Readers Respond: The Sims 3 Hints and Tips

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From Jason Rybka, former About.com Guide

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Go to http://www.thesims3.com then go to exchange, and download whatever you want! You do have to join, but it's worth it, and not hard with no extra costs! Goes straight to disc!
—Guest PenguinMe

go to their personal needs and click where u want there needs at, keep clicking at it
—Guest alphawolf23

In cheat mode, go to the school and hit shift and click on the school. Select Delete Object. Kids will not have to go to school nor do homework in their life. Great way to max skills!
—Guest JGM

Well of course we all hate everyone saying the testingcheatsenabled true cheat.. but this is helpful! Press Ctrl-Shift-C, and type in testingcheatsenabled true and if there's an annoying person (visitor, neighbor, authorized sim person, etc) you can delete them. Works with firetrucks. And other objects. Hope this helps. ~KaylieSims
—Guest KaylieSims3Addict

you don't nees to go to china,just to be able to spar with someone..just try to put a trainingdummy in the gym or any public place,coz only trained sim are able to spar with you..training dummy can be found in the buydebug..
—Guest no one knows

After putting in "TestingCheatsEnabled True" Ya know how you can click on their stats and drag up and down? Well to gain levels QUICKLY, just keep those at full while they train those skills. no more wasting time on eating, showering and bathing. It also helps if you use traits/lifetme achievements that help you gain skills faster :)
—Guest RenFade

Open the cheat box type in testingcheatsenabled true on the main menu pick a house or make a new one then open the sim panels and go to the lifetime happiness tab then press ctrl and click in between the chest and the number and voila! You have earned 500 lifetime happiness points and you can do it as you want and voila! You can buy anything! No more waiting for cool bonuses
—Guest ?????

Note: cases do NOT matter for many cheats. EA likes to mess with newbs and misspell a lot of the cheats. Also to open cheat box press CTRL SHIFT and C in that order at the same time. For some of you it might be hard to see, but its usually in the top left corner. YOU MUST ALWAYS PUT CHEATS INTO THE CHEATBOX AND SELECT ENTER TO ACTIVATE THEM. The most useful cheat would be: TestingCheatsEnabled true/false [True to turn them on. False off] from there you can close your cheatbox and click on sim,mailbox,or drag relationships while holding shift. Motherlode typed that way with or without caps will give you 50,000 simeloans. For all other cheats type help, and a list will appear.
—CountMyFreckles

Hold Ctrl, Shift and C so it comes up with a box. Then type in [Testingcheatsenabled true] Click on the mailbox and select [Make all happy] and then [Make needs static] And dada!
—Guest Anny SImmy

Fed up of not being able to buy decent houses? Well just type in 'freerealestate' without quotations after doing the ctrl shift c thing and it will let you choose a house regardless of how much money you have! Cool, huh?! Love T.Cooper :) x
—Guest T.Cooper

go to cheat menu, and type in help, you'll get loads of cheats from that. Type in 'kaching' to get 1, 000 money Type in 'Motherlode' to get 50, 000 money
—Guest Megsyxx

First you have to kill one sim then do the oh My Ghost oppirtunity for just one sim. After you have one sim as a ghost you save that household in edit town mode and merge the copied household with the current one. then using the testingcheatsenabled true cheat you can hold shift click on the copied ghost to change the gender if wanted in CAS.
—Guest Smartchick23

Open cheat bar (ctrl+shift+C) Type in Kaching... voila you have another 1000 in your family funds.
—Guest Flygirl249

in the game ativate testingcheatsenabled true then enter then hit ctrl shift and c the type familyfunds goth 9999999999. then u have unlimted money but replace goth with your faimlys last name
—Guest bella