Custom holidays traditions

"texxx78;d-988387" wrote:
I just watched this video with some nice examples of holidays and noticed that there are custom holidays traditions ? i know about custom traits, aspirations, club activities... but different holidays' traditions is something i wanted so much!
Do you use custom traditions? What are your favourites?

I replaced Santa in Winterfest with Hanukah and they sang carols. It was really lovely. Also got rid of the harvest gnomes.

"crocobaura;c-17846889" wrote:

"texxx78;d-988387" wrote:
I just watched this video with some nice examples of holidays and noticed that there are custom holidays traditions ? i know about custom traits, aspirations, club activities... but different holidays' traditions is something i wanted so much!
Do you use custom traditions? What are your favourites?

I replaced Santa in Winterfest with Hanukah and they sang carols. It was really lovely. Also got rid of the harvest gnomes.

Oh i got rid of the gnomes too. Having to pick all those seed packets in the end was a hassle, specially in households where no one cares about gardening.

"texxx78;c-17846901" wrote:

"crocobaura;c-17846889" wrote:

"texxx78;d-988387" wrote:
I just watched this video with some nice examples of holidays and noticed that there are custom holidays traditions ? i know about custom traits, aspirations, club activities... but different holidays' traditions is something i wanted so much!
Do you use custom traditions? What are your favourites?

I replaced Santa in Winterfest with Hanukah and they sang carols. It was really lovely. Also got rid of the harvest gnomes.

Oh i got rid of the gnomes too. Having to pick all those seed packets in the end was a hassle, specially in households where no one cares about gardening.

My sims care about gardening, but the damn gnomes were messing with their appliances. I used to just sell them before that.

Random Holiday Traditions , School Holiday , & More Holiday Icons by LittleMsSam.
Make Hidden Holiday Traditions Selectable on MTS by a different creator.

I use all of these mods for every holiday I create.

"texxx78;c-17846901" wrote:

"crocobaura;c-17846889" wrote:

"texxx78;d-988387" wrote:
I just watched this video with some nice examples of holidays and noticed that there are custom holidays traditions ? i know about custom traits, aspirations, club activities... but different holidays' traditions is something i wanted so much!
Do you use custom traditions? What are your favourites?

I replaced Santa in Winterfest with Hanukah and they sang carols. It was really lovely. Also got rid of the harvest gnomes.

Oh i got rid of the gnomes too. Having to pick all those seed packets in the end was a hassle, specially in households where no one cares about gardening.

Collect and open them all. The fruit, veggies and herbs are free groceries and the flowers make good gifts or can be used for the floristry bench or sold.

I love to have Winterfest Eve as well as Winterfest. For the eve, I have them put up their decorations and do the tree, clean the house, invite friends over and get in the festive spirit. Father Winter also appears. Then the day after they exchange gifts, have a sing-along round the tree and a grand feast. Then they will play out in the snow.

Irl it is my favourite event of the year and I'm happy I can let my sims do it too.

Being from the UK I also like to do Bonfire Night, but it usually ends up being a bit lame in game. They visit a park and gather round the bonfire for stories, grill some baked potatoes, play with sparklers and set off fireworks. But no other sims ever come and join in. I'd love there to be crowds like irl. I guess I ought to try and time it with whichever festival does the fireworks and go there.

"elanorbreton;c-17847553" wrote:
I love to have Winterfest Eve as well as Winterfest. For the eve, I have them put up their decorations and do the tree, clean the house, invite friends over and get in the festive spirit. Father Winter also appears. Then the day after they exchange gifts, have a sing-along round the tree and a grand feast. Then they will play out in the snow.

Irl it is my favourite event of the year and I'm happy I can let my sims do it too.

Being from the UK I also like to do Bonfire Night, but it usually ends up being a bit lame in game. They visit a park and gather round the bonfire for stories, grill some baked potatoes, play with sparklers and set off fireworks. But no other sims ever come and join in. I'd love there to be crowds like irl. I guess I ought to try and time it with whichever festival does the fireworks and go there.

I call mine Christmas and Christmas Eve, I invite family over both days, Christmas Eve I have them exchange gifts at night, during the morning the mother does some baking, while the rest decorate. Christmas they open gifts under the tree in the morning, then invite family over for a grand dinner. I do play rotationally with aging off most of the time. So, it’s usually my larger families that do Christmas and Christmas Eve. If I want more than one family to experience it, I can add more Christmases.

I do 4th of July with fireworks and a cook out, and Valentine’s Day as well as Easter, Thanksgiving, and Halloween. And for some of the families I play a lot, they may take a summer holiday. Much more likely now that we can have rentals anywhere. Most of my worlds have a rental lot. Sulani and The snowy escape have more than one rental. Even city living has a rental, albeit, a kind of expensive one it is a party rental ( the small penthouse ). Most of my towns have a cheap rental. Many of my sims do not have a lot of money. I wish we could use an apartment as a rental.

"elanorbreton;c-17847553" wrote:
I love to have Winterfest Eve as well as Winterfest. For the eve, I have them put up their decorations and do the tree, clean the house, invite friends over and get in the festive spirit. Father Winter also appears. Then the day after they exchange gifts, have a sing-along round the tree and a grand feast. Then they will play out in the snow.

Irl it is my favourite event of the year and I'm happy I can let my sims do it too.

Being from the UK I also like to do Bonfire Night, but it usually ends up being a bit lame in game. They visit a park and gather round the bonfire for stories, grill some baked potatoes, play with sparklers and set off fireworks. But no other sims ever come and join in. I'd love there to be crowds like irl. I guess I ought to try and time it with whichever festival does the fireworks and go there.

I’m so glad I’m not the only one who sends sims for bonfire night it’s on of my favourite holidays on the calendar. I agree I wish more sims would interact with it. As for the op question all my holidays are custom made with pagan and uk festivals in it. The only exception is New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.

I also add Bonfire Night but usually celebrate it at home and invite sims over if I want a crowd. If you set up all the fireworks close together or buy the festival battery boxes from debug then you can set them all off by lighting one. Sometimes I'll replace Harvestfest with this, other times I work around it.

Spooky Day (Halloween) is another regular add . I throw a Spooky Party sometimes too. Make sure to invite any known vampires or ghosts or other creepy sims to the party.

We don't have Independence Day/4th of July in the UK, so I add a Summerfest or PRIDE (depends on currently played household).

I add Springfest to cover Easter, spring cleaning and starting a kitchen garden (if sims don't already have one).

The "Vacation/Travel to Lot" tradition is a good alternative if you want to do "Attend Ceremony" but want it to be active. You can "Appreciate Objects" to contemplate a statue/idol of some kind, watch perfomances if you have the "Art & Music Spirit" tradition (great for setting up summer Music Festivals) and depending on the venue type you choose to visit NPC will do appropriate things and appear to be joining in with the celebration too.

I really wish the calendar was per household so I could set simified but culturally appropriate holidays for each and not have to set them up every weekly rotation. That way I could set my LGBT sims to always celebrate Pride, my Asian/South Asian sims could have/attend the Festival of Light, American sims could have Thanksgiving while British sims (Britechester) could celebrate Bonfire Night etc.

I love custom holidays. I have a Wellness/ Be Kind To Yourself day with yoga, meditation, sauna, and massage. I have a Hot Times holiday to celebrate the beginning of summer. My sims sunbathe, BBQ, and streak. One of my sims graduated from Uni on this Holiday. It was funny to see all these graduating sims go streaking around before and after graduation.

Kiara Sims has lots of custom Holiday Traditions. IceMunMun also has some on Mod the Sims website, including some for pets.