I’m Wolfie, I’m also on The Sims 3 Site with the same username I downloaded these two, and moved in Alice with Agnes Crumplebottom. XD So far they’re okay Alice is doing better in school too. As for Kev, I think I killed him off by making him tinker with something and then he got electrocuted. Serves him right. So I made their old “home” a community lot called Bin Diver Park. So I put Alice and Kev into my neighbour hood with their park.
No baby appeared, but alice did grow up into an adult, and when I looked at the family funds they had a few thousand so she must be doing OK in her job. Almost as soon as I had put them in the game, Kev approached my elderly mother in the family I was playing, and insulted her terribly. But when the teenage son of my current family met Alice (as a teen) they really hit it off and became best friends when he invited her back from school. Nothing happened romantically between them until they were both adults, and I intervened and got them married! Kev wasn’t invited to the wedding. And that is where I left the game so far. Alice has moved in with my original family (the elderly mum and her two grown up children) but they’re not exactly rich, so things aren’t going to be luxurious.
I hate doing the cheats personally they ruin the game for me. My sims work for their pennies!
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Maybe I’ll have them invite Kev over for a family meal. Tonight,Kev and Alice began their lives in my game.
Things went downhill pretty quickly, with Alice especially upset about her smell and her aching belly. Kev ran up to the community garden where three blacks were enjoying the sunny day. As uaual, he was ranting and raving, and they all doubled over laughing at him. Meanwhile,Anita got off the bus with Alice and sat in the weed field awhile, but when Alice repeatedly begged Anita to let her come sleep at her house, Anita kept saying no. Alice stayed late at school the next day and got a little joy from swinging.
Then she found the showers, and things looked up even more. But when she got home, after curfew — OMG! The Grim Reaper was there, taking away her father! She burst into sobs — if only she had come home on time, she might have done something to save him!
At that moment,she had a lifetime wish (granted!) to become a world-class surgeon, so no one close to her would ever die like that again. Then she lay down on the bench, exhausted, and despite her grief, fell asleep. But at that moment, life threw her another gigantic curveball.
As she lay sleeping, a social worker announced she was going to take her away from her homeless life, since there was no longer an adult to care for her. So I never got to find out how she became a world-famous surgeon. (And she never did eat a thing in her whole life.). Reading your story has inspired me to create a homeless sim of my own.
I made a young adult named Alice. Her life time want is to have 20 friends.
She’s really cute, afraid of the dark and a bit childish. The good thing is she loves the outdoors and doesn’t really mind sleeping on the bench. On her first evening a burgler came into her lot and stole her bench D: It was okay because her bills are only $4.
Alice spends a lot of her time in town; showering at the gym or sleeping on the bench outside the bookstore. Hopefully my Alice can make lots of friends and fufill her lifetime wish and I hope your Alice has a happy ending too! Great job on the story! I’ve heard that Sims can be used to tell stories, but having a story of this magnitude is most impressive. It inspired me heaps as a human being, and I hope that this can be a tool to help with teaching others about homelessness. I have dabbled with Sims 1 before, and was terribly bad at it. I didn’t touch Sims 2 because of the horrible stuff people were doing to their Sims.
I would like to try out several scenarios using different social issues. Maybe if life turns out good or bad for your characters, maybe you can tackle other issues, either with the same character/s or another set altogether. Great experiment and hope to read some more.
Engaging and thought-provoking. If you make a book out of this, even a children’s book with little pictures, I’d buy it. I didn’t have both teen and child placed into my neighborhood, i just placed the child version. While alice was trying to find a place to sleep and eat during the weekend she found out she had a new neighbor.herself.
I found it fascinating how the house that had been empty now contained a copy of the bin diver family. Alice went ahead and chose to ignore the duplicates and sleep in their bed, while I watched the other 2 interact. They seemed to actually enjoy eachothers company. Later I edited the neighborhood and got rid of them though.
Having 2 of the same exact family (living next to eachother to boot) was just way too wierd for me. I loaded up Kev & Alice- she had a breakdown, a day of crying, almost right away. But she made a friend in the nearby lot. Kev is really godo at inviting himself in places, so his mood bar remains pretty good. I’m wondering at the level of involvement?
Do you sit back and watch or intervene? How much do you do both?
She got one of her wishes fulfilled- to hang out with Kev- when his mood bar was high, but then he was sent plummeting because he had a child interaction. I’m in the Sunset Valley and they’re basically living at the public swimming pool. A few days after placing them into my town, they were doing very well. Kev got a job at the local bistro as a Line Cook. He also adopted a child (I don’t know why, as he dislikes children. He and Alice both live in a beautifully decorated house built to keep the park’s pond. The own everything they need to live, but there is no crib for their baby.
