An Introduction...

I play the Sims, yes I know it's aimed at kids and as the mother of two grown ups I should really know better but there's something about the game I love.

I don't know when I came across the custom content side of the game but it's a fair few years ago while playing the first incarnation of the Sims, it was a cow print sofa from Mall of the Sims, I thought it was the bees knees! To be able to change something in a computer game was nothing I'd seen before and I've been playing games since the days of the first Leisure Suit Larry and Prince of Persia games on an 8086 XT computer. As far as I can remember custom content back then was mostly recolours, and rabbits, I remember lots and lots of pooing rabbits.

So along comes the Sims 2 and after playing it for a while I remembered the custom content and a whole new world was opened!! To start with I frequented the EA website, the Exchange and it was there I came across a version of the Halliwell Manor from Charmed and an obsession started.


I don't know what it is about the combination of Charmed and the Sims, I think it's the house. Halliwell Manor is just the most beautiful building. We don't have clapboard houses like this in the UK.


And then after searching sites like TSR and MTS2 I found a kindred Spirit! the lovely Aimoss from MTS2 who made a whole range of Charmed items, a book of shadows, a spirit board, the dining room chairs, lots of pictures, a P3 neon sign and awning. Unfortunately she's no longer active in the community but there's lots of people taking up the challenge (me included!).

Just to give you an idea of what I'm talking about

Sims Version









TV Version










So there are loads of nutcases like me out there 1000s and 1000s of us!! Not just for Charmed either, I've seen Stargate, Scrubs, Star Wars, Star Trek, Greys Anatomy, Buffy and Sabrina Sims just to mention a few, but it's the Charmed nut cases I wanted to "reach out to" so we'd have a little home of our own where we could stand up and say "Hi I'm Meemo and I'm a Charmed-Sims-aholic" without fear of ridicule or judgement! There are a few that have tried and failed, the Charmed Theme at MTS2 got shut down because of idiots that take and just don't give. There's the German effort that started off with good intentions but soon ran out of steam. Two years ago I started up a Yahoo group called SimalongaMeemo (you old English folk like me might remember Singalonga Max on the TV in the 70s!). The idea behind it being to collect all the Charmed content in one place. Some creators are funny about their creations and don't like it being posted on other sites so I figure if all I'm posting is links then no one can complain!!

So there I am trawling the internet for new Charmed content and I come across someone with a similar idea. At first it was just a forum but a year down the line it's a full blown community with downloads, if you want to join the fun it's Charmed Sims 2 Style.

It's attracted some great creators and we've even got brand new Charmed stuff that no one else has!

So this is my Sims blog, what I'm working on, what's new at the site, what's happening in my little world of Sims.