What's your "Sim Count" in your save file?

I play my game like you.

I have had one sim from my favorites culled since I bought the game in 2014/15. She was the ghost mother of twin sisters that I created in the sims 3, Anya and Felisha. It was my fault because I didn't pay attention to the urn as much back then and she was wisped away. Anya and Felisha's dad died by me. I deleted him because his ghost wife was no longer active in my game, this was maybe 3 yrs ago. It wasn't a traditional death obviously. Anya and Felisha are adult mothers/wives in my game's save right now and both have huge families stored in my favorites. 

I play with ageing off and I age my sims gradually with their storylines and life accomplishments. I have never gone to 299 sims in my favorites/hearts households. I have culled my own households at times because I felt that they were boring and that I would never get to playing them. I always replenish the sims that I cull from my favorites with new sims that I create, they are all part of my sims stories and lives. 

I don't use MCCC so I depend on a custom story progression for my favorite/hearted households. No one dies in those households while playing in that progression...for me yet. The NPC and un-played households are all subject to death and disaster with normal story progression on for them. The game needs to cull some sims...just not mine!

I have noticed NPC ghost and un-played households getting culled often in my game and that is fine for me!

edit: I have deleted many NPC's and un-played households from my game in general because of their fashion choices...only for the game to generate more weirdos. They always come back...