Today, after hours of brainstorming and collecting impressions, I proudly present to you the ultimate list of business ideas for the newly released Businesses & Hobbies pack ✧. ✲ﾟ･｡✧･ﾟ
I've categorized the business ideas to provide a more structured overview, because there are so many (๑❛ʚ❛๑). They are sorted into the following categories:
📌 Service-based small businesses
🍽️ Restaurants & entertainment venues
🛍️ Retail & creative shops
🛠️ Craft & manufacturing businesses
🎭 Fantasy & unconventional businesses.
Also for some of these ideas, I recommend using CC or mods to deepen the immersion, but that's completely up to you — sometimes using your own imagination does the trick too~ The recommended or sometimes necessary packs are included behind the business idea as well as CC/mod recommendation markers ❀✿❀
If you feel like something's missing, please comment your idea(s) and I will happily add them to the list so that the compendium can continue to grow (◕ω◕✿)
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As always, happy simming!
- MiunaChan ♥
📌 Service-Based Small Businesses
💉 Tattoo Studio (Hobbies & Businesses)
💆 Wellness Studio/Spa (Spa Day)
💅 Nail Salon (Spa Day)
💇 Hair Salon/Barbershop (CC/mods recommended)
💆♂️ Massage Center (Spa Day)
🧖 Sauna / Onsen Retreat (Spa Day, Snowy Escape)
🏋️ Gym & Personal Training (Fitness Stuff, Spa Day)
🧘 Yoga Studio (Spa Day)
🏔️ Rock Climbing Tours (Snowy Escape)
⛸️ Ice Skating Rink (Seasons)
🎢 Roller Skating Rink (Seasons)
🏊 Pool (Seasons)
📖 Library
👶 Daycare for Infants & Toddlers (Seasons, Parenthood)
🤓 Preschool (Parenthood, High School Years)
🐱 Pet Daycare (Cats & Dogs)
🐕 Pet Training & Agility Classes (Cats & Dogs)
🏨 Hotel/Motel (Get to Work)
🧺 Laundrette (Laundry Day Stuff)
🎉 Event Planning Agency (My Wedding Stories)
🏥 Cosmetic Surgery Clinic (CC/mods recommended)
🗣️ Public Relations Agency
🏕️ Campground & Outdoor Retreat (Outdoor Retreat)
🏞️ Private Garden Maze & Fishing Lake (Cottage Living)
🏫 Lecture Hall & Public Speaking Center
🤖 Robotics Workshop (Discover University)
🎭 Improv Theater & Acting School (Get Famous, Get to Work)
📖 Creative Writing & Journalism Workshops
👗 Etiquette & Manners School (My Wedding Stories)
💻 Coding Bootcamp & IT Training
🎮 E-Sports & Gaming Coaching
🍽️ Restaurants & Entertainment Venues
💻 Internet Café
🐾 Pet Café (Cats & Dogs)
🎲 Tabletop & Board Game Café
🧋 Bubble Tea Shop (High School Years)
🍔 Fast-Food Restaurant (Dine Out)
🥐 Bistro (Cozy Bistro Kit, Dine Out)
☕ Traditional Tea House (Snowy Escape)
🥦 Vegan Specialty Store (Cottage Living)
🥘 Food Market & Culinary Stalls (Cottage Living, City Living)
🎤 Bar/Lounge/Nightclub/Karaoke Club (City Living, Get Together)
🎸 Live Music & Jazz Club
😂 Comedy Club
🎥 Cinema (Movie Hangout Stuff)
🎳 Bowling Alley (Bowling Night Stuff)
🍇 Vineyard & Wine Tasting (Cottage Living)
🍸 Barista & Mixology Courses
🏰 Medieval Tavern (Get Together, Seasons)
🎭 Movie Studio Tour (Get Famous)
🏦 Museum & Science Exhibition (Discover University)
🛍️ Retail & Creative Shops
🌸 Flower Shop (Seasons)
💐 Flower Arranging School (Seasons)
🕯️ Candle Shop (Eco Lifestyle)
🏺 Pottery Studio (Hobbies & Businesses)
🖼️ Art Gallery (Get to Work)
🎨 Artist’s Studio & Creative Workshops (City Living)
📚 Bookstore (Get to Work)
📖 Comic Book & Nerd Store (City Living, Journey to Batuu)
🖌️ Art Studio & Painting Classes (City Living, Get to Work)
🧸 Toy Store
🛎️ Souvenir Shop (Island Living, Snowy Escape, Journey to Batuu)
🔮 Crystal & Occult Store (Realm of Magic, Crystal Creations Kit)