😦 Later, I saw Kev driving home in his new, expensive car, hinting he probably has plenty of money. Their future is looking quite promising, living the life of luxury. I will also start a game with them, trying to make the rest of their lives a success. Pictures of their house: This will also contain other screenshots of the game in the near future. I downloaded the teenage version of the family.
After fighting to keep Alice happy for a few days, I suddenly remembered that the gym had showers and toilets. I also had Alice plant a garden and only let her harvest, because I’m mean that way. Well anyways, Kev now lives in the Crumplebottom household where he has another daughter.
Alice is married to Parker Langerak and has a son. They live in the park, but they “bought” it and cleaned it upadded a small two-story house and they’re doing okay. I still don’t know why she randomly cries all the time. I can’t get her to stop, its annoying. I’ve tried to play alice and kev a few different ways. I first tried to play them myselfit was in sunset valley and they started living in the 28 hour wellness gym for the most part.
I felt the difficulty was gone so i decided to make a new family and play them in riverview. I had placed alice and kev in their original location and without realizing moved my new family in across the street. I couldn’t bare to watch alice suffer from even a distance so my female sim started to take care of her, inviting her over after school and always having a fresh meal on the counter when she arrived.
Without any interaction between the two they became best friends, but then alice became a teen and my sim had a child and things went down hill from there. I tried a new way this time without interfering with alice and kev so much just to see what would happen. My sims went on with their lives not knowing about the homeless family but my oldest son met alice and eventually married her. I just can’t seem to keep from trying to “save” alice i guess. I think this is very interesting, I think Im going to change some of Alice’s traits thou, just to mix it up. Maybe maker her or her dad klepto’s, makes it more interesting for someone who has nothing.
I would also like to atlest build a little restroom for the both of them, does anyone remember if they can sponge bath from sinks in 3? I’ll find out when I play them. I would also like to make my own homeless family just so they have someone else feel the same as they do.
Maybe a mother son homeless family. I’ll let you guys know what happens. I’m another who downloaded Kev and Alice with a compulsion to try and rescue her. I set myself my own challenge of doing so without ever actually controlling her — just by seeing what a friendly face who always welcomes her over could do. The hardest part was in the beginning — she wouldn’t ever come over when invited until we were friends, and apparently it takes a long while to become friends with someone who’s miserable when you’re doing the courting on a weed-choked abandoned lot with her father off to the side cursing at you. Eventually, though, it got where I could invite her over most evenings and all day on the weekends.
I’d always make sure to serve plentiful yummy food, lots of entertainment, and would make sure to give her a tutoring session each time too. The biggest problem was what to do about her tiredness — I never found a way to get her to sleep, though she was obviously tired. Once she became a teenager, it was much easier — I “cure” her fatigue once a day with my moodlet manager. If only those existed in real life!
I downloaded them and put them as neighbors to my active family. I immediately let the child in my house befriend her. Now they are both teens and they’re dating 🙂 Alice as a teen wears her hair in a bun and this long skirt, she looks really different! She definitely got a job because I used to invite her over every night but lately when i call she says she’s busy and to call back in 23 hours. I’m going to have to make Kev and Alice the active household and see if maybe Kev got a job too or just Alice. I’m planning on getting my sim to propose to her as soon as they are both young adults!
My sim has the insane trait but he’s also good so I’ll make sure Alice is treated right. Yeah, I feel bad for a bunch of pixels 😛 so sue me. As soon as I put them in the lot Alice started crying so of course I had to do something to help her. 🙂 I think it’ll be nice to merge my family (i’m on the third generation) with Alice!
I may be tempted to move Kev in with Alice just to see how that goes. I downloaded child Alice and Kev. While Alice was still a teenager, Kev “had a bad day” and the grim reaper showed up. Surprisingly (to me, at least) they let me still play with Alice.
She got a part-time job, and then I had her change into a full-time one as she grew into a young adult. Since she had the life-long goal of having 5 kids, I figured that might be good. She has a boyfriend, who she now has 3 kids with. I’m not sure how long she’s gonna last though, honestly, as she barely has enough money to have a toilet and cribs on the lot.
(the repoman came and took the benches and table awhile ago) She’s driven crazy trying to take care of the kids all on her own, as her boyfriend leaves after a short while. I created my own Alice and Kev in Sims 2. Because I have Seasons installed, it starts in winter. Kev froze to death at the end of the Winter. I’m not sure when exactly, they never let me know. Alice did not do well at school because she would freeze stiff when the bus arrived and was unable to board to go to school.
She found scraps and put together a make shift fire place. She made friends with passerbys. Kev had a savings somewhere and she had enough money to put a shower in the bathroom stall of their park. She has been quite happy since then.
That is where we are. Her dream is to be accepted into Private School, so who knows? I downloaded Alice and Kev and decided to see how they’d function if their lives were “perfect”; i.e., they had a nice house, food on the table, and perfect work/school performances. I did not use any cheats; I got Kev a job in the Business career track, as this was one of his first wants. The Business career track requires no skill building, so I just paid attention to boss/coworkers/meetings and had Kev work on whatever needed improvement.
