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I posted a bit about the quiverfull challenge I'm playing, and a bunch of people asked for the rules, so here you go! Apologies for a second post, but I didn't want the rules to get lost in that thread.

Father Quiverfull, Mother Quiverfull, Adam, Ava, Alistair, and Anna. Mother is currently baking #5.

Important note! I based the rules on the packs I have, which is not all (or even most) of them. Nothing is set in stone—if you have different packs or no packs, or you use more mods than I do (I only use MCCC, and I don't have CC), or you want different challenges, adjust at will.

Important note 2! These rules are very much a work in progress—I'm still testing them, and a lot of things are missing. (For example: I haven't decided how much money children will get when they marry and move out, except that it will be more for boys than it will be for girls.) Only the gen 1 rules are here, because I'm still working out what rules will be lifted at what point in time. (When in doubt, ask yourself "Would a sim living in a repressive, patriarchal, misogynistic society that thinks just about everything is sinful be allowed to do this?" and proceed from there.)

Important note 3! I'm not recommending the patriarchy in real life(!), and the primary goal of this challenge is for future generations to gradually break free of these restrictions and live their best, self-determined lives. Have fun with it!

Setup

• You may start with a married couple (recommended) or a single sim.
• You may pick any traits for your starting sims.
• If starting with a single sim, they must have a family-related aspiration.
• If starting with a married couple, one or both of them must have a family-related aspiration.
• Your sims must buy and furnish their property with the standard starting funds (e.g., 22,000 simoleans for a couple). No money cheats are allowed.

All generations

• Lifespan should be normal, and aging should be on.
• If using MCCC, aging should be turned on during pregnancy.
• After setup, all aspirations and traits must be randomized.
• No occults are allowed.
• Aging up early: See below (aging up early is not required, but it will help keep space in your household for another pregnancy...and another...and another...)
• Newborns cannot be aged up early.
• Infants
  • If Growing Together is not enabled, infants may be aged up when they have tried all foods at the high chair.
  • If Growing Together is enabled, infants may be aged up when they have completed three fine motor skills, three gross motor skills, three social skills, and three firsts.
• Toddlers may be aged up when all skills (communication, imagination, movement, thinking, and potty) are at level 3.
• Children
  • Child aspirations must be randomized. Generation-level restrictions apply (e.g., if a female child has “whiz kid” as her aspiration in a first-gen household, she will still not be able to play chess).
  • Male children must reach level 5 mental, level 5 motor, and level 3 of three “real” sim skills to age up.
  • Female children must reach level 5 creativity, level 5 social, and level 3 of three “real” sim skills to age up.
• Teenagers
  • Male teenagers may be aged up when they have achieved level 5 handiness, level 5 research and debate, and level 5 fishing.
  • Female teenagers may be aged up when they have achieved level 5 cooking, level 5 gardening, and level 5 knitting.
• All traits must be randomized.
• Strawberries, carrots, etc., may not be used to influence a baby’s sex.
• Aspirations
  • All aspirations must be randomized.
  • Sims may not change aspirations until they complete their current aspiration.
  • If sims complete an aspiration, a new one can be randomized for them.
  • If sims cannot complete aspiration tasks because of generational rules (e.g., female sims may not work outside the home), they cannot change their aspiration.