💎 Crystal Workshop (Crystal Creations Kit)
🏺 Antique Shop (Eco Lifestyle)
🔥 Fireworks Shop (Seasons)
🎵 Record & Music Instrument Store (City Living)
🎸 Music School (City Living)
📷 Photography Studio & Workshops (Get to Work, City Living)
🧥 Thrift Store (High School Years, Eco Lifestyle)
👘 Costume & Formal Wear Rental (CC/mods recommended)
🎭 Fantasy & Unconventional Businesses (CC/Mods Recommended)
🕵️ Private Detective Agency (Get to Work)
💘 Dating Agency
🧹 Cleaning Service
🧠 Psychological Counseling & Therapy
🏚️ Second-Hand Furniture Store (Eco Lifestyle)
🎨 Black Market for Stolen Art (Get to Work, Jungle Adventure)
🧑🔬 Secret Alchemy Lab (Realm of Magic)
🎲 Backyard Poker Club
🎰 Gambling Den or Casino (Get to Work)
💻 Cybercriminal Hacker Hideout (Get to Work)
🏚️ Brothel
💋 Woohoo Playrooms
🔮 Medium/Psychic Business (Realm of Magic)
🧪 Potion Bar (Realm of Magic)
🕍 Cemetery & Tombstone Sales (Live and Death, Realm of Magic)
🦇 Secret Occult Society (Vampires, Werewolves, Realm of Magic)
🏕️ Nudist Colony
🕹️ Arcade & Retro Gaming Lounge (High School Years, City Living)
💭 Bubble Blower Lounge (City Living)
⛪ Church
with the highly anticipated release of businesses & hobbies, I gotta say: opportunity taken to make a cc masterlist, yay! I love making those!
small (family) businesses is a huge add-on to our gameplay and with custom content, the fun will never go away. 🥰 everything from essential mods, shopping decor & specific-themed businesses items are to be found here.
feel free to send any suggestions for the list, I'll be happy to add them!
ESSENTIALS
miunachan's ultimate list of business ideas 🧡
mods
cheat retail & restaurant prices
club & business activity expanded
club & business expanded interactions
functional registers
higher business activity limit
more selectable icons
more small business employees
more small business logos
more small business visitors
no autonomous dancing
sell stuff from any surfaces
small business do not close
tend stalls activity expanded
decor & display
business essentials x @soloriya
industrial inventory shelves x @brazenlotus
retail therapy set x @syboubou
shopping bags & box x @aroundthesims
simoleons decor set x @simdertalia
tip jars x @simdertalia
signs & stickers
backlit wall signs x @gfvsims
business sign decals x @cryptiam
credit card stickers x @ccbybudgie
convenience store ads x @cryptiam
fire department stickers x @ccbybudgie
gift shop neons x @simdertalia
lit up ads on wheels x @ccbybudgie
lit wall advertisements x @brazenlotus
open led sign decals x @cryptiam
sale & ad posters x @simdertalia
security sign decals x @cryptiam
shop ads x @ccbybudgie
THEMED SPECIFICS
animals & pets
aquarium retail display fridge x @brazenlotus
besties: part 1 & part 2 x @sixamcc
pet pack wall frames x @brazenlotus
urban stray life x @aroundthesims
art & crafts
art studio x @sixamcc
flower arrangement display x @brazenlotus
hobby knit x @helenmay
piano cc set x @syboubou
tattoo wall art x @ccbybudgie
daycare & kids
boho baby x @sixamcc
dream teen sleepover x @sixamcc
dreamy nursery x @sixamcc
kids bedroom x @sixamcc
little critters x @syboubou
modern teen bedroom x @sixamcc
princess & vampire kids x @sixamcc
private school x @sixamcc
tiny playrooms x @sixamcc
entertainment
dance studio signs x @simdertalia
functional quarter coin vending machine x @aroundthesims
hey hey what skin do you use? :) looks so nice. Also any chance they for DL <3 anchorpointwharf/776221402410942464/before-it-all-went-wrong?source=share
Hello!
