I'd love to have my family move back to Isola Island. There were way more to do there and all the peeps worked for the common good of the community, rather than just filling up their houses with STUFF!

Now I've got every upgrade for them (on two of my families, the other three are getting there), I just change all their clothes every time the shop stocks, even if it's the same thing they're already wearing, and I try to see how much food I can buy before I get bored of clicking. I got to just over 22000 and then the next morning the fridge was off overnight so I had to throw it all out and buy it all again XD

In one of the families I make the older kids do all the cooking and let the parents watch TV all day =x The dad tried to go work on his career this morning, and the Mum tried to dust the furniture so I spanked them both and sent them back to the TV, whilst the kids were tidying the yard and preparing the meals xD

I guess apart from that, all I can do is wait until the right hand money counter runs out of space. Although I may have a long wait for that to happen!

I am running the latest version. the .05 one. and i am 3rd, almost 4th generation on both familys. the first time i noticed it is when i was going from 1st generation, to 2nd, and my 1st generation family had over 4000 before i moved to the second generation. I chose the child that had over 1000 in the bank so that i could upgrade one of the rooms in the house. when the child moving in was 'checking out the house' i noticed then that the money was only what she brought with her, which was around 1000. I figured that was just another way to keep the game going longer. so now before i move on to another generation, i try to spend what the previous generation earned so its not a total loss.

what is the latest upgrade? I just want to make sure I have the latest.Thanks!

I had an idea about what we could do with all that money after buying all the upgrades.

I have been playing for a month and haven't completed all the collections. Some collectibles could be available for sale at a insanely high price ($100,000 etc), so we could buy the ones that are missing.

That could be another goal to look forward too.

I have a rich family & it is pretty dull. I change their outfits a lot! Selling your collectibles, if the offer comes up, also gives you something to do. I agree with others that we need more stuff to spend the money on!

LOL, you have a long wait Bear! After they reach level 8 I think they make the money for their career even if they don't work.

Gee littlewindbird, it's like you're being cheated. My little peeps are so rich they don't know what to do with their money. smile It's really too bad that your game is cheating you. Have you tried deleting all your games and starting over....maybe even reinstalling first??? If you wanted to try this you could always save your present families LDW files in another folder that could be restored afterward if you chose to do so.

Phyllis, the latest update is .05

I want to be able to find the key to that darned gate! Then throw a huge dinner party and invite those mysteriously creepy, but sometimes nice neighbors, just so I can see what they look like. I'd have the siblings come with their families.

But of course I would need to build a large dining room and since there's no more room on the first floor that would mean a second story, which I'm sure would be very expensive. Doesn't it look like there is supposed to be a second story in the antique picture anyway? Is that supposed to be our little people's house? Surely we can have a second story and an attic! The neighbors obviously do! I wanna be able to spy into their backyard too! There's no telling what we would find in the attic.... perhaps more clues as to who built the house or about their journey from Isola, or maybe they left for a tropical island vacation and became stranded on an island and we just happened upon their "abandoned" house. xP

Other things I would wish for "more expensive" upgrades:
Stereo - more modern looking, home stereo
Surround Sound / Home Theater System
Jungle Gym (or one of those playground type thingies for the kids in the yard)
Vegetable / Herb Garden - grow your own organics

Those sound neat - particularly the garden! Since they already have a map for that in VV, it should be easy enough to import, too!

I had that happen before I upgraded to 1.00.05, but my MacBook harddrive died (can you say 5 pound paperweight?!) And am waiting to get it back from Apple. So not sure if it will happen again. Thankfully I backed up everything to time-machine so can hopefully pick up where I left off with families and not have to start over!