Here are a couple of tutorials that you might like - one shows how to modify a posebox to make it even more useful, and one shows an example of how to modify a pose in-game. See more ideas about sims 2, sims, poses.
These, along with the freezer clock and the slowmotion cheat get a lot of use when I take posed shots. Explore earthmagick12s board 'Sims 2 Pose Boxes', followed by 118 people on Pinterest. Lower Wages Reduces salaries for Uni, Seasons, and Free Times jobs to match the base game jobs. Loan Jar Allows your Sims to take out loans and you can set the interest rate. Halved Apartment Rent Cuts rent costs for apartments in half. Motives - Refresh a sims motives, the whole family or everyone on lot. Gamesir Fashion Posebox by Miya: miyavi881201 at XM Sims GameSir Final Fantasy Pose Box (2):duma at XM Sims Gamesir Mintkas Posebox1: mintka at XM Sims Gamesir Mintkas Posebox2: mintka at XM Sims. These are mods that address finance, money, or the economy in some way. Set a sims fitness level to Fat, Fit or Normal. Here is a link to their sims 2 posebox tag. Click on the RIGHT section of the InSIMenator Machine (the super computer) and you will get some miscellaneous options. They are very versatile and some of them, like the facial overlays and parts poses can be used to tweak existing poses and animations to your liking. Ersch Sims come to mind, especially for children poseboxes and romantic poses.
I have a ton of poseboxes, but ones above are the basics, imo.