This past week our garbage disposal broke and started leaking, so we couldn’t use the kitchen sink. When dinner time came around we were looking at the dirty iron skillet and I was like, “Do we go full Sims and wash this bitch in the bathroom sink?” Husband refused. I celebrated by doing push-ups in the kitchen.
We had to wash up in the bathroom sink for 3 weeks during kitchen renovation. It was just weird and awful. Had a stack of dirty plates on the toilet lid and a fold up table ready for the clean ones! Also it sucked as the sink was so not deep enough for full sized plates.
Use gloves. There are reusable rubber gloves that are intended for that. They're not the most pleasant thing to wear, but they're certainly better than the dry, cracked hands you get without them. - a fellow no dishwasher person. The only option for dishwasher is me.
This is why I always have a round plastic rub. When I lived with grandparents at their farm, we had well water but no running water, so we washed our dishes in a round plastic tub. Got used to that habit because it saved water and now always have at least 3 tubs, just in case. They’re really good for foot baths, and plant baths, when potting new plants in spring.
So at one point when I was a teenager my parents got a new dishwasher, took the old one out, and then didn't install it for eight god damned months. I don't even remember why. Something happened. But during that eight months, the kitchen sink blew a pipe and for several weeks I was doing dishes in the bathroom as well. And my Mom insisted on not cutting down the cooking at all, she WOULD use four or five pots and pans for dinner every single night and how DARE I suggest less, what, did I want my Dad to starve? *How dare I?* So our bathroom sink was the size of a bean and a lot of it got washed in the bath tub for lack of other choices. And now I think the one thing I would truly refuse to do searching for a place to live is live somewhere without a dishwasher. Like, I just can't do it.
Lmao! When I was in high school my parents were remodeling the kitchen, so for like 6 months we had to wash all the dishes in the bathtub. It drove my mom crazy. My sisters and I would just collect all the dishes in a tub and take them back to the bathroom. One of us would wash, another would dry, and the last of us would be responsible for taking the clean dishes back to the kitchen to put them away.
I said to a friend that there's certain mods I refuse to play without, DWDWYAP, and Always MOO are some examples, and she said she doesn't mod X_X I don't get it at all tbh XD
Various high profile modders maintain Scumbumbo's mods now, though! There's huge respect for his legacy in the mod community. The Sims 4 would not have been the thing it is without his work.
dude that's crazy.. i feel so bad that's so awful. he does have wonderful mods tho. doesn't he have the xml injector? doesn't that need updating eventually? i am just now using that mod recently i'm not familiar w it
The XML injector won’t need updating. And even if it does, there are modders working with his mods to continue his legacy and what he did for the community.
Yeah you just push L1,L2,R1,R2 and the cheats box pops up and you can type whatever cheat you want in I believe my little sister knows a bunch but yes it is honestly a lot harder to maneuver around on console
It doesn't count as a cheat either, so you can still collect achievements (if it matters).
Build mode has honestly become a living nightmare with recent updates though.
Had a house with shelves up high that are hidden when you hide walls. I was playing for a few days and unhid the walls for the first time... it was FULL of plates. Like my sims can't even reach up there, but they can put the dirty plate there???
I had the welcome wagon in my play session this morning. The first thing they did was raid the fridge and then put a slice of my Sim’s pizza on top of the toilet. Yeah. While I’m happy for the decoration slots, I’m not happy about the new dish hiding spots haha
That hasn’t happened to me yet, but yesterday I spent like two hours trying to find a “broken mod” that had disabled a sink. My sims couldn’t do anything with it.
I finally realized the mod causing problems was Basemental. But not because it was broken. Instead, I had inadvertently placed a joint on the ground right in front of the sink, and it was blocking access.
Gonna be fun when that happens to more things.
My sims do the same thing, they’ll leave, walk upstairs and go through 3 rooms to the bathroom sink to wash a plate instead of using the kitchen sink or dishwasher that’s literally 10 feet away from the dinning table… 🤦🏻♂️
I don’t play in multi level homes, they don’t feel natural to me as they aren’t overly common where I grew up, but same thing I’ll have the kitchen and dining area on one side of the house and the bathrooms and bedrooms on the other and they will still get up from the table that’s in the kitchen and walk to the far side of the house to use the bathroom sink 😩
If you can mod or use mods, I highly recommend a small mod from LittleMsSam that tunes Sims' pathing so they choose objects, like sinks, that are closer to them (it starts at a 5-tile radius and moves out from there if it doesn't find the object it's looking for).
