Money cheats

Money cheats are available in all The Sims games.

klapaucius & rosebud
The Sims has the cheats klapaucius and rosebud. klapaucius only works with the unpatched version. They both give the current household an additional 1,000 Simoleons.

Also, with this cheat, it's possible to type in klapaucius or rosebud, then a number of ";!"s next to it. Each of these gives an additional §1,000, so the more you put in, the more money the family will get.

Trivia

 * Klapaucius was one of the "constructors" in Stanislaw Lem's The Cyberiad.


 * Klapaucius was probably changed since it was too hard for players to remember.
 * The word "Rosebud" might be a reference to the movie Citizen Kane from the director Orson Wells, which tells the story from childhood to death of a rich newspaper mogul, Charles Foster Kane, "Rosebud" being his final word.

kaching
kaching is a cheat in The Sims 2 and The Sims 3. It gives the current household an additional §1,000.

motherlode
motherlode is a cheat introduced in The Sims 2. When used, it adds 50,000 Simoleons to the current family's funds. As well as many other cheats, motherlode appears in The Sims 3 and in The Sims Medieval .

familyFunds
familyFunds can be used to increase or decrease a family's household funds by a specific amount, or set them to a specific level. It can also used from the neighborhood screen. The testingcheatsenabled cheat must be activated before using this cheat in The Sims 3, but that is not necessary in The Sims 2. This cheat is useful for players who want to reduce a family's funds, as other money cheats only increase them.

fish
On The Sims 3 for Wii, you can get the max amount of money by:

1. Go to the Grocery Store

2. Buy 60 (cat?)fish

3. Buy fridge

4. Put fish in fridge for 40 in-game minutes

5. Take out

6. Return at the store

Then you'll have 999,999 dollars!