The Ugly Household

This is the Ugly family. They are the only created family in my prosperity neighborhood. I asked my dd to create some sims as ugly as she could. The pets are also her creation and will be the founders of the pet line in the neighborhood.
My first objective was to make friends with the dogs so I could encourage them to "try for puppy's". My other objective was to earn some money to send the family on vacation. I wanted the vacation time to earn some money to help them with the start up costs. I was having trouble on the main lot building up money having to juggle other things. (school and homework)

I managed to get the cash on hand up to a little over 2k. I booked a vacation to the the mountain vacation spot. Its the only area that has a "free" hotel. I forgot that pets couldn't go on vacation so left the mom behind. (no money for the nanny) The dad and the kids went on a "roughing it" vacation.

While on vacation, they spent their time fishing. The dad also did some "digging" for treasure. The goal was to build up money and work on badges.

I returned home to continue to work on the dads and the dogs relationship. Eventually got it worked up to "try for puppy" and sent the dogs to the dog house.

A few days later, the first set of puppies are born.
A picture of the parents with 2 of the pups.

(I added a point option to score the longest pet line. Its based on the platsim line. I used the doom dogs my dd created to see how long it takes for the dogs to look normal. I think I did this in another self created challenge, but can't recall the outcome. For full scoring options, check out the rules page. I've added a few things and removed other points.)
This is just a shot of the mom drinking soda. She over drank and ended up spoiling a part of the carpet. (oops)
They made enough money off the fish and digging to buy Little N' Local. My objective at this point is to make some contacts with neighbors and sell the puppies. I'd like to get some sold to others before my week is up in the house.

The family arrives to Little N' Local for the first time. I love the "walk to..." lot feature.

They made some contacts and were able to build up enough money to take a full family vacation. All four take a tiki island vacation.

My main goal was to allow time to freeze while they worked on skills and some badges. So far, neither adult has found their LTW job in the newspaper. Neither one are employed. That will come soon enough (I hope). Since I have fishing and digging, I'm going to continue to wait until their job is available in the paper.

During the day they would learn from the book case. During the night they would look through the telescope. Someone on asked if a sim could get abducted on vacation, so I decided to give it a try. I put three telescopes on the property. I sent the dad and kids to use it during the night hours when they were not sleepy. Didn't take long to get their sleep pattern to match being awake during most of the night.

It paid off. I managed to get the dad abducted. This happened with no cheats or hacks. I wonder if they changed how easy it is to get abducted. In my other prosperity challenge it took a round or two of having as many sims as possible use the telescope before someone got abducted. This seemed pretty quick. I wanted to get the mom pregnant during the vacation. Getting the dad pregnant is far better start to this challenge.
Here is a shot of the dad after he came back from his space visit. (Lights turned on so the picture would show up.) You can see two of the three telescopes in the picture.

Next, I worked on getting every ones needs high enough and then sent them to the mystery hut.

The dad earned the voodoo doll.

Vacation is over and they all return home.

I still have a few days left in the week to sell the pups to others in the neighborhood.