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How do you celebrate your sims' birthdays?
pisceschick75
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Because tomorrow is my actual birthday...I plan on spending my day doing a whole lot of playing with my sims. So that means probably having a few birthdays in the timespan of play. What I want to know is how everyone celebrates their sims' birthdays. Do they throw intimate dinner parties? How about a big ole shindig? For me, it depends on how I am playing...if it's legacy style, and it's an heir's birthday, I go all out. If it's just someone else in the family...I just let them age up on their own...without the cake and fanfare. Yeah, I can be mean like that. Tell me...How do you do it? P.S. No gifts please! LOL! 
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I'm such a party pooper XD
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LOL
I remember early on in my game I had a sim who was pretty much a loner and preferred his own company so I ignored his first in-game birthday and let him age spin on his own. I felt like such a horrible person/player for having done that and still feel guilty about it, so I will never do it again. Even babies to toddlers get some kind of celebration however small.
And yet when it's my birthday IRL, I appreciate fond greetings but would really rather be left alone myself. Go figure. But the odds are (five times out of seven) it's going to be a workday for me anyway.
Happy birthday, @pisceschick75.
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Teens get just a cake or they get a party or a sleepover, depending on their characters!
Becoming a young adult is celebrated as big as it is possible (without crashing
IRL I want to be on my own like igazor, (next week I have a few days off
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I'm with @igazor . Depending on the sim and my mood, I'll have just a cake with the family or throw a big party at a venue. Toddlers and Babies are usually aged up with just a cake.
Sometimes, I throw parties when sims achieve some career tracks, an extra prom night or just to have the relatives around. I found that parties are a great way to maintain a great number of sims's relationships at once.
I almost always play legacy style, so I always throw parties and invite extended family over. I love getting all my sims back together again for a celebration and seeing new family members!
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Ah, I see, thanks I appreciate it! I'll give it a shot
Here's a recent birthday in my current save
Happy birthday @pisceschick75
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Second, I never celebrate my sims’ birthdays other than the usual cheering and clapping and blowing party horns and rattling noise-makers. I never throw a party for them I fear
I don't much like chaotic sims parties, so my sims get a birthday cake with only their own household present, unless a schoolmate has come home after school with one of the children or teens. Then the child or teen will be invited to stay for dinner and the birthday. I try to do it when all household members are present, but when one of the parents is working an afternoon job, that is only possible if it's that parent's day off. Sometimes I'll have that parent take the day off without pay, but most of the time, they just have to go ahead without them. I don't ever age anybody up on a day other than their actual birthday, so there's no waiting for somebody to have a day off.
Babies don't get a cake for their toddler birthday, because they can't eat it. Instead, I just have the family members, or at least both parents, stand nearby, doing nothing (on low free will), but so they will be there for the littlest members of the family on their special day.
If my household is well enough off, I will buy the birthday person a gift or two, but I don't usually have anybody in the household go through the interaction of giving it to them. I just buy it for them and put it in their room or personal inventory, or on a bicycle rack or car parking space, or wherever it needs to go for them to use it.
Sure they can. Not by the slice exactly but once they have aged up to toddler, they can be served pureed cake prepared as baby food. That probably doesn't mean much to the toddler or their parents, but it does to me. There's plenty of time for more nutritious and satisfying forms of baby food later on.
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I use the gazebo small park from Riverview for all my parties which I place in other worlds. The gazebo is big enough to put a stereo, and three tables with four chairs each (there's already a picnic table at the park, so there's a total of 16 spaces for seating). I put one table in the middle for the birthday. I put two other tables off to the side next to the stereo for two entrees. I start the party off by having my active sims turn on the stereo and dance. I get guests to start dancing as they arrive. This goes on for about an hour, hour-and-a half.
Then I use the "Call to Meal" mod by Icarus_AllSorts which lets you set the tables quickly with food and pick the guests to seat. This way, no one crowds around the dish to get their own meal - it's already set, and they already know where to sit. It's so enjoyable and convenient to see everybody sitting together in tables and eating (and talking to each other) all at the same time! I always make more meals than 8 to account for any party crashers and also the people that may already be in the park (I can make the party exclusive and not let anyone else use the park during the party, but I like having all the extra people there).
After the meal, the birthday person gets to age up and cut the cake. That's the only time the sims crowd around the center table but there's so much space that's it's not too much of a problem. And afterwards, I have them dance some more. Guests always have a good time!
For adult to elderly birthdays, I just have family celebrate it at the sim's home. I get really sad emotionally because I know this is it for them.
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
Besides, on my old computer, an overstuffed household with 10-12 party guests was a recipe for disaster. I can't remember exactly, since it's been years since I stopped throwing them, but I suspect my dislike of TS3 parties stems at least in part from the lag they must have produced. Now though, it's not an issue. I did have a wedding party a while back, since there were only two sims in the active household, and it wasn't so bad. But a party for every birthday for every sim would still be far too much for me.
My old pc used to lag as well, it was difficult to have more than 10 sims in the house and with the sims 3 being so buggy I'm sure that makes it more difficult
For the twins of my founder sim (My favourite children. Oops.) I had their initial ageing-up from child to teen at a outdoor venue, and then afterwards they got to party on a yacht.
YA>Adult, or Adult>Elder, they generally just age up on their own.