As a millennial, I love the 90s–2000s aesthetic! I also wanted a gameplay experience where I could try things I’ve never done in The Sims 4 before — so why not combine them into a brand-new legacy challenge?
Pop-Confetti just has this nostalgic ring to it — that’s honestly the only reason for the name, lol. Well, that and the fact that it sounds super cute, I think~ The name mother is @cottonchronicles
.｡.:♡ Let’s get started! First things first... ♡:.｡.
Your Sims’ home decor and fashion should reflect the style of each decade.
In Pop-Confetti, there’s no “fail one rule and you fail the whole challenge.” I’m terrible at following strict rules myself, so think of these as guidelines rather than hard rules.
That said — try not to use money cheats. It ruins the fun!
Decade-Specific Guidelines:
1990s Challenge
Use only the worst computers or typewriters (there are great CC options!).
No social media, no selfies, no funny videos.
Use the worst camera available for taking photos.
Play games at the arcade, go skating, or send postcards on holidays. You can even build a drive-in movie lot to watch films and eat popcorn! (We don’t have cars in The Sims 4... but we can pretend!)
⠀2000s Challenge
Slightly better computers are now allowed.
Still no Simstagram, selfies, or social media profiles.
You may use a camera to take photos.
If your Sim experiences winter, throw a huge New Year’s Eve party! If they only experience summer, create a custom summer New Year’s holiday (like in the Southern Hemisphere) and celebrate big again.
Send postcards during holidays, and spend hours on MSN (chat with friends via computer).
⠀2010s Challenge
You can start using laptops.
Selfies? Absolutely yes.
Create a social media profile.
Add the Fast Internet lot trait.
Update your social media profile daily. Take a selfie every day.
Join any street protests you see.
You can also use dating apps!
⠀2020s Challenge
And so begins the nightmare... Social distancing! Avoid crowded areas. If too many Sims approach you, use the Mean → “Go Away” interaction. If possible, get the Fear of Crowded Places.
Divorce rates skyrocketed IRL, so maybe your Sim experiences a breakup, too.
For added depth, make your partner someone very different from your Sim’s identity group (e.g., if your Sim is a white straight woman, marry a Black bisexual man).
Live in the dirty neighborhoods of Sulani or Evergreen Harbor. If you live elsewhere, add one or more of these lot challenges: Filthy, Landfill Lot, or Wild Foxes (My reasoning: wild animals lose their forest homes and start searching for food in urban areas)
Use robots.
#1. 1990: Ripped Jeans
(TW: Child Neglect)
You were a neglected baby, taken away by social services and raised in an orphanage. Unfortunately, the orphanage didn’t provide much education — you grew up with no skills, and honestly, not even the skill to gain skills! But who cares? You believe in yourself. Now you’re a young adult, ready to build your life from scratch.
You hate bad parents. Just the thought of them makes your blood boil. You’re convinced that your difficult childhood taught you exactly what good parenting looks like — in the harshest possible way. Sure, you’re not a parent yet, but… does that even matter? You were a child once, right? So, obviously, you know best. You dedicate yourself to “educating” others on how to raise their children properly.
Well… turns out life has a cruel sense of irony. When you finally become a parent yourself, you’re so busy criticizing everyone else’s families that you lose your own baby to social services.
IMPORTANT!
Normally, when a child is taken away by social services, they disappear. That shouldn’t happen in this challenge (see Gen #2). You can use MCCC to prevent it and have the child adopted by another family.
Scenario: No Skills, No Problem
Aspiration: Any (you don’t need to complete it)
Traits: Hot-Headed, Self-Absorbed, Outgoing
Career: Education
Gameplay Rules:
Start with the “No Skills, No Problem” scenario.
Frequently argue about parenting with other parents. Whenever you lose an argument, write an article or book about the topic.
Write 3 children’s books about happiness and good parenting.
(You can only write children’s books since you start with no skills!)
Have at least two children.
Lose one toddler or child to social services.
(Make sure “die in accidents” is turned off in Neighborhood Stories settings.)