My default skin is by Agave by Nesurii and I use a lot of their skin overlays, as well as some overlays by Northern Siberia Winds
A lot of my 2t4 sims are adapted from the gallery in my own style, so I would feel a bit weird uploading the Goths. These Goths were a blended version of the original TS4 Goths and updated version in the gallery, so if you type in Goth blended they should come up.
GRAND FINALE - Simblr's Saddest, Wettest Meow Meow
Geoffrey Landgraab (@fallstaticexit) VS. Nancy Landgraab (@fallstaticexit)
FINAL
Geoffrey Landgraab (@fallstaticexit)
Nancy Landgraab (@fallstaticexit)
Voting ended onMar 16, 2025
(polls are presented left -> right unless stated otherwise)
The ultimate showdown, the final decision. It's man VS. wife, and the most important choice of them all is left to us; who gets the title of Simblr's Saddest, Wettest Meow Meow in the divorce??
What is a ‘Meow Meow’?
(taken from tumblr user @/torturelabyrinth) “The thing about a true poor little meow meow is they have to be 1) downtrodden 2) morally questionable at best 3) deeply and pathetically miserable”
Geoffrey Langraab
What makes Geoffrey a Sad, Wet Meow Meow? What’s more pathetic: marrying the girl of your dreams just for her to turn you into the biggest cuck in the tristate area or slowly gaining consciousness but still pretending you don’t see it because what’s wrong with a little sobbing into your wine glass over your cheating wife’s affair? Geoffrey’s sweet, sensitive nature has paved way for him to be a meek, spineless fluff of a man that will stand outside on the front porch with bated breath for the return of his wife after she plows yet another woman into the mattress under the guise of running a multimillion dollar company (it’s both).
This is the same man who look his own sons in the eyes and know they deserve better but will quietly beg for it from across the room because communication is scary when your wife has walls as thick as the mascara that runs down your face. And just when you start to have an ounce of faith; you’re reminded this is the man who saw with his own four eyes actual hickies on the inside of his wife thighs and chooses to do- well. NOTHING. 😀 Because if you never acknowledge your cheating wife’s passionate affair, did it actually happen? 😏
Nancy Landgraab
What makes Nancy a Sad, Wet Meow Meow? Our famously known townie turned OC is the Queen of Melancholy. She's closeted, she's religiously repressed, she's h*rny, she's rich, she carries the burden of her deceased elder brother, she's the bane of her mother's existence. When she's not internalizing her self loathing, she's gazing longingly into the distance thinking about a life free of her mother's judgement and status that she never wanted in favor of running free through a sunflower field kissing beautiful women. And when she manages to actually show up for her two sons, she's still so emotionally detached that this will very much come up in a therapy session later. Her husband is almost on his knees begging for her to smile but she's still pining after her first love while being married to said husband (who's a second runner up for SWMM tbh).
She's a cheater, she's a liar, she's about to get into some risky, sketchy business, she disappoints her children, she's morally grey, she's a top, she's catholic, she's a cougar, she likes to splurge on dr*gs and strippers, the list goes on. ahhh.
Retail Therapy is the ultimate cc set for designing the perfect shopping experience! Originally crafted around clothing stores, this set took on a new life when Business & Hobbies was announced—fitting the new DLC purely by coincidence!
