Could you imagine actually going into this bare store with no flooring or wallpaper, a few cross stitches on the ground and a guy in a hotdog suit sleeping on a couch
Kayla, the most profitable way to do cross-stitching is through having a llama and then shave their wool, and you will be able to cross-stitch with much less price, depending on the wool color and you will make much more profit =)
@@breakfastgamer yes but remember in this video she was trying to find a way to make it more profitable and used a retail store. tasneem was just being polite and suggesting from their experience
Watching Kayla throughout my college life is so… reassuring. She’s only two years old than me, but as I go through uni, watching her videos and considering her life gives me someone to look up to as well as comfort. She finished her degree while uploading constantly… went through the entire moving process with Dan for years… and continues to donate to charities. Our personalities are so similar and I’ve felt a connection to Kayla ever since I first started watching her while we both were still high schoolers. While you’ll probably never know me, I appreciate you and everything you do Kayla. Thanks for growing up with me and being my comfort channel and my favorite TH-cam/ streamer. 💕
im 4? 3? years younger than kayla and ive been watching her since she was around my age and it feels so crazy to see how shes grown and how her content has changed in her own unique way
I feel that 100%. Kayla is 4 years older than me so she graduated high school right when I was entering it. I started watching her around that time so the transition to high school was a little easier because of her. Kayla actually went to the same high school as me so that was even more comforting. She’s so successful now and her being able to balance school and TH-cam makes me believe I can do the same but with a sport. I’m currently and freshman in high school and I still watch all her videos. Kayla is such a comfort TH-camr for me.
I'm 17 and I'm applying to unis, so seeing her go through that and upload gives me tonnes of optimism. I love to watch her down decorations when I'm thinking about it
I’m so glad that you feel that way! I’m in the same boat and I’m just so impressed with everything she accomplished. I’m currently in my 3rd year of uni and it’s been difficult during the pandemic and it’s amazing to see a TH-camr that is genuinely a good person (and around my age lol) I hope Kayla will keep bringing likeminded people together ❤️
@@kyungraeist omg exactly the same with me! i’ve been watching her since she was like 16 and i was 12, and now i’m in college and she’s graduated and married! it’s insane
Yeah, that's what I do with anything I wanna sell, but specifically crafted items! Even if it's on a residential lot, it works like a dream, especially if you set it to 300% markup :)
Even better if he just adopted a kid, had them do the art and then sells it. Little kid is all "this is us together having fun" and he's all "its getting sold just like the rest".
it might be more profitable if you expand the house hold and essentially keep one sim to work the store and have the other 7 working in a sweat shop kind of situation to maintain inventory
@@alisepolselli7269 TheSpiffingBrit recently released a video where he made money from trapping pregnant sims in a swimming pool. Basically pregnant sims can't die and they can't give birth in the pool. So when they go into labour the game does the thing where it give you the free crib (which can be sold). But because the sim is in the pool, they can't actually have the baby, so they get stuck in a loop of being forever in labour, with more and more cribs spawning on the lot. And they can't even starve to death or anything to escape the nightmare. Now it wasn't a particularly quick method to get rich quick or anything, but he was doing it as a way of "printing money". As in if the sim moved into a prebuilt lot laid out for the purpose with some -unsuspecting victims- sims whose sole purpose it is to get pregnant, the main sim could in effect earn money doing nothing other than impregnating other sims. Not sure if that counts as "worst" but its certainly not pleasant.
Honestly, this is so realistic. I’ve spent $125 on embroidery thread for a single project before, and there were still colours I couldn’t find because they were sold out. I’d never even make that money back if I sold the final product.
@@Kadence_Hoffman Thats okay. I've been playing since Sims 1 when I was like 12 years old & I'm still learning. Lol I feel like the Sims will never let you know all of the things.
You're definitely not wrong about skilled craftsmanship being underpaid. There was a period of time where I relied on crochet and knit orders as my sole income and it was ROUGH
Where do you live and how did you sell your stuff? Etsy? I've been thinking about starting some little business to sell my knitting but idk if I'd even make a profit😅
Stanley really pulling out all the stops to make this get rich quick scheme work, except for when he pricks his finger.. that’s where he draws the line
When I bought cottage living I needed another way to make money in my 100 baby challenge so I would lock the children in the basement and make them do cross stitching and for all the children I had I made a couple bucks a day it was more of a side business. Your merch is cute ☺️
I binge watch this chanel so much that Kayla is the voice in my head when I speak with myself in english (I'm brazilian, we native speak Portuguese) I'm sad because my previous comment was deleted because I inserted an external link for a Google page with a ref pic of a house on it 😭😭😭😭 (btw Kayla if you see this, I wanna thank you for bringing me so much joy with your gameplays. and also I'd love if you built a Brazilian styled family home in the sims!)
