I have all the expansion packs, all the game packs, all the stuff packs, but not all the kits.
I play with most all the features from the packs still, but not in one family. I play with generations of families and each generation normally concentrates on a few of the different main aspects of the packs, for example, I started my most recent save file having the founders of my generation be farmers, living on a farm with chickens, cows and a garden. Their kids moved to the big city and live in apartments, one becoming a celebrity. Their children will be something else, maybe a jungle adventurer, ect. Most of my households have pets, and sometimes the kids do have a hamster or rat. I don't just play per pack, I incorporate the gameplay within my saves, using what seems to fit with whatever Sim I am playing at the moment. I do use vacations with all my households, and since we can make any world a vacation world now I use the worlds from Island Living and Snowy Escape for vacations and honeymoons almost explicitly. The activities there are used as vacation activities. As for occults, I hardly ever use mermaids or aliens, but vampires and spell casters are plentiful in my game.
