Trying the same Rags to Riches challenge 9 years later 

as soon as I saw the Caliente makeovers I immediately got worried that James wouldn't recognize Katrina anymore and we wouldn't get the beautiful shouts of her name. never been so happy to be wrong lmao

Who remembers when James would get that message while fishing, not read it and give up fishing because he thought that meant there's no more fish in the pond....😂

Isn't the internet wild? Thanks to the internet, this man in Australia I have never met, who doesn't know who I am, has been a more consistent part of my life over the past almost decade than most of my friends have been. Wow 😂 this video just made me realise I've been consistently watching your videos for 9 years, that's like a third of my life, and it's just sent me spiralling lmao

'Dont smell yourself you will be less confident' I love James humor

Honestly loved the old no edit videos. Feels like a chill time and calms me down. Mistakes happen and reminds me we're all human and it's okay 😊

9 years and you still don't know that selling the cowplant right after planting it gives you more money. (400 vs only 180 for the berry) 😅

Nine years?! I can’t believe I watched this original series in real time. Time flies! Excited to see you attempt this again.

8/9 years of experience really helped Duke Silver have an easier life this time around. Though I found it mildly amusing that he snubbed his first timeline wife Summer for Katrina. However I found it a vexing reminder that even the refreshed Katrina doesn't have an established relationship with Don.

I personally like the unedited videos, but it was fun to see James get frustrated with not being able to edit the video.

I guess theoretically making digital art in the real world would be faster than having to wait for every layer of oil paint to dry to the level you need to continue. But in my experience, artists are slowed down more by their perfectionism and insecurities than their medium.

I actually really like these unedited videos. It’s like hanging out with a friend while they’re playing.

I would've loved to see you build a small home for him. He deserves it, after all.

I've already said this in the members video, but a new Rags to Riches Extreme would be amazing! Also I'd love to see you build the house on the lake or the 'mountain' house again with the new tools, I loved those builds.

I want to see a Extreme Rags to Riches series again. That one was so fun... and extreme!

I remember the original rags to riches very well, and I love this return to the older style of video. I dont watch anywhere near as many Sims videos as I once did, as I'm not keen on the highly edited, fast paced, 'content', most people do now. Back in the day it was actually watching people play the game, and have fun with it. I'd love to see more videos like this.

A man steps onto a plot of grass, sets up an easel, and begins madly painting. After a day or two, he plunks down a toilet and a cot and continues painting, day and night. A week later, he is quietly victorious: $10,000 without ever stepping foot into a house.

This is super fun! Love to see the no edit video - and WOW what a difference in the challenge from 9 years ago. As a builder, I'd really enjoy you revisiting your old builds and see what you can do with the updated game.

I actually prefer the less/no editing videos. They feel much more natural.

Speedrunning rags to riches. 8 years ago, I liked the unedited long play videos. I miss that feeling. I finished Coe’s Quest and felt nostalgic for a youtube that just doesn’t exist anymore. It was a nice experience to watch this video today.

I LOVE the idea of remastering old builds. The "same house in sims 1-4" series was a ton of fun, i think this could have the same vibes. Thanks for the content lately, James! Really really enjoying it. ❤

For what it's worth, I really enjoy the pace of your unedited videos 😄

as a person who draws portraits in many forms, both realistic to pencil (traditionally) to toon style digitally. I can say without a doubt digital is faster for me anyways, takes me 2-3 hours to do a portrait verse two days in traditional style. Due to my arthris I will also say that its less mess too no needing 100 brushes and messy paints you can paint on the pad with unlimited colors!

A couple months ago I started my first rags to riches and about 5 min into it I fished a gold bar worth like $5000 in Brindleton Bay lol

I swear I remember watching your first rags to riches video like it was two weeks ago. Probably because it was, as I've been rewatching all your videos lmao. It's so fun to see how you've progressed!

Anyone else think James should revisit his Extreme Rags to Riches?

They did rework painting. The big money ones like abstract aren't worth as much, and some that used to be bad, like pop art, are worth more. I usually paint small classic to level 4 then just do small pop art until 9. Then realism and surrealism are worth the most if masterpieces, but they're about half as valuable as they used to be.

I like the idea of revisiting old videos! See how much you and the game have evolved. I haven't been around your channel for 9 years yet, but did watch all your old stuff and it's amazing how much you've stayed the same, yet have grown so much!

I’m rewatching all of the Bigwallet rags to riches (just about to finish Dine Out) so this is serendipitous!

I think the multi part A frame house build with the retaining walls would be a lot better now with platforms and pond tools

I love to play rags to riches myself, and I have noticed that often the neighbors won't leave the fruitcake if you don't have any surfaces like a table or a kitchen cabinet.

Is the name Duke Silver a reference to Ron Swanson from Parks and Rec? Love the video!

