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Nightgypsy
Seasoned Ace
6 months ago

Holiday decorations and the attic stack

Holiday decorations are wonderful and fun, but they are also a real pain. Currently the attic stack handles the decorations for the outside of the house, and will let you rummage and get individual decorations to place throughout a house. The problem for me is when the holiday is over. The attic stack will remove the outside, on the house decorations, but I am left to have to go through and remove everything else by hand. And the option is to either delete a decoration or put it in the family inventory. I do not like a bunch of things in family inventory, not to mention if did that I would still have to sort through to determine the proper decorations for whatever holiday is going on. So basically I really do not decorate for holidays much because it is more of a hassle than it is worth. And that is a shame because holidays are fun and there are many very cool decorations. 

So it would be nice if holiday decorations were all tagged properly for the appropriate holiday(s) that they are suitable for and then the attic stack reworked for have individual options for each holiday to put up or remove decorations. So then I could have all kinds of decorations all over the house and lot says for Harvestfest. When Harvestfest is over I click the attic stack and tell it to remove Harvestfest decorations and anything on the lot tagged as Harvestfest will be removed. Then the next time Harvestfest comes, I can use the attic stack and click Harvestfest and "put up decorations" and it would put everything back that was there the last time. 

If we could have something like this it would really inspire me to put up decorations and enjoy all of the different Holiday decorations more. 

7 Replies

  • There are some creative and helpful suggestions here! 🙌 I love the idea of having holiday-specific decorations tagged for the main holidays in the game (I'm specifically thinking of Harvestfest & Winterfest.) Also having an inventory category for sorting and finding Holiday items would be awesome! I do see the category Activities & Skills > Life Event Activities, which does help. Though having the auto-add decorations to areas of the inside of the house may only work for something like hanging lights around doorways/windows or something along that line, which may be complicated to designate, I think it would be great if items tagged for certain holidays, such as Winterfest, could be stored in the decoration box, if you like, and would be clustered together in the box's inventory for easy viewing and access, if someone wanted to this. However, even within Household Inventory it would be easier to decorate and store holiday items if they had tags like that which also clustered them together.

    Another example of a type of 'holiday/event' filter that could use some love is I just went in 'Show All' and used the filter item that is in there for 'Special > Birthday'. This is the result (possibly tagged as Sims 4 birthday 'free items'? but...) the items have nothing to do with items I may want to find easily to throe a birthday party for a sim, which is what I would expect to see.

    Anyway, just a few thoughts on holiday items and decorating/tags. Thanks for sharing your ideas here!

  • Nightgypsy's avatar
    Nightgypsy
    Seasoned Ace
    6 months ago

    Yeah I thought it was a reach for the autoremove and put back decorations because people might move stuff or something. It is just frustrating because without something like that, the holiday decorations are pretty much trash cluttering up my build buy. I'm not going to all out decorate for one day of a holiday and then have to go take it all back down again. That is why I posted here because maybe if someone had an idea that would really work well and not be hard to implement, then someone might listen. 

  • SheriGR's avatar
    SheriGR
    Hero
    6 months ago

    I think it would be awesome if the decoration box let you remove items you had stored previously to it that had a holiday tag and when it removed them re-store them into the box... though that would likely be too complicated. However, I agree about not wanting to deal with the mess for decorating for a holiday, so if I was able to store the items I bought with a certain holiday tag in the box it would make it much simpler than hunting though my inventory or BB. And it would help a huge amount if the holiday tag clustered them in BB, in inventory, and in the decoration box, and via filters, if that could work.

  • I am asking for additional color combinations for the Lights, Banners, Bunting and Streamers on my Halloween Post. I also requested a re-grouping of the holiday lights too. I want to support your post so I'll copy my requests over to yours. In my opinion they just to do a bit of a rework on holiday decor so this might be better to put it all together.

