Christmas is coming, but in my game it's high summer and wedding season.
How is it in your game? Do your sims celebrate holidays? What traditions do you have?
Happy weekend everyone!

I never have, but I'd love to incorporate it into my game. Can't wait to see what other people have come up with!

Yes, kind of. I take holiday pictures of my sims (whichever holidays I have the time/energy to do), but I don't really play the holidays (not any more, anyway).

I saw your Halloween toddler pictures, they were adorable!

I feel a special relationship with some Sims in my game, namely Andrew, Gloria (his mum), Julian (Andrew's long term boyfriend, and his husband since 2020) and Garry (Gloria's husband (also since 2020, and her boyfriend before then) Andrew and Gloria were the very first Sims I played. They arrived in Veronaville on 30th November 2012 (exactly 12 years ago tomorrow). Garry was added a few days later, and Julian a little later in December (along with his family of mum, dad and two younger siblings). If all goes well, I will be celebrating Thanksgiving with them tomorrow. I play very loose rotations with Aging off, and I don't have Seasons, so there's nothing to stop me spending holidays with them. In addition to Thanksgiving, which we now celebrate annually on 30th November, I try to get together with them for Christmas Day, New Year's Day and St. Valentine's Day (14th February). Occasionally I sometimes spend some of these days with another Veronaville household, but Andrew tends to turn up there too, especially at Christmas, as he's one of the few Sims in my game who knows how too cook a turkey!

So yes, my Sims celebrate some of the major festivals of the year, and I love to celebrate with them!

I have played Christmas and Easter. Being from Australia, Christmas is in high summer and Easter is in Autumn. I have also played New Year. Not in this hood though, it's still too young. My other hood has a party shop and I check and see who has bought decorations.

Congratulations on the 12-year anniversary!



I have a Christmas decoration shop and also check who bought decorations But I still don't celebrate Christmas (which I thought I would start doing when I built the store...)

When I have time to play, oh heck yeah I celebrate holidays in there! I'm still trying to find/make decorations for the various holidays, but I have an entire "Christmas" folder I drop in specifically for the month (and I've been collecting downloads since 2006 lol)

Only if the season is upon them. I did it last time there was a winter season in Arundel. Everyone who wanted to give a gift did so. But as for trees and all of that, there were none as the idea of a 'Christmas Tree" did not start in England until Queen Victoria had one.

"The custom of displaying Christmas trees was introduced to Britain in the late 18th century by Queen Charlotte, consort of George III, although it was a yew tree rather than a fir that was used. The Christmas tree was popularised by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in the 19th century, with images of their family gathering around the Christmas tree being published in the Illustrated London News in 1848."

https://www.rct.uk/collection/stori...-christmas-tree


Medieval times were a bit different in celebrating Christmas-it was mostly a religious celebration.

Queen Victoria was quite a trendsetter. The custom of wearing white as a bride was started by her too.

Those Victorian Christmas trees with real candles certainly explain why someone thought that sim Christmas trees should catch on fire! XD

I got into the holiday spirit early and looked up Victorian Christmas trees and found some with candles. https://riekus13.tumblr.com/post/13...one-month-week3

Then I wondered what people would have had before Christmas trees and found a working Yule log. https://www.medievalsims.com/forums...9405&hilit=yule

I don't end up celebrating holidays in sims because now that I have seasons the years just move too fast and I'm never really in the spirit when the time for one comes around.

Speaking of Victorian Christmas though, if you ever want entertainment just Google image search "Victorian Christmas cards". They're...a bit different from modern ones.

I started playing Christmas in-game when I got the Seasons expansion pack. I kinda like "Santa Klaus" in the game.

Christmas is part of Angela Smyth (Angela Pleasant)'s story because they put her on a bus to Hillsdale County Girls' Academy (Hillsborough Girls' Academy IRL; the worst of the worst girls in the state of Florida go there) with a Houdini Vest on in addition to her shackles a week before Christmas, and she cried as Linus and Lucy played on the radio in that old Bluebird as it took off down a bumpy road from the juvenile detention center they had her at awaiting transfer, but none of that actually happened in-game. (For those unfamiliar, I did a role reversal on the twins, with Angie the misunderstood girl who got really serious trouble and seen as a problem child, and Lily becoming the goodie-two-shoes cheerleader, but they both have a happy ending).

