{"id":55759,"date":"2023-07-21T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T04:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=55759"},"modified":"2023-10-05T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T16:31:00","slug":"sims-4-overthinking-lotties-booknook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=55759","title":{"rendered":"Sims 4 Overthinking: Lottie’s BookNook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time gets the better of our couple for a good while. The year they renovate the new entryway, ‘taking a month off’ turns into six months, turns into a year, turns into things just feeling normal. Logan hits double digits, the big one-zero, ten years old, and it’s like Michael and Kelly blink in unison, and realize all at once how much time has passed. The ‘bookstore’ portion of their house has turned into an accidental playroom. The weird open floor plan upstairs just became a big living room, and they’ve forgotten to do the next steps.<\/p>\n

The year is now 2010, and the question of if a bookstore is a good idea crosses both Kelly and Michael’s minds. The conversation they have about it is awkward and clunky, because each thinks the other is going to shoot the idea down. Surely, their intelligent and loving partner isn’t going to swing for the idea of a bookstore when the demographic is clearly turning to digital media…<\/p>\n

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Once they both realize this though, it gets much easier. Neither want to open a bookstore for money, they want to do it to honor Lorretta, and have the experience as a family. Michael works remotely for his job, and offers to run the place since it’s going to be quiet anyway. A doomed business is a problem for someone getting into business for profit, but the couple get their income elsewhere, and are willing to pay the cost of having somewhere to be proud of.<\/p>\n

Luckily for both of them, abruptly realizing two years have passed is a great motivator. It’s time to make the ‘bookstore’ a reality. They apply for a business license and start the process. Kelly takes Logan to thrift stores, IKEA, antique shops, furniture outlets, anywhere to find the shelves they need to make it work.<\/p>\n

IKEA and thrift shops both get a pass as options, but even Logan is old enough to know that antique places were a mistake. Kelly and her son leave with their tails between their legs and color drained from their faces as they try to fathom who has $15,000 for a bookshelf.<\/p>\n

They pick up bookshelves everywhere they can for months. Logan and his mom go yard-sale shopping twice a week to find good deals. They put their family board games in the bookstore to rent, and they get a few DVDs in hopes of making things more current.<\/p>\n

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The chairs around the table there are the very same ones Lorretta painted for the dining room when Logan was a baby. They’ve settled on selling books, but also movies, and hosting game nights. They settle on a vision of a sort of public living room. They set up a policy where there’s no penalty for just sitting and reading a book without buying, but there is a jar available for donations, which they encourage for people planning to stay longer than an hour. Board games can be rented and played in the store for just a dollar, and they set up a little coffee station for guests.<\/p>\n

Setting up a business license is somehow both easier than they expected, and harder. But either way, they open their store ‘Lottie’s BookNook’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Time gets the better of our couple for a good while. The year they renovate the new entryway, ‘taking a month off’ turns into six months, turns into a year, turns into things just feeling normal. Logan hits double digits, the big one-zero, ten years old, and it’s like Michael and Kelly blink in unison, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[639],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thesimsoverthinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55759"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55765,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55759\/revisions\/55765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}