Well I'm another person who didn't like the totems. When you had more than a few they really cluttered up the village and made looking for collectables a pain. I had them on the mosaic at first but they blocked the pebbles. Once I had all the butterflies I lined them up along the bottom and that was a little better, but I still thought they were a pain. When I play VV2 now I try to only make one person an EE so I don't have the build up of totems.