No, I don't want a close up of the birth, thanks anyways!

[angelyne]

Alright who here is Monique?

Dunno, but it's a strange coincidence isn't it ?  One long thread complaining about this very thing and *poof* the hack appears.

[BlueSoup]

And about those mailbox covers....how many people leave their bills on a little ledge next to their maibox.   Howeve unrealistic, it does seem convenient. 

Well, the reason I like the mailbox covers so much is because I use Macrotastics.  And the Sim putting the bills down on the ledge, spinning around and picking them up to pay them is nearly as awesome as PayatBox was.

[J. M. Pescado]

And about those mailbox covers....how many people leave their bills on a little ledge next to their maibox.   Howeve unrealistic, it does seem convenient. 

You'd probably want a little table to do your writing on, too, if you had to sign and send checks for bills immediately upon receiving them because it took you 3 hours to bring them inside and read them there, and another 3 hours to put it back...

[BlueSoup]

I pay all my bills online.  I don't even really get bills in the mail.  And I definitely don't get coupons for free meals or love letters. 

[gypsylady]

Alright anybody wanting these mailbox thingies Clicky here.  Oh and to paysites i say  .

Thank you so much

[Sleepycat]

Maybe Monique just lurks here...

I ended up downloading a number of her hacks this evening, including her computers that have been mentioned quite abit here, you all got me interested 

[jsalemi]

Alas, the MTS2 file servers appear to be overloaded again -- I can bring up the threads about the hacks, but the server times out trying to actually download something...

[vcline]

Lfox, thanks for the mailbox cover file.  I'm using it religiously now.  One amusing property of the covers is that the sims think it's an endtable (naturally) and often put the thinking cap or noodlesoother there.  Then I have to move those things off so it can be used for the mail.

[aussieone]

Lfox, thanks for the mailbox cover file.  I'm using it religiously now.  One amusing property of the covers is that the sims think it's an endtable (naturally) and often put the thinking cap or noodlesoother there.  Then I have to move those things off so it can be used for the mail.

Amusing?

Oh no, no, no, not to me...it pisses me off when they do that!! 

[RainbowTigress]

It annoyed me before when I put an actual end table there, and the behaviour continues now with the mailbox cover.  But I don't know of any way to avoid it.  I wish that there was a way to designate an area or a table just for thinking caps, and they would put them there and nothing else, and they would put the thinking caps there and nowhere else.

[aussieone]

Just like how great it'd be if kids actually put their homework on a frigging desk instead of the floor!! 

[RainbowTigress]

Just like how great it'd be if kids actually put their homework on a frigging desk instead of the floor!! 

Dizzy2 actually has a hack for that.

[aussieone]

Ooh goody...

thanks for that Rainbow 

[RainbowTigress]

It's called Homework in Bedroom, and you can find it here:  http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=75476

Speaking of Dizzy2, I wonder where he is?  I haven't seen him around here in a while.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Just wish some custom desks were DESKS!  Or that kids would use tables!  I mean, how many kids do you know who use their bedroom desk for HOMEWORK when they can do it sitting on the sofa or at the kitchen table?

[RainbowTigress]

With Dizzy2's mod, they will use tables.  I even saw my sim kid use the kitchen table a few times when dinner wasn't on it, because she doesn't have a desk in her room.  I used to do my homework on my bed using a "lap desk" my dad made for my sister, which was just a large piece of press board he got from somewhere.

[ZephyrZodiac]

I might try that, then, thanks!  (Guess he used some of the YA coding?  Makes far more sense if it's applied to kids and teens as well - I mean, does going to college suddenly make it possible to do your homework at a table?)

[RainbowTigress]

The picture he posted up at MTS2 shows two kids in their room with two of those small, one-tile tables that look like card tables.  The cheap ones.  I hadn't thought to try one of those, but I just might now.  That will fit in my kids' bedrooms much better than a desk.

[ZephyrZodiac]

One or two of the bedroom and bathroom sets at 4ESF2 have tables made to look like counters which just attach to a wall, but operate like a table so I should think they'd be great and look better than the card-table.

[flowerchile]

I have a gorgeous rustic timber hutch; (can't remember offhand where it came from), it has blue and white crockery on the shelves.  Anyway,the kids put their homework on it and go spastic at me coz they can't get to it.    So I have to  *move objects on* and put it on the floor.  Now I just put the phone and a plant or something on it so they can't put their homework there.

[akatonbo]

I have a glass-top recolor of that cheap card table that I use incessantly in my houses for all sorts of things. Hah, and I even noted where I got it -- it's by DOT at TSR. (Hm, I need more recolors of that thing that look nicer.)

[ZephyrZodiac]

I've got some nice recolours too, but I don't use them a lot.

[baaaflatfit]

And it always seems to happen when you're in the middle of something!  Now, a close up zoom on a dustbin-kicker might be useful!

You bet!  I'd like to see this weird zooming feature fixed, too!  Having it occur once, like when the birth is actually occuring is not that bad -- it's all those little 'pops' that are really annoying, and especially in those instances when you've finally gotten your exhausted pregnant Sim to bed, and up she pops to show off her bump! 

Max

[ZephyrZodiac]

Or he!

[baaaflatfit]

Oh dear, yes -- OR He, hehe!
(apologizing for most obvious sexual discrimination) 

Max