After losing your child, complete or cancel the scenario and start gaining skills — alongside your second child.
Quit your career and become the perfect parent to your second kid:
Help them earn the Top-Notch Toddler trait.
Knit clothes for your children.
Cook healthy meals for them.
Have a special weekly activity together (movie night, reading, dining out, or a family vacation).
Always assist with school projects.
Max out the Parenting skill.
#2. 1995: Postcards from the Past
You grew up under the wings of perfect care. Your life has always been comfortable — maybe even too comfortable. You’re a little spoiled, used to getting whatever you want (or at least knowing how to take it). The same goes for love and romance — you always get your way.
But one day, as a teenager, you accidentally overhear your parents talking… and what you hear changes everything. You find out that you have a sibling — a sibling who was taken away years ago. You can’t believe it. Your perfect parents? Neglectful? No way!
You become obsessed with finding them. No matter what it takes, you’ll make this reunion happen. After all, you’ve always gotten what you wanted before… right?
Scenario: Well-Rounded Sim
Aspiration: Serial Romantic
Traits: Self-Assured, Family-Oriented, and one trait inherited from the previous heir’s partner
Career: Interior Decorator / Police Officer (any career that lets you visit other Sims’ homes)
Gender Options: Cannot impregnate or become pregnant / if you use a mod make them infertile
Gameplay Rules:
Visit houses across the world, searching for your lost sibling.
Complete the Postcards Collection.
Once you find your sibling, set your relationship to –100 using cheats — they currently hate you and your parents. You’ll need to earn back their love through gameplay.
Eventually, move in together — either as roommates, in a shared home, or in a residential rental.
Your sibling becomes the parent of the next generation.
You can adopt a child if you wish, but the heir must be your sibling’s child.
You may marry, but you must continue living with your sibling and their family.
#3. 2000: Shiny Face of the CD
You grew up in a crowded but happy family. You have an aunt or uncle with a history of serial romances, but your parents are nothing like them. They’re much more conservative — and very judgmental, especially when it comes to people’s love lives. They expect you to make an “appropriate” marriage within strict “moral” boundaries: no premarital relationships, no long-term dating unless it leads quickly to marriage, and it absolutely must be a heterosexual union.
Will you be able to give them what they want, or will you follow your heart?
Scenario: Finding Love After a Breakup
Aspiration: One of the location-based aspirations
Traits: Proper, Romantic, and one trait inherited from the previous heir’s partner
Career: Shopkeeper (you may also work as a freelancer or have a job you can do from home)
Gameplay Rules:
As a teenager, you’re invited to join an exchange program. Pick another household in your save that has a teen, and swap them in Manage Worlds. Befriend the exchange student and keep them in your household for as long as you wish. (This rule is inspired by one of the rolls from the Random Legacy Challenge — which is full of amazing ideas! Check them out here.)
Have a high school sweetheart.
As a young adult, run a well-managed retail shop.
Expect a baby with your high school sweetheart — but they refuse to take responsibility.
Before your family discovers the pregnancy, marry one of your employees in a marriage of convenience.
Create an isolated room for the baby.
Die as an adult.
#4. 2005: Bankruptcy
You had a pretty interesting childhood... that pushed you to make interesting choices in life. You were never really the family favorite. You keep making mistakes, but you always laugh them off. You hate school, but honestly, you couldn’t care less. You love eating and cooking, even though your “culinary experiments” tend to end in disaster (and fire alarms). Everyone complains, but you don’t let that stop you.
You lost your parent at a young age, and now you live with someone who can’t stand you. Deep down, you just want to prove everyone wrong: to show them you are capable, talented, and destined for greatness. You’re going to be the star of the future!
