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Now every lot in every hood displays its lot number when you mouse over it, along with the natural-language (presumably!) lot name you gave it. Just note down the numbers of each lot you want to strip.

From here, the process continues to be a little different because you're stripping that unpackaged lot in place (again, I assume no responsibility if you are trying to do this in a non-throwaway hood). One advantage may be that you can actually put the stripped lot straight in the Lot Bin after; no packaging after the stripping seems ever to be needed, based on a conversation I had with Jawusa about it, much later in that same thread of hers that I've linked.

*Shut the game down and use SimPE to go into Documents, as in Jo's instructions.
*Open the Lots folder you want---it's the one *inside* the Neighborhood folder of the neighborhood that contains the lots you want to strip.
*Find the package numbers you want, and directly open them one by one in SimPE, deleting sim references in all the categories Jo mentioned, plus FamilyTree, as Jawusa mentions. (I agree with gazania in this thread that FamilyTree is really one you don't want to miss---I've only found entries in that category one time, but that lot had a ridiculous number of sim references in all the other areas too *and* was already glitching weirdly when I tested it in a different throwaway hood, so I believe that category of references can be associated with more serious potential problems if not stripped. I had no problems with that lot or my played hood in which I placed it after I stripped it, including that category.)
*Save each stripped package before opening and working on the next.

Now, when you open that test hood, all the lots whose packages you just stripped are clean. So you can *either* package them...or as I said, you can just put them in the Lot Bin at this point. Should be the same and not change the cleanliness of the file either way.

One further note about something I do personally at this point: I just make the actual price of the lot part of the lot name now (so it shows correctly for the package and when in the Lot Bin, like "Tiny Hovel CLEAN20K") rather than re-opening the lot in this throwaway hood again, making a change, then re-saving before packaging or binning. That's because I've seen myself that re-opening and saving re-adds some sim references to the lot, and if it's going to do that, I'd rather it only do it in the final destination hood I want the lot in---so I know they're the right references. But that may be overcautious on my part.

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