I've been reading of a lot of players lately screaming about this huge issue. I'm having this problem too which prevents me to play the game as everytime I try to save or travel to a different lot it suddenly crashes loosing all the pregression I've made. It's a big waste of time.
I started a topic in the Sims 4 forums and I reliased there are a lot of simmers which are experiencing this bug.
These are some instances:
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/791146/save-size-suddenly-bloating-post-here#latest
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/796579/game-crashes-everytime-i-save-or-i-travel#latest
Sometimes the bloated save size reflects also upon the saving of corrupted files which causes getting the notification "THE SAVE GAME YOU ARE ATTEMPTING TO LOAD WAS SAVED WITH A NEWER VERSION OF THE SIMS 4.."
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/776589/the-save-game-you-are-attempting-to-load-was-saved-with-a-newer-version-of-the-sims-4#latest
I think the two bugs are related to each other...