I wish they would put more hobbies for older people in the sims 4 base game. Like coin/stamp collection, couponing, or plate collections. Like, idk more niche things for my elderly sims to do besides gardening or baking.
There are plates that you can get from parenthood I think? People randomly gift them to me on my sims birthdays. It’s not reaaaally a collectible though
I'd love to give you a pro tip so that you can do this again much better. Get yourself a micro home, then get yourself the cross stitch thing, and a selling table. Markup the price to the 300% option, and sell away via yard sale. Challenge accomplished, no extra work necessary. Except affording to cross stitch and buy the table in the beginning. Enjoy lol.
Actually, some baked goods are worth pretty good money if you sell them with 100% markup. I used to get up to 700 simoleons for some of the cupcakes. I also used to stock the most expensive items from build mode and sell them for twice as much money in my sims' retail stores. That's a good way to cheat the system and get reach really quickly, like, you can make your sim a millionaire in an hour 😄
If you just used the selling tables (not sure if the name is correct) that come with city living/jungle adventure/eco lifestyle, you can mark the prices at 300% and once you start the street sale ( again not sure of the name) you don't need to do anything because sims just spawn an buy your stuff, just yesterday my sim sold dragonfruits that had a price around 300 normally in like 1200 each one, and combined with some flower arrangments she won like 26000 in 1 day xd
As a crafter, they've got the cost for knitting and cross stitch mixed up. Cross stitches only cost a few dollars to make (thread and cloth) whereas I just spent $250 on alpaca yarn in order to make a chunky knit sweater. 😭
last night, something happened that really shook me up, so i’ve been on edge all day…but watching kayla mess around in the sims has calmed my heart a little. thank you, lilsimsie. 💛
To be fair, SOME real life cashiers work for 8 hours and make less than a $100 a day before taxes. So Stanley is doing pretty good in comparison. Go Stanley.
I cross stitch IRL, and can safely say that you cross stitch for the enjoyment lol. I think it's impossible to make a profit from completed cross stitches 😂 x
So excited for this, honestly would love to do cross stitching in real life so it’s a cool add to the game so it’ll be cool if you can actually make a profitable hobby with it
It’s so fun you should try it. It can be hard to find patterns in art stores but there’s tons online you can get for free or buy and then you just buy the hoops and floss. I used to do it but I got into knitting and kinda dropped it lol.
As someone with zero artistic talent, cross stitch is both very fun and very easy to do, even while watching youtube in the background. I recommend giving it a try!
Charisma really helps, and as some others have said, a display system really helps grease the wheels. Also, you have to tell your employees what to do, that's why Alex did nothing. My most profitable business was finishing scientist, simraying cheap showers into expensive fridges, selling them at a 25 percent markup. It almost felt like a cheat. The buy in was super low, and the profit margins were massive, though it did take time to get what you wanted.
I’ve tried doing an “art gallery” as a retail store and restocking the paintings lowered the quality each time. So if I stocked masterpieces my sims painted when I restocked it it would be high quality then medium then low. Basically I had to keep painting new ones for them to stay high quality.
You can hang cross-stitch on the wall but it has to be in your inventory first, click on it and there’s an option to ‘create wall mounted copy’. Also selling them through Plopsy actually gives you a lot of money, it just takes a little longer to sell things, usually a week.
the most profitable way to cross stitch is probably having a llama alongside a retail store, using the wools to make the cross stitches for free and selling them completely up priced
Yard Sale Table and the Llama would be most profitable. The highest mark-up on the table is 300% and you don't need a retail lot or need to talk to the people who show up. ;)
The secret sauce is flower arranging with bluebell scent, plus Plopsy. Once you get the really expensive ones, you get your money's worth, with the markup of plopsy, without having to tend to customers.
I just bought a sensitive hoodie! And OMG I can't believe you had it in my size! I'm a 3XL and almost NOBODY sells more than XL! You are amazing Kayla!
She also does an XS! I'm amazed! I never even look at merch because you can almost never find a company selling anything smaller than a size S these days.
From someone who sews professionally... it does not take two hours to recover from being poked with a needle. Usually you won't even bleed 😂 But it is entirely realistic that hand crafts like knitting and cross stitch are rarely profitable.
Best way to make money: go to libary read the vampire book until you can make fish to plasma bags then go to bredlington bay to by fish then turn them into plasma bags. The fish cost shepest 7 simolions and you can sell the bags for 50 simolions. Can also be used to get 50 simolions for every fish whose worth less.
Oh gosh that might be another painful one 😂 maybe I was just doing it wrong, but I had a sim try to open a vet clinic, and she was busy all the time and not making that much money compared to the other stuff you can do
I kinda like that is that way because for us crafters doing stuff for sale is a pain because everyone thinks is super easy to do and the "how hard can that be" is like a mantra that won't stop just like "can you give it to me cheaper... Or free, we are friends right?" It makes everyone see that is hard and hopefully appreciate crafters work more.
