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Does anyone know if it's possible to sell clothes from a HOME business?   ::)

I havent tried it but I imagine the answer is yes..since almost anything and everything is sellable. 

I haven't been able to get clothing racks on a residential lot.  I even tried going to a community lot, buying them, and placing them into a sim's inventory, but they won't go IN the inventory.  So there went that plan.  =\

The Prima Guide states no clothing stores and no restaurants as home businesses. 

That sucks.  Thanks though.

There is a hack on MTS2 that allows you to get all community lot items availabe in the buy catalogue for residential lots; you might take a look there.

Eta: here it is: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=138575 (http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=138575)

Perfect!  Thank you so much!

If you can stuff it into your inventory when you buy one on a community lot, you can haul it home with you and use it there. I routinely bogart community lot trash cans in this way, stuffing them into the inventories of my owners and managers so they can take them home with them and use them as no-empty trashcans. The street trash can has been permanently knocked over on some lots because of this, and I simply never bother to un-knock it over, instead using my handy no-empty community lot trash can for all my trashcanning needs. The community lot can even comes in a wide variety of colors to fit any room. Did I mention that it's firmly attached to a post and cannot be knocked over, nor does it ever need emptying?

For a moment, JM, I thought you were going to say that you have a home business selling community trash cans!

LOL

I have a home business that sells clothes.  I used one of the special "community stuff" collections, as mentioned above.  Just be sure to use the tool to set it for sale, or it won't work.  Yes, that's what I did.  Took me several (sim) days to figure it out.

And hey, why not sell communtiy lot trash cans?  Then you can use Pescado's handy tip.  Not to mention the thrill of marrying a townie into the family, to learn they own 100 of them.

You can't sell community trashcans because they can't be flagged for sale. Or I would have.

I have a successful home restaurant using a community collection in a residential lot.

If you have a community trash can on your lot, could you delete the regular trash can with moveobjects on?

If you have a maid, will she pick up a kicked over trash can?

Just two questions I didn't know the answer to.

That was the first thing I tried.  Didn't work.  The community stuff collection dealie seems to work though.

Maybe it's a problem related to computers etc.  that have to be switched off before they go into an inventory.  Maybe the clothing racks have to be UNSET for sale in order to go in - I know that if you want to take a few broken toy robots etc home to mend, you have to unset them for sale first!

I started my home based Boutique by starting with a residential lot and making it into a a comm. lot (before moving sims in)..puting all the community stuff I wanted (including clothes racks), changing the lot to residential and then moving sims in. After starting home business, I just used the sale tool to mark the clothes for sale.

Did you guys know that you have to restock the clothes on the rack? I just noticed this and one of the clothes rack actually became empty.

Yea, I discovered that when I had one of my sims start selling various wardrobes and dressers in her clothing store to boost her profit margin. When I sent her to restock the dressers, she started with the clothes racks first.

  Yeah I did notice the same thing that if you dont restock the racks in the home business they empty unlike the the "community lot " benefits of old where the racks never emptied :P

What's so annoying though about home businesses or clothing stores is your playable family can't use the darn racks to buy anything THEY want!  It doesn't matter once you put your hacks back in, but if, like me, you start by playing the game just as it's installed, you can't fulfill the "Buy new clothes" want even in a store full of clothing racks!

Um it's probably because it counts as them already owning them, seeing as they own the store.  I always use the shop at home puter.

Well, yes, as I say, once you have hacks in your game again, you can deal with it, but why can't they buy from their own store?  People do it in RL - some shop-owning parents deliberately make their kids pay for sweets so they don't grow up thinking sweets are free!

True but unfortunately sims2 isn't geared to totally mimic RL thus making us devise other methods of fulfilling their wants ;D

Like cheating!! ;)

Don't do that. The trash can is used as a beacon object to indicate outside-ness.

Not unless she attempts to throw things away into it. If nobody ever attempts to place garbage in it, it will stay kicked.

nah ,I was thinking of the inconvenience of having to send them to a community lot they dont own a business on :P

True, although at least they can go on the way home, and load time is pretty quick now.