What Packs Do You Recommend For Me?

The Black Friday sale has me thinking about new packs again. So, any advice?

Again, my current packs are Vintage Glamour, Seasons, Growing Together, City Living, and the free Holiday Celebration. I still have two packs in the EA app wishlist:

• Moschino Stuff (mainly for the tripod, I think)
• Parenthood (because my game is very family oriented)

I'm not sure how much I would actually use the Moschino Stuff tripod at this point though. Farrah's extended family is probably much bigger than the number of Sims allowed in a single portrait, no matter how many subject marks the photographer has. I already know that I can't get the whole family to attend a single family reunion event.

Parenthood adds depth/complexity to raising children, which sounds interesting. I liked the gameplay additions from Growing Together, so the gameplay additions from Parenthood could be interesting too.

Are there any other packs that I should consider?

I'm still exploring my current packs, but I thought I might ask what other packs I should consider when I'm ready for more.

My current packs are:

• Vintage Glamour, mainly for the ability to hire a live-in nanny childcare-oriented butler.
• Seasons, where I'm still experiencing the seasons for the first time, exploring the default holidays, and considering what additions/changes/deletions I want to make to the holiday calendar. I'll need to explore what gardening is like with different growing seasons, but only recently rotated to a household that treats gardening as more than a cash source (one growfruit tree and dozens of dragon fruit plants).
• Growing Together, which makes raising infants more complicated and interesting, and adds other activities that I'm still exploring.
• City Living, which adds festivals and singing and penthouse apartments and other things that I'm still exploring.
• The free Holiday Celebration, of course.

So, when I'm ready to add other packs, what other packs would you recommend that I consider?

From all of these Packs that you mentioned, I would go with City Living, Get Together, University, and Lovestruck as, in my opinion, they provide versatile gameplay. The Get to Work Pack, for example, is too simple compared to Snowy Escape.

These two Packs were ones that I was initially not interested in at all, but ended up really liking them after some gameplay time. 

Currently, my wishlist includes:

• Vintage Glamor (to be able to hire a nanny butler to help take care of the kids)
• Parenthood (I forget, but probably because a lot of my play has been on Farrah and Arthur raising their children, and their children getting married and raising their own children)
• Growing Together (for build-mode items that work nicely with Craftsman style homes, like those in my Newcrest neighborhoods)
• Moschino (for the camera, although that seems less important than it used to)
• Seasons (for more for build-mode items that work nicely with Craftsman style homes, plus group singing)

I'm also thinking about Discover University because another Simmer suggested it. The first wave of young adult children are already established in their careers, but the next wave (plus the grandkids) could benefit.

For a brand new player that's actually waited until 12 years of Sims 4, I recommend 1st the basics packs.

Seasons, Cats & Dogs, Growing Together, and Parenthood

Then I recommend the fun Historical themes if the player likes them in packs & kits:

Get Together, Cottage Living, Horse Ranch, Castle Estate, Rivera Retreat, Royalty, Lady Bridgeton & Tea Time

For fun Fantasy themes, I recommend the following packs, kits & one Maker Cc:

Island Living, Enchanted By Nature, Realm of Magic, Crystal Creations, SpongeBob & Wonderland Kit & Maker Cc

As for the Spooky themes, I recommend the following packs:

Life & Death, Vampires, Werewolves, Spooky & Paranormal

For School themes, I recommend the following packs & Kits:

High School, Discover University, Grunge, Urban, Goth & Clueless/MG

For Camping themes, I recommend the following packs & Kits:

Adventure Awaits, Outdoor Retreat & Little Campers 

Now for the fun Sci-Fi themes, I recommend the following packs:

Get To Work, Strangerville & JTB

As for Vintage themes, I recommend the following packs & kits:

Lovestruck, Vintage Glamour, Bowling, Silver Screen & Autumn

Please share this info for players that don't know Sims 4.  All players have at least one favorite theme that they enjoy playing.

Honestly, a pack I can never go without in any of The Sims installments is the Seasons Expansion Pack. Yes, the holiday system could definitely be remastered, but it provides abundant, versatile replayability, and it offers realism to an otherwise static game, as far as time progresses. 

I received a rather huge amount of Moola, so I've bought the Kits I didn't own and now I'm waiting for new kits to be able to be purchased with the rest of the Moola, since I have zero interest in the tiny, over-priced CC packs in the Marketplace.

I also think Life and Death would be good, because maybe you would enjoy soul's journey and rebirth. Funerals and wills might be good for your families too. I personally like playing ghosts with this pack and I love the build buy!

Also maybe Island Living or Snowy Escape if you want some outdoor stuff to do? Sulani and Mount Komorebi are great vacation destinations.

I would go with High School Years and Life & Death :)