Inventory

An Inventory is a feature available with The Sims Unleashed, The Urbz: Sims in the City, The Sims 2 Nightlife for The Sims 2, The Sims 2 Pets for Consoles, The Sims Stories, The Sims 2 Castaway and The Sims 3. It allows Sims to carry around a number of items no matter where they go.

Note: In The Sims 2 and The Sims Stories, items cannot be added to or removed from a Sim's inventory while on a community lot, unless the Sim or a member of the Sim's household owns the lot. In The Sims 3, items can be removed from a Sim's inventory while on a community lot.

Family inventory
In The Sims 3, each household has a family inventory. It can be accessed in buy mode by clicking the icon that looks like a cardboard box. When moving, if the player decides to 'pack furniture' from their previous house, the furniture appears in the family inventory. It's also used to store items that cannot be stored in the regular Sim's inventory.

Once a Food Replicator or Teleportation Pad is purchased as a lifetime reward, they will be automatically stored in the family inventory. This also happens when buying large furniture (e.g. tents, Sheng Hai Training Dummy, Board Breaker, etc) in markets in Shang Simla, Al Simhara, or Champs Les Sims.