Spring4Sims – The Best Finds, Downloads & Hints for Your Sims

Lately I’ve been thinking that the Sims games are here already for eight year. At first glance, it’s not too much but then – I’ve been actually playing the game for the last 8 years. And that’s kind of crazy, isn’t it? Well, welcome to the club. A lot has changed for me in the last eight years but a lot of memories from this period include moments of playing The Sims. When I was younger, I would play the game almost all the time. Now it’s a little different but it still affects me a lot in many various ways. No, I’m not really a psycho… or maybe just a little.

So, to celebrate the years of playing, I’ve made a list of signs that prove you’re a total Sim-Addict. Take it as a questionnaire – the more you check, the more addictive you are!

1. When you’re doing something, you think of what your Sims would do. Example: You’re going out and you’re thinking: should I go swimming or rather do yoga? Answer: Jody likes to swim a lot, so I’m going to swim, too.
2. You’re shopping and you find something that’s in your game. You start dancing around the thing saying: “Hey, I have than in my game! That’s really great! Do you think I should buy it… ?”
3. Grilled cheese suddenly becomes your favorite food. No comment for this.
4. If you have some skills at skinning, but not too much money to buy some special clothes for yourself, you make the clothes at least for your Sims. This way you’ll feel a little more confident and less frustrated that nobody has it.
5. When new expansion pack is announced, you must tell everyone. All your family relatives know it on the day you found out. And you don’t leave out the details.
6. You’re playing the game and suddenly realize that your computer is really slow for the game. From now on, all you think about is how to get money for a new one so your game would run faster and with higher details.
7. When you wake up late in the morning and hurry to school/work, you wish that you could change your clothes just like your Sims – just turn around – snap! – and that’s it!
8. When you have winter or Easter holidays, you also re-decorate houses of your Sims. After all, they deserve some nice vacation as well, don’t they?
9. You look at your house or any other building in your neighborhood and think – I must build this!
10. If you’re about to change something in your real life, you try it in the game first. You build a garden that should look good right behind your house or just print out a picture of your favorite Sim with nice haircut and go to hairdresser with it. It’s much easier to show him/her the haircut you want to have.
11. If possible, you have to try all Sim games that are available. Whether it’s a PSP version, Sims for Nintendo or for your iPod, you just must have all of them.
12. You burst into tears when your hard drive is broken and you know you have no backup. Too bad you’ll have to download a few gigabytes of custom content again!

What are your signs? Did I leave something out? Write it in the comments!

Credits for the picture: katelys from TSR