Not making money on hand crafted items is pretty accurate compared to real life. I know a lot of "crafters" of things like historic clothing and embroidery. They don't make much money. My husband is a blacksmith/knife maker. But making commission knives and items didn't bring in a living wage. Fortunately, after he was on Forged in Fire he started making money teaching blacksmithing and knife making. That at least has brought in enough money, but not any of the hand crafted items!
I tried to have my elder sim take up cross stitching as a hobby. But since the house has a pool, they automatically go to cross stitch at the edge of the pool no matter what I do. My elder sim almost froze to death before I realized what was happening!! Freaking cross stitch
If i don' t listen to Lilsimsie in the background while playing the sims4, i find myself rather inspirationless either in playing my sims or building their houses.
KAYLA I NEED YOU TO SEE THIS. I just discovered that you can sell evidence and befriend The Mother in Strangerville. Both these actions grant money, and asking The Mother for riches can grant you a FAT load of cash. You have to make Stanley try and get rich fast doing this!!!!
I spent 2 1/2 months crocheting a blanket, and people wanted to buy it. I told them it’ll be $600 for the size, time and materials used. All the sudden, no one wanted to buy it. People want a huge handmade blanket for $40 or less, and it’s just not realistic for the time, love and effort put into a hand crafted item. So I feel the whole ‘not making much money’ part of this video.
Even if you struggle like this, we take so much joy from being a part of your (and Stanley's) journey. Thank you for suffering for our benefit, we appreciate you Kayla! Please know your efforts never go to waste
You need a high skill in cross stitching for it to have some chance to work. Still better than vending machines. At least, Humphrey did not die. I often sell paintings to collectors for up to $2500 when my painting gets high.
I forgot this : If you have Jungle adventures, you have access to the Archaeology skill. When it gets to 8 or more, you'll start receiving artifacts to authenticate. Each one is worth at least $3000. Also, it allow you to extract elements from crystals and metals while retaining those items. GREAT way to complete your collection of elements.
Can you get rich quick from only festivals and events? Include city living, snowy escape, cottage living and island living festivals/events. Use the mod that notifies you of island events and use the calendar to plan where and when
the most profitable way is to have a llama, then sell it on the table from City Living at a 300% markup! it’s how james got $1,000,000 with the flower arranging 😂
I always thought if Kayla redid the cross stitch rags to riches, she’d use a llama. Should’ve known she prefers to suffer through the retail experience 😂
I feel a new Sims expansion should be added to go along with Vampires. They should do a full on supernatural expansion that includes Werewolves, Mummies, Zombies, Ghosts - I know Ghosts are already there but bare with me - that way they can have Ghostbusters as a career or even have Hunters - like Supernatural - where you hunt down leads and find nasty critters to deal with.
this is my formal request that you eventually make merch that says "NO IM NOT GOING TO BATUU" because it's basically the slogan for every rags to riches
I really wish you earned more by having a retail store, because i love having a bakery BuT i earn like nothing lol! Also have customers buy things more easily, it’s so annoying to talk to all of em for them to buy anything
It depends what you sell, I made one of my sim use the wood table and the heart mural thing cost something like 175 to make and with my sim's skill, the minimum he sold was 800 with like almost no mark up, and often would sell for 1000.
I found this out purely through game play but if you do the free lancer career and click writer just level up your writing and by level 7-8 you can make $2000 per project and they take a quarter of a day max to do
Paintings. I often play with painter sims. When they start getting some fame behind them, they can spend 50 simoleons on a canvas, spend an hour painting and sell the work for 1,500+ simoleons. Highly profitable. I started with a sim in a tiny home and had her do nothing but paint and hang out with Penny Pizazz when her social need got low. She moved out of that tiny home a couple of weeks later with more than 100k.
I haven't done a ton of cross stitching, but I know sims will buy them off Plopsy for like 3x times the amount it cost to make sometimes. But you do have to wait a few sim days most of the time before someone wants to purchase something. I love these get rich quick videos!
I'd love to see a shop based on the woodworking bench. Or a fishing shop, where you sell whatever weird upgrade parts or future cubes or cowberry plants you fish up.
I've been running a bakery with the simple living trait, and it's been a fun challenge! You need A LOT of eggs though so I recommend getting chickens. I feel like it would be more fun if the retail system wasn't so annoying though and the employees actually did their tasks
Pro Tip: Click on the finished cross-stitch in the sim's inventory (it has to be in the personal inventory) and there will be an option to make the cross-stitch mountable on the wall. Then you can drag and hang them on the wall.
