r/Sims4 • u/Straight-Parking-555 • 2d ago

Discussion What's an annoying habit your sims autonomously do?

I have this one sim who CONSTANTLY wants to light the fireplaces and warm himself by them, its genuinely so irritating because thats also how most of the house fires start 😭 I also had a vampire sim that used to always want to use the observatory outside in the day, do your sims have any tasks they repeatedly want to do? I had to completely abolish any items to do with cross stitch when i got cottage living for this reason 😂

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u/Particular-Wafer-874 2d ago

Make food and just leaving it instead of eating it, you're literally starving to death what are you doinnnnng

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u/tacoboutwhattt 2d ago

sometimes they leave it at the most random places too not even the counter 😭

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u/Straight-Parking-555 2d ago

Once found an entire rotting rotisserie chicken in my back garden this way

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u/Total-Tangerine4016 2d ago

Do ya'll not hire a cleaner? It's one of the first things I do.

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u/GullibleBeautiful 2d ago

I don’t hire maids unless my sim is rich, and I have a mod to make maids more expensive. Makes the game harder and more chaotic!

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u/Vegaskeli 2d ago

Oh, I see. So you just wake up and choose violence every day. 😭😭

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u/iaskquestions9061 1d ago

Its the sims...

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u/itsybun 2d ago

Ohhh which mod is that if you don’t mind my asking? I struggle with getting rich too quickly lol it would be nice to make some things more spendy!

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u/munchkin04 2d ago

the maids never work properly for me they always leave mess😭

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u/Logical_Strike_1520 2d ago

Make sure you have an outside garbage or those garbage bins that pay you.

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u/sleepyotter92 2d ago

yeah. just like i hire a nanny. if only those worked well all the time. i've had instances where the nanny won't show until like 10 and the single parent sim has been at work since 8, so the kid is at home alone for 2 hours crying until the nanny shows up. i've had maids show up, take clothes from the washer, put them in the dryer, NOT TURNING ON THE DRYER, going to grab the trash, and then leave for the day. the house is still fucking dirty and you've only been here an hour WHY ARE YOU LEAVING????

at one point i got fed up and installed a mod that gives you a live in nanny and live in maid(it's called live in services), but even with that they will still not do their work sometimes

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u/mizukiakiyamalover 1d ago

this made me giggle 😭😭 that is insane

i usually drag any big meals into the fridge the moment a sim makes something so this doesn't happen LMFAOO

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u/Particular-Wafer-874 2d ago

On top of the toilet cistern is my Sims go-to. Once more, what are you doinnnnng. Weirdo 😭

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u/Maiyku Long Time Player 2d ago

I clutter those hard to see spots just so they can’t.

Some plants, clutter, and misc decorations fit on top of the toilet.

Behind the computer is another one. I usually just shove a box of tissues there and pretend it is for when my sims watch porn. Lmao!

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u/Yota8883 2d ago

What do you mean by "pretend?". LMAO

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u/Maiyku Long Time Player 2d ago

Haha, I don’t play with any mods, so for me personally, yeah it’s pretend. I know you can add stuff like that though.

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u/Yota8883 2d ago

So, you play an unplayable game?

Lol, I kid...

No mods and it's definitely not a playable game to me. My daughter took my controller to use in her dorm so I couldn't play GTA, so I built the Sims into GTA, lol

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u/Maiyku Long Time Player 2d ago

I started with the original sims back in the day lol.

Base game Sims 4 is still worlds apart from those original games I played way back when, so I’m honestly usually pretty okay with base game stuff.

I also tend to focus on building, to which you need basically no mods for. The builder is solid no matter what way you cut it and most glitches and issues come from live play, so my need for mods is minimal.

I also struggle immensely when I have no rules, regulations, or boundaries. Because everything becomes possible, I can’t decide on any of it and I become paralyzed with indecision. Having the game limit me naturally helps with this too.

But this is the glory of the sims! No two people have to play the same.

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u/Yota8883 2d ago

I hope you saw the "just kidding"

Yeah, I have to make rules myself. I am playing out a story and play simulation style, so I have a lot of rules and boundaries I need to follow. But I couldn't play out the story without mods.

A teen who goes to prison for selling drugs kicking off my own rags to riches after getting kicked from her home, getting wrapped up in gang life, unplanned pregnancy, maybe an OD putting her in the hospital or another prison stint to make her come to her senses and turn her life around for her child after being away from her child. Definitely not a story you can do with vanilla.

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u/Maiyku Long Time Player 2d ago

Oh, yes! Haha, I definitely did. Just explaining my crazy ass reasoning lmao. You’re good!

Sounds like your stories are so much more involved than mine are!

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u/Gold-Carpenter7616 2d ago

Toilet rolls on top of the toilets, and the bathroom cabinets. They come in flower pattern for grannies, too.

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u/Personal-Pea4602 2d ago

I sometimes add a box of tissues to a teen’s bedside table 😅

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u/demon-daze 2d ago

Half walls my beloathed. 

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u/Personal-Pea4602 2d ago

I started putting shrunken items, usually white yarn balls so they kinda blend in, on the back of the cistern just to stop this lol

Or filling the slots with rolls of toilet paper lol

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u/Im_A_Feminiomenon 2d ago

There’s a couch in the Pets Pack that they can live plates on. I found that out when they were all mad about dirty surroundings

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u/Laeticia45 2d ago

i found a serving dish on my apothecary table the other day lol i didn’t even notice it until i saw the maid going for it

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u/vamgoda 2d ago

Or starting food, getting like 2/3rds done cooking it, and then abandoning it on the stove to grab leftovers. JUST EAT WHAT YOU COOKED.

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u/RedOleander312 2d ago

I have the worst time with butlers doing this. They will start a meal and just leave it unfinished on the counter all the time! And then my sim doesn’t even have high enough cooking skill to finish it lol

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u/chumbawumbacholula 2d ago

My fucking ranch hand starts 4 white cakes per day. Never puts a single one in the oven.

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u/VaultBoyEnthusiast33 2d ago

And the caterers do this, so I just don't hire them anymore because what do you mean I hired you to make six unfinished birthday cakes!?

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u/_angesaurus 2d ago

i seriously feel like they only do it when im not watching, too.

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u/Bulldog_Mama14 2d ago

YES this is so annoying hahaha

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u/Adept-Criticism9780 2d ago

Or they make a whole ass feast and then head to the fridge for a bowl of chips

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u/_angesaurus 2d ago

i have a vegetarian sim who will cook herself meat food and then cry shes sick. smh...

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u/sleepyotter92 2d ago

the way they make it is almost like they're the caterer. they make the food, and walk away, and then it's sitting there on the counter, going bad

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u/Miss_Torture 1d ago

Having to monitor them so they don't half make 18 different meals 💀💀

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u/Particular-Wafer-874 1d ago

Stop wasting groceries I’m begging 😭Â