Besides collectibles, there are weeds to pull and trash (wrapers) and socks to occassionally pick up. Unfortunately there is not a way to speed up time passing as there was in the other games. being able to speed up time by x2 or x4 might make it look like more is happening. Thankfully women only carry the babies around a couple of hours in this game. You can also praise people for doing certain tasks and win trophies that way as well.