Far too often I burn myself out playing TS3 (I often have the attention span of a gnat when playing), and come close to saying "stuff it" and walking away from the game. Then I find myself wandering over to the Sims 3 Guide here and find some little nugget of wisdom in it's infinite awesomeness; or I go to my real saving grace: The Challenges section here on the forum. I've yet to enter myself into a current challenge (someday!), but all I seem to need to do is look for a past challenge to fire things up a bit and I'm back in the game (literally!).
So I just wanted to thank this madhouse of amazing for existing, and to the crazy minds that come up with some of this stuff! You've saved my will to Sim time and time again! *bows*
