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Making Money with the Painting Skill
The following is a summary of the Painting skill in The Sims 3. Click to read the full Painting Guide.
This article will discuss one of many ways to make big money in The Sims 3. This tactic can be used with no expansion packs required. We'll raise a lot of money quickly by using the base game's Painting skill, and building our Sim so that he or she will excel as a painter.
Your Sim should have the artistic trait, which will make them learn the skill much faster. Since painting level helps determine the value of your end products, this will get the money rolling in much sooner. Another you may like is Hates the Outdoors and Solitary. This will make your Sim happiest in a room by themselves and away from other Sims.
To facilitate this solitary and happy lifestyle, give your Sim their own studio if they live with others or let them paint in the bedroom. Paintings (from buy mode) can help to raise the Sims mood while in that room, as will other decor. Having a stereo around playing your Sim's favorite music will also improve their mood while painting. Mood makes them do everything better, and you'll rack up the Lifetime Happiness points.
To get started painting, grab an easel from buy mode's study tab/hobbies and skills. You can get one for under $500 Simoleons, so it's easy to fit this into any Sim's starting budget. If you want a head start, head to the school (click it) and take a painting class for $400. The first level takes longer than the first two, so you'll crack open the skill and be good to go.
Paint many small paintings. If you're not using the money immediately, keep them in your Sims inventory and they'll grow a little bit each day. You don't earn interest on simoleons, but paintings your Sim makes can be worth more the longer you wait.
Paint enough small paintings (25), and your Sim will complete the Brushmaster challenge and all their future paintings will be more valuable. It's most profitable to keep going with the small paintings, as you can do four or five each day. As your painting skill rises your paintings will start being much more valuable. You will be able to upgrade your home quickly.
When you have enough happiness points, you can buy the Extra Creative lifetime reward, but it is over 25,000 points. So, pursue wishes that relate to painting more and more valuable pictures to make the happiness point accumulation much easier. This reward will set you over the top, enabling you to make a few thousand simoleons each day.
Painting comes in as one of the fastest ways to make money in The Sims 3. This article should help you in the quest to earn more for your Sim without cheating.
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