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Stina1701A
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7 years ago

How is your calendar of holidays?

This has been on the backburner for me since I got Seasons but now I have finally nailed down how I want to have my calender and holidays but I am curious what you guys have?

Here is my list starting at the top of the year, in Spring and I have kept all the official holidays but made some changes to some and removed the vacation day from some:

Day of Loki‘s Mischieves |1st week of Spring on a Saturday| (April fools kind of day)

  • Celebrates the existence of „everyones“ favorite norse god; Loki.
  • Decoration Theme: Spookie.
  • Mischief Spirit, Streaking, Wear Costumes, Party Spirit, Invite Guests.
  • No vacation day.


Celebration of Life |3rd week of Spring on a Sunday| (Spring Equinox or Easter like holiday)

  • Celebrates the wakening of life/plantlife.
  • Decoration Theme: Spring.
  • Decorate, Thankful Spirit, Flower Bunny, Grand Meal, Egg Hunt.
  • No vacation day.


Love Day |3rd week of Spring on a Friday| (Valentines Day)

  • Celebrates Love.
  • Decoration Theme: Love Day.
  • Romantic Spirit, Give Flowers, Go on a Date.
  • No vacation day.


Simdependence Day |1st week of summer on a thursday| (Independence Day)

  • Sims celebrate their independence.
  • Decoration Theme: Summer.
  • Thankful Spirit or Party Spirit or Drinking, Invite Guests, Water Fun, Fireworks, Bar-B-Que.
  • Uses a vacationday.


Summer Holiday |2nd week of Summer on a Friday|

  • Go on Vacation!
  • Uses a vacation day(s)


Jock Jams |either 3rd or 4th week of Summer during weekend| (World Cup?)

  • A Sport themed holiday.
  • Decoration Theme: None.
  • Drinking, Party Spirit, Games, Sports TV, Exercise.
  • No vacation day.


Celebrating of the Extraordinary |1st week of Fall on a tuesday| (Pride Day)

  • Celebrating the differences in all of us (kinda like Pride day but with everything mixed in; LGBTIQA+ along with aliens and vampires).
  • Decoration Theme: Spring (because more colors).
  • Drinking, Art & Music Spirit, Romantic Spirit, Give Flowers, Invite Guests.
  • No vacation day.


Harvestfest |Last week of Fall on a Thursday| (Autumn Equinox-like holiday)

  • Celebrates the coming of fall and the bounty of the fall harvest.
  • Decoration Theme: Harvestfest.
  • Decorate, Holiday Gnomes, Grand Meal, Thankful Spirit, Fire, Baking.
  • Uses a vacation day.


Boo Day |1st week of Winter, on a Friday (the 13th Friday of the year)| (Halloween-ish day)

  • Celebrate the former life of the dead.
  • Decoration Theme: Spookie.
  • Spookie Spirit, Wear Costumes, Trick or Treat, Drinking, Tell Stories.
  • No vacation day.


Winter Holiday |somewhere in second week of Winter during a weekend|

  • Go on Vacation!
  • Uses a vacation day(s).


Winterfest |3rd week of Winter on a Wednesday| (Christmas)

  • Celebrates Christmas.
  • Decoration Theme: Winterfest
  • Decorate, Festive Spirit, Open Presents, Grand Meal, Father Winter.
  • Uses a vacation day.


New Year‘s Eve |Last day of Winter|

  • Celebrates the coming of a new year and appreciation of the passing one.
  • Decoration Theme: New Year‘s Eve
  • Decorate, Party Spirit, Make Resolutions, Countdown to Midnight, Invite Guests.
  • Uses a vacation day.


Well. This is my list. All in all 12 holidays for the year, I am using 28 days for each season btw. I don't dare to have more because I don't want to loose many of the little spawning holidays and also I don't want the year to be nothing but holiday celebrations.

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  • I set my seasons to be 3 weeks long (4 felt too long, 2 too short, so I got a mod that let me do 3) and have about 1 holiday per sim week. 13 total holidays over the 12 sim weeks in a year and one of the holidays I don't have tagged as a day off (Polar Plunge Day), so it's about 1 holiday day-off per week. 3 of them also fall on weekends, so it's only 9 days of in the year for school kids.

    Winter:
    Polar Plunge Day - tradition of Drinking and polar plunge.
    Winterfest Eve - Baking, Father Winter, Decorate, Attend Holiday Service, Give Gifts
    Winterfest Day - Open Gifts, Holiday Lights, Decorate, Grand Meal, Holiday Spirit
    New Years Eve - Resolutions, Decorate, and drinking and partying

    Spring:
    Valentines Day - all of the romantic traditions plus decorate
    Celebration of Song - all of the art, dance and music traditions
    Day of Fasting - Fasting, attend holiday service
    Easter Sunday - Flower Bunny, Egg Hunt, Decorate, Grand Meal and one other I forget

    Summer:
    Llama Day (sim equivalent of Independence Day) - Fire Works, Water activities, grilling, campfire
    Remembrance Day - whatever the holiday tradition is about remembrance, grilling, campfire

    Fall:
    Oktoberfest - drinking and party related ones, plus decorate
    Spooky Day -- all the spooky ones like trick or treat, costumes, etc. plus decorate
    Harvestfest - Grand Meal, Invite Guests, be thankful, watch sports tv and decorate
  • Right now I'm fine with the ones that came with Seasons, but I'm thinking that I might need to add in an Easter and Halloween type holiday - just haven't figured out when (besides which season). Still getting comfortable with Seasons lol.
  • I have only added one holiday but it happens every Saturday with work off. Its family day the activities are grand meal which I have them make the grand breakfast, tell stories, play games, invite guests which they invite their extended family over and than the travel off lot which they usually go to the restaurant because that usually fits all the family.
  • I just revamped my calendar a while ago! I always hated how New Year's Eve was placed... right at the end of Winter, because that's not how it works where I live. New Years is right in the middle of winter, if anything.

