They give us lots of faux premade holidays in the game, but aside from changing the names (Love Day to Valentine's, etc) I also add custom holidays. Some I add are Memorial day on the last Sunday of Spring, Fourth of July mid-summer, Labor Day on the last Sunday of Summer, and since I'm from Louisiana, Mardi Gras in mid-winter. There are others, but you get the idea. Which custom holidays do you add which reflect your culture?
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+ I usually end up just skipping the holidays cause it doesnt fit in my current plot
i do kind of want to make different easter though cause here we have easter witches and bonfires instead of whatever bunny fest
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I also add Halloween since it was always my favorite as a child. Valentine’s Day, and Fourth of July.
With one family, I will add family dinners, kind of like a reunion every so often, but they are not usually on the calendar...... that family has a club under their name, so I just start a club gathering usually.
I have recently started adding Holiday vacations with the advent of rentals in other worlds. Most of my worlds have at least one rental. and sometimes I add weekend getaways. For some Sims I will add 2-3 day sabbaticals so it’s easy for them to take off work for archeology, or other skill building or on the side money making opportunities.
I’d love to see things like zoo’s and theme parks and water parks in the sims. I would add more weekend getaways for those things. I would also like to see festivals on the calendar, if they were on the calendar, I would add festival day holidays.
If we get farming with stuff for fairs. , I will also start adding fair days. I hope we are able to put together our own fairs and theme park and carnivals.so I can mix things up a bit.
Oh, I forgot New Years Eve, I celebrate That one too on the calendar!
Same here, but from germany. Gifts are open on christmas eve in the afternoon, while having the feast on the two other christmas days with appreciation and play games or watch movies.
Birthdays
Easter
Mother's Day
Thanksgiving
Halloween
Christmas
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Removed gnomes from any holidays, they're annoying!
Also added School Play, the family goes to the ceremony, give flowers to your little "star" and the parent
makes a grand meal or a BBQ to celebrate. Even better if your kids are in a drama club or something.
Edit: I've decided I'm going to add a ceremony, "School Dance" and the kids can go all dressed up.
I also think Christmas eve is important enough to be a separate day when playing with seasons on 14 or 28 days.
These are the holidays in my game:
Spring:
- love day (I replaced the date tradition with a romantic film)
- spring cleaning
- bunny days (Easter)
Summer:
- vacation: a subsequent few days with time of work/school and the tradition to travel/visit lots
- summer bbq
Autumn:
- spooky day/Halloween
- November 1st
- harvest fest (thanksgiving doesn't exist here but my sims celebrate harvest fest anyway
Winter:
- Christmas eve
- Christmas
- new years eve
My particular Protestant religion doesn't follow Advent, but I've heard of it of course, nice to add those holidays in. I wondered if anyone would mention Boxing Day! I heard of it first when I was quite young and couldn't figure out if it referred to gift boxes or Mike Tyson kind of boxing, lol. I have been half hoping a Brit would pop in and say they have a Guy Fawkes Day!
@SheriSim57 Having the day before Christmas be a baking day is brilliant! That's exactly what it has been in my family for a few generations now. Well, more like a week or two than one day, but yeah. I hope you don't mind if I steal that idea. I like your idea of festivals and theme parks, water parks and zoos. I'm not sure how a zoo could be done, but we sure could build an awesome amusement park in Sims 3 with the carousel and rollercoaster. I'd love to see all that kind of stuff brought back.
@Daravi Some people here in the States open gifts on Christmas Eve too. My family has always been a Christmas morning kind of family, but to each their own. It's not like you can do it wrong, haha.
@SERVERFRA How could I have forgotten Mother's Day and Father's Day? Thanks for that.
@VeeDub It great how we all have our own ways of playing this great game. I honestly mostly use the holidays for free points and days off work and school. And to remember to do certain things that I'd other wise continue to forget to do.
@SamDenny Wow, Finland. How do you like it?
I like the gnomes for the free veggies and flowers they give. School play and school dance sound awesome! Are you using a mod?
I can certainly appreciate that. I use the remembrance tradition for Memorial Day. I like your idea of a Spring Cleaning holiday. That's something I should be doing in RL haha.
Great idea! I usually give my sim kids a consecutive 7 days off during summer, including the weekend, and that's when the family takes their summer vacation, usually to Sulani or Windenburg. I think I was honestly more excited for the ability to put rentals in any world that any of the new content we've gotten for a while. I don't have Jungle Adventures, and Granite Falls is buggy for me, so I love being able to use any world to vacation. Brindleton Bay makes a great vacation destination too.
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Thanks for your answers everyone.
Now I came up with more holidays to add to the calendar! Obviously, I write all holidays in Swedish but thought of writing them in English here since as far as I know there are not so many Swedes here.
My game is in Dutch so I also translate names when I talk about them here.
Soon after it will be Beltane which is all about fertility so that one will be the parents only on a couple days vacation.
As a Geek, I make the Geek Con that happens in Summer into a Holiday (though not a day off from work) in homage to the many years our family vacation was to Gen Con.
I also add Fright Fest as Halloween, because Halloween is the best holiday. Not sure which sub-culture that falls under. (I do not consider myself a Goth unless we're talking as a descendant of the European Tribes of that name that Sacked Rome)
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@FatTribble23 Neighborhood Brawl could always be renamed Boxing Day!
I added the two holidays called for by Pinstar's legacy rules, and they're really fun. The first day of winter is a holiday with a tradition derived from each of the heirs who have died so far. The anniversary of the founder's death is a holiday of remembrance with one tradition: attend holiday ceremony.
I made my first day of winter Sleep Away Day, in honor of my freegan founder who spent most of her time away from her home lot until she wanted to start gardening and having children (and could afford a bed). The tradition is to sleep at another lot, or well, "travel to another lot" in game terms. Then we just added playing musical instruments in honor of generation 2 heir who loved to play the violin.
I made my holiday of remembrance Ancestors Day. In addition to attending the ceremony, the family shares a meal in the cemetery area together with the ghosts. Sort of a cross between Día de los Muertos and an American summer barbecue holiday.
I haven't done any holidays that are from my own culture exactly, unless you count the American summer barbecue-ish Ancestors Day. My daughter made a holiday Light Night in her game that's like Hanukkah, and I have plans for a future character who will be Christian so I'll make a Sunday holiday for going to church. (Our family is a mix of Jewish and Christian.)
I so love that my beautiful Daughter was my 1st Mother's Day present from God, & I thank him everyday for her. Poor girl, she sometimes has to share her birthday with Mother's Day. So, even above Christmas, Mother's Day will always be my favorite holiday.
I’ve also added custom traditions I’ve found online and have created special days - wouldn’t quite refer to them as holidays - such as Mental Health Awareness Day and the traditions for that is actions like Do Yoga, Meditate, Use Sauna (going from memory here)