How do you organize swaps you received?

[Wedemeyer]

Every year I have this dilemma, how to organize/sort the swaps I received at convention. Do I sort by occassion, colors, stamp set? Love to hear how you all do it. Thanks.

[belindaking]

I don't. ;) I just toss them all in a basket and let my customers look through them at workshops and events. But I generally don't swap more than 50-100.

[conductorchik]

Greetings from O'Hare -
The only way I plan on sorting my swaps are by cards and noncards.

[hellobubbles]

I usually sort and store my swaps in the aqua punch box tins (which you can buy seprately now). I sort them by season. I have a tin for christmas and winter cards, one for spring flowers, one for everyday(weddings, birthdays, etc. and the other for fall holidays (like halloween, school stuff, and thanksgiving). So when I have a party or a class all I have to do is take out the coordinating seasonal punch box and let the customers flip through them When the stamp set retires that is used on the card or when I need to purge some swaps I bundle about 5 of them together with a strip of paper saying thanks for your order and give them to customers with their order. They LOVE them!!!

[TaxiTam]

I usually sort some by set or holiday to make sample packs to use to show. All the rest get added to cards to be used as a card. Then (sometimes) I sort by what occasion I would use that card for.

[lutheran]

Mine are in clear envelopes in a plastic box and all cards from the same set are together. Christmas stuff is in a separate box as are 3D items. Scrapbook pages are in a plastic file thing like a craft keeper. I used to keep them all in a huge basket but it was hard going through and pulling out retired stuff when the lists came out. Actually just finished putting my new swaps in the envelopes and adding them to my big box. LOVE SWAPS! And Sock Monkey is front and center for everyone to see at my next workshop.
Mary Beth

[Scrapkathy]

I have 4 notebooks and have them in the same order as the catalog. I use the Poloroid pages from Century Photo.

Kathy
Laurel, MD

[Stampinpetra]

I put mine in clear envies and staple them together by sets. Some I just remout and put in my card box to use later. Some of my 3-D I give as door prizes and even use some for gifts after I let most of my customers see them. I also remount cards that have retired and either use them or sell them. I also donate some of them.

[Inky Paws]

Also long as I have at least 3 samples from a stamp set, I put them in large cello envelopes, front to back, and put a cardstock topper with the stamp set name printed from the computer (too time consuming to stamp) and then close with brads so that I can undo it as I get more. They end up like flip books. I put them all into a large Longaberger basket. If I only have 2 samples of a set, then I just put them into a clear envelope. the basket go too full so I take mostly new sets and the in season sets. I stopped taken a basket of 3-d items as it got to be too much to carry into a workshop and they got kinda beat up transporting back and forth. When the sets retire, I take all of the cards out of the cello flip books and package them up and give them out at stamp camp or as an additional hostess gift. (Except for any Christmas one, I save those myself and send out so I don't have to make so many cards myself.