As a cross stitcher I can tell you the profit is in the patterns and materials and not the finished projects due to the time it takes to stitch them. Custom dyed fabric and embroidery floss can be expensive. Patterns can run from just a couple dollars to $25 or more. The more colors a pattern requires the more it costs to stitch as most thread cost $0.60 or more per skein. That doesn't seem like much but when a pattern calls for 100 or more colors and multiple skeins of certain colors it adds up quickly.
Why couldn't you use the yard sale table from EL or University? I like the idea of running a business from home, but with the selling table, you can mark it up over 200 percent.
I'm SO glad that you're giving it another try, I felt like it was done dirty before because there were a lot of unrelated inconveniences (no starting funds which isn't helpful for crafting skills). It's a different situation so I feel like this wasn't exactly what I envisioned, but I think you gave it a much fairer trial this time!
I feel like instead of doing retail it would be worth trying to sell them on the craft selling table that comes with eco lifestyle! Start a yard sale and people will flock to the table, and you can mark up the price by a ton
This has probably already been said, but if you use the outdoor sales tables that you get from the City Living pack, then you can sell anything you want on them for a 300% markup and people will just buy them automatically without needing to be persuaded.
All I can think about is a sim, who loves gardening and flower arranging, opening up a lil flower shop and having a cute apartment above it (if that's even possible lol)
love this series! can you try getting rich from gifts from rabbits and birds? i've noticed they can be pretty good if you have a high relationship with them
I generally will tell a few jokes or complement sims if they come into the store in a bad mood besides just doing retail interactions. Having it nicely decorated space and some ambient music helps too.
Really want to see a painting rags to riches speed run. Like within one video use painting as the singular source of income (could open a retail shop to boost the profit), and go until you reach like 500,000 simoleons or something. Would be an interesting experiment to see how long it would take
I was curious how much could be made with cross stitching. So you can sell them before finishing, and if you get the selling table and mark up 300% you can make a rags to riches
Could you imagine actually going into this bare store with no flooring or wallpaper, a few cross stitches on the ground and a guy in a hotdog suit sleeping on a couch
LMAO
thats what the sims is all about
And one of the cross stitches is you while you were in the store another time
i'd buy
Kayla, the most profitable way to do cross-stitching is through having a llama and then shave their wool, and you will be able to cross-stitch with much less price, depending on the wool color and you will make much more profit =)
The purpose is just trying to use one thing to get rich. Not using anything else
@@breakfastgamer yes but remember in this video she was trying to find a way to make it more profitable and used a retail store. tasneem was just being polite and suggesting from their experience
The problem is that sometimes selling the wool would be more profitable than using it to make a cross stitch. Like with golden wool.
Also listing things on plopsy
Smarrrrrt
Watching Kayla throughout my college life is so… reassuring. She’s only two years old than me, but as I go through uni, watching her videos and considering her life gives me someone to look up to as well as comfort. She finished her degree while uploading constantly… went through the entire moving process with Dan for years… and continues to donate to charities. Our personalities are so similar and I’ve felt a connection to Kayla ever since I first started watching her while we both were still high schoolers. While you’ll probably never know me, I appreciate you and everything you do Kayla. Thanks for growing up with me and being my comfort channel and my favorite TH-cam/ streamer. 💕
im 4? 3? years younger than kayla and ive been watching her since she was around my age and it feels so crazy to see how shes grown and how her content has changed in her own unique way
I feel that 100%. Kayla is 4 years older than me so she graduated high school right when I was entering it. I started watching her around that time so the transition to high school was a little easier because of her. Kayla actually went to the same high school as me so that was even more comforting. She’s so successful now and her being able to balance school and TH-cam makes me believe I can do the same but with a sport. I’m currently and freshman in high school and I still watch all her videos. Kayla is such a comfort TH-camr for me.
I'm 17 and I'm applying to unis, so seeing her go through that and upload gives me tonnes of optimism. I love to watch her down decorations when I'm thinking about it
I’m so glad that you feel that way! I’m in the same boat and I’m just so impressed with everything she accomplished. I’m currently in my 3rd year of uni and it’s been difficult during the pandemic and it’s amazing to see a TH-camr that is genuinely a good person (and around my age lol) I hope Kayla will keep bringing likeminded people together ❤️
@@kyungraeist omg exactly the same with me! i’ve been watching her since she was like 16 and i was 12, and now i’m in college and she’s graduated and married! it’s insane
I read the title, and I was like "Oh god... what's worse than cross-sitching?" Cross-stitching retail! :D
Oh NO
It would work better with the selling table. People buy things on their own and you can set up a much higher (300%) markup.
wait in real life?
