More Awesome Than You!

It's finally up at MTS2. I'm hoping to see this on the exchange in some of those horrible "Dad raped me" stories...

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=251788

(http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/8917/project14yi4.jpg)

Does it open and close?

Nope. It just stays open. I know it would be great if one could shut the baby up in the dresser, like I would do in real life, but I couldn't figure out how to do that. :)

Haha! I saw that on MTS2 earlier, good job!

My first crib was a meat safe (great for keeping the mosquito's away in the tropics) so I feel a real affinity for the child in the drawer. I just have to have this even if it doesn't open and close - thankyou.

My aunt & uncle adopted a baby in the 60s and as his arrival was sooner than expected, he slept in a drawer the first night or two.
My understanding was that they'd removed it from the dresser, but this is funnier.

Great job!

My son's first crib was a laundry basket.  Nothing's too good for my kid.

A drawer? Meat safe? Laundry basket? Gee, what times do you live in ::)? Even I had a proper crib (born in early 80s, in Soviet Union). ::) Nice crib tho :)
 

Hey, I was born in Papua New Guinea (my parents were working over there when it was still under Australian governing) and I'm very greatful to that meat safe. Without it I would have ended up with Malaria or some such. We still have the meat safe down in the shed. Oh, and I was born in the early 70's.

The Reagan Administration times of course.  Not much different than the Bushes (pl.) Administration times, actually. 

I started off in a laundry basket too.  Lined with a Budweiser towel.  Ah, memories.

Oh, Ok, I'm sorry  ;D

I don't know - if I had the choice between a laundry basket + caring parents and a "proper" crib + parents who don't fucking care, I'd take the former anytime ;). Actually, I WAS lucky enough to be a cared-for laundry basket kid.

Pssh. Laundry baskets? Drawers? I got a used munitions crate.

 Why can't carring parents be combined with proper crib ::)?
And I have nothing against laundry baskets or other household stuff as long as the parents are carring, I was just joking. Althought I must say I was quite surprised to find out that so many of you started in laundry baskets as almost everyone I know had a crib.. Besides my own daughter who just refused to sleep in her crib (and chose her buggy instead) so we sold it.

My kids didn't have cribs, but I'm one of those attachment parenting assholes.

Cool object, Khaki. I love how the posh lining is slightly coffinlike.

My kids all started off in Moses baskets. They are really pretty and I don't think anyone has made one for the Sims 2 yet. I had a crib when I was a baby but apparently I screamed until I was put in my parents' bed between them. Then I slept like a......baby. :P

I like the baskets, too. I was too poor with my first to drop the dough for one, though. A lot of babies like co-sleeping, I have heard. Although there's some newish study across NA and Europe that say that co-sleeping is good until they're six months or something. My youngest co-slept til around then and then couldn't sleep well unless she was seperate. And then she was very happy in her bowling ball bag. Yeh we ghetto.

Aww that's cute! There were no other babies around when I has my oldest, but with my next baby, my friend had her baby around the same time as me, so we used to pop them in the basket together! They used to sleep for ages and looked adorable.

Because caring parents would have the financial sense not to squander their children's future wasting money on such garbage. Why would you buy something like that knowing it will eventually be completely useless and just end up being a waste of money, when you can instead teach your children the virtues of thrift and recycling from an early age?

OK, I've re-read that, and it makes sense now.  I had misread it to read "theft and recycling".  Must caffeinate.  I agree about the buying disposable/useless furniture.  We ended up getting a world-class (trans. bloody expensive) crib, which is now "passed on" to other friends with babies (since we're not spawning anymore).  I think a large box would have done just as well, considering that he likes large boxes anyway (he'd rather sleep in a big TV box he uses as a playhouse now than sleep in his bunk bed).

Does this crib-dresser work as a dresser as well, or just a place to park the babies? (if we're talking multifunctional)

Just crib. No dresser functions. It's great, though. Iyana, the one who was borking her step-grampa (truly trashy behavior) got pregnant by him and then the two were thrown out by her father (never mind that step-grampa had been borking her mom before she drowned, but meh). The baby is sleeping in the dresser. It's a little mis-aligned so that it clips through the back, but not by much and Khaki did warn about it in the MTS2 post.

