Game Help:Inventory Issues

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Issues

During gameplay, you discover one or more of your Sims:

Cant Fish from one or more fishing areas
Cant Buy/Sell items at the grocery store
Cant Use the fridge
Hand tool gets stuck when retrieving item from personal inventory
Hand tool gets stuck when retrieving item from family inventory while in Buy Mode
Items become stuck in inventory and can't be removed
Items placed in inventory disappear for no reason

This is not a complete list, as there may be more which will be added as they become known.

If the affected Sim(s) have seeds in their Personal Inventory, remove them.
AwesomeMod (it has an option to "purge inventories" that you can access in-game)
EA Story Progression workaround
Close game and restart to clear stuck hand tool
If removing seeds doesn't fix the issue, then you need to temporarily remove Custom Content, delete Cache Files, and Test with a New Game to see if the issue persists.

Patch Notes that address bugs/glitches with Inventory

Release Date: 03/23/10

High End Loft Stuff: Fixes an issue where the family inventory loses functionality after using the Create a Style tool on an object.

Release Date: 12/15/09

Relics now autosort into more distinct inventory categories.
Player customized Inventory UI size persists after traveling.
Fireworks that are placed in tomb rooms can now be Put In Inventory.
Fixed a minor error that occurred when travelling with an urn in a Sim's inventory.
Addressed an issue where tombstones of foreign Sims would disappear from inventory upon returning to the foreign Sim's home neighborhood.

Release Date: 11/16/09

‘Sell All’ option for a Family’s inventory.[/Indent]
Sims can no longer be placed in the family inventory with the ‘MoveObjects’ cheat.
Urns will appear properly in a Sim’s inventory after the “Restore Ghost” interaction.
Various Inventory optimizations.

Release Date: 08/05/09

Fixed a rare case where a toddler's teddy bear could get permanently stuck in their inventory.
Fixes a rare case in which a blank thumbnail could appear in the family inventory after a Sim had been kicked out.
Fixes a rare case in which a blank thumbnail could appear in the family inventory after a Kleptomaniac Sim swiped something.
Fixed a problem, where through specific timing, objects could become unusable if the game is saved while they are being placed in a Sim's inventory.
Deeds will now stack in the inventory and a "Collect All" interaction can be used on them.
Fixed an error that occurred when removing the moodlet manager from the inventory of a Sim that was in the process of using the moodlet manager.
NPC's automobiles are no longer purged from inventory.

Release Date: 07/27/09