Oh, and one more thing — you want to get rich the easy way. You love gambling! Too bad that in the end, you’ll lose all the money your family worked so hard to earn…
Scenario: Troublemaker/Making Money/Unlucky Chef (if you choose Culinary career)
Aspiration: Fabulously Wealthy/Leader of the Pack/Market Magnet/Expert Nectar Maker
Traits: Two of Lazy, Clumsy, Childish or Glutton, and one trait inherited from the previous heir’s partner
Career: Any of your choice
Gameplay Rules:
As a teen, start playing tabletop games and create a gambling club. Host club gatherings every week (If you have a gambling mod, you can use it — otherwise, simulate it by adding +§50 when you win and –§50 when you lose.)
Once you become a young adult, lose either the family home or the retail shop, then set your household funds to §0.
Get kicked out of the household. When moving out, you can take a tent and up to §100 with you. You can use the freerealestate cheat, but the lot must be empty — a true rags to riches experience.
Always buy lottery tickets when available.
#5. 2010: Twilight
As a child, you loved being in the Scouts — earning badges, camping under the stars, and telling ghost stories around the fire. Those dark nights spent in the forest sparked your fascination with all things occult and mysterious. You just never imagined your own life would turn into one of those stories too...
Scenario: Optional
Aspiration: The Curator / Outdoor Enthusiast / Ghost Historian
Traits: Child of the Islands/Macabre, Geek, and one trait inherited from the previous heir’s partner
Career: Paranormal Investigator / Reaper / Undertaker
Gameplay Rules:
Join the Scouts as a child and continue through your teen years.
Move into the first generation’s house. Make it haunted or assign some of the following lot challenges instead: Gremlins, Spooky, Quake Zone, On Hallowed Grounds, Cursed, Mold
You may use the freerealestate cheat if needed.
Live with a ghost. Don’t move out until you’ve helped the ghost achieve something significant in their afterlife — for example:
Help them complete their unfinished business
Get the Mentor trait and help them max out 3 skills,
Completing a scenario or quest together,
If the ghost is a child or teen, help them gain 3 positive character values or become an A student,
If the ghost is a toddler, help them max all skills.
Once the ghost finds peace, remove them from the household and turn the lot back into a regular residential home.
After the ghost departs, change one of your traits to Erratic.
Max the Medium skill and host a séance every week.
(If you don’t have the Paranormal pack, instead max the Handiness skill.)
• (Optional) Complete the Sugar Skull Collection.
#6. 2015: Selfie Stick
As a teenager, you hate how you look. You dream of being one of those beautiful, popular Sims at school. You have cool friends, but your body insecurities make you feel like you’ll never quite fit in. You’re obsessed with taking selfies, trying to capture your “best angle,” but you never seem to find it. Your best friend from class tells you you’re already beautiful — but you just can’t believe them. When you become a young adult, the first thing you do is get plastic surgery. Finally, you’ve become the person you always wanted to see in the mirror. You start working as a fashion photographer, surrounded by glamorous, confident models. Your best friend becomes your assistant — but deep down, you can’t help wondering if they still see you the same way. Are they judging you? Are you still the same person inside, or have you truly changed? Who loves you for your looks — and who for who you really are?
Scenario: Optional
Aspiration: Party Animal / Body Builder / Self-Care Specialist
Traits: Jealous/Cringe, Art Lover, and one trait inherited from the previous heir’s partner
Career: Freelance Photographer / Style Influencer / Simfluencer
Gameplay Rules:
Max the Photography skill.
Build or place an office/studio in a public venue to work there
Be romantically attracted to three different Sims. Try to escape this love square by choosing one final partner — hoping that you don’t cheat them on!
Have at least two children, and make them science babies / use surrogacy if you have the mod (you don’t want to experience pregnancy).
Maintain weak relationships with your children.
• When you reach adulthood, experience a midlife crisis. This feature came to the game after I created this legacy challenge. But you can additionally do all or some of the following alongside the ones in game:
Secretly take a solo vacation.
Choose a new hobby and max the related skill.
Change one of your traits.
Make new friends.
Redecorate your home drastically.
Cheat to gain uncontrolled emotions, or if you’re famous, acquire the Emotional Bomb quirk.
Have arguments with family members.
Change your fashion style.
