I see that Danita already suggested bagging together multiple trades going to the same person. Like a "To Whom Baggy".
>> I copied and pasted the list from each post to a master list. The seeds were all mailed to me including a bubble envie inside with their address already written on the front. I dumped all the seeds in a pile then made individual place cards for each person participating. I then sorted the seeds out via each person's request from the master list.
You did a LOT of work!
I liked this method of preparing for Ella's Piggy Swap as a member, not the central person:
1. Set aside one sandwich baggy for each person I agreed to send seeds to.
2. Keep a list in a document of what seeds I have OUTGOING, sorted by who they are going TO.
3. When the trading period is over, I print my OUTGOING TRADES doc.
4. I cut it into slices, one slice for each person I'm sending TO. (It should also say "From RickCorey")
5. Each slice goes into one baggy, and I prop it up in a 4" pot.
6. Now I fill each "person" baggy from my Stash.
That takes time, but it goes faster if I have one list sorted by seed type but with recipient people's names too.
Then I can get one big bundle of Seed #1 out of my stash, and deal individual seed packets out to each baggy that needs one.
Then repeat for Seed Type #2. repeat for each outgoing seed type.
(There's some extra documentation work that way, but I only have to dig into my main stash ONCE for each seed type, and the "dealing them out" part goes really fast. If I have enough seeds to meet every trade, and they are all pre-divided, that goes REALLY fast.)
(I pre-divide my big seed stashes as soon as I buy them, or when collected seeds are good and dry. The size of an individual trade is about what I plant each time, so I like to have sowing-sized packets ready.)
7. After I do that for every seed type, I double-check by looking at each "person baggy" and its printed "slice" of owed seeds.
Then I correct any misses or other errors from dealing out the seeds.
The result is a bunch of sandwich baggies, one for each person, with that person's name in large print, visible through the baggy.
Then Ella could just take each baggy out of my mailer, read the person's name, and throw my baggy into their bucket.
