Great article, very interesting, its hard when birthdays and christmas come around and you have a huge stack of toys from every aunt and uncle!!!
I made a point of getting 'doing' gifts for DD this christmas and letting others buy the crappy plastic things.
She got a bus with little people in it...fisher price i think, it lasted about two weeks before it was stuffed in a corner and not looked at again!!
He fave toys are her bags which she puts all sorts in, and clomps around the house with our shoes on and a hat or an old t-shirts or my pants on what ever she can get her hands on! and has a great time!!
She does have TO MANY soft toys and plays with about 4 of them. and boxes of crap that i just dont get out. we have a few good wooden puzzels etc
we do alot of painting, drawing, reading...a lot of reading, walking and gardening, cooking!!! thats the new fave thing to do...get herbs from the garden and cook something!!!!

She has ALOT of crappy bath toys...when i was a kid i remember just having a wash cloth in the bath and i alwyas really loved my bath time!!!