Cheat mode
Press L1 + R1 + L2 + R2 to access the cheat menu. The codes below can now be typed in at the cheat menu.

Play The Sims mode
At the cheat menu type in SIMS. Then play The Sims mode will now be available, without going through the Get A Life dream house. This is useful for players with no memory cards, who would otherwise need to play through the Dream House every time.

First person view
At the cheat menu type in FISH EYE. Press Circle to toggle between normal and first person view.

After this code is enabled, in certain places in Play The Sims mode and Get A Life mode, press Up, Down, Right, or Left on the D-pad to have a first person perspective high in the air.

To obtain a double zoom, enable this code, then make your Sim look down. Press Square and you should be able to zoom in closer.

Midas mode
At the cheat menu type in MIDAS. Start the game in Get A Life mode, get into the hot tub with the girl, then press Start to pause the game. Select "Quit", followed by "Just Quit". This mode makes all two-player games availble, every locked object, and every locked skin.

Free mode
At the cheat menu type in FREEALL. Every object will now cost 0 Simoleans. Note: You will not be able to sell any items for money. This has no effect on the cost of paying for bills and other services. Also, this can cause a few problems with saved games.

Party Motel mode
At the cheat menu type in PARTY M. The Party Motel two-player game will now be available under the bonus section in Get A Life mode.

Hints & Tips

Get A Life Chapter 1: Easy money
If your house is totally clean when you finish, Mom will give you roughly 50,000 Simoleans.

Get A Life Chapter 1: Easy completion
Just enable the "Free mode" code. Place the stove in a room without walls. Then, buy a microwave and make him or her cook dinner, lunch, or breakfast.

Get A Life Chapter 1: Borrow $800 from Mom
Go into buy mode and sell anything that is not a necessity until you have more than $800.

Get A Life Chapter 2: Cleaning house
A fast way to get the house cleaned and the computer, television and espresso machine fixed is to enable the "Free mode" and "Midas mode" codes. Then, use the monkey butler. This will not interrupt your room bar.

Get A Life Chapter 2: Upgrade house value
Just enable the "Midas mode" and "Free mode" codes. Once everything is completed in Chapter 1 and you get a new house, fix all of the items first. Then get rid of all of the garbage then press Start. Go to build mode and destroy everything in the house. Make your house the size you want. Make the room, bathroom, living room, and kitchen as you like. Then, put in all the items.

Just enable the "Midas mode" and "Free mode" codes. Buy an expensive rug. Put it down and buy a second one and put it on top. Keep doing this to upgrade the house value and not take up any space.

Just enable the "Midas mode" and "Free mode" codes. Then, start Get A Life mode. Use this trick on every level that has "Upgrade abode when you go to buy mode" on the goals menu. Go to the buy mode and buy something that has not been made available. That should upgrade the abode.

Get A Life Chapter 2: Sell warning
When your in this chapter you will briefly live in Dudley's or Mimi's home. Before you move out, do not sell anything in the house because you will just have to buy it back.

Get A Life Chapter 2: Easy money
Sell every item in the house, destroy the house, upgrade the furniture and rooms, and finish all goals. In the end when you move out with Dudley, you will receive a quick phone call from Malcolm. He will give you 77,000 Simoleons.

Get A Life Chapter 3: Get promoted
Go into build mode and put in either the "Mini Pool" or the "Wet Tangle". Then have Dudley or Mimi swim in the pool. In time they will get the two body points that are needed for them to get promoted to the next job level.

Get A Life Chapter 3: Throw a raging party
First turn on the Stereo. Then, turn on the Bug Zapper. Then set the Aromaster Whifferpuff Gold to any smell. Next, order pizza or cook a few hamburgers and invite the party members. When they arrive, start eating. After they are done eating, go in the hot tub or watch television. Make sure you have the best tv, or the hot tub that seats four people. After a while a screen will appear that reads "This party rocks!". You can now have a roommate.

While your in story mode you can throw a raging party by having one of your Sims play the guitar. Everyone will come into the room and clap or boo the person that is playing. After 30 seconds a message about you having a great party will be displayed.

If your Creativity and Cooking skills are maxed, this should be easy. Serve Dinner, call a friend to throw party, greet one person, then play the guitar. People should either listen to you play, or eat the food. It should not take more than two hours to have a raging party going.

Get A Life Chapter 3: Gay Dudley
In Chapter 3 where you have to live with Dudley, you can make him and your character close by filling up the relationship meter. After you do this they will kiss and feel comfortable around each other.

