You can also use it simply as a general location marker for homework to be dropped, by placing it somewhere that isn't sharing a tile with a desk or table, then the Sim will drop the homework on the floor nearby. Then, next time they come home from school with homework, they will put their homework on their own desk (assuming no homework already on the lot that they stack upon in preference to finding a desk). You place it on a desk or table and have your Sim claim the desk via the menu on this object. Well - surely we can do better than this? So then I pause the game, go into Buy mode, and move the homework onto the appropriate desk myself. This is even though there is a perfectly good desk upstairs in their bedroom. They give up at this point and put the homework on the floor. Given the way I generally lay out my Sims houses, this is invariably the desk downstairs in the study which has a computer on it and thus is not somewhere they are then able to place the homework.

However, I usually play my Sims as good academic children who do their homework everyday, so then they go looking for the closest desk to put it down on. If there's already homework lying about because they didn't do yesterday's homework yet, then the new homework gets put on top of the pile. When Sim children get off the school bus, after dancing around and telling everyone about their great grades (if indeed their report card is worth shouting about), they then find a place to put their homework down.

Sims 4 cc desk pictures