Waiting for sales?

They don't put stuff packs on sale very often - mostly eps and 1 or 2 gps on sale. They just had one last month I believe, a publishers sale - but only one sp was on sale - the Romance one. So no way to know. EA does not tend to have regular sales out side of Christmas and Black Friday that you can depend on for yearly sales (most are random) and even those do not always include sps.

I've bought most of all my packs full price and only once did I find a sp on sale for just 7.99 instead of 9.99. After toddlers came out I bought all the packs I was missing - I believe a couple of packs were reduced slightly that week. LOl.

I no longer wait for packs unless I have no choice -

You'll be waiting a long time then. SPs rarely ever go on sale, whereas EPs and GPs do many times. It took forever for me to get Luxury Stuff.

Your best chance for Stuff Packs to go on Sale will be the Big Summer Sale. Not sure when the exact dates of the but it's usually after the big Steam Summer Sale. I believe they do sometimes go on sale again later in the year but it's at most once or twice a year.

I waited for a year because I wanted to buy Vintage Glamour -50%. That didn't happen, so I bought it -30% before Christmas. On the previous year there had been two sales where all SPs were half price, but last year there was none.

The only sales I've seen on stuff packs was Spooky Stuff at 50% off around Halloween, and the 30% code before the Holidays. That's in the last 6 months though.

I tend to buy GPs and EPs when they go on sale I don't remember the last one I got full price (I won JA in a giveaway so I got lucky to get that one on release day). For SPS I will buy one when I feel I want to add whatever content they have into my game. I'm far behind on purchasing them as I tend to buy them in release order and I haven't had the need to add Fitness Stuff into my game just yet. If they do go on sale for half off I'll probably cave and pick up Laundry Day out of order but other then that I have no real need for any of them in terms of my current gameplay.

You're more likely to get SPs off on a store-wide Origin sale, because as others said, SPs themselves are rarely discounted. A few months ago I got Fitness Stuff for 30% in a store-wide sale, which was good enough for me. About a year ago, SPs were specifically offered 20% off, but that hasn't repeated since.

I want to see another ORIGIN50 sale. They had this shortly before Vintage Glamor Stuff and I bought all the Game packs and Stuff packs to that point at half price. I have been eying Vintage with great interest because I think this might be the stuff pack that I would really make use of.
Other than Vampires and Parenthood (25% off), I have bought everything half price.

Thanks for making this thread! I made myself a promise to only buy packs on sale.

Origin currently has a sale right now. Must've started today, and the SPs aren't on sale...again. I dunno why EA refuses to put them on sale as often as the other packs. It doesn't make any sense to me.