    My color choices are inspired from these things 

    • Anniversaries 
    • Baby Showers
    • Graduations
    • Mardi Gras & Carnival in Venice
    • Other North American Holidays 
      • St. Patrick's Day
    • Some International Holidays 
      • Diwali
      • Lunar New Year
      • May Day
    • Wedding Colors 

     

    • Update to Holiday Outdoor Decorations 
      • Holiday Lights 
        • Can you group the lights together. It would make it easier to find things. Alphabetized would help as well or at least grouped by the first color.  
          • Chase Lights - All Grouped Together 
          • Large Lights - All Grouped Together 
          • Twinkle Lights - All Grouped Together 
        • Additional Color Combinations 
          • All Baby Pink Large Lights
          • All Hot Pink Large Lights
          • All Light Blue Large Lights 
          • Baby Pink & White Large Lights 
          • Green & White Large Lights 
          • Lavender & White Large Lights 
          • Pink & Purple Large Lights
          • Purple & Green Large Light Bulbs
          • Purple, Green & Gold Large Lights
          • Purple & White Large Lights
          • Rainbow Chase Lights 
          • Red & White Large Lights 
      • Update to Banners 
        • Banners need to be grouped by shape
          • Rectangle Banners
          • Triangle Banners
          • Shaped Banners
            • Black Bat Banner 
            • Orange Pumpkin Banners 
            • Sugar Skulls
        • Baby Blue & White
        • Baby Pink, Black & White  
        • Baby Pink & White  
        • Black & White 
        • Green & White 
        • Hot Pink & Baby Pink 
        • Hot Pink & White
        • Lavender & White 
        • Pink & White 
        • Purple, Green & Gold 
        • Rainbow
        • Red & Black &  Buffalo Check 
      • Update to Bunting 
        • Baby Blue & White
        • Baby Pink, Light Blue, Pastel Yellow & Lavender 
        • Baby Pink & White 
        • Baby Pink, White & Black 
        • Black, Red & Green 
        • Dia de los Muertos themed 
        • Diwali Themed 
        • Hot Pink & White 
        • Jolly Roger Themed for Pirate Day 
        • Lavender & White 
        • Mardi Gras Themed - Purple, Green & Gold with a Mardi Gras Mask 
        • Pink, Purple, Blue 
        • Purple & Green 
        • Red & Black Buffalo Check 
        • Red, Black & Gold 
        • Red & Gold for Lunar New Year 
        • Spiderweb - Black with White Webbing
        • Spiderweb - White with Black Webbing 
        • St. Patrick's Day & Green & White with a Shamrock
      • Update to Streamers 
        • Baby Blue & White
        • Baby Pink & Black
        • Baby Pink & White 
        • Beige & White 
        • Black Streamers
        • Black & White 
        • Gold & Silver 
        • Green & White 
        • Hot Pink & Purple 
        • Hot Pink & White 
        • Lavender & White 
        • Navy Blue & Teal 
        • Navy Blue & White
        • Orange & Black 
        • Orange & Brown 
        • Orange & Green 
        • Orange & Purple 
        • Orange & Yellow 
        • Pastel Yellow & Lavender 
        • Purple & Black 
        • Red & Black 
        • Red & Blue 
        • Yellow & Purple 
  • Nightgypsy's avatar
    Nightgypsy
    Seasoned Ace
    6 months ago

    I hadn't really thought about how many colors were missing from holiday decorations as I don't use them often as you know already. I love some of your suggestions for sure. Thanks for chiming in :)

  • Redrogue60's avatar
    Redrogue60
    Seasoned Ace
    6 months ago

    You're welcome. I normally  jump in to back up good ideas. I think Simmers should support each other and ideas they like and if they can help flesh some things out, they should try. My thoughts are if I help support something you want I might get something I want in the process and we all win

  • Nightgypsy's avatar
    Nightgypsy
    Seasoned Ace
    6 months ago

    I agree. There are so many good posts too and I seem to mainly come across them by accident or if I happen to see them when they are newly posted. I do try to go in and read through ones I haven't seen but with life, playing and bug reports, there is just not enough time sadly.

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