The Yard-Sale Hustle

📖 The story

Your Sim never makes anything and never holds a job. They just have an eye — for the frog in the log, the crystal in the dirt, the fossil nobody else dug up — and they turn that eye into a fortune, one flip at a time.

💝 The goal

Reach **§40,000** earned only from collecting and reselling found objects.

🎀 Packs required

Packs recommended

🏡 Setup

🚀 Getting started

• Create one curious Sim (*The Curator* aspiration is a natural fit). A cheap small home is all you need:

⌨️ Cheats to type

📋 General rules

• No money cheats after the §1,000 start.
• Earn only with your own household.
• No gifts or transfers.

✨ Specific rules

• Income comes only from selling collectibles — frogs, crystals, metals, fossils, fish, space rocks, MySims trophies, postcards and the like.
• No crafting careers or skill products sold for money.

✅ What you can do

• Collect anything: crystals, metals, fossils, frogs, fish, space rocks, postcards, MySims trophies, and more.
• Sell collectibles raw, or upgrade/cut them first for more value.
• Buy low and resell where you can.

⛔ What you can't do

• No income from careers, skills-for-hire, or gardening — collecting and reselling only.
• No money cheats.
• No gifted items to sell.

🎯 Objectives — complete the checklist

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🎮 If you don't own the packs

Already base-game. Jungle Adventure and Snowy Escape add more collectibles, but base-game crystals, metals, fossils, frogs and fish are plenty to reach the goal.

💡 Strategy tips

• *Crystals and metals* feed the rock-cutting machine route to higher value; even raw, rarer finds sell well.
• Travel widely — each world and vacation destination has its own collectible tables.
• Breeding frogs and completing collections unlocks rarer, pricier variants worth chasing.

💕 Milestones — track your progress

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🔥 Want it harder?

• Complete a full collection (e.g. all crystals) before you're allowed to sell *any* duplicates.
• Base-game collectibles only — no pack collections to pad your income.

🏆 Scoring

+5 per completed collection; the run is "perfect" if you finish a collection before selling any duplicates.

🎭 Variations

Run it as a travelling picker who must move worlds every time they hit §10,000. ---