I think another interesting bit is how little other stuff we're buying now. I'm finding it's becoming harder and harder to find birthday and christmas presents for friends and relatives...once you have a decent computer and smartphone, so much other stuff simply becomes irrelevant.

Thinking back 20 or 30 years ago, there simply used to be many more kinds of things that people would buy. As a child I had a toy closet full of games and toys of infinite variety. My friend's kids all seem pretty happy with a tablet and maybe some legos and that's about it.