Making the Duggar family on The Sims- any ideas?

[lawlifelgbt]

Update: I haven't had a lot of time to play, but as of now, Jana and JD are toddlers (it was so hard to get them both to learn to walk, talk, and use the bathroom before they become kids), but are almost aged up to kids. Jill is an infant. I figure I can get Jessa and Jinger in the family before I have to split the household so Boob and Mullet can have more, but it might be headache-inducing to try and birth them really close together like they are IRL.

I also added on to the house. And Josh has the "slob" and "couch potato" traits. Fitting.

Boob is family oriented, frugal, evil, friendly, and charismatic.

J'Chelle is family oriented, evil, charismatic, never nude, and one other thing. I forget what.

[silversurealism]

Oh god, I love those traits!

The "Brother Husbands" also fascinates me. I've never tried to have my Sims be polygamous, but I've added it to my to do list. The closest they ever came was when I had Steve and Tony from the Avengers in a relationship and Tony kept trying to cheat on him with other people, even some neighbor person who wasn't even one of my player controlled Sims. I almost wanted to remove his free will.

[MorbidAwe]

If you have a chance to have an alien or alien hybrid in your family, they make the best J'slaves! They don't need to sleep at night, which leaves them with a lot of extra time for child care and toddler training. :mrgreen:

With the Supernatural expansion, you could make Jim Boob a vampire; since he sucks the life out of everything and everyone, lol! :twisted:

[lizziesmom]

J'Chelle is family oriented, evil, charismatic, never nude, and one other thing. I forget what.

Dumb as a box of rocks?

[Ms Jess]

OMG, this is hilarious! I loooove playing Sims. I have Sims 3 for PS3. I get too stressed out having large families, though, because none of them are ever happy and have stressed moodlets all the time. :lol:

[Frumpalicious]

Oh my god, I love the Sims. I have one family that I've been playing since the game came out. Ricardo and Josephine get married and start pumping out the babies. They have had 36 kids so far. Ricardo and Josephine have had immortality potions and fertility treatments.

...yeah, I'm twisted.

[baignoire]

Glad I'm not the only one who did this! I had an entire neighborhood of Duggar-esque families (I think I started with five) and kept intermarrying the kids. This was on Sims 2. I had some pretty awesome hacks that let me homeschool the kids, something to do with "teenage woohoo" that let them get married as teens and start popping out kids (after courting, mostly... although there was the occasional rebel who kissed before marriage), and some really horrible prairie muffin dresses and old-timey swimsuits so that they could stay modest. I had some Duggar-inspired hairstyles downloaded as well.

I think only one of the dads had a career, and I think it was in politics. The rest wrote books and refurbished old cars for profit. Some of the families had gardens that their poor children tended all day long. The "homeschool" hack that I downloaded didn't actually require any schoolwork, so yeah, it may have been pretty accurate, haha!

[Mama Mia]

I've been playing sims freeplay on my iPad which is full of bugs, so can't do much for relationships, have kids etc. but it is really fun for designing houses. I'm working on a big house for the Sister Wives family, instead of those ridiculous mc mansions they have.

Each wife has a bedroom that's big enough for a couch and a tv, so they can hang out there for privacy, and their own bathroom. The moms rooms are spaced as far apart from each other as i could manage.

There is a huge kitchen/dining room with each wife having their own complete kitchen around the edges of the room and a bunch of tables and chairs in the middle. There are a few living room /lounge type areas spread about the house.

The kids are divided up by age and gender. The 4 teen girls share a room. The two oldest boys have a room. The five younger girls have a room, the 4 younger boys have a room. The two toddlers have a room together. There are 3 bathrooms for The kids, in addition to the moms bathrooms. Kody has a little closet/office space.

I am such a dork , but its fun and kills time.

[ljohnson2006]

One should have unruly hair. It'd be Jordyn.

[jaynie]

Inspired by this thread, I made a small fundie community in my main sims 2 neighbourhood. The families bear passing resemblences to some we snark on (although they're limited to 8 people) -- a duggar-esque one, a maxwell-esque one, a seven-sisters esque one, and an arndt one. Anyway, I opened up the MaxHell family, and genuinely within second of starting to play, the eldest daughter ran off in tears for no discernable reason. In minutes, nearly all of their moods had plummeted, mostly due to a significant lack of fun. The pseudo-arndts and the pseudo seven sisters, on the other hand, were all pretty happy. And my Pseudo-Duggar toddlers were left to fend for themselves while their mum relaxed in bed. So apparently I did a pretty excellent job of programming their personalities! :)

[lawlifelgbt]

I got to Jason so far (been busy/prefer to play Sims of my partner and myself). Then, I had the idea of getting thru the kids faster if I could have two Michelles. So, I moved a copy of her character in with them.

Even though everyone has the "Above Reproach" trait, they fight all the time! Dim Bulb is really confused and now won't have sex with either!

[Many_Spaynes]

I don't play Sims b/c I know it would take over my life but I'm loving reading about the stuff y'all are doing! Please keep posting updates!

I love that SimSarahM ran away from home immediately. I wonder if the Maxwells, with all their 1 ton ramp expertise, play Sims? Do they Sim themselves & watch themselves emotionally disintegrate? Do they Sim us & see what their lives could be like?

[Diana]

long time since i dont play sims, but you give me a great idea for next time... and you MUST post pictures of your families, it will be fun to see please!!

[walnut]

Dumb as a box of rocks?

Lobotomized. :| :zombie:

BTW, the TTH looks amazing! I've never played SIMS... But people make entire movies looking like the original! This program must have been designed by wizards or something!

