romira wrote:
I don't live anywhere near Houston, so, regretfully, can't help with The Sort, but have been pondering nevertheless.
Years ago I worked in a fabric store & whenever the owner had a dilemma, she would gather us together & say, "talk this
thru with me" & we would listen to her & after some discussion a solution was found.
So, ladies, talk this thru with me:
I don't think you need to wait until you are innundated with all 5 hundred million thousand (as my 4 yr. old grandson might say) HST's.
It seems to me that you can start sorting after receiving baggies from 28 different participants (aka P). Mark each participant with a number. Lay out the HST's from each group, that is the HST's from P#1 thru P#28 for a total of 28 stacks of 28. Start compiling one from each stack for a collection of 28, put this in a baggy & mark with a post it note 1 - 28. When you receive baggies from P#29, she/he gets a bag of the 1 - 28 collection. When P#30 joins the party, they will get a collection. Until you run out of the first collection, which will be the one given to P#56. Then you can start another layout of HST's from the baggies of P#29 thru P#56. The collection from P#29 thru P#56 will go to each member of group P#1 thru P#28.
Will this work to just keep swapping from groups of 28, one to another?
Upon reading this it sounds ridiculously confusing.
Well, discussion?
That might be the easiest way to sort through 5 hundred million thousand HSTs, but there are quite a few of us who are planning to send at least 615 HSTs in hopes of getting back one from each contributor. Thinking about how to do all of that makes my head hurt! I think that Debbie and Clara and whoever they can talk into The Sorting Event deserve lots of chocolate, and an adult beverage with fruit and umbrellas!
But only AFTER the sorting is done!