At first, the focus was entirely on fashion, with stunning posters featuring Serenity’s amazing preview images. But with new inspiration, the set expanded to include a modular shelving system and versatile clutter that can bring any kind of shop to life.
As a bonus, Retail Therapy includes a collection of miscellaneous ad posters covering 26 different shop themes—think bookstores, candy shops, tattoo parlors, pottery studios, gyms, yoga spaces, and even kindergartens! With 20 stylish swatches, you’ll have endless possibilities to design unique and immersive stores that match any aesthetic.
Description
Surface: Retail counter, single cloth rack, double cloth rack, floor cloth rack, large wall shelf, square shelf, square wall rack, floor shelves, table with lower table, console table, wrapping station.
Clothes & shoes: hanged 4x coats, 2x jackets, a shirt, a top and a sweater and 2 pile of clothes/jumpers, x2 sneakers, boots, low boots, derbies and shoe boxes
Decorations: Ad poster with Serenity's clothes, shoes and accessories, ad poster with miscellaneous activities (available in hanged short/medium height and wall version), antitheft system, shopping basket and shopping basket pile, cardboard box, payment terminal, price tag, tape dispenser.
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As a Sims 2 player one of the most eerie things about playing the original game isn't necessarily the creepy/more liminal aesthetic or the repetitively endless gameplay, but the fact that almost all the pre-made Sims from the original game are inexorably doomed by the narrative.
There's something odd about Pleasantview specifically, where the majority of the returning Sim families live (save for Tara Kat, who seems... relatively fine). Like, the concept of the game is that twenty-five years have passed, and all of the returning characters are pre-baked into character arcs that communicate an unavoidable truth: You, the player, failed.
Bella Goth will disappear. Her brother (though in the original Sims we aren't aware that Michael Bachelor is her brother) will die, possibly murdered. Mortimer will be lost and alone. Cassandra will be stuck in an unloving engagement. The Newbie's daughter will be impoverished, a single mother whose husband died young, with two boys and another on the way. Daniel Pleasant will grow up to be a cheater. Jennifer Pleasant will never be an athlete like she wanted (her brother will). And though poor Johnny Burb never mentions Tucker anymore, you know that old dog died years ago. The Roomies, the Mashugas, the Hicks, the Charmings - all leave town... or worse, die out.
I think about Jeff Pleasant's bio in the first game: "Jeff and his family are new to the neighborhood. Can you help Jeff provide for his family and fulfill his lifelong goal of being the first man to walk on Mars?" And how it contrasts to Daniel's in the second: "Since his father Jeff died without achieving his dream of going to Mars, Daniel has felt an overwhelming guilt."
And sure, you can save the families of Pleasantview. You can choose for Mary-Sue to not go to work that day, or maybe Daniel never pursues Kaylynn Langerak again. You can give Cassandra a happy marriage, tame Don Lothario's womanizer ways. You can financially save Brandi Broke. You can get John Burb another dog. You can get Jennifer the career she always wanted. You can defy the scripted in-game prompts and say "No. I don't want to play like this." You can break the cycle, every time you play.
And yet, at the end of the day, no matter what you do... uninstalling the game and reinstalling it, maybe just deleting that Neighborhood folder, they are reset back to exactly where they were again. They're doomed to repeat it forever.
The game makes it clear that there are some things you aren't meant to change. A genie lamp or a Resurrect-O-Nomitron can bring back sims like Michael Bachelor, but you will pay for it in your neighborhood deteriorating to corruption. And no matter what you do, no force in the universe can bring Bella Goth back. The one in Strangetown isn't even really her, after all. And maybe she isn't. They say they deleted her in development, replaced her with a clone. Maybe that's what Bella Goth in Strangetown is. A clone. Maybe we were wrong, after all. Maybe she was never abducted by aliens. Maybe Don Lothario killed her. Maybe Dina Caliente killed her. Maybe Mortimer did. But you can't bring her back, no matter what you do. Recreate the original Bella, pixel by pixel, extract her data, make your zombie Bella. Build your own monster. Create a sim. But she will never recognize her family. Never see them as her own.
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