At first, I had Kev and Alice hang out at the gym for the bathrooms and free fridge. I sold all the bushes on their lot to afford two beds, and they returned to the lot each night to sleep. As Kev got promoted and brought in more money, I slowly bought them essential items on a barebones lot. Then I added walls, then doors, then floors, et cetera, until they had what amounted to a small studio apartment.
For fun, Alice and Kev often played tag. This resulted in a perfect relationship between them, despite the fact that Kev’s “Dislikes Children” trait still causes him to order her out of the room whenever they are together. Somehow, Kev has gotten promoted to Chairman of the Board, or level 9 of the Business career track.
With all the corruption and insanity that has come out in the financial sector (or at least the American financial center), this is not all that shocking. I can totally see the economic meltdown being Kev’s fault, or someone like Kev. Kev continually has a wish to get demoted (he can’t handle the pressure!) or to quit his job, despite how much easier his life has become because of it. He still talks to himself. Sometimes he goes outside and kicks the trash can over for no reason. He routinely wears his swimsuit to bed, workout clothes to work, and work clothes to the gym.
Despite having a lovely home, perfect grades, lots of friends, and “BFF”s with her father, Alice spontaneously cries at least once a day. She routinely breaks things in the house and has embarrassing moments happen to her at school. So, in short, it seems that even if Alice and Kev had a good relationship and lots of money, their personality traits still prevent them from being completely happy.
I just wanted to say that i also downloaded teen Alice and Kev. I’ve been playing in Riverview with the Lessen family, the guy who is a rockstar. He adopted 2 sons before I got to playing his family and he had since married a sim I made. It’s this family that have gotten involved straight away with the Bin Diver’s. Well, one of the teenage sons had taken a liking to Alice right away. I was surprised about that, cuz I’ve been having him chat up all the girls in the neighborhood and none of them triggered any wishes like flirt or chat with this girl.
But right when he and Alice got to friends status, he immediately wanted to kiss her! I was impressed so I made this wish come true. I did note he was slightly disgusted by Alice’s smell but after he kissed her, this disgusted moodlet went away hehe. Since then he’s been getting wishes to chat Alice, hug Alice, kiss Alice, so I invited her over to his house during the weekend. The mom made eggs machveilian and I made sure Alice got to eat. The son now wants to cuddle Alice. I’m still amazed at how much he likes her cuz of all the sims I’ve played, this is the first time I’ve seen a sim so into their romantic interest.
So I’m thinking about making them go steady, but I’m not keen on having Alice move in. I want her to get a part-time job after school and work her way up somehow. The interesting thing is that the Lessen family have all been inclined to be nice to Alice.
The mom wants to introduce herself and the dad plays music for her. The brother wants to be friends too.
In this regard, I don’t think Alice’s Loser trait is effecting her likability. Her goodness is strong I guess. I downloaded child Alice and Kev, and put them in as NPCs, as soon as I started the game. The Sim I play (a young adult), befriended Alice, and invited her to birthday parties for her own babies/toddlers, who have since grown into children and teens. Alice spent a lot of time at their house as a child, and I even gave her basically her own room in my Sims’ house. She would use that when she came over, and she occasionally invited my kids over to her lot, which is where they have met Kev.
Kev basically grumbles a lot and kicks around the trash can, and appears to make fun of Alice, though I can’t see exactly what’s going on between them. He’s not been mean to any of my kids, as far as I can tell.
It seems that Kev does have a job (I always see him wearing some type of uniform, though I don’t recognize it), and he’s had another child- a toddler named Janis. After Alice aged to a teen, she brought the toddler to my Sims’ house, and it appears that the toddler is not walking/talking/potty trained, though she’s been in the game for a while. Alice is still friends with the kids in my family, and is close with the oldest, who is now also a teen (he’s a boy).
I haven’t pushed any romance between them, but he has asked her to spend the night a few times- and unlike when she was a child, she’ll stay, but she won’t sleep. She’ll put her sister down in one of the empty cribs to sleep, but she stays up all night, watching TV, playing video games and using the pool, although she’s clearly been invited to stay, and there are multiple empty rooms/beds. She does the same thing whether or not she has her sister with her. I haven’t had any other teens invited over to stay yet, so I don’t know if that’s the normal behavior, but it seemed pretty interesting! I got my teenager Alice a job, and bought some seeds. Every day she would go to work, and then she’d come home and work on her garden and then go to bed. She donated to charity every other day, and sold about half of her produce every week, and split the remainder between her and kev so they could eat.
