Holidays, especially for Japanese Sims.

Cool ideas, thanks for sharing @kalaksed. I especially like the spring cleaning; gotta work a version of that in.

If I ever make a household which I imagine to be set specifically in the UK I always add Bonfire Night at the end of Autumn/beginning of winter. It's the only "holiday" the UK has that's ours alone I think.

Interesting @LindsaySeddon1. I’ve heard brief references to Bonfire Night but never known what it really means. (I’m a kiwi, btw).

@NRowe
Bonfire Night is the 5th of November.

Remember, remember!
The fifth of November,
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!
Guy Fawkes and his companions
Did the scheme contrive,
To blow the King and Parliament
All up alive.
Threescore barrels, laid below,
To prove old England's overthrow.
But, by God's providence, him they catch,
With a dark lantern, lighting a match!

And so they burn Guy Fawkes scarecrows on the bonfire, and set off fireworks.

"NRowe;c-17173659" wrote:
Interesting @LindsaySeddon1. I’ve heard brief references to Bonfire Night but never known what it really means. (I’m a kiwi, btw).

The story goes that on 5th November hundreds of years ago there was supposedly a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament with gunpowder hidden in the cellars. The man responsible was called Guy Fawkes and he was caught before he managed to carry out the attack, and was executed on a bonfire in front of crowds, and it became a celebration every year that the plot failed.

In modern day children make a fake "Guy" (like a scarecrow) a few weeks before the 5th Nov, and stand on the streets asking for "a penny for the guy?" and the money they get is supposed to be spent on fireworks to set off on 5th Nov (they probably just buy other stuff now though seeing as they legally can't buy fireworks under the age of 18).

Then on the actual date, we make bonfires to burn the guy on, and have firework displays and eat toffee apples.

Cheers @LindsaySeddon1. The British migrants bought a version of “Guy Fawkes night” to New Zealand, but not exactly like that. We have fireworks (well, personally I hate them), but not so much the rest {that I know of..}.
Never knew, before now, that Bonfire Night was a flavour of the same thing.