Get A Life mode: Bonuses
You can make objects available by doing these things:

Aromaster Whifferpuffer Gold: First time you cook a successful dinner in Chapter 1.
Artists Block: Get promoted to job level 7 in Chapter 4.
Beach Simulator: Raise your first baby to a kid in Chapter 5.
Bearskin Rug: Get through the house in 8 days or less in Chapter 5.
Beejaphone Electric Guitar: Get through the house in 24 hours or less in Chapter 1.
Chairmaster Vanity Table: Fix the television after Mom breaks it in Chapter 1.
Club Abhi and Taylor's Place in two player mode: Throw a raging party in Chapter 4.
Coat Of Arms: Get through the house in 4 days or less in Chapter 2.
Electronic Insect Control System: Upgrade house value in Chapter 2.
Frat House in two-player mode: Complete all goals and move out in Chapter 2.
Handyman: Fix everything in the house in Chapter 2.
Head In Curio Jar: Get through the house in 8 days or less in Chapter 3.
Heart-shaped Vibrating Bed: Upgrade your house in Chapter 4.
Maid: Clean up the house in Chapter 2.
Maid's House in two player mode: Get promoted to job level 8 in Chapter 5.
Major Dormo (Monkey Butler): Send both kids to Prep School in Chapter 6.
Master Suite Tub: Get a promotion to job level 5 in Chapter 3.
Motel in two-player mode: Throw a raging party in Chapter 3.
Museum in two-player mode: Borrow 800 Simoleons from Mom in Chapter 1.
Park in two-player mode: Feed the Bobo the bum in Chapters 3, 4, 5, or 6.
Perspiraction Executive Treadmill: Get a job in Chapter 1.
Rhino Head: Get through the house in 8 days or less in Chapter 6.
Slurp 'n' Burp Beverage Cooler: Get a promotion to job level 2 in Chapter 2.
Sonic Shower: Get promoted to job level 6 in Chapter 4.
Sprinkler: Raise your second baby to a kid in Chapter 5.
Strip Poker Table: Get a promotion to job level 4 in Chapter 3.
Teppan'Yaki Table: Get a promotion to job level 3 in Chapter 2.
Tree Swing: Upgrade house value in Chapter 3.
Two Swimming Pools: Get promoted to job level 9 in Chapter 5.
Wurl 'n Hurl Jukebox: Get through the house in 8 days or less in Chapter 4.

Get A Life mode: Job promotions
When you are living with your mom, build up your stats until they are full. To do this, enable the "Free mode" code and buy everything for studying Cooking, Mechanical, Body, Logic, Creativity, and Charisma. After your stats are full, make eight family friends. An easy way to do this is to get your friendship level with someone to 75, until you can hug them. Keep on hugging them until the rating is 100. After you have full stats and eight friends, move out and you will not have to worry about a job promotions, and should get through levels fast. Note: The higher your friendship rating is with someone, the longer you can go without having to call them. You must have family friends to be promoted.

To obtain a promotion, your Sim must have at least one green bar, the right number of friends, and every skill needed for that profession.

Get A Life mode: Job demotions
To obtain a demotion, your Sim must have at least two red bars and not have the right number of friends.

Get A Life mode: Easy level passes
When you start the first real level, sell all your mom's stuff. Buy everything that is the most expensive. Before you move out, sell everything including the walls and windows. Repeat this on each level.

Aromaster Whifferpuff Gold
The Aromaster Whifferpuff Gold costs 2,500 Simoleons and is a good item to get your Sim's moods up fast. Even though it might break a few times, it is one of the top items that a thief will go after. It has four settings:

Peppermint and Juniper: Increases Comfort
Lavender and Majoram: Increases Fun
Juniper and Rosemary: Increases Energy
Rosemary and Peppermint: Increases Room

You can use several Aromaster Whifferpuffers at time. The best way to use it is, before you go to sleep put it on the second setting. When you awake, your Sim will be in a good mood, with at least three green bars as he/she has a full energy bar and a full fun bar.

KraftKing Wood Working Table
You can put Mom to work building Gnomes with the KraftKing woodworking table. Any money you make from this home crafts project can be kept when you leave.

Easy money
Just enable the "Free mode" code, then go to your house and buy plenty of expensive items. After that, save then restart your system. Do not put in the code again, then sell your items back for more money. The best item to do this with is the Monkey Butler Tree, which is worth 15,000 Simoleans.

