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Custom holidays traditions
texxx78
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I just watched this video with some nice examples of holidays and noticed that there are custom holidays traditions 😲 i know about custom traits, aspirations, club activities... but different holidays' traditions is something i wanted so much!
Do you use custom traditions? What are your favourites?
https://youtu.be/9lTK3RtozqY
Do you use custom traditions? What are your favourites?
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I replaced Santa in Winterfest with Hanukah and they sang carols. It was really lovely. Also got rid of the harvest gnomes.
Oh i got rid of the gnomes too. Having to pick all those seed packets in the end was a hassle, specially in households where no one cares about gardening.
My sims care about gardening, but the 🐸🐸🐸🐸 gnomes were messing with their appliances. I used to just sell them before that.
Make Hidden Holiday Traditions Selectable on MTS by a different creator.
I use all of these mods for every holiday I create.
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Thank you @SimplyJen ! Mod shopping mood on 😊
Collect and open them all. The fruit, veggies and herbs are free groceries and the flowers make good gifts or can be used for the floristry bench or sold.
Nice idea
Irl it is my favourite event of the year and I'm happy I can let my sims do it too.
Being from the UK I also like to do Bonfire Night, but it usually ends up being a bit lame in game. They visit a park and gather round the bonfire for stories, grill some baked potatoes, play with sparklers and set off fireworks. But no other sims ever come and join in. I'd love there to be crowds like irl. I guess I ought to try and time it with whichever festival does the fireworks and go there.
I call mine Christmas and Christmas Eve, I invite family over both days, Christmas Eve I have them exchange gifts at night, during the morning the mother does some baking, while the rest decorate. Christmas they open gifts under the tree in the morning, then invite family over for a grand dinner. I do play rotationally with aging off most of the time. So, it’s usually my larger families that do Christmas and Christmas Eve. If I want more than one family to experience it, I can add more Christmases.
I do 4th of July with fireworks and a cook out, and Valentine’s Day as well as Easter, Thanksgiving, and Halloween. And for some of the families I play a lot, they may take a summer holiday. Much more likely now that we can have rentals anywhere. Most of my worlds have a rental lot. Sulani and The snowy escape have more than one rental. Even city living has a rental, albeit, a kind of expensive one it is a party rental ( the small penthouse ). Most of my towns have a cheap rental. Many of my sims do not have a lot of money. I wish we could use an apartment as a rental.
Probably should add a Halloween at least.
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who sends sims for bonfire night it’s on of my favourite holidays on the calendar. I agree I wish more sims would interact with it. As for the op question all my holidays are custom made with pagan and uk festivals in it. The only exception is New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
Spooky Day (Halloween) is another regular add [Trick or Treat, Spooky Spirit, Wear Costumes, Watch Horror Movies, Tell (Ghost) Stories]. I throw a Spooky Party sometimes too. Make sure to invite any known vampires or ghosts or other creepy sims to the party.
We don't have Independence Day/4th of July in the UK, so I add a Summerfest [Water Fun, BBQ, Party Spirit, Streaking] or PRIDE (depends on currently played household).
I add Springfest [Flower Bunny, Egg Hunt, Give Flowers, Garden, Clean] to cover Easter, spring cleaning and starting a kitchen garden (if sims don't already have one).
The "Vacation/Travel to Lot" tradition is a good alternative if you want to do "Attend Ceremony" but want it to be active. You can "Appreciate Objects" to contemplate a statue/idol of some kind, watch perfomances if you have the "Art & Music Spirit" tradition (great for setting up summer Music Festivals) and depending on the venue type you choose to visit NPC will do appropriate things and appear to be joining in with the celebration too.
I really wish the calendar was per household so I could set simified but culturally appropriate holidays for each and not have to set them up every weekly rotation. That way I could set my LGBT sims to always celebrate Pride, my Asian/South Asian sims could have/attend the Festival of Light, American sims could have Thanksgiving while British sims (Britechester) could celebrate Bonfire Night etc.
Kiara Sims has lots of custom Holiday Traditions. IceMunMun also has some on Mod the Sims website, including some for pets.
I celebrate Bonfire Day at the beach in Sulani, and there are always crowds.
Some unusual holidays I added are Karaoke Day and Literacy Day.
I made a save file with all of these holidays and now when I start a new save, I'll load up that save file instead. Then I use 'Save as'. All of my older save files I have to add those holidays which is a pain but at least I have everything saved to a txt file. I try to update it with any changes I've made. If I play on short lifespan, I reduce the amount of holidays because then it feels like there's something to celebrate every other day and that sad moodlet can be annoying if my sims don't celebrate.
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So many cool ideas! Love the deal day
Maundy Thursday
The Lottery
Lent
Christ's Rebirth
Love Day
Literacy Day
Bonfire Day
Friendship Day
Church Day
Anniversary Party
All Hallows Eve
All Saints Day
Health Day
Pride Day
Harvestfest
Thing Day
Advent
Christ Mass
Karaoke Day
I play with two-week seasons, so I like to move Winterfest and New Years' to the first week of winter because where I live, we still have plenty of snow waiting for us after new Year's. I use LittleMissSam's School Holiday tradition to make a Winter Break between the two as well. I've toyed with replacing some of the traditions, but I usually end up bringing it back to the defaults.
Depending on which festival schedule I get, I move Love Day to either the last Saturday in Winter or the First Saturday in Spring to coordinate with the Romance Festival. I drop the Date requirement and replace it with Romantic TV, so that if the weather's bad, my Sims can have a cozy evening at home (or I'm not trying to juggle the Parent's date night with Teen Kid's date night.) I've also replaced Give Flowers with Give Gifts so that the gifts can be more personalized. I'll also add either a Bunny Day or a Flower Day as the next day, but I'm constantly editing what traditions go with it as the family develops, but it usually involves gardening and the Flower Bunny. Egg hunt depends on 1) the age of the kids and 2) if I've already completed the egg collection with this save.
Summer gets the bulk of my custom Holidays, though again I like to coordinate them with City Living Festivals. Being a Geek who likes cons IRL, Summer Geek Con is a holiday. Go to Geek Con (well, travel, but the intended destination is GeekCon), Wear Costumes, Play Games. It's not a day off from work, but it is a day off of school. The other Summer Holiday I add is SummerFest, which is usually just Grill out and Watch Fireworks, so I try to synch it to the Humor and Hijinks festival. That one gets a day off from work. And between the two (plus a few days if needed) is Summer Break.
Fall I'll add Fright Fest, though again the traditions shift a bit depending on the needs of the family. Wear Costumes and Decorate are about the only constants. I'll sometimes remove the Gnomes from Harvestfest and replace it with watch sports in the grand tradition of American Football on Thanksgiving, but otherwise, I leave it alone.
That is an interesting idea. I will have to take a closer look at all the festivals and do some thinking.
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." ~ Mark Twain