Possible to stop these random "holiday" events?

[Joria]

I'm happily playing my Sims and up pops this thing in the upper left hand corner saying things like, "It's Night on the Town"  or "Prank Day", or some other bothersome nonsense that I don't want to do or deal with.  Anyone to prevent these from happening?  If not, what do you do with them?  How do you know what it wants you to do, (when all you want to do is fish, garden, go to work, woohoo, yadayada)?

[MarianT]

I'm happily playing my Sims and up pops this thing in the upper left hand corner saying things like, "It's Night on the Town"  or "Prank Day", or some other bothersome nonsense that I don't want to do or deal with.  Anyone to prevent these from happening?  If not, what do you do with them?  How do you know what it wants you to do, (when all you want to do is fish, garden, go to work, woohoo, yadayada)?

Yes, you can turn them off. In the upper left corner, you'll get a pop-up. If you click on the holiday icon, it will show what to do for the day. And in the upper right of the pop-up, there's an x you can click on to remove it from your household. But some of them are quite useful. On Skill Day, each of your Sims that gains a level in a skill will also get 100 satisfaction points. On Lottery Day, each of your Sims can get 100 satisfaction points just for buying a lottery ticket. And if you win, that's 1 million simoleons.

[scoed]

You can cancel any holiday the way MarianT said but you can't stop them from going on your calendar randomly. Still you can just cancel these holidays or just ignore them with no real ill effects to your sims. And as MarianT pointed out they can be useful and they have zero downside.

[Nindigo]

If holidays are cancelled, can a Sim then go to work normally? I know of some who don't appreciate not being able to have their Sims go to work.

[scoed]

Popup holidays and some other holidays from my experience are work days. All holidays are fully editable and thus you can always make all holidays a day off or a full work day. But if you cancel a holiday, it is gone so off to work you go given the day is no longer a holiday you unless it is your normal day off that is. @Nindigo Does that answer your question?

[Nindigo]

Yes, @scoed . Thank you for your elaborate reply