Someone brought this up on page 2, the money trees. I had started the Legacy Challenge, had approximately 8 of them on my lot to help my poor sims from starving to death, of course the game completely crashed. I have never found a fix for this, not even the savethetrees hack works.
Someone else mentioned something else I have seen constantly, sims standing in one spot, shaking/quivering/whatever you want to call it; what the heck is that??
How about disappearing stereos but can still hear the music playing? Anyone else have that one? On two different lots I have placed stereos and actually saw them like evaporate but could still hear the music.
One other thing, I only use the default refrigerators and in every neighborhood I have, the sims can use the fridge maybe half a dozen times then when commanded to get something out of it, they will walk to the fridge and just stand there, while the icon disappears. I fix this by selling the fridge and buying a new one but it is really annoying.

This caused me to laugh so violently that I think I have hurt myself. You will be hearing from my lawyers!

Ok, if that's true that deleting CC in-game also deletes them from your downloads file that would be awesome; I was under the impression (for whatever reason) that wasn't what happened.

Yes, I can delete CC ingame in buy mode if it's an object or I can delete hairstyles in CAS but if I understand correctly, the file itself is still sitting in my downloads folder hogging up space.

I have the same problem with hairfiles; I have tons of duplicates but apparently they have different file names so they don't show up as a duplicate file when I use the Clean Pack Installer and their previews look like..hmmm..I can't tell which is which. Deleting them from Bodyshop as you said is QUITE annoying, takes forever and doesn't actually get rid of the file in downloads. I only get to play the actual game for about an hour a day (if that) during the week and maybe a couple of hours on the weekends. I really hate spending so much time on tedious things instead of getting to play. Anyone have any suggestions on how they take care of things like cleaning out your downloads?

There's nothing wrong with receiving help when you actually NEED help. When my first husband left me, I was a stay at home mom with a 2 and 4 yr old, no income of my own. I had to apply for food stamps and to this day, (10 yrs later) it is the single most humiliating experience I've had. It's hard for me to believe that people not only willingly go through the system, they live off of it. I started doing temp. work at minimum wage, commuting over an hour each day to get to work, so that I could build up my clerical skills (I had worked retail previous to having children). Some people thought I was nuts. Half of my wages went to paying daycare and of course as soon as you start earning ANY money, the system cuts back your benefits. It's ludicrious because how does that actually encourage anyone to stand on their own two feet? Financially I would have been better off to stay at home with my kids and receive a hand out from the government. After 2 years of temp work I found a permanent position as an office manager for the company I now work for and was so thrilled when I could do without government aid. The system penalizes a person trying to actually get ahead. I do not begrudge anyone who receives assistance and needs it but it really burns me to see people who are more then happy to sit on their butts and do nothing to help themselves. Our government needs to do more to make people self-sufficient, including education and reasonable daycare.

edit:  As for the Mormons that were mentioned in the above posts, I live in Idaho which has more Mormons per capita then any other part of the country, including Utah, which is suppose to be the "Mormon Capitol". I know exactly the right-wing, conservitive attitudes you were dealing with and it's not pretty. I apologize to anyone that might offend. I myself am a Christian but cannot get behind the kind of intolderance that the Right has so embraced.

On the Spectre lot in Strangetown there is a ghost constantly acting like it has just been electrocuted; it's *shocking* to see! lol...sorry, I just had to!

As the person who is beaten into submission every morning to get up at 6 a.m. to split a can of cat food between 3 of them, I feel your pain.

I had no idea you lived in my neighborhood! 

When Bush was elected my husband and I predicted that America would be in a war within a year..sometimes it sucks to be right. As an American it is disheartening to see our country so poorly represented by a man who has such difficulty forming a coherant sentence and seems bewildered by his job and responsibilites. I watched every debate during the presidential election and while John Kerry was not the most charismatic personality I've ever seen, he was at least able to form articulate and well thought out opinions. I am sure had he been elected he also would be facing a firestorm of attacks from his critics. The thing is, none of these politicians actually give a shit about any of us "ordinary" people, they just want to further their own agendas and will use any opportunity to do so. I think it is sad that the feeling of unity and non-partisanship that we had after September 11 cannot be duplicated in the face of a natural disaster that will leave thousands and thousands dead simply because so many politicians just want to pad their own careers.

