#holidayslegacy

Do you love holidays? 🎉 Then I have the perfect challenge for you!

This is a legacy challenge in the Sims 4 where you play with the same family for 10 generations, and each generation is themed after a different holiday. Some basic rules for this challenge are that you should play on normal lifespan and ideally not use money cheats (but hey, do what you want). You should also always try to have a successful holiday for the specific holiday of your current gen (i.e., if you are on gen 1, your Sim should have a successful Love Day each year), and I encourage going all-out for each gen’s holiday (e.g., by decorating extensively, throwing parties, etc.).

Before playing, you will need to add the following holidays to your in-game calendar:

Bunny Day (set for your day of choice in Spring)

Traditions: Baking, Egg Hunt, Flower Bunny (you may add others if you wish)

Summerfest (set for your day of choice in Summer)

Traditions: BBQ, Drinking, Fireworks (you may add others if you wish)

Spooky Day (set for any day before Harvestfest in Fall)

Traditions: Decorate (Spooky theme), Spooky Spirit (or Mischief Spirit), Trick or Treat, Wear Costumes (you may add another tradition if you wish)

You may also make the random holidays (e.g., Prank Day, Talk Like a Pirate Day, etc.) permanent holidays on your calendar if you wish.

I will be playing this challenge on YouTube if you’d like to follow along (you can find the link to my channel in my profile)! Feedback is welcome! Please use #sims4holidayschallenge if you decide to play the challenge so I can see your stories!

Enjoy, and happy holidays! ♥ -Gwen

Generation One: Love Day 💕

Love is in the air.

You’ve always loved love, even though you felt it was missing from your life as a child. Growing up, you had a bad relationship with your parents. In fact, you became emancipated as a teenager just to get away from them. From a young age, you fantasized about your future spouse and the perfect, happy family you would create together. You dreamed of having your very own meet-cute—preferably in a coffee shop, since you love coffee—like the stars in your favorite rom coms. As a young adult, you strive to live the onscreen fantasy of these stars by entering the world of acting and searching for your true love among your co-stars. You’re a bit possessive of the romantic partners you manage to woo, but it’s only to keep them from straying, to ensure nothing gets in the way of the future you have planned. The only problem is, you’re a bit indecisive. You’re looking for The One, after all. Everything has to be perfect. You don’t mean to play with people’s feelings, but you have to kiss a few frogs and break a few hearts to find your Prince (or Princess) Charming. Once you’ve found your soulmate (who might be a bit older than you expected—but age can’t get in the way of true love), you’ll do whatever it takes to keep them interested, including plying them with beautiful flower arrangements. You might even add a little something extra to them, just to make sure your happily-ever-after stays happy ‘til death do you part…or even beyond it.

Traits: Perfectionist/Romantic/Jealous

Aspiration: Serial Romantic, Soulmate

Career: Actor

Rules:

Start the challenge as a teenager living alone (you may either start with the base 20,000 simoleons, or, for an extra challenge, start with 0 simoleons after buying an empty lot with a tent) and work as a part-time barista while in high school

Max the acting and flower arranging skills

Reach level 10 of the actor career and complete the Serial Romantic (first) and Soulmate (second) aspirations

Have at least one of your co-stars become your boyfriend/girlfriend

Marry someone who is significantly older than you (e.g., if you are a young adult, your spouse must be an adult or elder)

Once you are married, gift your spouse with at least one flower arrangement every week (at least one of these must be scented with tulip, and at least one must be scented with orchid)

If your spouse dies before you, invite their ghost to move into your household and marry them again

Optional: Unlock the Coffee Fanatic Lifestyle

Generation Two: Prank Day 😈

It’s just a prank, bro.

Growing up, your parents were always super lovey-dovey. To be honest, it was kind of gross. From the time you were a teen, love and relationships never held much interest for you. Instead, you get your enjoyment from playing pranks on everyone around you. Some of them don’t appreciate your sense of humor, but you know you’re hilarious. At least your bros think you’re funny. They encourage you to share your pranks with the world by becoming a famous SimTuber. Your naysayers may call your pranks mean and hurtful, but your loyal fans will always support you. Whether you’re famous or infamous, your celebrity status remains intact. People know who you are, and that’s what matters. All publicity is good publicity, after all.

Traits: Goofball/Bro/Self-Absorbed

Aspiration: Chief of Mischief

Career: Social Media (Internet Personality)

Rules:

Max the mischief, comedy, and media production skills

Reach level 10 of the social media (Internet personality) career and complete the Chief of Mischief aspiration

Live in San Myshuno or Del Sol Valley from the time you are a young adult until you die

Become a Global Superstar (five-star celebrity)

Gain an atrocious reputation, purchase the FeudBringer perk with your fame points, and start a celebrity feud with someone

Throw at least one lampoon party

Never have a boyfriend or girlfriend and only have children with one-night-stands

Generation Three: Bunny Day 🐰

Hippity hoppity…

As a child, your parent constantly tried to involve you in their pranks, and more often than not, you were the victim. As a teenager, you did your best to avoid your parent as much as possible, spending your time baking in the kitchen or painting in your room. As soon as you were old enough, you moved as far away from your parent as possible—all the way to the countryside. There, you finally feel at peace, surrounded by nature and the local wildlife. You manage to juggle a career as a painter with running a small farm and baking cookies for your neighbors in your spare time. It’s a simple life, but you love it. Caring for the animals brings you joy, and the wild rabbits even show their appreciation by helping you tend your garden. Did I mention you’re obsessed with bunnies? They’re just so cute and fluffy! Some people might call you childish for your love of bunnies and all things bunny-related, but you couldn’t care less. You prefer the company of animals to people most of the time anyway, but you may make an exception for a special someone close to you.

