Sounds like me. I have traded real life shopping with Sims downloading, to an extent, at least. I don't have enough families to live in the pretty houses I make and download, and I don't have enough houses to use all the pretty furniture :einstein

But it's great fun!

I got nearly 20GB of CC. I just checked it a few days ago. It was a BIG surprise cause the last time I checked it, it was only just over 6GB and that was just at christmas. I actually need to delete alot of it cause I'm running out of space on my pc.

Hi, I'm Tree4me, but my friends call me Liz.
"Hi Tree."

I have downloaded so much custom content so much I currently have 23GB of custom content, so I have just beaten you Magic! :P

My CC is all on a disc now (which my husband has hidden. ) because I had so much that there wasn't enough room to de-frag the hard drive, and we were at 43% fragmentation. So I'm back down to 1.5 G (In two weeks)

Wow! 23GIG is just... insane! lol I can't even imagine how many hours it'll take for your game to load.

I don't use all of it, I just have a bad downloading habit. My parents are trying to cure me of it, but I just can't stop! I use about 3 GB of the stuff and it already takes yonks to load.

haha - I totally have that same problem.

Hmm, maybe it's not us though- people need to stop making some awesome cc! Hahha

Exactly! If people made cc that wasn't so good, then we wouldn't be downloading too much!

This would make a great social group.

Wow, I thought I was bad. I only have 629 MB of custom content. I have over 10 GBs left on my hard drive out of 116 GB (Not including the other drive which has 108 GB), so plenty of room to download more. Haha.

My downloading of custom content is so insane, I have stopped doing homework. I have to sit at the computer and wait for the downloads to end, then...

"Oh. My. God. I. Want. That!"

Then I download that, and then I start uploading...

I almost doubled my download folder (but it's not 20G yet!!) when I started going through older stuff at MS2, and the checking out the links from the WCIF and Updated content on this forum. I can't resist!! So many lovely things!!

But to find them in the game is the really hard part. Where is that bowl with lemons? Where is the shelf with pottery? Where is that lovely Victorian wall? I end up going through all my cataloges again and again, searching for a spesific item...

Yeah, that frustrates me too, Kyria. I download all this cool stuff and then I can never find it when I want it, especially the deco stuff which it seems can be cloned from just about anything, so it can be anywhere in the catalog. So I tend to go in cycles. I'll get a ton of stuff and then I'll get completely frustrated and get rid of all of it except the hacks, which are generally tiny files and I don't have to find them in a catalog, and the few things that I use all the time. Then I start over. I don't think I've ever had more than a GB or two, though. It's hard to tell because mine is broken out over about 10 different user accounts, each created for a specific purpose, like one for Legacy, one each for other challenges I decide to play that I want to keep separate from other games, one for experimental lot-building and working through tutorials, one for historical neighborhoods (so I can use global replacements for vehicles, for instance, without it affecting anything else), etc.

I think when I first discovered CC, I went totally crazy and dl'ed everything I could get my grubby hands on, but now I've whittled it down to the stuff I consistently use and have gotten rid of the stuff that looked nice in previews but that turned out to be bugged or plain old ugly in-game. So, I still have lots of nice stuff, but my game only takes about 1-10 minutes to load, depending on which user account I'm using.

EDIT: For those who get frustrated trying to find their CC in their buy catalog, I have just discovered the Categorizer at Paladin's Place . So I know what I'm doing tonight... (Yes, Deco section, I am looking at you. )

I definitely need help as well! I decided I'd had enough when my game was taking 30 min + to load so I checked my DLs and saw that I had approx 44,000 (about 5GB).

So since then I have deleted all the crap I know I won't use (while still downloading new shiny pretties) and I am going through the stuff that's left to see what I do want. I have also decided to stop using realistic stuff and start using stuff that a bit more maxis-match (but not completely). I've been doing this for weeks now (I only really go on my puter on the weekends) and I'm so sad that I haven't been able to play. I'm really starting to think I'm sadly pathetic - I mean, I can't remember when the last time I got to play was and I have no end in sight to the organizing (so no idea when I will ever get to play). And through it all, I just don't have the heart or stomach to delete everything and start over

It's a sickness really...but one that I'm not overly prepared to be cured of just yet!