Simply enable the "Free mode" code, start a game, and buy fifteen Heart Hot Tubs. Note: These have to be unlocked in Get A Life mode first. After you buy them, save the game and quit. Turn off the PlayStation2 to turn off the code. Return to the same game and sell all the Heart Hot Tubs that were bought to receive up to 99,999 Simoleans. Notice that when you pay bills, buy something, etc., your money will not go down.

First make a wall parallel to the sidewalk. Put the most expensive wallpaper on both sides. Then, press Square to sell the wallpaper on one side. If this does not work, try the other side. You should be able to sell one side's wallpaper constantly.

First enable the "Free mode" code, then move your Sims into the cheapest house. Then, buy plenty of expensive items. After this, evict your Sims from that house, but do not empty the house. By doing this, your Sims will keep the "assets" that they had, which turn into money for them. The house will then cost something like  99,999 Simoleans. To avoid this, enter build mode for the house you moved your Sims out of, then sell off the Monkey Butler and other items you put in. The house will be cheap again. Move your Sims back in and they will have plenty of money.

Use this trick to make the wallpaper technique quicker. As you sell the sheet of wallpaper, you must hold Square and release it to finish the sale. If you press Square repeatedly after the sale, the sales keep happening for how many times it was pressed. Also, this trick works better if the wall has an intersection in the shape of a "T".

Buy a workbench and raise your Mechanical, Creativity, and Body. Keep making Gnomes. If you have a high status, you should be able to sell each gnome for 100 Simoleans. Making the gnomes only take one to two seconds each if you have a high status.

First enable the "Free mode" and "Midas mode" codes. Go to an open spot to make a house. Buy 50 Monkey Butlers, and move the family in. Save the game, then go back to the main screen. Disable the "Free mode" code, then go back to the Monkey Butler-infested area. Sell them all for a big profit then make your own house.

When you finish a chapter, the phone will ring. Answer it and you will receive plenty of Simoleans from someone named Malcolm. The higher the chapter, the more money you will receive.

First enable the "Free mode" and "Midas mode" codes in neighborhood mode. Go to a deserted plot of land. Move in a family, and fill the place with as many Persian rugs as you can until the net worth is high. Then, save the game and go to the neighborhood screen and evict the family. After you evicting your family, bulldoze the house that you built. You can repeat this as many times as you like.

Just have a Sim with a high creative level. Start a painting or a sculpture. After it's started, tell that Sim to stop, then have another Sim finish it. Sell it, and you will still receive as much money as you would if the Sim that first started it had also finished it. You can even have your kids finish your painting and still receive as much as if the parent did the painting.

When your in Play The Sims mode, take an empty square of land and build on it with just the wall tool. When there is no more room, leave the neighborhood. Move in a family, then sell every wall in build mode. After that, leave the neighborhood. You will have regained the 13,405 Simoleans, plus an extra 4,285 Simoleans

When you catch a burglar in Get A Life mode, you can receive up to 10,000 Simoleons.

First enable the "Free mode" code. Go to Get A Life mode and remodel your mom's home. For example, buy her a big screen television. Then, move out of your mom's home and she will give you money for the remodeling that was done. The more you remodel, the more money you receive.

If your child receives a very good grade and they keep on studying, within a few days you should receive money from a grandparent.

Lay the most expensive flooring sample by holding X and stretching the flooring from one corner of the room to the other. Then, pull up the flooring by selecting the "Grass" sample and holding the L1 or R1 to cover the whole room in grass and pressing X. It will cost much more money to lay things automatically than it is to lay it manually. When you lay the expensive flooring manually and the grass automatically, you will gain back the difference in Simoleons. To make this go quicker, buy an empty lot and build nothing but a large room that spans the maximum build area of the lot. Then use this area to lay flooring. It may take you a few tries to be able to afford to cover the lot in the expensive flooring, and you may need to manually lay only half the room in expensive flooring in the first few times. Still, lay the grass automatically for it to work. It is possible to get back around 8,000 Simoleons per try on the large lot. If you are running low on money and are going to go broke, this is a fast way of getting out of the hole without having to sell anything.

Stat management
The best stats to use are maximum Active for studying and no outgoing, so your Social bar remains up longer. Put the rest on "Nice", for friends. If there is anything left, put them on Playful. It is easier to get your Fun level up by playing pinball than to read a book.

