Well Dizzy has a hack for taking a leftover instead of preparing a new meal and I had that one in too, which I have removed, when I get home from work tonight I will test it with both out and then with put leftovers away back in, but I'm betting this has been my problem.

That is in Moniques Computer and now in the one that is posted in Peasantry.  You go in the computer and turn private school fees on and then everyday it charges for it.  I've been using this forever.

I think I figured out the eating problem with Freetime, at least for my game.

I created a new family yesterday from CAS and moved them into a previously unused house.

I noticed that as soon as the hunger dropped down to about halfway the son, who I had given random skills to and who had a high cooking skills, went to the kitchen and prepared Pescado's favorite, Lobster Thermidor!!

I was amazed.  No one had cooked in my game without me telling them to since installing Freetime.  I watched everyone eat and then they put the leftovers in the fridge.

No more cooking after that.

So I had them take all the leftovers out of the fridge and throw them away.

Sure enough the mom this time prepared food all by herself and put the leftovers away and no more cooking.

Everytime I removed the leftovers they would cook on their own again.

So I removed all my hacks from dizzy concerning putting away leftovers, but I have not had a chance to test since doing that but it seems reasonable that if I don't have the hacks for putting leftovers away and take a leftover it should work, but as soon as I test again I will post, if anyone is interested.

awwwwwwwwwwww I thought it was food eats you!!!  I was so happy and I've been waiting soooooo patiently!

I know you hate this but this will really solve my problem and let me play like I like to play soooooooo.....baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Now its gotten worse.  I wouldn't tell them to cook so they got so hungry they go eat out of the trash instead of cook.

You know, I have a feeling I'm going to get poked for this but here it is anyway, how do you get the gypsy to come to your house, she use to wander onto my lots at one time now she never comes around anymore?

Please...if you poke....poke nicely where I can enjoy it!!!

But I guess I'm still confused because in the original pictures that are posted at the start of the thread the person is playing for their own life.  How is that done?

Mine were stuffing face too but wouldn't prepare a meal so I added a hack to stop face stuffing.  I'm wondering if that stopped them from eating altogether or if you have to let one of them bottom out to fix it.

Ever since I installed Freetime my Sims won't eat on their own anyway.  I have to tell them to eat and I haven't downloaded any non automomous hacks either.  Just happened when I installed Freetime.

How do you get the chance to even beat death?  My Sims never get a chance.  Death comes and takes them unless a child or spouse pleads for them.  The only Sim I've ever experienced doing anything at all was Brandi Broke.  When death came for her she punched him and screamed at him.  I had never seen that before ever.

This is fantastic.  I'm going to put together a family tree of Pleasantview!  Thanks for the link!!

How do you change the settings, I have looked everywhere in it.

Thanks.

My phone was on the second floor and of course he was walking very slowly, when he got halfway up the stairs he got the publisher message without answering the phone.  He got his money though.  So do they really have to answer?

I've left the fixes in since patching my game and it seems to be running fine.

Just replace the exe with the original exe from the disk and it will apply right over it.  Doesn't matter what patch you have.

I removed the petfix and sure enough it doesn't make me age them down to fix the homework problem!!  Yay thanks everyone.

Are you saying the kitten killer does this ?  Why would it do that?  Is there any fix besides removing it ?

Well, I bit the bullet and installed the new patch.  I played for about 2 hours afterwards and everything seems just fine.  I still have all the awesome hacks in though and haven't took them out and it seems that everything works ok.

I do have a question though about Townies.  I moved a townie in with one of my families and when I went to get him a job it tells me you have some homework to do, even though he is an adult and it won't let me get him a job.  This has happened before.  I used the Lot Debugger to upgrade him from pre-uni but he still couldn't get a job.

I finally had to age him down to a teen and use a hack to give him an A+ and then grow him back up so he could get a job but I really don't like doing this as it really changes them.  Is there any fix for this, I thought the Lot Debugger should fix him when you upgrade him from pre-uni.

So whose gonna do it first?   

Thanx to all of you!  I was gonna download the stuff until I read all the details.  Does this stuff also inlcude their 6 free objects for registering?  I couldn't figure out at the store which ones those were.

Not that I talk much but I'll take the fifth!!! 

How come everytime I download it and install it, and I pick English it installs with UK and then I have to fix it in the registry?

Does it install without having to use a new exe.  Does it just inject the items?