I've never taken the tradition of decorating my Sim's homes during the Holiday season. Maybe it's time for a change? I have the Happy Holidays Stuff Pack, so I can do it right now....

Happy Holidays ... sigh.

Unless I want Freaky Santa again, I'm afraid my Sims will have to miss seeing him or Baby New Year before I do the reinstall. (I'm missing half the HH clothes as well.) And because of other reasons, if I have to reinstall, I'm getting rid of all hoods. I won't try to save them. But thanks to lots of CC, my Sims can at least have a pleasant holiday before their Apocalypse!

I will try one more thing, but it is a long shot. To say that I sincerely doubt it will work is an understatement, but you never know. Perhaps my Sims may experience a holiday miracle.

(Glowers at EA/Maxis because Happy Holidays is apparently the only EP/SP where you have to resintall the whole game if the EP/SP gets wonky.)

The most I do is switch out the regular radio for the Snowman Radio (It's so cute!), so that when playing, I can listen to the Christmas tunes around Christmas time.

I always thought it would be cool to decorate the community lots a bit to reflect the holidays, but in my game the seasons go by so fast, it doesn't seem worth the effort.

Best dance ever!
http://darkestdawn.tumblr.com/post/...est-ever-season

Since I played with aging off, I change the seasons once a month, so in a years time, my game goes through all seasons 3 times. And yes they have all holidays when its time for them to roll around. Even the community lots get decorated.

Since it is the right time for once. Happy Thanksgiving from my sims to your sims.

We have Thanksgiving in Canada too, eh? In October, though! Heh, heh. I love decorating and celebrating the holidays with my Sims -- very fun!

It's summer Christmas here too.

You're in NZ, right? Has it been hot over there? It's been terrible over here. Today has been the first reasonable day in two weeks. I think Christmas will be a scorcher. What amuses me about Christmas is how people cling to the snow. Spray can snow, plastic snow men, snow flake window stickers. I always remember when my daughter was five and we drove around to look at Christmas lights and she asked me why people had snowmen and stuff when it was so hot lol. I wonder why too. Apart from the occasional boomer pulled sled or singlet and thong wearing (thongs are flip flops for the American's!) Santa it's snow stuff all the way.

Oh god. Thong wearing Santa? My eyes cannot unsee that!

It's just getting hot here now. It was boiling today, but winter has been clinging on.

Lol, thanks for that picture-not! Where on earth did you find him?!

You are lucky, we have had days of 35-40C.

Google can and will find anything.

My eyes! My eyes!

Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving to those of you (including your Sims) celebrating it today.

@>>Charity >> I love your Santa picture, I know most Santa are "fat" but give me a break Santa had a whole year to get his butt into shape? Is this his gift to all us members his naked behind.

Santa only works one day a year. All the rest of the time he sits on his ass and watches the elves make toys lol.

@>>Rusty55 >> I "really" love your Sims family picture wonderful gathering for the holidays seasons.

Right now I only have the one family, my royal family. Just this morning (day after Thanksgiving!) I decorated the castle all fancy for Christmas. I plan to do their Christmas the first time I play after our Christmas. I don't have Happy Holiday Stuff, but I have plenty of cc, including openable and functional gifts that I've been giving everyone on their birthdays. So the whole family will also get gifts for Christmas! I do think it would be nice to have the ball (to choose the heir's bride) while the Christmas decorations are still up, but with how often I play these days, I just don't see it happening, as there are still twenty-four days until he ages to adult.

I'm glad you posted this Simonut, since Coral bay has two summers I've decided Christmas will be a big thing. They have plenty of time to decorate and leave them up with a double season. I think part of why I don't normally bother is one season is too short. Only no thong wearing Santa's. Santa can go surfing, swig a beer and cook up some prawns on the barbie. :D

Thank you. By next weekend all my families should have their Thanksgiving over and then on to decorating the town for Christmas, Hanukkah, or whatever else they celebrate.