Dresser crib + Bang on a Can stuff from Cyclonesue/TSR (booty) + random craptastic wallpapers and dirty recolors from MTS2 = win. Their beach house on the other side of the island looks small and plain from the outside, truly awful on the inside. In two days Rodger dies and they'll go from living on $584/day to $240/day (excepting weekends).

This hack fairly screams to be merged with a fully functioning dresser, but then I think of the new animations involved in doing so and back slowly away from that idea.  :P

"borking"??? Presumeably = bonking+porking?  :D

I have my self-sim living in a hut on a beach right now (just maxis grass panelling inside, dirt floor, etc.).  He digs on the beach for money (only not that much since he dug up a $5000 treasure chest and a $4000 Ming Vase).  He remodelled the hut and put in a full bath with concrete floor, and bought a fridge and gas stove now.  Bit of a luxury hut now really.  He's a knowledge sim (which is sort of right, I guess), but spends most of his time woohooing any female sim that comes by (this ACR stuff is...fascinating), which is...less than a completely accurate facsimile of my life, let's just say.

I downloaded a Moses basket from somewhere for my sim babies, so one does exist. I know I got them from the booty so it's at a paysite somewhere. I want to say it started with an E, I'll check to see if they wrote it in the description when I next run my game.

I know that when my mother was busy she'd put me in a laundry basket, I know of at least one time sleeping in a drawer and then when I got a little older I demanded that I sleep in a box. I would choose a nice box, make a pallet inside or a nest depending on the size of box and I would then close myself inside. I was a considered to be a strange kid, there we jokes about mailing me off but it wasn't cost efficient.

Yup.

My self-sim is married to a townie named Christian Dyer. She teaches the 'hood's kids (irony as I was initially a elementary ed major but can't really stand more than a couple kids at a time) and lives in the second floor of the school with her triplet girls (nearly teens) and little boy. Fake-hubby was unemployed and helping to raise the kids while she taught, but now he's working the register at Edmund Young's art store so that "we" can afford groceries. Of course, last night, Edmund went up and tried to grab "my" ass at the beach. Yeah. He used to be a student. He's also the resident sexist pig (wants a girl who can cook and clean and stay home all day), is working on a massage parlor/brothel second biz, and recently gave birth to the first alien baby of the 'hood. Non-cheaty, too.

Prosperity-type 'hoods are fun, but it gets annoying when there's a lot of houses in the rotation. I only have five right now, at the dawn of the fourth generation, but my generations are getting pretty muddy with the gap between "my" kids and the founder's decendants.

That's because the concept of "generation" is pretty arbitrary anyway, given that humans spawn continuously rather than at discrete intervals.

EclecticSims made a Moses basket. It's in the booty. You can find it here (http://paysites.mustbedestroyed.org/booty/eclecticsims/kids_rooms_and_items/). It's half way down the list aptly titled "moses_basket.zip". No pic though. We're too lazy to get one.

Thankyou :)

That and I brought myself in mid-3rd gen. It's fine now. I just had the bright idea to name all the families House1, House2, etc. I play a season each round, so it's easy to tell which one I'm at now if I take a couple days off...except during the double summer. Third double-summer survived, only two townie casualties. Pitiful.

So what would you use as a changing table with this one? A big crate?

HAHAHAHA, I'm pretty sure that JM hope it could be closed.

I love this! But I want the drawer to close too.....

My son was born in Belize (at home--the 'natural way'-- amazingly gross and painful....) He got a hand woven basket.

Morrigarant: please find the maker of that basket! I must have it!

Mutant Bunny, Duckie has already listed it, EclecticSims.

Duh. Thanks. :) I thought the moses basket was something seperate--and since I refrain from most things religious in my game...and ok life too, my eyes kinda glaze over and start to skip ahead.. lol....

Surely the dresser animations wouldn't be too hard to do - you wouldn't have to make them actually open a drawer, just spin & change, but one square away so they didn't stand on the baby.

It's not that everyone wants to use the crib as a dresser, although that would be space saving in itself, they want to be able to shut the baby in the dresser and pull the drawer back out with the baby in it.

It's a baby in a drawer - I'm guessing there aren't many more funds available for a changing table, either. Pity sims aren't smart enough to just use a counter or desk. Although a changing crate and crib crate are kind of missed opportunities for the crate furniture Dr. Pixel made. Of course, if you're running Seasons, you don't need a changing table at all anymore. Diapers compost just like any other trash.