I always play the main holidays with my Sims. I have one of my Sims invite their friends and family over to spend the day celebrating and everyone leaves feeling satisfied with the outcome. In these days when so many people in RL work from home, I created a 'Work from Home' holiday where the traditions are kept to a minimum and are easy to accomplish. These holidays also include group activities so the invited guests are able to earn satisfaction points as well. My working Sims get a day off with pay, a few extra satisfaction points and at least my main Sims get the opportunity to have a successful holiday. The only problem I have with the holidays is the fact that the NPCs get a sad moodlet from having a bad holiday. Why don't the NPCs celebrate on their own? Players shouldn't have to make sure everyone in the game has a successful holiday, especially when so many NPCs don't live anywhere in the worlds. And I am not going to invite NPCs to a friends and family get together just to avoid seeing their sad faces the next day. I don't know what the solution to this is, but it would make sense for the NPCs to ignore the calendar and treat holidays as just another day. I rarely use the premade holidays that pop up on the calendar. I like to make up my own or move the main holidays EA set up to days that make sense to me. Sim holidays are one of my favorite features to play around with and are seldom boring. You never know what might happen when a large group of Sims shows up.
