Do you have any family traditions in your household?

"elanorbreton;c-17061435" wrote:
In previous versions I used to have each family member have their portrait painted, down the generations, and hung in the family home. I haven't got through any generations in TS4 though, cos I suffer restartitis worse than ever before.

I usually did that in TS3! I don't know how easy it would be in TS4 though because I think you can only paint from reference and not actually paint a portrait of someone.

I play rotational and I always have the first born child inherit the family home.

> @ChelleJo said:
> I always have my Sims go to the first flea market of a save (or their life) and have them buy a piece of furniture to pass down the generations. Usually, its the same lamp (different swatches though) that I prefer my Sims to buy. Rarely, that lamp isn't there, so I'll have them buy something else. Usually another lamp, preferably.
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> No idea why this become a thing... In every save, every household, but it brings me joy and makes me smile.

This is such a cute idea! I really want to use it in one of my Sims legacies now!

So far I'm trying to keep up with the one in the game.

It's a little tradition that I've carried over from irl to my Sims.......french toast every Sunday morning!!

I love hearing all of your traditions! Definitely going to use some of these ideas! :)

My Sim married Don Lothario and they have 3 girls together, all with flower/floral names; Daisy, Lily, and Violet. If they have another daughter down the line, I'm leaning towards the names Holly, Aster, or Danica

Every summer theres a big party at the movie theater to celebrate the end of the school year. Everyone eats popcorn and drinks cream cola and rootbeet floats till theyre tired and go home to bed. Everyone except that one teen sim who is trying to start up a lil summer fling with a crush from school. They sneak out to the park for the night with their soon to be gf/bf then get yelled at when they finally get home in the morning lol. Can't start summer break without a little bit of drama haha.

Kind of. I'm currently on generation three of the Goth/Huntington family and so far every generation has kept a garden and is great at cooking. So I guess cooking with homegrown ingredients is the tradition.

In The Sims 2, I used to have my Sims host "We're Pregnant" parties, timed so that the woman got her first bump during the party itself. It was fairly easy to arrange, because you knew if Sims were pregnant, and each bump was...25 hours after the last, I think? It's been a while, but I used to be able to time labor down to the hour, and would deliberately get make Sims get pregnant by noon so that as soon as they had the baby, it would age a day in a couple of hours. :) Anyway, I still do "We're Pregnant" parties, but now I can't time the bumps, so I just do it after they're showing.