Traits: Creative/Childish/Animal Enthusiast

Aspiration: Country Caretaker

Career: Painter

Rules:

Max the baking and painting skills

Reach level 10 of the painter career and complete the Country Caretaker aspiration

As a young adult, move to Henford-on-Bagley and live on a lot with the simple living lot challenge until you die

Become friends with at least three wild rabbits and grow a small vegetable garden for them

Become best friends with the Flower Bunny

Complete the decorative egg collection

Befriend and marry one of your neighbors

Generation Four: Talk Like A Pirate Day 🏴‍☠️

A pirate’s life for me.

You grew up on a farm in the country, living the simple life. Every day, you helped your parent take care of the animals and make meals from your family’s home-grown produce. BORING. This was never the life you wanted. Instead, you daydreamed about having grand adventures and seeking fantastic treasures—living the life of a pirate. As a young adult, you seek to make these dreams a reality by moving to Sulani and searching every inch of the island for the fortunes you know are hiding beneath the sand or the waves of the ocean. It may not be as easy as you thought (who knew maintaining a boat would take so much work?), but it’s worth it to be able to live your dream. You’ll do whatever it takes to become rich, even if it means robbing the locals of their precious historical artifacts…or, you could take the easy route and marry rich. Actually, why not both? Once you’ve acquired your desired wealth, you can retire early and spend your days fishing instead of plundering. Maybe you’ll even become a lifeguard in your spare time to help others and atone for the deviance of your youth.

Traits: Child of the Ocean/Adventurous/Materialistic

Aspiration: Fabulously Wealthy

Career: Diver/Lifeguard

Rules:

Max the handiness and fishing skills

Reach level 3 of the diver career and then quit to join the lifeguard career as an adult or elder

Complete the Fabulously Wealthy aspiration

Move to Sulani as a young adult and live on a pirate ship/houseboat (build one or find one in the gallery!) for the rest of your life

Complete the buried treasure collection

Marry a wealthy Sim (someone with at least 50,000 simoleons)

Generation Five: Summerfest 🎆

Baby, you’re a firework.

You had a strange childhood. You grew up on a boat with a pirate for a parent, after all. Your family life was never that important to you, though. You preferred to spend your time with your friends, playing games as a child and partying as a teenager. As a young adult, you achieve your dream of going to university—not for the education, but for the parties (including the secret ones). Whether or not you graduate is not super important to you. Who needs a degree to become the world’s best mixologist? Once you’ve partied your youth away, maybe you’ll settle down, have a family, and start throwing backyard barbecues for your friends instead of all-night ragers. It doesn’t sound too bad. As long as everyone gives you the credit you deserve as the Supreme Storyteller/Grill Master. Living the dream of the white picket fence and happy family can’t be too hard, right?

Traits: Outgoing/Dance Machine/Loves Outdoors

Aspiration: Party Animal

Career: Culinary (Mixologist)

Rules:

Max the dancing and mixology skills

Reach level 10 of the culinary (mixologist) career and complete the Party Animal aspiration

As a young adult, go to university and join the secret society (it is up to you whether or not you graduate, but you must remain at school for at least two terms)

Earn gold on a keg party

Purchase the Great Storyteller trait and the Stoves and Grills Master trait from the Rewards Store

Marry as an adult and have at least two children with your spouse

Generation Six: Neighborhood Brawl 💥

The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.

From a young age, you could tell your parents struggled to raise you. You always had too much energy as a kid and could never sit still for more than a few minutes at a time. As a teenager, you found it hard to control your emotions. There was so much anger inside you. You never knew where it came from, but you had to deal with it somehow. Sometimes exercising or playing the guitar helped, but mostly you ended up taking your anger out on others. It was always easy for you to make enemies, so as a young adult, you decide to commit to the life of crime you seem fated to lead. There’s a lot of money in crime at least, right? The anger inside you never goes away, but you find new ways to deal with it—primarily by starting a fight club and beating up other Sims. Playing the guitar still helps sometimes, and carrying it around with you makes for a good conversation starter (or improvisational weapon). Maybe your sweet melodies will be enough to convince someone to marry you…at least for a little while.

Traits: Active/Hot-Headed/Evil

Aspiration: Public Enemy

Career: Criminal

Rules:

Max the fitness and guitar skills

Reach level 10 of the criminal career and complete the Public Enemy aspiration

As a young adult, start a fight club and become enemies with all club members

Get married and divorced within the same week

Become enemies with benefits with another Sim and have at least one child with them

Generation Seven: Spooky Day 🎃

Trick or treat.