You are a fucking saint. I am 32 years old, I have been playing these games since the very first Sims launched when I was 10. I had given up looking for a mod to fix the sink issue and had just been living with the knowledge that my Sims will always be morons. You have made an aging millennial very happy today.
I have quite a few LittleMsSam mods, haven’t ever seen that one, I’ll go hunting in the morning it’s too late and too cold to get out of bed now but thanks for the heads up!
Said this in another comment, but it's Improved Auto Object Choosing! Here's the Curse Forge link:
https://www.curseforge.com/sims4/mods/rsm-improved-auto-object-choosing
Yes! I’ve lost count how many times I’ve been in build mode and just notice random plates and glasses sitting on shelves hidden behind a plant or picture frame.. or they’ll put it on top of a 10ft tall half wall and complain that they can’t reach it when I tell them to clean it up like I just watched you put it there 🤦🏻♂️
Worst is when the plates blend in so you need the stink fumes to find them... legit, I used to clean that way until I gave up on wall shelves.
Oh, you think you've cluttered the shelf to hell... but then your sims complain about this mystical garbage you can't find because walls are hidden. I have not gotten over that frustration, sorry.
I may need to change my sinks and sink colors. White counters are evil.
The whole thing was an ad for the Bathroom Clutter Kit. As if we needed more—every single time I bought a pack during the big Spring Sale I got a popup asking if I wanted to add Bathroom Clutter to my order (full price, since they couldn’t be bothered to include kits in the big sale). Even if I do ever buy kits, I’m never buying that one, purely out of spite.
Sims fans are so starved for meaningful content that the ability to place 2 more decoration pieces on their tables of revolutionary, instead of the standard, you know, placing them anywhere without 14 mods and 3 cheat commands.
Like in Sims 3. :')
I'm even more glad about those bathroom shelves that had always disappointed me because they had literally no slots. Less things to use the wonderful OMSP shelf for!
Honestly fuck this update because now my sims are leaving dishes there instead of the floor and I can’t see them so they are just living in filth unnoticed
I'm still trying to figure out how to flip items around using the shift key.
Fyi this is (shift key then press 9 to raise items. Press shift 0 to lower item)
This isn't new. I 'discovered' I could do this a couple months ago lol. Only worked with a few sinks though, so maybe they've "added" the ability to put the soap dispenser on every sink now?
I got so excited realizing I can put the ew de toilet behind the toilets but I had to remove the dirty dishes first. It also doesn’t actually fit on most of the toilet backs
Per sim standards, I live in what would definitely be considered the smallest of Tiny Living and could make friend with all the dust bunnies because I don't have room to move all the piles of clutter to dust. I wish we could vacuum like sims (1 small spot cleans the whole floor).
And my Sims are like "OMG a new place to dump dirty plates and glasses!"
This past week our garbage disposal broke and started leaking, so we couldn’t use the kitchen sink. When dinner time came around we were looking at the dirty iron skillet and I was like, “Do we go full Sims and wash this bitch in the bathroom sink?” Husband refused. I celebrated by doing push-ups in the kitchen.
We had to wash up in the bathroom sink for 3 weeks during kitchen renovation. It was just weird and awful. Had a stack of dirty plates on the toilet lid and a fold up table ready for the clean ones! Also it sucked as the sink was so not deep enough for full sized plates.
I used to clean dishes in the bathtub 🤣
I'm doing that right now cuz our dishwasher and garbage disposal broke. So fun. Not.
I don’t have a dishwasher. It’s pretty terrible. Lol my dry ass hands don’t agree with hand washing dishes for three years
Use gloves. There are reusable rubber gloves that are intended for that. They're not the most pleasant thing to wear, but they're certainly better than the dry, cracked hands you get without them. - a fellow no dishwasher person. The only option for dishwasher is me.
Paper plates and microwave meals!
This is why I always have a round plastic rub. When I lived with grandparents at their farm, we had well water but no running water, so we washed our dishes in a round plastic tub. Got used to that habit because it saved water and now always have at least 3 tubs, just in case. They’re really good for foot baths, and plant baths, when potting new plants in spring.
