Your 10 best toy purchases - and your 10 that were a waste of money

[Nai]

Best
Balance bikes / bikes
Trampoline
Lego
Op shop dress up clothes
Books
Doll house
Musical instruments
Baby doll, pram, high chair etc
Squirty bath toys
Doctors kit

Worst
Most things with batteries
Any craft thing that requires my help
My little ponies
Make up / hairdresser doll head
Stuffed toys (I'm sure they breed)

[MummyNaomi]

Stuffed toys (I'm sure they breed)

Agreed, I counted DSs when he was a baby, he had over 40, now with DD in the house I reckon we could possibly crack the 100 mark!!

[OceanPrincess]

Top 10:
Tramp
Cubby/slide
Cozy coupe and outside riding toys
Octonauts figures
Barbies
Kitchen stuff, in that I include their cash register as they often make a "cafe"
Little people
Mega Bloks
Two fisher price toys - the letterbox and the piggy bank. Both given to my DD and still going strong, all three have loved them and they still get played with
Balls - all sizes and styles!

Bottom 10:
All other fisher price toys
Anything that makes noise and doesn't have an off switch
Plush toys
Polly Pocket (too small for little fingers)
Hot wheels
Wooden train tracks - we spent a bit on getting a decent set up of proper Thomas wooden tracks and trains and they hardly get played with. Maybe I should bring them out and help the boys set them up a few times...
Foam flip out couches - they just don't need them and seem to clutter up their rooms
Fake laptops
"Baby toys", eg rattles, grab toys, taggies, "my first" type things - just don't get played with!

[HotI]

Bottom 10
Anything that makes noise and doesn't have an off switch

Ooh yeah!

Top 10
foam letters for the bath
Scooter
bikes
Cubby
trampoline
climbing frame
Cozy coupe car
Wooden bus with people in it
kids gardening tools and wheelbarrow
torches
hand knitted birthing doll
siblings
dog

Bottom 10
Plastic crap
noisy crap
toys that talk in American voices
plastic crap that you connect together (ramps etc for cars trains) that never works or works once.


I love how most top 10s are full of outdoor active toys.

[Kazzo]

Top 10.

My first is a the most expensive toy ever but the best. 30 acres that has paddocks, bush, a creek, a gorge and animals.
Our dogs
Swing and slide set
Trampoline
Bikes/scooters
Quad bike
Pop up tent and tunnel
Shovel and spade set
Barbies and dolls
Memory cards and books

Worst
My little Pony things
Dolls house (More the quality was dissapointing)
Pillowpets (I counted 12 last clean out)
Stuffed toys
littlest pet shop rollercoaster thing, so flimsy.
Giddy up ride on pony.
Happy meal toys (we seem to get them collected on our behalf)
Kids laptop
Remote control cars
Craft things that are for older kids but people insist on buying and are to much for the girls and they get annoyed because most of it they can't do but they don't want me to do it all so they get frustrated quickly and more mess is created that I then have to clean with no good craft as an end result!!!!