THE SIMS: BUSTIN' OUT TIPS & TRICKS
Jail
Skills increased: Body
Turing Labyrinth
Skills increased: Creativity
Heidi Shadows
Skills increased: All
Library vs gym
The gym will reduce your stamina bar and hygiene bar but the library will only reduce the comfort bar, and also much slower.
Selling paintings
Go to the lover's spot in the painting mission and buy a canvas and paint a masterpiece. After you go to the lover's spotm you will never be able to sell paintings for money again.
Ghostly Gift
To get the "Ghostly Gift", go down into the sewers from the second house.
Burglar
Every time you get burgled, think of Giuseppi. Also, after he is arrested, you will not get burgled anymore.
Items to buy
In the entire game, you do not need to buy a lot of items. The set of items which should be kept (in order) is: Phone (free from the start), Toilet (free from the start), Savvy Shower (buy it; part of quest), Stove (buy it), Fire alarm (buy it), Burglar alarm (buy it), Aquarius/Capricorn/etc./etc. Recliner (free from the sewers secret area), Crystal Ball (free from Earl Euphram's prize)
Fishing tips
Lure A: Blue fish
Fishing tips
Lure B: Green fish