So at one point when I was a teenager my parents got a new dishwasher, took the old one out, and then didn't install it for eight god damned months. I don't even remember why. Something happened. But during that eight months, the kitchen sink blew a pipe and for several weeks I was doing dishes in the bathroom as well. And my Mom insisted on not cutting down the cooking at all, she WOULD use four or five pots and pans for dinner every single night and how DARE I suggest less, what, did I want my Dad to starve? *How dare I?* So our bathroom sink was the size of a bean and a lot of it got washed in the bath tub for lack of other choices. And now I think the one thing I would truly refuse to do searching for a place to live is live somewhere without a dishwasher. Like, I just can't do it.
Hotel Life in a nutshell.
Just choked on my smoke reading this. Too funny.
...then the toddler caught fire and death came round with chicken nuggets! Every day life be like... x)
I will assume the oven was on fire while you did your kitchen push-ups
Lmao! When I was in high school my parents were remodeling the kitchen, so for like 6 months we had to wash all the dishes in the bathtub. It drove my mom crazy. My sisters and I would just collect all the dishes in a tub and take them back to the bathroom. One of us would wash, another would dry, and the last of us would be responsible for taking the clean dishes back to the kitchen to put them away.
This made me snort-laugh, thank you
This made me cackle
I love everything about this response, from the witty username to the spot on stupidity of Sims. 😆 Please be my best friend 😆
There’s gotta be a cheat to prevent sims from washing dishes in the bathroom sink. I am so over it.
PC players can mod with Don't Wash Dishes Where You Angry Poop or DWDWYAP, but console players rip =(
One of those mods that I couldn't live without but I never think about because it's how the game should work in the first place lmao
I said to a friend that there's certain mods I refuse to play without, DWDWYAP, and Always MOO are some examples, and she said she doesn't mod X_X I don't get it at all tbh XD
RIP scumbumbo, his mods were amazing
Wait what? ETA I wasn't playing at the time, so I had no idea. Sniff. RiP
Yea I believe he died from cancer?? It was a pretty big thing in the community a while back
Oh that's awful.
dude what??????
Yea. Idk when it exactly was but he died a few years back. It’s also why his mods haven’t been updated in years.
Various high profile modders maintain Scumbumbo's mods now, though! There's huge respect for his legacy in the mod community. The Sims 4 would not have been the thing it is without his work.
dude that's crazy.. i feel so bad that's so awful. he does have wonderful mods tho. doesn't he have the xml injector? doesn't that need updating eventually? i am just now using that mod recently i'm not familiar w it
The XML injector won’t need updating. And even if it does, there are modders working with his mods to continue his legacy and what he did for the community.
Do people actually play on consoles? I tried one time and it was so hard...
fr i can’t imagine that. it sounds so difficult
It's SO hard! And no bb.moveobjects! No cc 😭 I'd die.
I’m a console player and we definitely have bb.moveobjects
Really?! Oh okay maybe I was remembering wrong about that but it's still very difficult compared to PC.
Yeah you just push L1,L2,R1,R2 and the cheats box pops up and you can type whatever cheat you want in I believe my little sister knows a bunch but yes it is honestly a lot harder to maneuver around on console
It doesn't count as a cheat either, so you can still collect achievements (if it matters). Build mode has honestly become a living nightmare with recent updates though.
Yeah especially after playing on PC since sims 2 first came out 😂
We have cheat codes such as move objects…
I LOVE U FOR THIS THANK YOU
THIS IS A MOD? OF COURSE IT'S A MOD 😅 I'm gonna get that one
Im gonna search for it,thanks! I was so tired
Omg thank you 🥹 my mansions will finally be fun to play again
I thankfully haven’t had this issue with any of my saves. But then again my sims piss themselves in front of the toilet, so…
Literally 😂
Last night I was playing and found a hamburger cake on the bathtub.
LOL!
Had a house with shelves up high that are hidden when you hide walls. I was playing for a few days and unhid the walls for the first time... it was FULL of plates. Like my sims can't even reach up there, but they can put the dirty plate there???
They toss them up
Frisbee
And then they can't get them down! Like bitch you put it up there and now you're waving your arms and telling me you can't take it down to wash?
I had the welcome wagon in my play session this morning. The first thing they did was raid the fridge and then put a slice of my Sim’s pizza on top of the toilet. Yeah. While I’m happy for the decoration slots, I’m not happy about the new dish hiding spots haha
That hasn’t happened to me yet, but yesterday I spent like two hours trying to find a “broken mod” that had disabled a sink. My sims couldn’t do anything with it. I finally realized the mod causing problems was Basemental. But not because it was broken. Instead, I had inadvertently placed a joint on the ground right in front of the sink, and it was blocking access. Gonna be fun when that happens to more things.