Outgoing: The higher you put this stat, the faster your Social meter will go down.

Active: The higher you put this stat, the longer you will study, work out, etc.

Nice: The higher you put this stat, the quicker it is to get a friendship rating up.

Playful: If this is high, you like to play games. If it is low, you like to read books.

Neat: The higher it is, the more things you can clean by yourself. For example, tell a Sim with no Neat to clean a plate and they will pick up one plate. Tell a Sim with maximum Neat to pick up a plate, and they will pick up every plate.

X-Treme Carrier Completion

Cooking: 2
Mechanical: 6
Creative: 9
Body: 8
Logic: 6
Charisma: 8
Friends: 7

Easy Body meter increase
Buy a weight set. Grab a cheap table and set it by the weight set. Note: Make sure your Sim can get on the weight set. When the table is set, buy an aroma machine and place it on the table. Go into Live mode and have your Sim turn on the aroma machine to Juniper and Rosemary, then work out. You will notice your Sims energy will remain the same as he or she works on its body without tiring.

Easy Fun meter increase
Buy a Whifferpuff Plus and place it next to your bed. Set it to Lavender and Marjoram and your Fun meter will raise as you sleep.

Quicker energy
Enter build mode and select the second fireplace. Place the fireplace in your room. Next, buy the most comfortable bed and put it one or two spaces in front of the fireplace, but not exactly in front of it. Then, buy two square tables and put both of them on each side of the bed. Next, buy the Aromster Whifferpuff "Gold" and put them on both tables. Before you go to bed, turn on the fireplace, and set both Aromsters to Juniper and Rosemary. You can be totally rested after four hours and be ready for work.

Buy the bed with the highest Energy status (10) and get all your Sims but one you want to get more energy. Get him or her into the Napoleon Sleigh bed that you bought before. When he gets in, the time will get shorter and he or she will get energy faster.

Work out and not lose energy
Buy a Wifferpuff and table. Place both directly next to a work out machine, treadmill, or weights. Set the Wifferpuff to Juniper and Rosemary. Then start working out and you will not lose energy.

Life Of Crime career path
Stop a thief from escaping in Get A Life mode to access the Life Of Crime career path in all modes.

To obtain a Life Of Crime career, wait until a burglar arrives. Then, go to build mode and delete every door. Next, call the police. When they arrive, replace the door. Let the policeman in and the burglar will be arrested.

Military career path
Use this routine when your following the Military career path in Play The Sims mode. Go to sleep at 7:00 p.m. Wake up at 2:00 a.m. Take a shower. Use the toilet. Have a quick breakfast. Come home, then repeat, watch TV, play pinball, and go to sleep.

Military School
If your kids get too low on their grades, they will be sent to military school.

Easy skills
First evict a family. When this occurs, their moods go up immediately after you move into another house. Once your in a house, study, work out, etc.

If your energy or any other stats get to low, evict yourself from the house. Go back to the house and all your stats will be filled.

Sell everything in the house but a mirror, guitar, and a pool. Then enable the "Free mode" code and leave the game running. Your Sims will build up Charisma, Creative, and Body points on there own. The only other thing you will need to do is eat and use the rest room. The best time to do this is when you are living with your mom.

Cheaper houses
First enable the "Free mode" or "Midas mode" code. Then go to Play The Sims mode. If a character does not have enough money to buy a house, bulldoze a worthless house and move that family in the field or if there is a place with no house, move the family into that area. Pause the game and start building your house however you like.

First enable the "Free mode"" and "Midas mode" code. Then build a frame for the house and move in a family. Build, buy, and sell until you want to stop.

Do not lose things when purchasing a house
First enable the "Free mode" code, then choose a blank address. Then create the family and build your house.

Getting married
To be married easily, invite a Sim of the opposite sex. But first, always throw a party and pick the Sim you want to marry. "Greet" them, "Talk" to them, then when they want to leave you will have their phone number. After dark, call that person. "Invite" them over. If they say "Sure", wait for them. Then get to know them more. When you have the chance to "Flirt" with them, do so. In time she or he will fall in love with you. The next day, get your Sim in a good mood. Then, "Serve Dinner (Lunch, etc.)". When they are done eating as much as they can, watch television. While they are watching television, highlight your "Guest" and give them the command to "Watch TV". They will "Watch TV" with you, talk to you, and their comfort will go up. Next ,"Talk" with them, "Tell Jokes", "Hug", "Dance", etc. If your Sim is still in a good mood, you will have the option to "Propose" to the Sim you wish to marry, Sometimes they will not accept and they will give a reason. Do whatever they wanted you to do. When you fulfill their requests, "Propose" again. If you are lucky, they will accept.

