How do you like to play your game?

I focus on one household, with basically the same Sims every time, but sometimes I change their traits or add new roommates. Aging is always turned off since I only really want to play with a few specific Sims, so I'd rather they not get old and die on me. :P Though at some point, I may make a file with aging on out of curiosity. Would probably use my vampire for that. :P I'm interested in seeing new generations of Sims pop up. (I have a mod that apparently adds story progression for unplayed households. Like one or two real life days after moving some Sims in, I saw that a wicked witch apparently had two green babies, and one of the vampire pirates abandoned his crew, moved in with a fairy and married her...)

I like to add interesting/funny/weird Sims from the gallery, or use custom content to create my own, then plop them into a household, and just let them wreak havoc. (Or just hang out. Same thing.) One of my current Sims has a TV for a head. Lol. I also plop down lots from the gallery. I have a hard time building things from scratch that actually satisfy me. The other housemates are a vampire, a witch, a wannabe princess/Victorian lady, and a girl who...uh...I can't decide the hair color of? Lol I basically meant for her to be the innocent maiden as a foil to the vampire and witch, but I change her appearance a lot, so it's not always obvious what she's supposed to be...

I do use the motherlode cheat so that I can just buy a bigger sized house right off the bat, and I usually have money leftover afterwards.