Have you ever left your sims run all night while you slept?

I'm concerned about the fact that the sims spend a lot of time standing around doing nothing, and tend not to sleep when they are supposed to. I resorted to putting them in club gatherings at the house - one each for the parents' jobs, one for the scouts for Felicia, and one for the family itself. There are a lot of broken appliances in the house and I chose repairing and cleaning as activities for the family group, but apparently they are happy to leave them broken for ages!