is knitting, genuinely! With painting as a close second

[@HaldjasHelina]

I like this twist on the cupcake rags to riches. Also I support cute homes for Stanley!

[@hippejulia]

My favourite way of rags to riches is by far garderning, all day just gardening. Then with get together i make a "garden gnomes" group and make sims come do my gardening for me

[@DarkContrabandMusic]

10:20 AHAHA Again?? First Kyle in the Observatory and now Johnny? Not to be lewd but Stanley needs to write a book or something cause my guy is some kind of god in the bedroom.

[@Maeliiia]

Happy birthday a day late ❤🎉 You absolutely make my evenings. Every day without fail I watch your videos and it calms me down so much. I wish you the most amazing upcoming year! Welcome to the second half of your twenties!

[@WierdArtistMarcell]

My fave is always feathers. I just really like starting out with a sim and their dog, and make money by getting featherpiles.

[@FleurSteff]

I enjoyed using the Home Chef Hustle pack and the cupcake machine for my male versions of 2 Broke Girls! They were renting at Tomarang and now they have enough to move out

[@meganjoelyn2207]

Santa booty call is just wrong on so many levels😂😂😂

[@ailuranDUSK]

In my most recent game I did the ‘Aliens Stole My Parents’ scenario and this is how my teen sim made all her money lol. Now she is in college getting a culinary degree and I’m going to have her run a small bakery afterwards.

[@ribbitfrog1]

This is a fun idea. I want to make a food truck now. I wish we had some wheel/trailer items.

[@myra7011]

You could maybe use the bus bar from werewolves

[@jennybesten5803]

If you use mods, Ravasheen has some trailer CC, including wheels!

[@vowbosjk]

why am i so invested in Stanley and Jonny as couple?? They look perfect together 😭

[@randomname6425]

I would actually like to bring more attention to another commenters idea of the "humphrey inc" mansion build with rooms dedicated to every successful business and a basement with the failed businesses. Thank you have a nice day

[@highkeyroses]

oh gosh it says 19 seconds ago idk what to do

[@snazz07]

watch the video probably

[@highkeyroses]

@@snazz07 wow havent thought of that

[@penelopekooser2544]

Comment?

[@highkeyroses]

@@penelopekooser2544 nah

[@shantelnina4947]

if I'm not mistaken sim team updated the ovens so you bake in them now so now you dont need the cupcake machine anymore

[@yumekoslefttoenail6746]

lol when the sims 4 first came out, i made a family of five nights at freddys characters and i remember i had a cupcake machine SPECIFICALLT for chica LOL

[@moonstenebrocity]

just something i've noticed, i've been enjoying hearing your lower tone of voice in videos! it sounds so calming and natural; not to say the higher pitch isn't; but i do understand having to have a youtube cadence to sound engaging

[@samanthasutton9507]

happy birthday kayla! my favorite way to make money quickly is fishing but i swear all of my sims end up hating the fishing skill

[@LOL-lk3om]

I think simsie should build a house for Stanley and each room is for one of his rags to riches So that he has a crystal room and idk a horse room and like a thief room etc.

[@PinkSinsila]

You posted right as I was looking for another vodeo of yours to rewatch

[@ratboygirl]

tbh i’m obsessed with this rags2riches house it’s so cute

[@Katti1010]

I once did a rags to riches where I very aggressively only allowed funds earned from fishing...that is...surprisingly lucrative. 😀

[@kylohepburn]

22:27 - 22:33 so many emotions in 6 seconds that only simmers can relate to

[@SiennaPineDew]

I think my favorite rags to riches method, (I mean, I haven't done very many but we’ll just ignore that lol), is just plain old collecting collectibles! It's kinda nostalgic for me because of the mint gen of not-so-berry!😊 Also, I just find it fun! I like having to go around and dig stuff up, and I find it exciting to see what I’ll get!

[@Batonaleash]

how is the house so much cuter than anything ive ever seen??? also, happy belated birthday girliee

[@mer_acle8101]

I think my favorite R2R has to be dumpsterdiving just cos it's like opening mystery boxes but usually my sims go for collecting or planting (I recently did a lp where my sim collected all plants in my game which that was a time when not having as many packs really made things easier lol)

[@sylligurl129]

my favorite ways of making money are painting and dumpster diving. I love all the cool stuff you can find (I play a lot of spell casters that can fix the burnt trash finds.) :)

[@Lizzy404]

I personally like Writing because at level 4 you get to send love emails and that's an easy lazy way to get a bae.

[@lorien_braga]

the thing that got me is cupcakes being brought to the oven but the machine's get to work baked goods not. some people don't even remember the baking ability

[@nightvalebunny137]

If I’m understanding correctly, putting a couple bistro tables with chairs boosts food sales

[@Mewtho9]

I feel like the new Catfish costume could become Stanley’s new friend…

[@UnassumingLlama]

Yesssss another Stanley video 😍

[@myrandamiller91]

Honestly I use Dust and a micro home for quick early game money. No kidding. Because I have Jungle Adventures, those golden frogs are something else.