Having a baby
First create a family in Play The Sims mode. Get your Sim married. Then, evict your family and invite them back. Take the married couple to the bathroom and kiss. It may take four or five kisses for it to work. A little box will appear and ask if you want a baby.

Same sex couples can also have a baby. Instead of getting the "Do you want a baby?" question, in time you will receive a call from an adoption agency asking if you want a baby.

When your in Free mode, have a Love Bed and a spouse/partner. Chose the Love Bed and scroll down the list of suggestions and select "Vibrate". Your Sim will take off their clothes and crawl into bed. Then, click on their partner, scroll down the list of suggestions, and choose "Play In Bed". The partner will take off their clothes and also crawl in bed. You will hear your Sim bark or howl. 

Quiet baby
When the baby is crying, the only things that you have to do to make it fall back to sleep is "Feed" and "Sing".

Raising a baby
When you and your partner do have a baby, stay off work until the baby is a child. Do not pick up the phone or you will be fired. Then place a toilet, fridge and PC in your room so that you never have to leave it. Next, when the baby starts to cry, make sure you are there right away, and feed then sing. When it is asleep, go to sleep yourself. In a few days you should have a child.

Losing baby to Social Services
If you have a baby, you will notice that it cries often. When you click on it, "Play", "Feed", and "Sing" will appear. If you just sing to it, it will go back to sleep. If you do not sing, play, and feed it every time it cries, a message will appear about a day later that states "You are neglecting your baby. If you do not pay attention to it soon, it'll be taken away from you." If you keep on neglecting it, a day or so later, a woman from SimCity Social Services will appear and take your baby. There is nothing you can do to stop this once she has come in your house.

When your in Get A Life mode, get a girlfriend. You may receive a call from City Hall asking if you want to adopt a baby. Make a room for it and take the door off. Let it starve. After a couple of days a City Hall agent should arrive to take the baby away. With the door gone she cannot get in. However in time she will pass by it and take the baby.

Avoid losing baby and job
Just have one Sim skip work to care for the baby. The next day, have the other Sim skip work to care for your baby. Repeat this until you raise it to a child.

Blue baby
Just neglect your baby until the Social Services message appears. Maintain to not feed it, and the woman will appear to take your hard-earned baby. When she goes into the house, hold L to pause time. Then go over to your baby carriage, zoom in, then change the view so you can see where the baby's head is at. You will see a blue pillow and a little blue baby head.

Quick wake up
When you have full energy and you want your person to wake up, you just tell them something to do. They will get up and do what you told them to do.

Keep Aroma Machine from breaking
If you are having a lot of trouble with your Aroma Machine put it on the Kinderstuff Night Stand.

Faster time
Hold R2 and time will pass quicker.

Get A Life mode: Easy Body Point
Simply start Get A Life mode, and your character dreams. After his or her kiss with the other Sim, swim in the swimming pool and ignore your mate. Keep swimming until you get one Body Point. Note: Do this fast, before your mate get's angry and the game ends.

Easy Get A Life mode
Simply enable the "Free mode" code. Buy an exercise machine, mirror, chess table and chairs, and paint board. While in your Mom's house, fill up every stat.

Select a desired career and build all up your work stats while your living with your Mom. Do not worry about making friends yet. Look at the last career promotion to see what also needs to be raised. Even though your Mom will drive you crazy, you will get through the next stages easily.

Easy promotions
To be promoted faster, always check your Job Panel and look at the Smiley face and the numbers beside it. Notice that there are two numbers. The one on the left, if you have a job, will have a number. You have to make as many Family Friends to equal how many that number is. When you have the correct amount of Family Friends, if you have any Yellow looking bars next to your Cooking, Mechanical, etc., you will need to fill those up by looking in a mirror and practice speeches, Charisma, or working out on a treadmill, body exerciser, etc. When you go to work the next day or so, or if your Sim needs fine-tuning to its feelings, keep it home one day from work. Fill up its needs and wait the next day. When you go to work and your Sim is in a good mood, check the job panel. Highlight the job they have, press X, and it will show you their performance. If the performance is "Good", you will likely be promoted when you come home. If it does not work the first time, keep filling their needs and send them to work in a good mood.