I don't know if it's a "good" thing but you get your lips ripped on your 50th post. Apparently lots of people like it enough to have it done again and again.

I laughed so hard I almost fell out of my chair. 

lol. I haven't actually watched Star Trek since Kirk was captain but maybe that thought was lurking about in my head somewhere.

This totally cracked me up. I had the same thing with a sim (dare I say it? ok, it was Bella Goth) in Strangetown. I was bored playing that house and just left it with her being pregnant. Every time I played any other house in that neighborhood, there went Bella waddling along by the house, standing out front and seeming to look at me. I was finally guilted into playing her house at least until she gave birth, lol. Maybe with being a mother myself, I over-empathized with a pixel person. 

If you are asking about the clothing tool that I'm thinking you are, it's the one where you can buy clothing without going to a community lot. You can find it in the Buy mode under miscellaneous; it looks like a pile of folded clothes. You buy that then set it wherever you like on your lot (I usually put it on a table in the sim's bedroom), select the sim you want to have new clothes and then click on it. If you are talking about the other clothing tool download, the fasterbuyingclothes hack, I believe that is the one where the sim doesn't  waste time browsing around at clothes when you have them shopping on a community lot.

I want that on a t-shirt! lol

My 12 year old is practically frothing at the mouth for NL to come out so I'm sure I will be beat into submission and get it not too long after if comes out. She will probably have me lined up at Walmart on the release date. Ok, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

I had the same thing happen with a sim who was studying from the bookcase. I have no idea why this happened but using moveobjects on/delete/save/exit worked for me. If you do end up having to move the family out for some reason, I would use Inge's keep objects bush to save everything in the house and then get back any career reward objects you had with the buyable collection from J.M. I wouldn't consider that "cheating" if that's what you are worried about since you're just replacing objects you had already earned.

Inge, I have read every word of your posts on this topic and to imply that I and others haven't read your posts simply  because we don't agree with you, is insulting.
I think the situation you are speaking of sounds very idealistic and unrealistic in today's world. It sounds an awful lot like the Legacy Challenge, actually  !
I know that the family you described is traditional in some parts of the world but in most countries that kind of culture no longer exists. I have had friends who had children while still in their teens while I had my children while I was in my 20s and I see absolutely no difference for better or worse, genetically, (which is what this debate started over) because they had their children earlier and I had mine later. The only difference I see is that it made my friends miss out on fun things that teenagers should be enjoying because they were responsible for another human being. Most of them dropped out of school, struggled financially and didn't get to go out for a night of "clubbing" because their parents felt that the baby was their responsbility, not the grandparents. That is a view a lot of parents have in regards to their teenagers becoming pregnant, don't expect them to raise your child because you are still a kid and want to have kid type of fun. You negated that when you became pregnant, especially if it was a choice made on purpose.

Well I really don't give two hoots in hell what society thinks about it but I'll tell you that if my 15/16 yr old daughter or son came home and announced she/he is "fully developed", "wants to have sex"and "likes" the idea of having children, the last thing I would do is make sure she or he could do so "in comfort and happiness". The idea that since I'm in my 30s  I should be ready to *grandparent* and  help with a teenager "child-rearing" her children, is more then laughable! I work for a living, like most people in their 30s do. As does my mother, who is in her early 60s and certainly didn't and still doesn't, have time to help with "child-rearing"; she already raised her children! Does she love and see her grandchildren? Of course she does! Do I expect that because I made a decision to have children she should have a hand in raising them or financially taking care of them? Of course I don't! A teenager might "like" the idea of a baby but I don't get a puppy everytime my daughter "likes" the idea of one of those either.

I believe TwoJeffs has a fix for this on VS.

eta: here it is:  http://www.variousimmers.net/vsimforum/showthread.php?t=423

Holy cow! 170?? I knew there was a reason I never let my sims have cell phones!
By the way Ancient Sim, did you ever get your refrigerator problem sorted out? I am now experiencing a similar problem with the fridges on my residential lots and wondered if you had found a fix or what the culprit is.

Personally, if I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.

Ok, let's leave music alone and move on to a less touchy subject like politics and religion. 

Well, I thought it was funny anyway. (Which is not to say there aren't talented people who rap; I just don't listen to it because the little I have heard, grates on my nerves.)