    So here's my calendar. I'm too lazy to describe where each holiday is exactly, but there're all listed in the order that they appear.

    Also, each season on my calendar is 4 weeks long (my sims have custom made lifespans that are pretty long, lol).

    Spring:
    Spring Break: go on vacation, streaking, and party spirit.
    Fools Day (April Fools): mischievous spirit
    Egg Day (Easter, lmao): egg hunt, flower bunny, bbq
    Spring Cleaning: cleaning, of course, and air grievances

    Summer:
    Pride: party spirit, attend ceremony (which I pretend is a pride parade), art and music spirit, give flowers
    Summer Vacation: this is an ENTIRE WEEK long, with each day having various summer related traditions, like water fun and go on vacation. I also included a custom tradition where gives kids get all week off of school, but not the adults (sorry parents).
    Simdependence Day: fireworks, bbq, party spirit

    Fall:
    Spooky Day (Halloween): spooky spirit, wear costumes, trick or treat
    Day of the Dead: remembrance, tell stories, attend ceremony
    Harvestfest (Thanksgiving): thankful spirit, grand meal, invite guests, holiday gnomes

    Winter:
    Winterfest (Christmas): decorate, father winter, open presents, festive lighting, festive spirit
    New Years Eve: make resolutions, drink, countdown to midnight
    Love Day (Valentines): romantic spirit, go on a date, give flowers

    And that's it for now. I might add Winterfest Eve and New Years in there, but eh.

    On another note, the surprise holidays that the game gives you are... something. Right after my "Day of the Dead" holiday, the game threw in a "Neighborhood Brawl" holiday. Like, "yeah, let's remember the dead then try and kill each other!" :#
  • I have the GOD holiday. Good Old Days.
    It's to celebrate my legacy and the sims passed in it. It's about telling stories, that party spirit, ghosts, to see the dead relatives and something else lol. It's the first day of the second spring week. I love spring in real life. I wanted it to be nice and sunny out but not summer.
    And the SSHD. School Summer Holiday. only celebrate it if I have kids. It's water fun and playing games.
  • I recently updated my calendar with what I think will be my definitive schedule for the holidays. My seasons each last 2 weeks.

    Spring:
    Easter-Sunday in week 1 of spring. Attend holiday ceremony, flower bunny, egg hunt, baking. Spring decorations.
    Mother's Day-Sunday in week 2 of spring. Gift gifts, thankful spirit, give flowers.
    Love Day-Thursday in week 2 of spring. Romantic spirit, go on a date, give flowers, romantic TV. Love Day decorations.

    Summer:
    Independence Day/4th of July-Thursday in week 1 of summer. BBQ, fireworks, water fun, invite guests, party spirit.
    Father's Day-Sunday in week 2 of summer. Give gifts, thankful spirit, games.
    Since the kids and teens don't automatically get summer breaks, in a technical sense, everyday minus the weekends are a 'holiday' since that's the only way for them to have a true summer vacation. Most of the days have no traditions since that would make it feel more like an actual holiday when all I want is a break from school for them, but there are some days with 1 tradition like cleaning (since I know the lack of school/work would probably result in messes all over the house) or tell stories (my idea of the family just sitting and chatting about what they did over vacation).

    Autumn:
    Thanksgiving-Thursday in week 2 of autumn. Attend holiday ceremony, thankful spirit, grand meal, decorate, sports TV. Harvestfest decorations.

    Winter:
    Christmas Eve-Wednesday in week 2 of winter. Decorate, father winter, festive spirit. Winterfest Decorations.
    Christmas-Thursday in week 2 of winter. Attend holiday ceremony, grand meal, give gifts, open presents, festive lighting.
    New Years Eve-Saturday in week 2 of winter. Countdown to midnight, make resolutions, decorate , party spirit, fireworks. New Years Eve decorations.
    Just like with summer, I created a winter break. It occurs on the 2nd week of winter utilizing the non-holiday, non-weekend days and none of those days have traditions since I already have 3 actual holidays in this season.

    I think this works well. At first I thought it was odd with autumn only having one holiday, but since the surrounding seasons each have breaks, I think it works balances itself out. I don't have any new, wacky holidays, but I'm fine with that honestly.
  • I have the holidays that came with Seasons with the addition of these two:
    Spooky Day - Trick or treat, costumes, spooky and mischief spirit, you get the idea
    Save Anniversary - A day in summer that is the anniversary of when Seasons was installed in that save; thankful spirit, telling stories

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