Unlock everything in build and buy mode
Reach chapter 2 in get a life mode. Finish every thing except for getting promoted to career level 2 and move out of the house. When you have done this, save the game and return to the main menu. Now enable the "Free mode", "Midas mode", and "Party Motel mode" codes. When you enter The Sims mode, all of the things are now available in build and buy mode.

False alarm charge
If you happen to call the fire department when there is no fire, they will charge you 200 Simoleons. To avoid this fine, do not call them if you know the fire is weak. If it burns out, even if you call while it is burning, they will charge you.

Cancel newspapers
Just let your newspapers pile up for five days until you have five of them in your yard. On the sixth day, do not pick any up and you will get a message stating that you will not receive any more papers because you have too many. Note: If you have hired a maid, she will pick up the papers and you will continue to get them.

Bills on the ground
Sell every table and counter, then put plants on top of your dish washer, trash compactor, etc. Your Sim will then put every bill that are received on the ground.

Never pay bills
This trick will only work in Play The Sims mode. If you wish not want to pay your bills, evict your family from the house every two days then move them back in.

Place a fireplace in an empty room. When bills come, place them in the room on the left side of the fireplace. Have a Sim light a fire. When the bills burn up, call the fire department. This trick will also work on several bills. Note: If any Sims die in the fire, reset the game.

Keep Major Dormo longer
Call Major Dormo, then place a fence around his tree house after he leaves. He will stay with you longer, but will still in time disappear.

Attack a Sim
Simply insult a neighbor or your roommate until their name is down to -100. Then, go outside and bring up the action options. You should now be able to attack the person. Do this three times. Your roommate will have had enough and pack up and leave.

Killing Sims
If you want to see the Grim Reaper and put plenty of tombstones in your backyard, enter build mode and add a fireplace. Fix up the house a bit. When your prompted to move in a family, create one and make many Sims. Have all of your Sims enter the room with the fireplace and have one of them light it and stand close. The fire should catch them all if they were close enough. The Grim Reaper should show up to claim the family. Once he does, if there is one Sim left have them call the fire department. the Fire should go out and there should be several little tombstones sticking up out of the ash. Enter build mode, grab all of them, and place them in the backyard. If you like, you can add a few flowers and other objects. They will become a grave. To get rid of the last Sim, lock them in a room with no windows or doors. They should die in three and a half days. Redo the grave steps when the Grim Reaper reappears. if you want a large graveyard, repeat all these steps. Note: This will not be a good home for families, as they will be mourning always.

Note: You can also use the above described steps to kill Dudley/Mimi. When they do die, you will continue the game as usual. You can also kill your Mom, but you will have to start again from your last save.

Start the Play The Sims mode. Once you do find a family, do not teach the father how to cook. Make the father cook something and he will burn his food and start a fire. He will die from burning in the flames. Have a child come out at midnight and you will see the father walking around as a ghost. Look around the house, backyard, or outdoors to see the ghostly parent. Note: Make sure the kids are at school during the fire, and also have the mother there to call the fire department to put out the flames.

Throw a party. Get all the people in the back yard. Lock them in a fence and wait until they die. After awhile, at night they may appear walking around your house as ghosts.

Buy a fireplace and surround it with plenty of flammable objects. Then throw a party and invite many people. Light up the fireplace, and it will eventually burn down the house. Note: Leave the house immediately after you light it.

Just place your Sim in a small room, with enough room for your Sim, a large number of trash cans, and a fireplace. Put your Sim next to the fireplace. Then, put trash cans all around the fireplace. Have your Sim light the fireplace. In an hour, the trash can will catch on fire and kill your Sim.

Ghost Sim
Use this trick to turn your home into a haunted house. Kill one or more of your Sims. The best way to do this is to place them in a side room, then delete the doors so they have no place to go. Then, let them die of starvation. The Grim Reaper will appear and they will turn into an ash urn. Keep the urn around and in time when nightfall comes, the ghost of the dead Sims(s) will wander around the house, through the walls, and back to its container. If a living Sim comes across the ghost, they will be frightened.

Change clothes faster
When a Sim puts up the curtain to change, press L1 to pause the game. They will change, but time will freeze.

Place wallpaper or carpets faster
Simply hold L1 or R1, then press Square at the same time.

Disappearing baby
If you moved out of a house and into a new one while your baby is still in a carriage, it will go away. Because you can pick it up and move it around in Buy Mode, it is thought of as a piece of furniture. When you move, your furniture does not go with you.

