That looks like my collection!
Though I also have the Holiday Stuff pack. I just don't install it because my Sims don't celebrate holidays. :(
The Sims. Oh man. I started way back when the first Sims was released. The idea of playing God with my own collection of little pixelated people appealed to me. I sank so many hours in that game, playing a family as far as I could before things got a little too easy. It was always the same thing: start with a single sim, get to the top of career ladder, get married, have children, stop playing because what else can I do? With the first Sims, I didn't get any expansion packs until Unleashed because I like animals and the idea of giving pixelated people their own pixelated pets.
Then my game got glitched in 2006 and wouldn't save. I stopped playing the Sims, but since I was having such a fun time, I wanted to try again. But would I go with the Sims 1 or change to the Sims 2? After weeks of research, I made my decision, and I bought the Sims 2 Deluxe, which has the base game and the Nightlife expansion pack.
My life was never the same.
I used to play the Sims 2 all the time. When I first started out, I didn't know what I was doing because my only experience with the game came from reading stories that people did online with their own sims. So the only family I recognized was the Broke family because my favorite legacy online used that family. I played them a little bit until Beau grew into an adult, but something was missing from the game.
My own sims. Which I created in 2008 and still have to this day. Andy and Angel have been the "guinea pigs" for various different ideas I wanted to play through. They've gone through a legacy challenge, they survived the apocalypse, they've built a city. They've just made the game fun through the years with their eleven (!!) children, and are who I miss the most since I've upgraded to Windows 8 and can't play TS2 anymore.
The best time that I had playing the Sims 2 was building my own city almost completely from scratch. I laid down every decoration, built nearly every house from scratch, and populated it with sims I downloaded or created myself. The city is named Polonius, and is mostly populated by Andy and Angel's children and grandchildren. This was the last neighborhood I played before upgrading. I'm hoping to come back to it very soon, this time rebuilding
everything from scratch. No downloaded sims or houses. No preinstalled townies. Everything is going to be done by me. It's a project I'm really looking forward to.
I haven't played TS3 because I don't like the way the sims look. I was thinking of getting TS4 when it comes out, but I couldn't justify buying a dozen expansion packs again when I still have TS2 to play. I know at some point I have to upgrade, but let me hold onto TS2 for as long as I can.
What I do really miss is the great online community that built up around TS2. It was my favorite fandom for years, reading other people's stories and seeing all the custom content that was created. But TS3 kind of killed that great community, and now the places I used to go are filled with drama and it's not fun anymore.