Keep sharing please! :P

[lawlifelgbt]

Had to re-start because the two Michelles beat each other to a pulp! Anyway, now I have another Michelle and Boob, and Josh, Jana, JD (children), Jill (toddler), and she's about to have Jessa. I also found a mod to let me actually have 21 people in the same house, so I can play all of them at once! The house looks a lot like the TTH. However, by using money cheats and having a giant lot, I'm able to build 20 bedrooms with private baths. Each kid deserves his or her own space, I think.

I have the Pets expansion, so they also breed dogs and horses. That's more for me than to mimic their life. Anyway, I'm going to try to make an Arabian/Palomino mixed horse who's fast and smart, and some unholy mix of about 20 of the largest breeds there are. Started with husky/shepherd, but I want to mix Irish and Russian wolfhound, Pyrenees, Great Dane, and several more in too.

[jaynie]

Lawlifelgbt, you're a lot nicer to your sims than I am to mine.

I done screwed up. After installing a similar hack to let my fundies birth more arrows for their quivers, I set out to making a proper double-digits set of pseudo-duggarlings (I called them the Dogger family in the game). Well, I was raising an army for god at a nice rate when I decided to take a little family outing to the mall -- only I forgot that, without hacks, the sims 2 doesn't let you take toddlers along (don't ask me why). Poor Anna-Beth Dogger suffered a fate we all could have predicted -- her family completely forgot about her. So along came the EVIL SOCIALIST SATANIST social worker to collect my four youngest (the rest were teens and thus safe, apparently). Luckily, I have plans to adopt Aliviagh, Alexander, Alistair, and Anna-Beth out to other, saner parents, so this story has a happy ending. I bet the Free Aliviagh forum will be thrilled.

(This has genuinely never happened to my before - I even had to google what to do when the kids were taken away (like, whether Stephanie and Andy-Joe Dogger could get them back). Two years ago I had the Master from Doctor Who raise a family (for evil reasons, obviously), and even HE managed it properly. But alas!)

[FJismyheadship]

I just got the Sims 3 and made a Duggaresque house. Every room in the house except Jim Bob and Michelle's room has a hole in the wall instead of a door. There will be no privacy for the little Duggarlings! Anyway, I'm temporarily moving them to a 2 bedroom house so I can switch back and forth between playing with the Duggars and building their house.

[lawlifelgbt]

Haha, FMJ! What about the bathrooms though? Is there a hole there or are you just going to limit the Duggars' time in there with the door shut, a la Steve Maxwell?

[FJismyheadship]

There is a hole there too! Can't have any kind of hanky panky going on! NO PRIVACY FOR THE CHILDREN!!!! They might think lustful thoughts, or worse, TOUCH themselves! I thought about an archway. I had to put the hole in anyway in order to put in the parents room's door, and then I closed it up. I decided that would be too frustrating to keep doing it to every room in the house, so they got a big gap.

I was thinking about recording their lives from start to finish to put on youtube, but then I thought "That's boring. Who would watch that?" Then I remembered people watch 19 kids and counting.

[Jilli]

OT but, Today I opened up my sims game because my internet was down for 1.5 hours and I started playing with the pre made family the Bunches from Sunset Valley. In my last age up I apparently gave Darlene the neat trait and know she won't stop acting like a helpmeet :angry-banghead: I think I'm going to have to have her set booby traps or something. lol

[HarryPotterFan]

Bumping up this thread because more of us got the nutty idea to make Duggar Sims.

[Zasha]

This is fantastic. Who knew? XD

I'm an avid ts3 player. I've played the entire series since ts1 and actually just installed ts4 on my computer but ts3 is where I've been most involved.

Is anyone else here on simblr?

[Laser Lotus]

I just added Ben and Jessa to my Sims game. I gave them both the last name Duggar so that Ben can share his favorite family's name!

My Sims first ran into the Duggar couple at the park. Both Duggars were dressed in their workout attire, which meant Jessa was wearing *gasp* pants. They both seemed to enjoy my Sim Hilda's guitar playing, so I can only assume she was playing a nice christian tune. A few days later my Sim Zelda invited them over to the house. Ben was wearing his everyday outfit, but Jessa was still in the workout gear pants. Everyone chatted in the yard for a bit, then, Zelda, who did the inviting, went to bed rather suddenly in the middle of a conversation. Left to their own devices, Ben and Jessa watched TV until 1 am (making up for all those years of very limited access, I assume) when my Sims kicked them out. Yes, I spend too much time playing this game.

[Mama Mia]

I just designed the improved floor plan for my Duggar House. On Sims Freeplay there aren't a lot of options regarding room shapes ( no l- shapes, no hallways, just basic squares and rectangles connected to each other) , tables and chairs take up way more room than they should, and other oddities.

I kept to 2 stories and it should be a little less than 7 thousand square feet. Which I believe is what the Duggar House is.

Despite the limitations, IMHO it is a much better use of space than the real Duggar House, especially if they expect their adult children to live at home.

-- Every single kid has their very own room :) Even Josh and family have a room for when they visit.

--- The 5 youngest are downstairs, with their parents. All the rest are upstairs, and the upstairs has lounging /game/study areas of its own.

-- Grandma Mary is still near the laundry, but she has her own entrance and a whole little apartment.

Best of all-- no crazy open hallway with toddlers!

Once I get the furnishings laid out I'll post photos.

[Quiverfullofit]

I really want the Sims 4 just so I can make a Duggar-esque family..

(If anyone here has sims 4, or any sim Duggar they should definitely post photos!)

One feature when you create a sim is to personalize their voice, so sim Michelle can have real Michelle's fake baby voice! :ew: