1. VEGETABLE GARDEN: I'd love to have my family plant a vegetable garden and be able to either stock their refrigerator with the harvest or sell it for extra money. We could drop a family member (including children) on the garden plot to assign them work. They could accept or not as they do when you try to make them work at their career.

2. EVENT BUTTON: It would be nice to be able to click a button to initiate an event for the family during those slow times. You'd never know if it would have a positive or negative event on your family... and could be restricted to one per real-time hour.