#7. 2020: Pandemic
You’ve always been competitive, ambitious, and career-focused — even since childhood. That drive extended into your relationship with your sibling, turning it into a lifelong rivalry. Deep down, though, there’s another side of you: a hopeless romantic who secretly dreams of a cozy, loyal, picture-perfect marriage. But your mind refuses to accept it. To you, love feels like the virus that could infect your carefully crafted success plans. Still, your heart keeps beating louder. How will you manage this inner conflict between ambition and affection?
Scenario: Engaged in Conflict / Power Couple (if you choose Business career)
Aspiration: Soulmate / Romantic Explorer / Mansion Baron
Traits: Ambitious, Materialistic, and one trait inherited from the previous heir’s partner
Career: Business / Salaryperson / Law
Gameplay Rules:
Grow up as rivals with your sibling and maintain a competitive relationship with them.
Become an A student in school.
Work a part-time job as a teen.
Attend and graduate from university with honors.
While in university, also work a freelancer job.
Join the Brainiacs or Debate Guild and attend at least three events.
Date someone from your guild — then catch them cheating on you.
After graduation, the pandemic begins. Move into a lot with the Simple Living trait.
Gain weight to the maximum level.
Live with your romantic fiancé.
Frequently argue about your wedding.
Never leave your neighborhood until you become an elder.
#8. 2025: Heat-Struck by Artificial Intelligence
You’ve always had a restless spirit — too kind to stay indifferent, too curious to stay in one place. The world feels like it’s burning, literally and figuratively. Environmental disasters, rising temperatures, people arguing about the end of the world… and yet, you keep searching for beauty in all of it. You travel from place to place, couch-surfing, renting rooms, and camping wherever you can. You collect flavors, stories, and moments.
Then, somewhere between sunsets and street food, you meet them — the love of your life. The only problem is that they are not organic... because it is a robot. You are stuck between your deep feelings for it and the fear of being judged by everyone around you. Does this love have a future?
Scenario: In the Moodlet
Aspiration: Friend of the Animals / Eco-Innovator
Traits: Gloomy, Good / Generous / Idealist, and one trait inherited from the previous heir’s partner
Career: Civil Engineer / Conservationist / Engineer / Veterinarian
Gameplay Rules:
Eco-footprint should be industrial. The thing is, the game usually tries to push it back to neutral pretty quickly because most lots aren't designed to be polluting. So you just cheat it back to industrial, and keep doing that until you feel like it's the right time to let it go natural in your gameplay.
Enter retail part-time job and move out as a teen. Live by couch surfing or staying in rental lots, and camping areas (move between other Sims’ homes or temporary places).
Learn at least 10 different local recipes (from worlds like San Myshuno, Sulani, Selvadorada, Tomarang, etc.).
As a young adult, live in a house built only from EA pre-made rooms. You may make changes, but keep the original frame and style.
Fight for a natural eco-footprint where you live. Also devote yourself to contribute, for instance: Clean trash in Sulani, vote in NAPs [for clean energy production, eco-friendly appliances, green initiatives (if you live in evergreen harbor), power/water conservations, self-sufficiency, upcycling initiative, green gardening], heal animals, write books to raise environmental awareness, etc.
Meet and grow close with the love of your life. Maybe you created this servo, maybe you met it somewhere random, or maybe you bought it?
Get the fear of being judged and keep it until you resolve this love dilemma
Adopt a child.
I hope you enjoy it! Please don’t forget tagging me if you play this challenge, I’d definitely love to see your posts and reblog them ^^
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here i am, too lazy for globetrotter updates but presenting you
🍫 a vintage schoolbooks cc set 🍫
now your kid and teen sims can study from multiple books on different subjects! 5 vintage turkish style schoolbooks in total, covers and insides are all hand painted / designed by me.*
all functional
all base game compatible
2 grade school books (1 default override, 1 optional extra book to learn how to read and right)
3 highschool books (1 default override, 2 optional extras for geography and math)
covers and insides all newly designed
you can buy them by clicking on a bookcase in game and filtering by "homework books", or on debug catalogue searching for "homework".
