Your custom holidays

Definitely Bonfire night, everyone wrapped up warm, cosying up around the fire, watching fireworks, eating hotdogs and drinking hot chocoloate. I hope this possible, every autumn I ve tried to have sims throw a bonfire party but it’s always been frustrating as the weather never changes, so I can’t wait for seasons to recreate one of my favourite events.

For my self-employed/business owner sims I'm going to add a take your sons & daughters to work day.

I want all the traditional US holidays so if any are missing I will try to recreate them. April fools day has a lot of potential. Earth day would be cool to have with the new gardening stuff. If we have the ability to make a purge day or a Friday the 13th I will definitely try that too.

I'll probably do the solstices. I'm definitely doing Festivus with the Air Grievances tradition being included. I'll also do a Labor Day mock-up on the last Monday of summer. That will be fun.

Fall
Remembrance Day (Beginning of fall) - A day to remember the dead. I'm not sure how I'll implement this yet until I see what kind of options we have.
Spooky day (Middle Autumn - Halloween) A day sims will dress in costumes and decorate their house with spooky decor. Invite family and friends over for a scary party.
Turkey Day (Late Autumn - Thanksgiving) Will invite family over to eat all kinds of good food (lots of turkey) and watch the sports channel.

Winter
Winter Fest (Early Winter - Christmas) Leading up to this day they will decorate the tree and leave cookies out for Santa. Will open gifts with family and spend the day doing outdoor activities with their family.
New Years (Middle of Winter) Will throw a party and celebrate a new year with family and friends while watching the countdown.
Creation Day (Sime 1 came out- End of Winter) Kind of like a big birthday party for all sims without gifts. They spend time with family and friends and eat cake while decorating the house in balloons and streamers. Lots of different desserts to choose from too!

Spring
Love Day (Early Spring- Valentines Day) Sims will surprise their loves with flowers and gifts and take them out for a nice dinner and maybe end with woohoo.
Egg Day (Middle Spring- Easter) Sim children will anxiously await the Bunny to come and give them gifts and they will search for eggs in the yard. (not sure if we have a bunny npc or not or egg hunts so this may change) Maybe decorate eggs and eat eggs.
Lucky/Green Day (End of Spring - St. Patrick's day for Sims) Sims will dress in green and wear funny outfits and adults will drink and be silly.

Summer
Prank Day (Early Summer - April Fools) All sims will have fun pranking each other and doing some sort of mischief.
Parent's day (Middle Summer- Mother and Father's day together) A day when sims will honor their parents by inviting them over or to the park to cook out (usually hot dogs and hamburgers). They may also give their parents gifts.
Freezer Bunny Day (Late Summer- replacement for 4th of July) They will eat ice cream, play in the pool, cookout, and go see the fireworks. It's a special celebration for all sims.

"GrumpyGlowfish;d-941318" wrote:
Sorry if a thread like this already exists, but I couldn't find one, so...
What are your plans and ideas for custom holidays once you get your hands on Seasons?

Personally, I'm a fan of both Halloween and All Hallows' Day in real life, but having two so similar holidays in a row seems a little silly for the Sims, so I'll combine them and call the result All Hags' Eve (or, in my language, Allerhexen). It will be a holiday to visit the cemetery, remember the dead and maybe even summon their spirits if that's an option, all while dressing up as witches and zombies and all kinds of living, dead, and undead supernaturals to blur the line between the realms of the living and the dead.

I'm also thinking about building a futuristic community lot inspired by the Citadel from Mass Effect, and that's where some kind of alien holiday or festival could take place. I already have a couple of Asari in my game that could oversee that one.

What about you?

Cool Down Day especially since I have the waterslide and will have sprinklers.

"12JEREMIA;c-16524842" wrote:
Winter (December, Jaunary and February)

• Christmas Day
  
• New Year's Day
  
• Valentine's Day
  

Spring (March, April, May)

• St. Patrick's Day
  
• Easter Day
  
• Mother's Day
  
• Memorial Day
  

Summer (June and July)

• Father's Day
  
• Independence Day
  

Fall (October and November)

• Halloween Day
  
• Thanksgiving Day
  

Independence Day will really depend on patriotic clothing and items. Now bowling stuff has some red white and blue shoes and I think a bowling jacket.

Winter- christmas, some kind of winter ball, new years eve, winter break

Spring- valentine's day, st. patrick's day, spring break, cleanup day, Easter

Summer- summer break, pool party/barbeque, memorial day, mothers/fathers day, independence day

Fall- halloween, thanksgiving, labor day, remembering the dead/ancestors day,

my sims are going to have alot of holidays lol

"luthienrising;c-16524851" wrote:
I'm thinking that Summer will have some sort of Sim Day celebration - like a national holiday. And my Aliens could use a holiday that's just for them.

Pollination Day - The day aliens discovered that SimEarthers could carry their young and the species was saved.

I think there is a thread like this but whatever :)

Mine will be the general holidays (gift giving, new year's, spooky day, love day, harvestfest). And like one summer & winter holiday period for everyone of a few days each. I'd also like to do a Forgotten Hollow Founder Day for Vlad, Kid day, Mother's and Father's day and maybe some family-/save-specific traditions. Say if the owner of a popular restaurant dies, they'll come together each year to remember him together.

ETA: actually, since I still want them to have to "take" vacation days, I might do one Family Day instead of Mother's / Father's / Kids' Day where everyone has a day off. A day designed to make the whole family spend time with each other & do activities with the immediate live-in family (given that extended family will already come around for Gift Giving, New Year's & Harvestfest). Also, spooky day, love day & most family-/save-specific holidays will probably not include days off for everyone but just be normal workdays, since they're not "national" holidays so to speak, but the other type of holidays where you still have to go to work :D Cause with Family Day + 4-5 days of winter holidays (which will include Gift Giving + New Year's) + Harvestfest + 4 days of summer holidays, my sims will already have 10-11 vacation days as it is. If the year at max setting is 84 days (at least I think we can set one season to last max. 3 weeks = 12 weeks for a year), that should be enough official time off for everyone. Mostly because I want sims who'd like to go on vacation for a longer period of time to actually have to earn more days off first.