Can’t gather enough supplies to build the costume department

[CordelliaR]

My sim is ready to direct, but we keep running out of room before gathering enough supplies to build the costume department.  It’s a catch-22 because he needs to help people to get more coins to expand, but that just makes me run out of room with stuff I don’t need, and there’s no way to get rid of what I don’t need.  I end up trading supplies I do need just to make room.  I’m stuck.  Help! 

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@CordelliaR 

You need to increase your storage.

Use the big green button that say "increase storage", I can see it on your picture

I do not have the Movie Studio yet but I have upgraded the Police Station to 100%

From what I can see you need at least a storage of 1,150 (number of items required to unlock the most resource intense room), though I would recommend going up to a storage of 2,000-3,000, so you can work on getting resources for multiple rooms simultaneous. The comfortable limit for the Police Station was a storage of 4,000 - that gave me enough room for the 1,840 items needed for the two top rooms (1,840x2=3,680) and a little extra

For now, all your movie coins should got to increase storage, not buying the resources you need, that can wait until your storage is at a comfortable level

While building your workplace, do not do use any resources on the Sim Town market events (they will be back) also know that the courier/UPS guy counts as a VIP

It is costly to increase the storage but it needs to be done

Do as many active shifts as you can, as every help you give will be rewarded with coins, complete the shifts early to get bonus coins and resources.

Have 4 sims dedicated to the Movie studio, two special and two that can gather resources and coins without having to work on badges

when your specialist sims ends their shifts, make sue no lingering customer needs a specialist, so the others can be as effective as possible

It is hard to unlock and upgrade the professional workplaces and it takes a lot of time, that is why I have not started another.

I did use a lot of LPs to get the badges and finished shifts for my specialized sims and do not send them on active shifts anymore since they've reached the top of their professions, the last gathering of resources to upgrade the rooms were done by unspecialized sims.

You can "get rid of" what you do not need. Tap the resource you do not want, while in the storage, and you can sell the items to get simoleons  

I would not recommend this for you at this moment, while you're building the workplace (I'd rather see you increase your storage) but it is an option.

Good luck

[CordelliaR]

Thanks, but you missed my whole issue.  I know I need to increase storage, but I need more and more coins to do that, and I can’t get them without helping more people, which I can’t do because I’m always running out of storage.  

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@CordelliaR 

You can still help people and get coins, you just wont get the resource.

Not having enough storage does not mean you do not get coins for helping people

It means you do not get the popcorn or coffee or tickets or whatever the resource is.

Have you updated the rooms you have to what you can, with the resources you have unlocked?

That is one way to spend resources and you'll get more coins, xp and lesser time for each upgrade

Google the girl who games and look at her posts about the movie studio so you get an idea of what you need. 

Keep and trade for what you need and sell the rest