📔 download links:
grade school default book override
grade school companion to learn reading and writing
highschool default book override (for SAT prep T_T)
highschool sophomore geography
highschool junior math
here are all the books and their insides, grade school first:
in a damning indictment of turkish educational system, the university entrance exams preparation book is the default highschool book for everyone, whereas government issued subject books on geography and math are treated as optional!
*fiş dosyası front cover utilizes an actual photo of someone else's childhood schoolbook, i found the photo on a random google search and was too charmed by it to resist. the high school geography book has photos that i took in game.
for more details on the books' vintage turkish context,
subjects for grade school:
hayat bilgisi: the default override --hayat bilgisi means "knowledge of life", it's a very generic elementary school subject in turkey-- the description for my version goes: "Teaches cursive writing, the importance of a healthy diet, and treating our elders with respect and our youngers with love."
fiş dosyası: i don't know if children still do this at school but in my childhood this was the most basic way to help kids learn to read and write. you buy it as an empty folder with rows of slots on each page, and fill the rows with cut out paper syllables (sold separately) to form simple sentences: "Oya, run to the school / Ali, catch the ball". this worked because our spelling system is very different from that of english.
subjects for highschool:
soru bankası: the default override --literally "question bank"--prepares for the turkish equivalent of SAT exams in the US. includes tons and tons of example questions and some subject explanations. the lives of many a youth has been grinded on these dreary books. these are published by private companies that people believe will prepare them better for successful placement in university exams than the government issued school books would.
geography: in the game this is just an extra option if you want variety in your curriculum! published by the ministry of national education.
math: adds even more in-game variety and presumably prepares you for a future at foxbury! also published by the ministry of national education.
it's a frankenmesh recolor that i painted by hand based on this irl sweater that i realized in the process is a the beatles yellow submarine reference haha
im not gonna share this one because i frankenmeshed two cc items to make it, but more cc incoming!
At this point in the story, the apartment is fully-furnished and they saved a lot of money already, around 19k. They made a lot of friends too (I play this game in the save file I created a couple years ago. They met several of my NPCs). In the beginning of the game, Selin met a guy named Aaron on Cupid Corner (You can see him in the pics, the blonde guy). She had a date with him twice, but couldn't see him as more than a friend, though Aaron had a huge crush on her. Unexpectedly, however, Berrin ended up developing feelings for Aaron. The worst part is that Berrin and Aaron have awful compatibility — and to make things even more painful, Aaron finds her unattractive!
This love triangle aside, Selin found the love of her life, Fatih Özgün, an NPC I had created for my savefile. Coming from a rich family, he is a very ambitious businessman— also an entrepreneur like Bess Sterling lol. He is not a type of guy that I personally like but Selin finds him very attractive and Fatih has a huge crush on her. They get along really well. We'll see what's gonna happen next~
I recently started playing a story I named Fashionistas, centered around two girls who are dedicated to their fashion careers, love lives, and friendships. I already shared some posts about them but I felt like I should create introductory posts too. I realized that The Sims 4 is surprisingly rich in fashion-related gameplay, which inspired me to play the story of these fashion influencer roommates.
Selin Bilge (outgoing, perfectionist, self-absorbed) • She is the girl in the first picture. Selin is a style influencer who actively uses Trendi. She is socially gifted, a true party person, and makes friends easily. However, she is less creative compared to her roommate.
Berrin Çınar (creative, insider, vegetarian) • Berrin is a fashion photographer and vlogger. She is more introverted and not very skilled in socializing & romance, but she is highly creative and successful at her job.
Both girls share the aspiration of becoming celebrities and fashion icons of Ciudad Enamorada. They live in the empty penthouse in Nuevo Corazón, starting with nothing and furnishing it over time. Watching their lives slowly improve has been one of the most enjoyable parts of playing this story. I don't know how they met — they were probably friends as teens, but Berrin had an online high school experience, so I don't think they were classmates. Probably, they were the members of a kind of fashion-related club and they met there ♡