I also made Kev fish during the day for a few hours, and sold what he caught. Eventually, I had saved up enough money and built them a house, and was able to expand it to a 2 bedroom, one bath, they had a living room and a kitchen also. It was actually a very nice place after i put some work into it. Then after Alice grew up and Kev died, she got the hots for Mortimer Goth.
I thought, “what the heck”, so they got hitched. Yes, I did not have them in Riverview. But that’s how my game turned out now Kev is gone, Alice is gone, but her Grandkids are doing quite well. I was rather dissapointed and depressed when I read her obituary in the paper, but hey, sims tend to die. I downloaded and uses child Alice and Kev and put them as NPC’s in my version of riverwiev. I played on and mostly forgot I had put them in there, until one evening when my sim was sitting outside playing chess, I saw Alice come into my garden, stealing room on a bench to sleep.
Also she took some food from the meal that my sim had made earlier that was still standing outside, and although I had promised myself not to interact with them, my sim decided to talk to her on her own, something that resulted in Alice coming over again during the weekend, without any interaction from me. Still waiting to see if she will come over more, as my sim seems to enjoy having the girl around. OMG everyone’s Kevs are dying 0.0 I downloaded them(teenage Alice), and for some reason Kev had 30,000 lifetime happiness points (and like 9 steaks) so I changed his traits so he was nice and really smart. Then I got him a job(buisiness).
I used a cheat to change Alice’s traits and I had them both work on their skills. Eventually Kev started getting a lot of money from his job so I moved them into a small house and redid their wardrobes (I figure they could afford new clothes). They are now very happy. I sort of feel guilty for using a cheat though 😉.
I downloaded the young adult Alice. She is living in a nice, little house, flirting with a cop named “Hank”(who is also in a relationship with a pauline wan:o), working as a gene therapist and has developed athletic, logic and cooking skills. I think she is happy 🙂 I also placed Kev’s grave outside her house, and sometimes at night his ghost is walking around in her house, watching tv and listening to music.
AND HE HAS STOLEN SEVERAL THINGS FROM HER HOUSE. Can ghosts steal?! Thank you for a touching story. I came across this site about a year ago when the newest entry was her getting a hug from Zedadias. Found it again yesterday and read the rest of it. I thought they’d make a fun addition to my town (Sunset Valley), so I downloaded teen Alice and Kev.
When I first placed the lot I was still playing another family, so I just zoomed in and watched how Alice and Kev would act once placed in the game. Right away they got into an argument! Interestingly, Alice ended up befriending the daughter in the household I was playing (Rachael). She came over once, she seemed to be in a good mood overall. Had a good time.
I then decided to play Alice and Kev for a while and see what that was like. Apparently while I was playing my other family, Kev had got himself a job as a criminal, so they actually had some income.
The first night I played them someone robbed their lot and took the teddy. Talk about never getting a break.
They’re fun to play. Keeping them fed is easy, since Kev has a job they can afford to buy fruit from the store to eat. It’s also easy to keep them clean and from their bladders exploding, since the public pool has showers and toilets.
It also has picnic baskets setup during the day so they can get a “good” meal once in a while. The biggest challenge for me is getting them rested.
It takes many bench maps to get the bar full, and it’s not until the weekend that there’s enough time to do that. Since Kev is insane, he can talk to himself to bring his mood up quickly.
Alice is a bit harder, since the books are slow to boost the mood. Kev almost got fired from work because of his exhaustion, but he’s doing a bit better now, he even managed to get to career level 2. They’ve got about $1,500 now. Since they earned it the good old fashioned way, I may consider buying them a small home (like that trailer) when they earn enough. Alice’s grades are actually pretty good, she has a B and gets her homework done most of the time.
Alice has one friend, Rachael. Kev has none. I was going to have him becomes friends with Rachael’s father, who is also insane, but I wanted to see the two of them duke it outthey’re currently disliked by each other.
Alice and Kev are still enemies, although one night while they were sitting on the bench they chatted and improved their relationship a bit. They both have the wish to become friends. Just thought I’d share my experiences with them. Thanks for making them available to play! Why did you have to have these characters uploaded on “The Exchange” instead of another site where you can add custom sims content?
This means I can’t download these. I’m one of the few unlucky people who has NEVER gotten his Sims3 launcher to work. Whenever I click on it: “Sims3Launcher has stopped working” error. No matter what I do, I still get this error. Would it be too much to ask for a mirror of the files? To where they can be downloaded and installed like other custom content, without the launcher?
(Like how they do at Modthesims.com, where you go into and install to Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/SavedSims). I downloaded the lot with Alice and Kev, but can’t place it in my game because there’s no vacant lots for $1,200.
I know this comment is waaaay past the time of your excellent story, but if anyone’s looking and have managed to place the lot in their Riverview game, could you possibly say which lot address it is, so that I can demolish or move what’s there in order to place Alice and Kev’s lot? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I would love to watch an unassisted storyline progression in my own game.