I celebrate Christmas when there is Christmastime IRL and winter in Sims. I do not have energy or will to put up alla decorations during every sims winter for only one day (like I used do many, many years ago) and it feels little bit weird if I am playing during summer. In TS2 I celebrate onnly Christmas because Halloween is/was not a thing there where I live and there is not Halloween features like there is Christmas features. Also, there is no Easter etc. decorations so I never thought celebrating it in the Sims.

But wait... Now I realized that it is possible to download stuff and decorate homes for other parties too. Also, I realized that there are some objects, a bonfire and a sauna which are integral part in Finnish Midsummer feast, IN GAME. So, maybe I start celebrate Midsummer in Sims. Looks like it is possible like Halloween.

Certain Sims household that have children I do XMAS Deco and I like it when the Santa Claus man come, there is a way to get him to come starting with the cookies. ( I have not done it in a while so I have to read again as to how to get Santa Claus to come. ) Santa seem to spend most of his time in the toilet LMAO. lol

I love decorating communities lots with Christmas deco and some Sims home lot. I use to do everyone home lot and communties, but not anymore I choose just a few like two communities lot and two home lot of my favorite Sims. Because you have to go around after the holidays and remove the deco this can be time- consuming to do everyone so I do less now. Sometime I do the New Year as well.

I've got my seasons modded to 14 days, but even that is a little too quick to keep redecorating the house for each season, so while I do occasionally do it, it's not frequent and many times I skip the decorations / festives during the season, but I do sometimes do them when I get bored or it fits the story.

It's kind of a reflection on me though, I'm not religious so I don't celebrate any of those festivities in real life, either. Christmas day is just another work day for me, for example. lol.

My sims have celebrated Christmas and New Year at times - I am usually to busy to celebrate Christmas and New Year myself, here where it is summer, and it is outside

Shows how secular Christmas has become, that a lot of activities associated with it aren't even religious anymore.

I have my seasons set at 7 days, but I'd honestly like more time sometimes for stuff like Christmas. I wonder if you can pause seasons.

The problem for me is that when I play, the days go by too quickly and decorating the house and having a festival in each house and then taking it down and doing it again is a pain. I like to play in a rotational way, so I don't know, maybe if there was a holiday world especially made to celebrate Christmas, (cc free!) I could send my families there and then return home to return to the routine without frills .

Like this one?


https://modthesims.info/d/569372/wi...oods-no-cc.html

Thank you! I don't know why I remembered something like this existed but with cc! I'm glad it's free cc, I definitely have to try it.

Winter Wonderland - A Festive Mountain Vacation Subhood For Your 'Hoods - No CC

It usually depends on the household. Sims with big extended families or popularity sims who love parties will be more likely to throw a Christmas or New Years Party for friends and family and decorate accordingly. I have a mod I'm blanking on the name of that gives kids off summers and a "Winters Day", so that gives me an reason to have a Christmas, even if it's just putting up a tree and making cookies for Santa.

A lot of times, I just use birthday parties as an excuse to celebrate seasonal themes, like if it's in the fall, I'll have my sims make a turkey so it's kind of like Thanksgiving, or in the summer, make grilled hamburgers and hot dogs.

I keep intending to do Halloween costume parties but setting up Phae and Echo's Halloween Costume Trunk is a project that keeps getting kicked down the road. I think that would be a lot of fun for university parties.

I do have a goal to sync my hood's seasons up again so I can decorate some community lots for the season because that's more convenient than remembering to decorate each house for the holidays. I'm also starting to consider modding longer seasons because I like to switch up my sims outfits to match the weather and it's a lot of wasted effort when the household goes from fall to spring in a week.

There are some families that "pass down" their Christmas decorations from generation to generation, so they will at least decorate. Depending on their "schedule" I will try my best to host a Christmas dinner/party with extended family. I don't actually do the whole Santa and cookies and presents thing though. I'll do the same with Thanksgiving. Its a good reminder for my families to get together.