Favourite Minor Hobbies

Write in the journal. I think it's from Parenhood, but I use it for adults as well, because I find it cute.

I liked collecting postcards because it fit the personality of my outgoing YA sim and it was fun to decorate a bulletin board in her bedroom with them.

I liked collecting snowglobes just because I think the snowglobes in the game are so cute. I had a mom collect them to decorate her kids' room with.

I had a female sim who did not like girly things, including clothes or hobbies, so I had her be a rock collector. I liked it because she would go on outings with her friends to collect, and it also gave her an activity to do in her room when she examined them later. She would also stop to socialize with her friends on the outings, so it was a productive time in both building friendships and doing the hobby. I got some pretty good screenshots from the places she went to collect, too. It got me to explore places I normally wouldn't go to.

I like using hobbies in general to help define or shape a sim's personality.

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Also, sometimes I have a sim who does photography as a hobby and decorates their home with the pictures they take. I did a photography challenge on the forums a long time ago, and here's a copy of the list of pictures you had to get:

1. architecture
2. light (can be anything: candles, street lights, sun, etc.)
3. signs
4. windows
5. plants (any kind of plant: trees, flowers, cacti, etc.)
6. anything food/drink related (cupcakes, wine, wine glass, kitchen, dishes, café, etc.)
7. animals or insects
8. patterns
9 unposed pictures of random people in public places
10. a subject of your choice

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All collectibles can constitute a hobby, depends on how you incorporate them into your gameplay. I have a sim that does flower arranging as a hobby and bee keeping. My sims don't collect that many things as there's no nice way to display entire collections in their houses, so they usually only keep a few items around the house as decorations.

I really like the ideas in this thread.

I'm a complete voidcritter fanatic. I had twin boys who collected the cards and trained them. One of them got his Yorier to level 10 which I'm really proud of. Unfortunately they are teens now and I think one of their future children will have to try and complete that collection.

My vampire twins do frog breeding. They already got the full collection, but they love keeping the frogs in their bedroom and breeding them for plasma packs.

I really think I should pay even more attention to collections and making them into mini hobbies!

Collectibles, some pretty day my sim will collect them all :)

Beekeeping, candle making and especially baking. I have a hipster chef sim in a tiny home that bakes sourdough loaves she gifts people. She's making friends fast.

"Auroraskies;c-17858325" wrote:
Write in the journal. I think it's from Parenhood, but I use it for adults as well, because I find it cute.

I never think to use the journal, I need to make use of it more often.

Also yes, I should really make a collectible sim try and find every single collectible available.

Writing in the journal gives the sim a moodlet, and the next time the action is chosen there are more interactions, like Relive Memories, which is also cute, because it can make them embarrassed. It levels up writing skill, and there are some more things to do with it, like hide it, and, I think, take a sneek peek in someone else's, but I don't use those. When children do it they raise a character value, the emotional control I think.

For sims I decide to be obnoxious, I have Troll Teh Forum as a hobby.

i really like collecting the city living posters and snowglobes, especially if my sim doesn’t have a lot of money for decorations for their house.

baking is one i have to use more often. i like having my sims take the baking elective in university so a lot of them end up with the skill but i always forget to have them actually bake things.