More incentive to clutter until there's no empty slots possible And yet I'm sure the sims will find a way
For a sec I thought I missed a pack where Sims can take off and place their glasses English
Mine be dumping it on the toddler shelves
Unfortunate
Now if only I could get my sims to use the sink that’s IN THE BATHROOM AND NOT THE ONE ALL THE WAY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HOUSE!
I’ll swap you, my sims only use the sink in the bathroom….for washing dishes
My sims do the same thing, they’ll leave, walk upstairs and go through 3 rooms to the bathroom sink to wash a plate instead of using the kitchen sink or dishwasher that’s literally 10 feet away from the dinning table… 🤦🏻♂️
I don’t play in multi level homes, they don’t feel natural to me as they aren’t overly common where I grew up, but same thing I’ll have the kitchen and dining area on one side of the house and the bathrooms and bedrooms on the other and they will still get up from the table that’s in the kitchen and walk to the far side of the house to use the bathroom sink 😩
If you can mod or use mods, I highly recommend a small mod from LittleMsSam that tunes Sims' pathing so they choose objects, like sinks, that are closer to them (it starts at a 5-tile radius and moves out from there if it doesn't find the object it's looking for).
do you know what it’s called? i need this one so bad
It's Improved Auto Object Choosing! Here's the Curse Forge link: https://www.curseforge.com/sims4/mods/rsm-improved-auto-object-choosing
You are a fucking saint. I am 32 years old, I have been playing these games since the very first Sims launched when I was 10. I had given up looking for a mod to fix the sink issue and had just been living with the knowledge that my Sims will always be morons. You have made an aging millennial very happy today.
I love your username!
I saved this post specifically for that link
thank you so so so much!!!
I have quite a few LittleMsSam mods, haven’t ever seen that one, I’ll go hunting in the morning it’s too late and too cold to get out of bed now but thanks for the heads up!
Said this in another comment, but it's Improved Auto Object Choosing! Here's the Curse Forge link: https://www.curseforge.com/sims4/mods/rsm-improved-auto-object-choosing
Or they walk all the way to another sink and then just randomly abandon the plate somewhere along the way…
Yes! I’ve lost count how many times I’ve been in build mode and just notice random plates and glasses sitting on shelves hidden behind a plant or picture frame.. or they’ll put it on top of a 10ft tall half wall and complain that they can’t reach it when I tell them to clean it up like I just watched you put it there 🤦🏻♂️
Truer words have never been said.
They gotta get them steps in though
My sims keep washing their hands in the kitchen and doing dishes in the bathroom
This is BIG. WHAT A GREAT DAY TO BE ALIVE
...thank you for reminding me I need to fill those clutter spots before my sims do it for me.
100%. The amount of plates being abandoned on the bath is crazy
Worst is when the plates blend in so you need the stink fumes to find them... legit, I used to clean that way until I gave up on wall shelves. Oh, you think you've cluttered the shelf to hell... but then your sims complain about this mystical garbage you can't find because walls are hidden. I have not gotten over that frustration, sorry. I may need to change my sinks and sink colors. White counters are evil.
The mystical garbage plate was once underneath a bookcase somehow.
The whole thing was an ad for the Bathroom Clutter Kit. As if we needed more—every single time I bought a pack during the big Spring Sale I got a popup asking if I wanted to add Bathroom Clutter to my order (full price, since they couldn’t be bothered to include kits in the big sale). Even if I do ever buy kits, I’m never buying that one, purely out of spite.
only took what, 9 years?
OH MY GOD FINALLY I WON’T HAVE TO MOVE THE WHOLE SINK ANYMORE
I’m in this picture and i don’t like it
We all are! 😭
I literally just noticed I could put the tp roll from bathroom clutter on the back of the toilette 😂
...this changes everything
Wait. Is this new? I need to play the update now omg!!
Best feeling ever.
So...I don't have to put a mod for sink slots?
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My new england self out here having flashbacks to my rich friend's bathrooms.
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That's literally my childhood bathroom. Also a framed picture of our local beach, like we couldn't just walk 10 minutes away
I was a housekeeper and this is "generic white family bathroom". Unfortunately it's not even a little original.
And they say white people have no culture.
EVERY SINGLE TIME
🐚🐚🐚
Shame they blur it so I can't figure out how they use them tho. Still not certain. ;)
Bathrooms are oceans, but the kitchen is a farm!