Your childhood was very chaotic. Your parent was always starting fights and making enemies of any friends or romantic partners you brought home. After years of dealing with this, you found it easier to just be by yourself most of the time. Instead of seeking advice from friends or family, you turned to the spirits to guide you toward your destiny. You find great joy in dressing up in spooky costumes, conducting seances in your bedroom, and playing the pipe organ for your ghostly friends. Some people—even your children, eventually—might call you creepy, but they just don’t understand. Not everything outside the normal is bad. Some ghosts are good. Even some vampires. You aspire to be one of them someday, using your supernatural powers to fight evil spirits as a ghostbust—I mean, paranormal investigator. Once you find someone who appreciates your love of all things spooky, you will attempt to share this passion with the children you have together. Your children may not be receptive to it, but you love them enough to help them find their own paths in life, even if it means ending your vampiric line with you.

Traits: Gloomy/Geek/Loner

Aspiration: Good Vampire

Career: Freelancer (Paranormal Investigator)

Rules:

Max the medium, vampire lore, and pipe organ skills

Become an expert paranormal investigator and complete the Good Vampire aspiration

Live on a lot with the haunted lot challenge for all of your adult life

Purchase the Brave trait from the Rewards store

Become best friends or romantic partners with Guidry and/or Bonehilda

Have at least two children, including at least one vampire child

Your heir must be born a vampire, but you must help cure them of their vampirism before they move out as a young adult

Generation Eight: Harvestfest 🦃

Let us give thanks.

You grew up in a haunted house with a vampire for a parent, and it turned you off of the supernatural for life. Who wants to deal with ghosts that are constantly invading your privacy and breaking things? At first, you were scared of the ghosts, but then they just became annoying. You have vague memories of wanting to drink blood as a child, but now you’re perfectly normal, and you just want to live a normal life with a normal, happy family. You’ve loved food and cooking from a young age, so your favorite holiday is Harvestfest, of course—you also love the cute, little gnomes and collect as many as you can. For months before the big day, you dream of the amazing feast you’ll prepare for your ever-grateful family members. Most of the time, you actually prefer to have others cook for you (since you are a bit lazy), but on Harvestfest, you always aspire to create the greatest meal ever. You know your kids, in particular, will appreciate your cooking, since you put all your time and effort into raising them right.

Traits: Glutton/Lazy/Foodie

Aspiration: Super Parent

Career: Food Critic

Rules:

Max the gourmet cooking and parenting skills

Reach level 10 of the food critic career and complete the Super Parent aspiration

As an adult, live on a lot with the Gnomes lot trait

Have a small (not necessarily well-maintained, since you are lazy, after all) garden full of gnomes

Earn gold on a dinner party

Have at least one child age into a young adult with all five positive character traits (good manners, emotional control, responsible, compassionate, and mediator)

Generation Nine: Winterfest 🎄

Ho ho ho.

Your parents raised you to be a good person. There’s never been any question in your mind that you want to do something with your life to help others and make the world a better place. From a young age, you’ve tried to do that by giving gifts—especially ones you knit yourself—to others. You also love to brighten your family members’ days with your beautiful voice. As a young adult, you become a charity organizer in order to do good as part of your job. Since you’re such a good person, who could be a better match for you than Father Winter himself? Once you’re married, nothing will be able to stop you from achieving your dreams of creating a better, brighter world, including by giving homes to children and animals who need them.

Traits: Good/Cheerful/Music Lover

Aspiration: Friend of the World

Career: Politician (Charity Organizer)

Max the knitting and singing skills

Reach level 10 of the politician (charity organizer) career and complete the Friend of the World aspiration

Marry Father Winter and have at least one child with him

Move to Kiyomatsu Point in Mt. Komorebi (the uninhabited residential lot in Yukimatsu where there is always snow) and build (or download from the gallery) your North Pole home there

Adopt at least two additional children and at least two pets

Gain a pristine reputation

Earn gold on a charity benefit party

Generation Ten: New Year’s Eve 🎊

New year, new me.

Growing up, you felt like you were constantly in the shadow of your parents. How could anyone compete with two people so…good? You strive to achieve bigger and better things for yourself, but you feel like you always fall short. Each year, you make a resolution that you try your best to keep, but sometimes you stumble. You work hard at your job and side hustle as a yoga instructor—some people might even call you a workaholic—in order to reach your goal of running your own business one day, and you spend your spare time de-stressing with meditation. You struggle to maintain a romantic relationship as a young adult since you spend all your time working and recovering from work, but you’re hopeful that one day you’ll find your soulmate (they might be closer than you think). Regardless, your focus is on yourself first. No matter what obstacles get in your way, nothing will stop you from becoming the best version of yourself you know you can be.

Traits: Self-Assured/Clumsy/Ambitious

Aspiration: Zen Guru

Career: Business (Management)

Max the logic and wellness skills

Reach level 10 of the business (management) career and complete the Zen Guru aspiration

Run a side business as a yoga instructor

Once you reach the top of the business career, start your own business (this can be whatever you want it to be, but something wellness-themed would be on brand for you)