Kidnapped baby
When a thief comes to your house, he or she will steal the most expensive or closest thing in the house. If your bedroom is the first room in your house, and your baby is next to the bed, a thief can enter and steal the baby.

Baby to child
After five or six days, a baby will evolve into a child. The stats and appearance of the child are random.

Keep child home from school
If you do not want your child to go to school and do not want to hear the bus honk every few seconds, just let your child stand in the middle of the road where the bus waits everyday. Then the bus will not appear, and your child will not go to school.

Getting money after missing work
If you do miss work one day, do not answer the phone. Instead, wait until the next caller, who should call in later. They will give you some money.

Paying maid, gardener, or repairman without money
If you do not have the money to pay the maid, gardener, or repairman, they will take one of your household items. Also, you may not hire them again.

Keep items when bulldozing a house
Note: Do not select "Bulldoze Lot" from the menu. Buy the house. If you want to save items that have to hang on a wall, save part of the dry wall until you have your new house built. Otherwise, sell every window, door, floor, and dry wall. Sell any items that you do not want and save the ones that you want. Then, build your house. Note: This will not work if you cannot afford the house.

Quitting a job
There are two ways to quit a job. The first is to keep skipping work until they do fire you. The other is to first obtain a job, then look for another one. Instead of taking one, select "Stop Searching".

Take house over from Mom
First enable the "Free mode" code, then trap Mom in a room. Give her regular appliances like a small bed, refrigerator, toilet, and stove. Then, make walls surrounding the yards. Her house will now be yours.

Never leaving handyman
Buy a group of lights and wait for three of them to burn out. Then build a room with no access to it. Call the handyman. He will arrive and fix the other lights. Turn on your television and sit on your couch. The handyman will fix all but the one light, then he will sit on the couch and watch television for a week until you remove the walls to the light.

Zombie Sim
Simply kill a Sim and wait for the Grim Reaper to appear. Beg for his or her life. The Grim Reaper will either ignore your plea, turn your Sim into a Zombie, or revive your Sim. If your Sim is revived, kill him or her again, then try once again. The outcome varies. Note: Do not save the game if the Grim Reaper kills your Sim. Reload the game and try again. Zombie Sims do not have any features different from normal Sims other than they have a green color.

Regain needs
Skip work every other day, to the point where they call you but you will not get fired to regain your fun and social levels. While you are home, call over a few friend(s) and play pool or a cooperative game.

First enable the "Free mode" code and buy two Aromaster Whinpuffer Golds. Place them in your bedroom. When you want to go to bed, set the Aromasters to the third setting down. Now get in bed and hold R1. You should get energy faster.

Buy four Whiffpuff Masters and put them near your bed. Put all the settings on, then go to sleep. The next day you will have four filled bars. Note: You will have trouble with them so enable the "Midas mode" code and buy the Monkey Butler. Release him everyday and he will fix them.

You can use the Wiffer Puffer Gold to recover part of your needs, like comfort, fun, etc. according to the one you use. This is useful near where you read or work out.

Buy a Bug Zapper from the electronics section of buy mode. Then place it somewhere outside. Have an adult Sim touch the Bug Zapper. Then choose the "Touch" option and your Sim will be shocked by the Bug Zapper. Do this a couple of times and your Sim's energy level will be boosted, but they will need a few comfort points.

Broken items
This trick can be done in Get A Life and Play The Sims modes. If something breaks down and your Sim is too down to study Mechanics, simply sell it and buy a new one. Note: If by fixing the object is one of your goals, this will not work.

Keep Sims from talking to each other
Have your Sims eat different meals.

Alien abduction
Buy the telescope and use it a long time. Your Sim will be abducted and disappear. It will reappear a few hours later, with different stats.

Nude Sim
Note: This is easier to do in Play The Sims mode. Buy a fire place, then buy a rug and place it under the fireplace. Buy the heart shaped spa. Light the fireplace, get in the spa, and wait until there is a fire. Before your Sim gets out and starts jumping around because of the fire, cancel everything but the spa. Wait until the spa burns up. If done right, your Sim will appear in another part of room close to the wall, and will not have their clothes on. Note: The censor will still appear.

First enable the "Third person view" code. Now have a Sim get in the bathtub and press Circle(3x's) to get into third person view. Cancel the bathtub order when they are in it by pressing Triangle and then Up. If done right, you should see their rear.