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.

Press contorl shift c and type in motherlode and you will get 50,000 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.

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. It can also be used from the neighborhood screen (it even works with families in the bin/without home). It is available in The Sims 2 and The Sims 3. In The Sims 3, testingcheatsenabled must be activated first.