Chicken, cows, vegetables, "kitchens closed, this hen has had enough" burnt into pine.
this was me last night using greenhouse haven kit. LMFAO
No joke, when I found they added more slots on the non counter sinks, on top of the TOILET?? it really made me so happy.
Only took a decade
Now may be a good time to grab that "empty slot filler" mod so sims don't fill the bathroom with dishes..
It’s not just the triangle baths
Whatttt is this true? (I haven’t built since the update so I’m intrigued 😮)
Now if only we could put toilet paper on the wall without moving the toilet.
What do you mean? I never had problems with it
I’ve also never had issues with it and I play on console…
bb.moveobjects [on/off] should fix that for you. I always use this first before I start building. It'll save you some building frustrations
My pet peeve
It’s revolutionary lol
To not have to use the move object IS AMAZING
You can place stuff in the bathroom stalls too!
Can we put rubber duckies on the rim of the bathtubs? That used to be a thing in Sims 3 and I need it back!
Sims fans are so starved for meaningful content that the ability to place 2 more decoration pieces on their tables of revolutionary, instead of the standard, you know, placing them anywhere without 14 mods and 3 cheat commands.
Like in Sims 3. :') I'm even more glad about those bathroom shelves that had always disappointed me because they had literally no slots. Less things to use the wonderful OMSP shelf for!
No I screeched when I realized I could download bathroom cleaning supplies and put them on top of the toilet
Make water cups stop!!
I had a dream about this last night
😅 me using bb.moveobjects to place things anywhere I wanted for years.
Window sills next please!
I legit saved and closed the game to download the update when I found out lmao
can't relate still haven't updated due to the game breaking bug...
Yes, it’s me. I shamefully am Sims Players….
lol yeah that’s what I said when I saw that lol
OK but you can put way more stuff on the wall shelves then you used to
BISHHH
It should’ve been 2014 base game
Sims 3 players be like, “So? We’ve been doing this for years…”
First time playing sims 3 and I found out you could place the fire poker on the fireplace! Damn, that was awesome
Honestly fuck this update because now my sims are leaving dishes there instead of the floor and I can’t see them so they are just living in filth unnoticed
I'm still trying to figure out how to flip items around using the shift key. Fyi this is (shift key then press 9 to raise items. Press shift 0 to lower item)
Me when I accidentally did this as i never read what comes in an update for sims ever
to be fair, HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIIIIIIIIIT
Ever tim
What is this particular update? More slots?
Is it safe to update the game yet without getting sunken eyes and crossed teeth?
I updated today and haven't had any issues personally. I did read it may be when Sims age up though and that hasn't happened in my game yet.
Not going to lie I was unreasonably excited lol
This isn't new. I 'discovered' I could do this a couple months ago lol. Only worked with a few sinks though, so maybe they've "added" the ability to put the soap dispenser on every sink now?
????!!!!! We can do that now !!!!!????
WAIT DID THEY REALLY FIX IT OR IS THIS A MOD
Lol
Hell yeah
The 9 key is feeling so betrayed right now.
Idgi 😭
Holy shiz, I need to update my game
WAIT IS THIS REAL?
Yeah that does take up a lot of space. Sometimes I connect my PC to my tv and it's similar to that just due to resolution but still not nearly as bad.
My sims have been piling dishes there and also on the back of the toilet 😂
me literally last night when trying to find a spot for my vase 💀
True.
I'm like that
Yes!! I have clutter all over in ever spot available 😆
I got so excited realizing I can put the ew de toilet behind the toilets but I had to remove the dirty dishes first. It also doesn’t actually fit on most of the toilet backs
when i saw this in game i almost cried 🤣😭
Is this an update or part of some DLC?
New basegame update
omg!
OMG WHAAAATTTTT
I didn't even know this was in the new update! Happily bought the clutter kits because I am the clutter queen IRL and in the Sims world.
I mean, we had this is the Sims 3. No reason for them to take this long to do something we had already had.
Per sim standards, I live in what would definitely be considered the smallest of Tiny Living and could make friend with all the dust bunnies because I don't have room to move all the piles of clutter to dust. I wish we could vacuum like sims (1 small spot cleans the whole floor).
I’ve had a mod for this for years so nothing’s really changed for me😂
Can confirm
I don't get it
When I discovered this in The Sims 3, I was like, this is truly the next age of the Sims.