[@catherine-eggallergyinmd]

Dumpster diving, Trendy, nectar making, juice fizzing, gardening, crystal making, and using the home chef hustle table.

[@emmahunter888]

Seasons has been glitched! I keep getting snow during the summer (like all the flipping time) as well as snow in worlds it isnt supposed to rain much and certainly not SNOW at ALL lol

[@anabelsama]

That machine is in the sims 2, secret lot of very high level of cuisine, and it gives you so much money, like 3 simoleons every second

[@marieduran6286]

Dumpster diving, gardening, writing, painting, and fishing--not in that order.

[@princessjellyfish98]

OH HE'S INDECENT! 🤣🤣🤣

[@raccoonsr7602]

This is absolutely perfect, my birthday is today!!! 😂❤

[@orangecapybara29]

Her birthday was yesterday lol. And happy birthday.

[@ratboygirl]

happy birthday!!! 🥳

[@srtevincy]

I love how she could have used an oven to make the cupcakes but chose to use the og

[@nigelrudolfsson]

i dn't know why but i almost always use writing books as my rags to riches, but at the same time i am tired of limited quantity of titles that game gives me

[@karenfromfinasse8430]

Does Stanley have an origin story? Were his parents hot dogs? I need to know these things

[@braydenecplays89]

Simsie be like: Cupcake? And Money? I can make stanley money by CUPCAKES!

[@Myrtanasultana]

im always like 40 minutes after you post it watching it, its crazy idek your posting schedule 😭

[@regandelpippo1523]

Whenever my sims try and sell things they scare everyone off, I think they all inherited my inability to interact socially. 😂😂😂

[@bailey626]

I haven't turned my sims game on since last September. I hit a road block with it and haven't been interested. This video makes me want to go play!

[@Quakearth]

My dream in the sims was I wanted to open a café with selling bakery.

[@sirgaykrovos]

Johnny's call abt Stanley "being scrupulous" feels like an excuse to talk to him lmao (and him wanting to immediately take things further when Stanley flirted w him ONCE just solidifies it for me) Johnny's got a crush~ I ship it edit: NOT GEOFFREY GIVING HIS BLESSINGS??? WHAT??

[@thegirl4genius797]

I kinda like the attic decorations box rags to riches. 🎉

[@queenofmoons_spn7612]

You should build stanley his own dreamhouse oh twitch. The stanley manor

[@rachelshaferly5524]

There is no base game selling table. Just saying because sometimes Simsie says there is a base game selling table but there is not one. I think the sims team should put a selling table in the base game and make it look like a folding table and put a hand written sign on it. Like a yard sale. The other selling tables look too fancy for a yard sale.

[@effyapples6219]

Johnny Zest lovebombing Stanley is so hilarious haha

[@HutchThomas]

Stanley: has barely one wall, a crummy bed, a toilet and shower out in the open, a table only to put cupcakes on, and a floating roof over his head Also Stanley: eats a cupcake for breakfast kayla: clearly he's living the dream

[@savannahlopez8251]

As someone who owns their own baking business that has recently started in a hot place (Florida), I haven't gotten this much money starting out 😂

[@jewelhenson3034]

I'm irritated because I still can't play the game after lovestruck. After 5-10 minutes of live mode my sims just freeze. Their idle animations work but the time stops and they won't do anything in their queue. EA needs to do better.

[@AneteJarvsaar]

Have a nice trip to London simsie! 🎉

[@isabellhansen2864]

17:57 PLEASANTVIEW MENTION

[@Lilnaturefreak13]

Happy belated birthday!!! 💕❤️💕❤️ we love and appreciate you so much!!

[@karatheyaroxan6852]

Painting Rags to Riches is really nice, because the sim is usually happy doing it, and you get a pretty painting each time.

[@leepaulse893]

Stanley! Stanley! Stanley! Yaaaaay!!!

[@brunhilde126]

I dont know why "Nancy Landgraab..? What are you wearing?" is so funny to me.

[@FlowerCatEnthusiast]

Now I want cupcakes :( ETA: No one is faster than Simsie when her game almost crashes!

[@karenjackson3261]

Not sure of you'd see this now but if you pick up half eaten cupcakes or plates you can put them back on display and resell them at full price. Also, when you sell Baked Alaska's they go for a really high amount of money, at 300% each plate is around 720.

[@up4sing]

try selling wedding cakes. It's great. did 5k once.

[@Myrtanasultana]

BRO JOHNY ZEST NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND BOUNDRIES LMAOO

[@noemibrickner9267]

Johnny Zest is that guy ❤

[@crispymojo8751]

This house is the cutest thing ever.

[@zoegranville7607]

Kayla is so wholesome. Happiest of b'days to you! I also love the trans flag colours theme that rolled out from that cute selling table.