@jamesturner I was recently playing the high school pack and I noticed that the track and field backside isn't really useable. I thought I could click on the track and have my sims run track/ jog or even run huddles, maybe even play football or soccer with other teen sims, by clicking in the goal post, but NO. James! You have Sim build pull. Ask the sims team to make real sports a thing. (Cheerleading can't be the only highschooler sport that's actually interactive.) Tell them we want more high school sports as a playable option. It would be cool if we could create some kind of competitiveness or school fude's.

Duke Silver really has to be implemented into the Bigwallet Legacy. As someones partner, or friend, or just a random side character but he needs to be there.

I want a new Super Sim starting from infancy! It'll be like a stroll through the game with a new perspective. This was great by the way! 😄

You should bring duke silver into your main game, and introduce him into the bigwallet family somehow. Like Andrew Garfield falling into Tom Holland land.

9 years ?! 😅 i remember this! I found you on youtube late one night and fell in love with your Aluna Island videos, Just before The Sims 4 came out!! I still have that island downloaded on my old PC ❤❤

I forgot how basic base game is! All my solutions to your need of food and a bed early on were things from packs.. The cooler, the sleeping bag, the camp fire 😂

13:50 In case you didn't know: The Gordian Cot is also a special bed that Sims can put in their inventory!

Duke Silver? 😂😂😂 @12:58 "I said invite neighbors in" IN WHERE, DUKE SILVER? 😂 It's funny how Duke managed to get $10k in a really short time while Quinn struggles for money so often ☠️☠️☠️ BTW is it just me or is this video really quiet? I can hear James fine but it has a feel of when James is livestreaming. It sounds somewhat lonely. Or is it because I'm so used to the larger Sims households 😂

The sim's name just proves James has been a loyal parks n rec fan for at least 8 years

Been wanting to subscribe and finally am going to get to! Can’t wait! Awesome little recreation. I’ve been watching a bunch of your old series as well. ❤

HAHAHA this was the best. James' reaction when he realised he could sell the sketchpad for the remaining amount killed me 😂 $10k in 24 mins, professional sims player right here

i feel like it could be fun watching a long unedited video where you tell us every time you’d edit and what you’d edit :)

I looove no editing 😍

Surely finish off the video by building Duke a house with the $10k

Honestly no edit videos feel so nostalgic, just feels like chill hang outs. Makes me realise how fast paced edited one's can be with the down time or mistakes cut out

That Rags to Riches was actually the first series I ever watched of yours! So glad you're revisiting it!

You are so much more gentle on Katrina. You used to scream her name so aggressively back in the day!

My dude, if you don't remember who Duke Silver is then it's time for a re-watch of Parks and Recs. Such a great show!

I still hope you will remake or do another prison series, I loved that one, and imagine how much better it could be with all these new packs

cant BELIEVE ive been waching you and deli since i was 12?? ive basically grown on your content lmao LOVE YOUUU

I’ve been wanting to watch more of your content lately, and I feel like watching this and the older version of the challenge would be a good way to start

If you want the fruitcake, it helps to put down a small side table, or really anything that counts as a "surface" for objects to be placed on. The npcs want somewhere to put the fruitcake down that isn't the floor. You can always sell the side table later and get most of the money back, or get a kitchen counter which will be useful in the future.

ALso when it comes to painting from my own trials, it seems the more you focus on ONE category lets say classics it will increase in sell price as you continue to make it that's why his reference was only $102. Also another tip is always do the $50 as they can surpass the $100 pricing and you can do 2 for the price of one and instead of a profit of 400 you will get a profit of $500!

I honestly enjoyed the no editing! Wouldn't have noticed if ir wasn't mentioned! Also, if you could ever redo your tiny builds series, with the 4x4 house and so on, it'd be soooo cool to see how much more we can do with newer items!

Don't know if you ever tried this challenge in Sims 2 but that would be fun to try to do. The twist would be that you wouldn't watch any old videos to refresh your memory. Every now and then I jump back into one of the old Sims games and try to complete something I remember having fun doing in the past only to royally fail because I've just forgotten so much about those games.

I love the “no edit” video! Actually I love all of your videos James! And PLEASE do some of your old builds!

I have been watching this channel for years and it has been so amazing Your videos and content is so good I mean practically everyday I check to see if you have released a new video.❤️

A bit late to the party, but I loved this video, and I love the idea of you going back and rebuilding your old builds, even rebuilding old Sims 3 stuff in Sims 4! I'm a sentimental person who has Sims 1 through 4 all installed, all just so I can boot up Sims 1-3 and have that up on one monitor while attempting to capture the essence of that lot in Sims 4 (taking a few creative liberties along the way lol) on another monitor, so naturally I do also enjoy watching other people do this as well! I have shared my creations in the gallery under the username Egglington, and while I work through stuff in a methodical way, I do accept requests (which I'd prioritise), as well as feedback (I keep discovering better suited items later on and feel the need to go back and update stuff I've made with them lol!). There's a few of my own builds (using no references) as well as a couple from House Flipper too. I'm also working on the Dawn Winery from Genshin Impact, but that one's a challenge.

