Do you/would you use whims?

I do wish the buy-something whims were less frequent, but for the most part I find them satisfactory as they are. I don't want them to be any more specific than they are because I don't use them as literal things in the first place. I just use them at times as a general guide or hint toward certain types of things (not always the specific whim itself) that might add some element to a sim's ongoing story.