Ah, I recall doing that in a very old version of the sims, by having someone destroy all their money and live on an empty lot without a house. Placing some item

Ah, I recall doing that in a very old version of the sims, by having someone destroy all their money and live on an empty lot without a house. Placing some items was pretty much required (IIRC a cable spool that counted as a table or a chair because some animations/actions were impossible if there were absolutely no surfaces to place stuff or sit down in the lot) but you could do a lot with the (free!) newspaper and with various things accessible in town to clean yourself, etc.