I decided to start a new RTR challenge a few weeks ago while also doing the Well Rounded scenario, so of course, for the first time ever my sim won the lottery! I just hit exit without saving and started all over again. Will probably never happen again but lesson learned.

as far as I have experimented it's best to pick one painting style and stick with it and it earns more and more and more money the more you do it(as if there's a sub skill in painting that relates to the style you pick). So generally I stick to classic unless I decide I want my sim to be an expert in something else

Amazing that your video is so natural and not at all wierd without editing!!

I do love a good unedited video. This was great

I love unedited content, it really allows more understanding of the effort behind the scenes.

Katrinaaaaa!!!gets me every time!! I love the no edits..good stuff!! Loved watching this..I'd like to see your first house build than redo it!

Soemtning strange happened while watching - I miss the “let’s play” no editing style videos of old RU-vid. Soemtning charming and real about it. Not just speed running dopamine. Love your content and can’t believe it’s been 10 years already

Love this idea! Can't wait to watch this video!

the way James yells "Katrina!" gets me every time. lol XD

Wow I can’t believe it’s been 9 years! I’ve been subscribed to your channel since The Sims 3 Into the Future! Can’t believe that’s been over a decade. Time flies!

Would love to see you revisit the extreme version of your rags to riches, complete with the flaming intro. ‘Rags to riches, 🔥🔥EXTREME🔥🔥’ that was awesome 😂

From someone that has been watching you for 8 years i loved seeing you go back and do this. The Nostalgia is real.😂

I was just watching you're dine out let's play and was thinking you could probably do the haunted restaurant better now that we have actual spooky/run down stuff.

Aww This such a fantastic idea. Thanks James! Katrina looks sad because her last haircut didn't go so well!

PLEASE do another Rags to Riches Extreme, loved that series!

Prices for paintings improve over time with experience. Painting Katrina was your first time painting by reference.

Been watching you since before the sims 4 came out. I think it might have been even before you got 100k subs. So it's been A WHILE and this was so nostalgic to watch! Remember meeting you at the simmers meetup and your own meetup in London forever ago! Would love to meet you again! I'm def gonna become a member so that I can see the reaction to the og video. It's gonna bring up so many memories! // Caowl

I honestly loved the raw footage, it felt like I was really watching you play along

This was an awesome new take on your original Rags to Riches, love it! Quick question, could you please explain how to use Little Miss Sam's Release All the Ghosts mod? I downloaded it after you mentioned it and I can't figure out how to use it.

Please complete the rags to riches extreme, I love the many part series, it's emotionally investing and I'm still waiting after so many years 😢

You've truly influenced my Sims experience over the years because no matter who im watching play or what time in my life I play... every SINGLE time i see Katrina in the world better believe i go, KATRINA!

That’s hilarious that you fit an 11 part series into a video less than half an hour! 😂 some great tips for people starting a rags to riches!

It would be cool to see the updated versions of your builds. You mentioned awhile ago about building a prison. I’d love to see that!

Oh this was so great. It was nice to just get to watch a regular video again. You know that feels just like someone actually playing the game. Sometime the editing does ruin things. Its nice seeing the mistakes and slip ups in how you say stuff because it makes you feel more human. Heavy editing until its "perfect" just gets so boring. I actually stopped watching your content as regularly because it was feeling off, but this feels like the good old days! Your personality is back!

I'd love to see the prison challenge again! that stuff was gold!

Can't wait to see you critique this video in 9 more years! 😂❤

the thought of how long I’ve been watching your content is so crazy! All the way back to sims 3 days!

this is so wild, ive been watching thru the bigwallet playlist and the lack of editing and facecam is so jarring. this being uploaded while im watching old videos feels special lmao

I love the idea of recreating your old videos!

Love the parks and rec reference 😅

So funny! I LOVE the idea of remastering old builds!

The lake house build was fantastic but I'd love to see it updated!

For once i'm kinda early! Love this idea and it's always fun to see non-edited videos here and there😂

I was waiting for the New Catrina!!! You were the first person I thought of when they released the update 😂

I'd love to see you re do some of the old builds with new furniture, decorations and landscaping

Katrina!!! The unedited RU-vid vids are so nostalgic lol

If you still have Lady Bigwallet, it might be cool to see some kinda throwback to her :) loved this video!

Sims actually like fruitcake if they are a foodie or adventurous!!! At least for my sims that is what I saw for their mood 😂

Performing for tips definitely isn't as fast as painting, but I've found it to be a pretty effective way to make money. I didn't see your original series, I don't know if it took you 11 episodes because the episodes were short or because you found side quests along the way, but I've found it relatively fast, just not painting fast.

literally just finished watching your reaction video hahahaha

The one thing I know that will always get a sim rich quick is painting. Taking maybe an hour and some change for 700-5g every time is so satisfying 😁 or going to manage worlds , unfavorite your household, go into build mode, place a bunch or expensive stuff, go back to live mode and sell it 😁