@@moneytalks5114 lol no, at the game lmao
Yeah, that's what I do with anything I wanna sell, but specifically crafted items! Even if it's on a residential lot, it works like a dream, especially if you set it to 300% markup :)
Okay I'd love to see a Rags to Riches where kid Stanley tries to make money off of selling drawings from the kids art table
That's a good idea.
Is there a kids' hot dog costume...?
This is such a cute idea
Would need Janine as the manager lol
Even better if he just adopted a kid, had them do the art and then sells it. Little kid is all "this is us together having fun" and he's all "its getting sold just like the rest".
it might be more profitable if you expand the house hold and essentially keep one sim to work the store and have the other 7 working in a sweat shop kind of situation to maintain inventory
I mean that can't be the worst thing someone's done in The Sims. I mean, people were grilling babies at one point, right?
this is 100% CallmeKevin energy, and i mean that as a compliment.
callmekevin....
@@alisepolselli7269 TheSpiffingBrit recently released a video where he made money from trapping pregnant sims in a swimming pool. Basically pregnant sims can't die and they can't give birth in the pool. So when they go into labour the game does the thing where it give you the free crib (which can be sold). But because the sim is in the pool, they can't actually have the baby, so they get stuck in a loop of being forever in labour, with more and more cribs spawning on the lot. And they can't even starve to death or anything to escape the nightmare.
Now it wasn't a particularly quick method to get rich quick or anything, but he was doing it as a way of "printing money". As in if the sim moved into a prebuilt lot laid out for the purpose with some -unsuspecting victims- sims whose sole purpose it is to get pregnant, the main sim could in effect earn money doing nothing other than impregnating other sims.
Not sure if that counts as "worst" but its certainly not pleasant.
Could you imagine you’re just window shopping in a store and then see a cross stitch of yourself 😂
As someone running a small sewing business can guarantee this is exactly what it's like you put in so much time an it makes so little profit
What do you make?
Where’s your link though
Honestly, this is so realistic. I’ve spent $125 on embroidery thread for a single project before, and there were still colours I couldn’t find because they were sold out. I’d never even make that money back if I sold the final product.
Not to mention fair compensation for labor
Here me out: Stanley, legacy challenge, except each new generation's career is one of these rags to riches gigs.
Ooooooooooooooo that sounds painful! I love it.
That would be AMAZING
I'm surprised you haven't tried the street vending tables from City Living. Those are lower cost and don't require employees or separate lots.
I think you can set a higher mark up as well
I didn't even know you could have a sim work those. I've been playing sims since the beginning of sims 3 and Im still learning
@@Kadence_Hoffman Thats okay. I've been playing since Sims 1 when I was like 12 years old & I'm still learning. Lol I feel like the Sims will never let you know all of the things.
Yesss I love using those. I have my sim kids tend them (kind of like it’s their little business). I sell all the honey, eggs, and milk they make.
For making the cross stitch on the wall, you need to put it in your inventory and then click on it. There should be an option to make it hangable.
Oh my god, I could not figure out why they were hangable! It seemed so ridiculous. I'm so glad to know that there is a fix for that!
Omg thank you so much !!!! I was getting crazy cause i couldn't figure out how to hang them on the wall xD
THABKS
You're definitely not wrong about skilled craftsmanship being underpaid. There was a period of time where I relied on crochet and knit orders as my sole income and it was ROUGH
Where do you live and how did you sell your stuff? Etsy? I've been thinking about starting some little business to sell my knitting but idk if I'd even make a profit😅
Could you do a part 3 and try to sell the cross stitches on the yard sale table so you can markup 300%?
Stanley really pulling out all the stops to make this get rich quick scheme work, except for when he pricks his finger.. that’s where he draws the line
When I bought cottage living I needed another way to make money in my 100 baby challenge so I would lock the children in the basement and make them do cross stitching and for all the children I had I made a couple bucks a day it was more of a side business.
Your merch is cute ☺️
sentences, that without the sims 4 content would be a bit concerning.
Omg even just having chickens or bees would make you more
If you have Eco Living, kids can make candles. Thank me later.
You can hang them on the walls. When they are in your inventory, there is an option to mount it, like with fish.
Please, try partying to get rich. Should be relatively easy, some of the awarded parties are really promising.
I binge watch this chanel so much that Kayla is the voice in my head when I speak with myself in english (I'm brazilian, we native speak Portuguese)
I'm sad because my previous comment was deleted because I inserted an external link for a Google page with a ref pic of a house on it 😭😭😭😭
(btw Kayla if you see this, I wanna thank you for bringing me so much joy with your gameplays. and also I'd love if you built a Brazilian styled family home in the sims!)
Theu have to update this pack. Running a shop or a restaurant is a mess.