First generation

• Household
  • House must be off the grid.
  • Only female sims may cook.
  • Only female sims may clean.
  • Only female sims may do childcare (bathing, changing diapers, potty training, soothing, etc.).
  • Only female sims may do laundry.
  • Only male sims may repair broken objects.
  • Objects may not be upgraded.
  • Couches are not allowed. (Cannot encourage canoodling!)
  • Only male sims may pay the bills.
• Work
  • Women cannot hold a job.
  • Teenagers cannot hold a job.
  • Men may hold jobs.
  • There are no formal limitations on what jobs men can hold, but they are subject to skill restrictions (e.g., a gen 1 male sim working in the culinary career still may not cook or practice mixology, so he won’t get very far).
• Clothing (I don’t have CC, and in-game options are limited for some situations and some age groups. Do your best.)
  • Female sims may only wear skirts and dresses. Skirts must cover the ankles, and tops must cover the elbows. No cleavage.
  • Female sims may not wear peep-toe shoes.
  • Makeup is not allowed.
  • Male sims may not wear shorts.
  • Female sims must have long hair.
  • Male sims must have short hair.
  • All hairstyles must be neat.
  • Dyed hair is not allowed.
  • Piercings, jewelry, tattoos, etc., are not allowed.
• Swimming
  • Female sims may only swim if no male sims are in the room. If the pool is outside, it must be enclosed (fence, hedge, etc.), with no male sims within eyesight.
  • Male sims may only swim if no female sims are in the room. If the pool is outside, it must be enclosed (fence, hedge, etc.), with no female sims within eyesight.
• Bedrooms
  • Through toddlerhood, children do not need to be in sex-segregated bedrooms.
  • After toddlerhood, girls and boys may not share bedrooms.
  • Toddlers and younger of any sex may share bedrooms with older sims of any sex.
• School
  • University is not allowed.
  • Children must go to school. (Optional: some mods make it possible for children to not go to school without being taken by a social worker.)
  • Homework is allowed but not required.
  • Teenage boys may go to school. (Optional: If you have HSY, they can drop out. School is not completely banned for teens, as they may age up too quickly if they have all day to work on skills; testing in progress.)
  • Teenage girls may not go to school. (If you have HSY, they must formally drop out.)
• Woohoo
  • Married sims must woohoo daily.
  • If pregnancy is not confirmed, married sims must “try for baby.”
  • Chance of pregnancy may be changed in MCCC, but “try for baby” must not be below 50%. (Suggested: 65–70% for “try for baby” and 15–20% for “risky woohoo”)
  • No forms of birth control are allowed.
  • If using MCCC, aging during pregnancy must be turned on. (If not using MCCC, female sims will not age while pregnant; age them up when their husband ages up.)
  • Woohoo is only permitted in beds.
• Skills that are not allowed
  • Comedy is not allowed.
  • Most musical instruments are not allowed.
  • Painting is not allowed.
  • Yoga is not allowed.
  • Meditation is not allowed.
  • Mixology is not allowed.
  • Dancing is not allowed.
  • Fabrication is not allowed.
  • Juice fizzing is not allowed.
  • DJ mixing is not allowed.
  • Robotics is not allowed.
  • Rocket science is not allowed.
  • Video games are not allowed.
  • Programming is not allowed.
  • Writing is not allowed.
  • Photography is not allowed.
  • Herbalism is not allowed.
  • Flower arranging is not allowed.
• Skills allowed for male sims only
  • Only male sims may fish.
  • Only male sims may use fitness equipment. They may only use fitness equipment if no female sims are in the same room.
  • Only male sims may play chess.
  • Male sims may practice debate, but they may not perform research unless required for work.
  • Male sims may perform woodworking, but they may not sell their creations.
• Skills allowed for female sims only
  • Female sims may cook.
  • Female sims may play violin.
  • Female sims may study parenting books. No other skill books are allowed.
  • Female sims may knit clothing.
  • Knit goods cannot be sold. They can be gifted or added to the household wardrobe.
  • Knit objects are not allowed.
  • Female sims may gather fruits and vegetables that grow in the wild; they may eat them or cook with them but not sell them or plant them.
• Skills allowed for all sims
  • Practicing speech is allowed.
• Miscellaneous rules
  • Female sims may not travel outside their neighborhood.
  • Sim wants cannot be pinned.
  • Sims may not observe holidays.
  • Aspiration rewards may not be purchased/used.
  • Computers may only be used by men, and only for non-skill work tasks (e.g., “fill out reports” is allowed; programming is not allowed even if required for promotion).
  • Television is not allowed.
  • Listening to music is not allowed.
  • Phones may only be used for phone calls (all sims) and job-related tasks (men).
  • Selling out of the inventory is not allowed.
  • Listing on Plopsy is not allowed.
• Sex segregation
  • Sex segregation rules apply to children and older.
  • At no point in time may two unrelated sims of the opposite sex be alone in a room together.
  • Children may invite opposite-sex friends home from school, but they cannot play unsupervised.
  • Married adults may only call sims of the same sex on the phone. (This restriction applies only to adults so that younger sims can eventually find a spouse; you may want to play a more restrictive version that covers teenagers and/or children as well.)
• Marriage
  • Sims must marry the first eligible opposite-sex sim they have a romance bar with.
  • Flirtation is permitted before marriage.
  • Kissing is not permitted before marriage. (Woohoo is definitely not permitted before marriage.)
  • At no time before marriage may a couple be alone together.
  • The current patriarch must befriend potential husbands for their daughters before a proposal takes place.
  • The current matriarch must befriend potential wives for their sons before a proposal takes place.
  • Only male sims may propose.
  • When sims marry, they must move out of the house and start their own families.
  • The youngest male sim inherits the house when he marries…and he becomes the next patriarch.

I need pre-approval for a medical procedure. I have the Behandlungsplan (with carbon copy) from the doctor but am struggling to figure out where to submit it - I have the app but have never used it to upload documents, and since it's kind of time-sensitive I'm a little nervous about entrusting it to the Deutsche Post. Can I just go to a nearby TK Service Center and drop it off? Is it better to just email service[at]tk.de?

Apologies if this is a Very Dumb Question. I've done some searching, including in r/berlin, the TK website itself, Google, but so far nothing is clear enough to ease my (considerable) anxiety about this!

UPDATE: Scanning turned out to be a no-go (the form had some necessary pink parts that did not show up on scan), so I took the form to the TK Service Center. They have a box right up front for exactly this kind of thing - no envelope required. The receptionist was also able to answer my questions and alert me to something else I needed to submit (which I was able to do through the app).