I absolutely love hosting holiday parties for my sims! One of my favourite things to do is to play with a large family (the Capps, for example) and invite them all to enjoy a lovely Christmas dinner, complete with at least six different home-made dishes which they enjoy in the candle-lit dining room. There's gifts too, of course, but what I like the most is the atmosphere - all the family together wishing each other a merry Christmas, sitting around the Christmas tree...
I haven't been a part of such celebrations in real life since my early childhood so I really enjoy it when I can give my sims something that my own life is lacking

Thanksgiving is an American holiday and I didn't give it a thought until this thread started. But then I started thinking. It just happens to coincide with my game's second anniversary. I installed the game on 27th November 2012, created my first CC clothing on the 29th, and created Andrew and Gloria Jones on 30th November. Now I understand (our American friends can keep us right) that the Thanksgiving holiday commemorates the Pilgrim Fathers giving thanks to God because some of them had survived their first year in the New World. Now my Sims have made it through their first two years with everybody still alive, and no incinerated neighbourhoods, despite having to contend with me as a rookie player. So I think they have quite a lot to give thanks for too. I think there must have been a guardian angel protecting my Sims in their early days, because I certainly had very little idea of what to do! So I think a Thanksgiving Meal is in order for Andrew and Gloria for tomorrow!

[EDIT-30th November]The Jones family in Veronaville, Andrew and Gloria, got their Thanksgiving Meal, but it wasn't at all the well ordered affair that Thanksgiving apparently was for the Smith family in Rusty55's 'hood. (See post #30 above.)
(1) It's not a holiday in Veronaville so Gloria had to go to work and Andrew had to go to school. (2) There are only two seats at the Jones' dining table; their guests Julian (Andrew's boyfriend) and Ross (who had come home from school with Andrew) got these seats, so Andrew and Gloria ate theirs off their knees while sitting in the armchairs. (3) Andrew burnt the turkey! It was his first time cooking it.

@..AndrewGloria>> I like your story and picture, next time get a bigger table ( if your Sims can't afford the price of a bigger table use a money cheat ) it so nice when all Sims can sat at the table together and eat for any holiday you may want them to have or just for gathering with friends or family for lunch or dinner.

Not all my sims had that nice of a meal on Thanksgiving. Not all of them can afford it. The sons in the photo above were spending the holiday with their parents and girlfriends. (The family in the pic actually are sims of my RL family. The two facing the camera are selfie's of myself and my girlfriend.)

If your sims can afford it long enough, buy a bigger table for the dinner and sell it when it is over. Kind of like rent to own or just renting it.

Oh dang, 2 more businesses for me to work out in my head. A RentTo Own Store, or one that just rents tables and chairs for parties.

I've done it before...Santa either brings you a teddy bear or a radio, depending on what tree you have. Oh, and if you leave the lights on a tree on for too long it'll burst into flames.

Honestly, it's kinda boring though. I've never had a Sim celebrate Hanukkah or Kwanzaa though, has anyone done that before?

Oh and for Thanksgiving I made the Patel family bake a turkey.

Gloria and Andrew could quite easily afford a new table; you may have read in another thread that she's just had a promotion with a substantial bonus. But they've had that table and the two chairs in the window alcove ever since they moved in, and I think they're rather attached to the arrangement. It's nice for cosy little meals together. I regularly use SetHour to give them longer to finish one of their intense conversations over breakfast. I'm sure they have no secrets from each other; it's the closed relationship between a mother and her teenage son that I've ever seen. And it's also ideal for Andrew to have an intimate meal with Julian when his mum is at work. But, if they're honest, they'd have to admit it doesn't work so well when they have visitors, as they usually do have. Both Andrew and Gloria have lots of friends, and there's nearly always somebody there. I think I'll have a word with Gloria and see if I can persuade her to buy a couple of extra dining chairs, and keep them in inventory for when there are visitors. They could have had that Thanksgiving meal together at the table, if they'd just pulled it out from the window and put chairs all round it. They could just as easily put it back afterwards. It probably is time they thought about their eating and living arrangements. That floor could really do with some attention too. It's a wonder they don't get splinters in their feet!

Actually I get a wonderful sense of nostalgia playing that lot. There's a lot inside the house that has never changed since they first moved in, and that table in the window, with it's view over the garden and the woods beyond is one of it's distinctive features. But I agree they could probably do better when they have visitors -- especially for semi-formal meals.

Just pull the table out one single space and two more chairs fit around it. You can still see the view from the window (if noone's sitting in the chair, of course).