Suggestion:
Have a household of 8 where 7 are all making cross stitch patterns and 1 is selling them
I wish they would put more hobbies for older people in the sims 4 base game. Like coin/stamp collection, couponing, or plate collections. Like, idk more niche things for my elderly sims to do besides gardening or baking.
There are plates that you can get from parenthood I think? People randomly gift them to me on my sims birthdays. It’s not reaaaally a collectible though
I'd love to give you a pro tip so that you can do this again much better. Get yourself a micro home, then get yourself the cross stitch thing, and a selling table. Markup the price to the 300% option, and sell away via yard sale. Challenge accomplished, no extra work necessary. Except affording to cross stitch and buy the table in the beginning. Enjoy lol.
I've recently been doing a rags to riches where my sim goes on dates and I just sell the rewards, and it's really effective.
Actually, some baked goods are worth pretty good money if you sell them with 100% markup. I used to get up to 700 simoleons for some of the cupcakes. I also used to stock the most expensive items from build mode and sell them for twice as much money in my sims' retail stores. That's a good way to cheat the system and get reach really quickly, like, you can make your sim a millionaire in an hour 😄
If you just used the selling tables (not sure if the name is correct) that come with city living/jungle adventure/eco lifestyle, you can mark the prices at 300% and once you start the street sale ( again not sure of the name) you don't need to do anything because sims just spawn an buy your stuff, just yesterday my sim sold dragonfruits that had a price around 300 normally in like 1200 each one, and combined with some flower arrangments she won like 26000 in 1 day xd
As a crafter, they've got the cost for knitting and cross stitch mixed up. Cross stitches only cost a few dollars to make (thread and cloth) whereas I just spent $250 on alpaca yarn in order to make a chunky knit sweater. 😭
last night, something happened that really shook me up, so i’ve been on edge all day…but watching kayla mess around in the sims has calmed my heart a little. thank you, lilsimsie. 💛
Stanley really suprises me every time with his many many talents
He’s like Kayla’s sim from the sims 3 Gertrude.
To be fair, SOME real life cashiers work for 8 hours and make less than a $100 a day before taxes. So Stanley is doing pretty good in comparison. Go Stanley.
I cross stitch IRL, and can safely say that you cross stitch for the enjoyment lol. I think it's impossible to make a profit from completed cross stitches 😂 x
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So excited for this, honestly would love to do cross stitching in real life so it’s a cool add to the game so it’ll be cool if you can actually make a profitable hobby with it
I cross stitch and embroider and it is so fun and easy!! doooo itttttt
It’s so fun you should try it. It can be hard to find patterns in art stores but there’s tons online you can get for free or buy and then you just buy the hoops and floss. I used to do it but I got into knitting and kinda dropped it lol.
As someone with zero artistic talent, cross stitch is both very fun and very easy to do, even while watching youtube in the background. I recommend giving it a try!
Use the selling table on a home lot. Biggest money scam going. 300% markup and no overhead.
The hotdog king is back! We all missed him soooooo much!!
Charisma really helps, and as some others have said, a display system really helps grease the wheels.
Also, you have to tell your employees what to do, that's why Alex did nothing.
My most profitable business was finishing scientist, simraying cheap showers into expensive fridges, selling them at a 25 percent markup. It almost felt like a cheat. The buy in was super low, and the profit margins were massive, though it did take time to get what you wanted.
I’ve tried doing an “art gallery” as a retail store and restocking the paintings lowered the quality each time. So if I stocked masterpieces my sims painted when I restocked it it would be high quality then medium then low. Basically I had to keep painting new ones for them to stay high quality.
You can hang cross-stitch on the wall but it has to be in your inventory first, click on it and there’s an option to ‘create wall mounted copy’. Also selling them through Plopsy actually gives you a lot of money, it just takes a little longer to sell things, usually a week.
the most profitable way to cross stitch is probably having a llama alongside a retail store, using the wools to make the cross stitches for free and selling them completely up priced
Yard Sale Table and the Llama would be most profitable. The highest mark-up on the table is 300% and you don't need a retail lot or need to talk to the people who show up. ;)
The secret sauce is flower arranging with bluebell scent, plus Plopsy. Once you get the really expensive ones, you get your money's worth, with the markup of plopsy, without having to tend to customers.
I just bought a sensitive hoodie! And OMG I can't believe you had it in my size! I'm a 3XL and almost NOBODY sells more than XL! You are amazing Kayla!
She also does an XS! I'm amazed! I never even look at merch because you can almost never find a company selling anything smaller than a size S these days.
From someone who sews professionally... it does not take two hours to recover from being poked with a needle. Usually you won't even bleed 😂
But it is entirely realistic that hand crafts like knitting and cross stitch are rarely profitable.
