Boosting A Low Budget
At Mom's house, Mimi's place, or Dudley's trailer, buy things until your budget drops below $100. Wait about an hour. When the phone rings, answer it. You will get free money. Repeat this as necessary.
Raise Motives
To help raise motives in later levels, move back to Mom's house. The Artificial Love will make raising motives easier.
Raising Skills
While living with Mom, do not run out and get a job after you have completed the first few goals. Instead, stay around awhile and use that time to build skills. Mom will nag you, but just select 'Okay' and keep doing everything else. Make sure to keep yourself happy and entertain/talk/joke with Mom to keep your relationship up to par. When you have your skills where you want them, move out. This will make things much easier. You will then be able to concentrate on your job and relationships, rather than skill building.
1,000 Simoleons
Pause the game and then press: A, A, Y, Y, White, White, Black, Black.
All free objects
Pause the game and then press: Y, Y, White, Black, Black Y, Y, Y, Y, Y, White, Black.
Everything unlocked
Pause the game, then press: B, X, X, A, B, X, B, X.
All objects unlocked
Pause Game, then press Black, Up, Y, Down, R.
All socials unlocked
Pause Game, then press L, R, A, Down, Black.
All visit locations unlocked
Pause Game, then press Black, Down, R, L, Down, Y.
Free money
Pause Game, then press L, Black, Right, X, Left. A gnome should appear near the road. Click on it for free money.
Dead plants
When a plant is dead, do not throw it away. You can sell the dead plant for as much as a new plant costs.
Easy money
When you go to a house and do not have much money, trade in all the wallpaper and buy the cheap version. You can get a good amount of money. You can do the same thing with the tile.
Fishin' For Profit book
To get the Fishin' For Profit book go to Nikki Nack's store (open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.). After you buy it, find O'Phil Mclean. Give it to him and he will give you a job. Note - You must get the goals from him first. To do this, talk to Salty. Later in the game, you will be offered by Nikki Nack to buy the Waterfront Villa for 3,000 Simoleons.
Never work
In Bustin' Out mode, the people who you live with cannot get fired. If you want them to stay home, just let them. This can be very useful if you need them to clean up, or need them to do some other things.
While living with Mom, do not run out and get a job after you have completed the first few goals. Instead, stay around awhile and use that time to build skills. Mom will nag you, but just select 'Okay' and keep doing everything else. Make sure to keep yourself happy and entertain/talk/joke with Mom to keep your relationship up to par. When you have your skills where you want them, move out. This will make things much easier. You will then be able to concentrate on your job and relationships, rather than skill building.
Skipping work
In Bustin' Out mode, you can skip work by moving back into Mom's house. While you live with Mom, the bus will not arrive, and you do not have to work. This is useful if things are not going so well and you need some time to "restore" your Sim.
Throw an art opening
When you move to Studio 8, one of the goals is to throw an art opening. In order for the art opening to be successful, you have to purchase a Sculpting Block and sculpt it first. Then, have the party and it will be successful. However, before you can purchase the Sculpting Block, you must complete the goal that will give you access to it.
Permit Cheats
Pause the game in Bust Out or Free Mode and use the D-Pad and/or buttons to enter the following cheat(s):
L, BLACK, RIGHT, BLUE, LEFT (this creates a gnome on the Sim's property signifying cheats are allowed); you can also click on it to gain money.
Having a new baby
If a social worker takes your baby, just kiss your wife or husband and it should say: "Do you want to have a baby?". Note: Your wife or husband has to be 100% if you want a new baby.
A fun way to "torture" a sim
First you have to buy the INCUBATER and you have to make mutant plants, at least 4 plants. After you make the plants, feed and water them until they become big plants. Then invite the sim you want to "torture" over the phone. When the sim comes wait until the sim ring the doorbell. after it rings go into buyuild mode and put the 4 plants at each side of the sim.(make sure you don't feed the plant or water it in order for this to work). Put the plants in the pattern of a cross. After this watch the sim get "tortured".
Hint: Have a ghost for a maid
All you have to do is buy the "incubater"(skill building)and make at least four mutants. Then feed and water the mutants until they become bigger. when they do hire a maid if you don't have a maid. When your maid comes, do not feed the plants. Wait at least two days. Then on the third day wait until your maid comes. When she comes go into buyuild mode and surrond the maid with the four mutants and wait until they eat her whole. If this happens during the day buy a seance table(miscellanous)and wait until nightfall. At night highlight the seance table and select "contact spirits". Wait until you see the maid come out of the table. After that she'll work for you even if she's a ghost.
Prison
On bust out mode, in moms house go into buy/build mode. You can ether take the doors away fom the room moms in or build around her. She will soon say "what did i do to deserve this".
Get promoted much quicker
Okay, first, you need to make a sim with a load of cash. We're talking RICH. Also, two players.
Next, move the sim home, so he/she won't need to work. Next, build a completely new room, walls and all, and add the best of everything you need:
Beds, Refrigerators, Skill Builders, and above all, things that give you atmoshpere!
Get the atmosphere to a 10 rating, and move a new, poor sim into the building. He/she won't need to work, and can work on his/her skills in a great mood (the atmoshpere is needed to put your sim into a good mood).
Now, once you feel satisfied with his/her skills, you can get him any job he/she wants, and get promoted quickly.
Jock Career
To successfully complete the Jock career, you need to have all Body points, 4 Cooking points, and 5 Charisma points. You will also need six friends. A quick way to complete this is go to Mom's house and buy something to work your body (for example, a treadmill, pool, etc.);a bookshelf or something similar to the gourmet cooking stove; and something for your charisma (for example, a microphone or a mirror). Do that, then build your skills and move to the different houses so you can complete a goal and unlock something. You will eventually get to Malcolm's mansion.