Best way to make money: go to libary read the vampire book until you can make fish to plasma bags then go to bredlington bay to by fish then turn them into plasma bags. The fish cost shepest 7 simolions and you can sell the bags for 50 simolions. Can also be used to get 50 simolions for every fish whose worth less.
stanley is such a weenie, i poke myself every 30 minutes cross stitching and i don’t quit
Simsie over here summing up the struggles of every crafter that sells their art
New idea for rags to riches: can you get rich by running a vet clinic
Oh gosh that might be another painful one 😂 maybe I was just doing it wrong, but I had a sim try to open a vet clinic, and she was busy all the time and not making that much money compared to the other stuff you can do
Get to Work was my first Sims pack and the first thing I did with it was open up a family bakery where the owners lived in a loft above the store
I kinda like that is that way because for us crafters doing stuff for sale is a pain because everyone thinks is super easy to do and the "how hard can that be" is like a mantra that won't stop just like "can you give it to me cheaper... Or free, we are friends right?" It makes everyone see that is hard and hopefully appreciate crafters work more.
Not making money on hand crafted items is pretty accurate compared to real life. I know a lot of "crafters" of things like historic clothing and embroidery. They don't make much money. My husband is a blacksmith/knife maker. But making commission knives and items didn't bring in a living wage. Fortunately, after he was on Forged in Fire he started making money teaching blacksmithing and knife making. That at least has brought in enough money, but not any of the hand crafted items!
wow I watch Forged in Fire
pretty amazing craftsmen in the show
I tried to have my elder sim take up cross stitching as a hobby. But since the house has a pool, they automatically go to cross stitch at the edge of the pool no matter what I do. My elder sim almost froze to death before I realized what was happening!! Freaking cross stitch
If i don' t listen to Lilsimsie in the background while playing the sims4, i find myself rather inspirationless either in playing my sims or building their houses.
I wonder if Plopsy would have a higher markup? It has less social interaction slowing it down, even if sales are slower...
KAYLA I NEED YOU TO SEE THIS.
I just discovered that you can sell evidence and befriend The Mother in Strangerville. Both these actions grant money, and asking The Mother for riches can grant you a FAT load of cash. You have to make Stanley try and get rich fast doing this!!!!
I spent 2 1/2 months crocheting a blanket, and people wanted to buy it. I told them it’ll be $600 for the size, time and materials used. All the sudden, no one wanted to buy it. People want a huge handmade blanket for $40 or less, and it’s just not realistic for the time, love and effort put into a hand crafted item. So I feel the whole ‘not making much money’ part of this video.
Even if you struggle like this, we take so much joy from being a part of your (and Stanley's) journey. Thank you for suffering for our benefit, we appreciate you Kayla! Please know your efforts never go to waste
Trying to remember, can these be put in the garage sale table? That would be faster and more profitable
You need a high skill in cross stitching for it to have some chance to work. Still better than vending machines. At least, Humphrey did not die.
I often sell paintings to collectors for up to $2500 when my painting gets high.
I forgot this :
If you have Jungle adventures, you have access to the Archaeology skill. When it gets to 8 or more, you'll start receiving artifacts to authenticate. Each one is worth at least $3000.
Also, it allow you to extract elements from crystals and metals while retaining those items. GREAT way to complete your collection of elements.
Can you get rich quick from only festivals and events? Include city living, snowy escape, cottage living and island living festivals/events. Use the mod that notifies you of island events and use the calendar to plan where and when
the most profitable way is to have a llama, then sell it on the table from City Living at a 300% markup! it’s how james got $1,000,000 with the flower arranging 😂
stanley once again goes through the realities of life
You should do a holiday themed rags to riches where Stan tries to get rich from stocking and opening a pile of presents
I always thought if Kayla redid the cross stitch rags to riches, she’d use a llama. Should’ve known she prefers to suffer through the retail experience 😂
I think we need a plushy of Stanely, the man, the myth, the Hotdog! We need Stanely Merch!
I feel a new Sims expansion should be added to go along with Vampires. They should do a full on supernatural expansion that includes Werewolves, Mummies, Zombies, Ghosts - I know Ghosts are already there but bare with me - that way they can have Ghostbusters as a career or even have Hunters - like Supernatural - where you hunt down leads and find nasty critters to deal with.
this is my formal request that you eventually make merch that says "NO IM NOT GOING TO BATUU" because it's basically the slogan for every rags to riches
"it's just painful how much work he's doing for such little return" - every crafter ever felt that
I really wish you earned more by having a retail store, because i love having a bakery BuT i earn like nothing lol! Also have customers buy things more easily, it’s so annoying to talk to all of em for them to buy anything
It depends what you sell, I made one of my sim use the wood table and the heart mural thing cost something like 175 to make and with my sim's skill, the minimum he sold was 800 with like almost no mark up, and often would sell for 1000.
This needs a part3 with a fully furnished store, staff, some invertory to start off with and all the extras mentioned in the comments.
Your channel is starting to become the highlight of my day, thanks for making me smile❤️❤️
Right as I saw Kayaks notif my rained on forgot my keys kinda day got happier
Love you Kayla!
Ps. We Stan the hotdog man.
I love this serie
I found this out purely through game play but if you do the free lancer career and click writer just level up your writing and by level 7-8 you can make $2000 per project and they take a quarter of a day max to do
Paintings. I often play with painter sims. When they start getting some fame behind them, they can spend 50 simoleons on a canvas, spend an hour painting and sell the work for 1,500+ simoleons. Highly profitable. I started with a sim in a tiny home and had her do nothing but paint and hang out with Penny Pizazz when her social need got low. She moved out of that tiny home a couple of weeks later with more than 100k.
I haven't done a ton of cross stitching, but I know sims will buy them off Plopsy for like 3x times the amount it cost to make sometimes. But you do have to wait a few sim days most of the time before someone wants to purchase something. I love these get rich quick videos!
Kayla, you're so wonderful - your videos always come out at just the right time to soothe and help
You only need one simoleon in your business fund to open your retail store!
I'm working on a bakery save now actually! So seeing how it works with your advice would be incredibly cool and very helpful
I wanna get your merch but the shipping to UK pricing is ridiculous
I'd love to see a shop based on the woodworking bench. Or a fishing shop, where you sell whatever weird upgrade parts or future cubes or cowberry plants you fish up.
He’s gonna have to ask his daughter for a small loan at this rate
I've been running a bakery with the simple living trait, and it's been a fun challenge! You need A LOT of eggs though so I recommend getting chickens. I feel like it would be more fun if the retail system wasn't so annoying though and the employees actually did their tasks
Pro Tip: Click on the finished cross-stitch in the sim's inventory (it has to be in the personal inventory) and there will be an option to make the cross-stitch mountable on the wall. Then you can drag and hang them on the wall.
As a cross stitcher I can tell you the profit is in the patterns and materials and not the finished projects due to the time it takes to stitch them. Custom dyed fabric and embroidery floss can be expensive. Patterns can run from just a couple dollars to $25 or more. The more colors a pattern requires the more it costs to stitch as most thread cost $0.60 or more per skein. That doesn't seem like much but when a pattern calls for 100 or more colors and multiple skeins of certain colors it adds up quickly.
Besties, can we just appreciate that she posts everyday?
If you list them on plopsy it seems like they’re bought for much more
im so happy u upload everyday but please prioritize yourself, im sure it’s insanely exhausting. it’s okay to take breaks!
Why couldn't you use the yard sale table from EL or University? I like the idea of running a business from home, but with the selling table, you can mark it up over 200 percent.
I'm SO glad that you're giving it another try, I felt like it was done dirty before because there were a lot of unrelated inconveniences (no starting funds which isn't helpful for crafting skills). It's a different situation so I feel like this wasn't exactly what I envisioned, but I think you gave it a much fairer trial this time!
I feel like instead of doing retail it would be worth trying to sell them on the craft selling table that comes with eco lifestyle! Start a yard sale and people will flock to the table, and you can mark up the price by a ton
Do the bakery with the cupcake machine! That’s what I do and I make actually good profit because of how quick they are to make :D
just got covid, this is honestly the only thing to keep me entertained while in isolation lmao
I hope you feel better and you have a speedy recovery 💓
@@tae_jiminskookie8446 Thanks!
This has probably already been said, but if you use the outdoor sales tables that you get from the City Living pack, then you can sell anything you want on them for a 300% markup and people will just buy them automatically without needing to be persuaded.
If there’s one thing these videos have taught me it’s that if for no other reason, I’m not buying the Star Wars pack to avoid the batuu calls
All I can think about is a sim, who loves gardening and flower arranging, opening up a lil flower shop and having a cute apartment above it (if that's even possible lol)
love this series! can you try getting rich from gifts from rabbits and birds? i've noticed they can be pretty good if you have a high relationship with them
I generally will tell a few jokes or complement sims if they come into the store in a bad mood besides just doing retail interactions.
Having it nicely decorated space and some ambient music helps too.
Cross stitching is pretty bad, but I think the vending machines was the absolute worst. At least you can't die from cross stitching. 😅
Really want to see a painting rags to riches speed run. Like within one video use painting as the singular source of income (could open a retail shop to boost the profit), and go until you reach like 500,000 simoleons or something. Would be an interesting experiment to see how long it would take
Omg yes bakery! I always wanted to do that, just can't bring myself to actually doing it 😂
I was curious how much could be made with cross stitching. So you can sell them before finishing, and if you get the selling table and mark up 300% you can make a rags to riches