Do we want to close our list sooner? It sounds like some of you are making very personalized and/or crafty (time consuming?) gifts. I could understand one month not being enough time. I know some of my FE supplies aren't easy to get locally, not sure about others.
ETA-I'm also considering closing the list when we get to 30 cabins. After that, a second group could form and you would have the option of joining the second group in addition to the first if you'd like to exchange with more cabins. I'd manage that one too, if nobody steps up, but keep it separate from the original list. We are at 24 cabins right now.
We did the FE in October. The list got large, also. It ended up being split into an A/B group so each had around 15-18 cabins depending on the number of occupants. Each group ended up with roughly 24 kids.
It was a lot of delivering and planning to make it special and not something someone would throw out before they left. Quality vs. quantity.
(Words of advice: I know people were well intentioned but I didn't keep homemade foods, things needing refrigeration, glass items, small candies, tattoos, things made with cheap magnets that fell off the door and wouldn't stay on even when the door wasn't even moving, oriental trading mass produced type crafts my child has to put together, cups from the dollar store with our names written sloppily on them in sharpie that the lids leaked... Etc)
I don't want to sound ungrateful but how many times have you came home with fast food kids meal toys, chuckee cheese prizes or goodie bags from birthday parties that break or lose interest in? I hate to see their money wasted.
The things that worked out the best were items from their hometown (bottled & sealed hot sauce, Canadian coins / sticker books about Canada), leather string necklaces made out of washers into Mickey icons, key chains with our sail date and character on it, strong magnets attached to decorated mini photo frames, cd with disney music, cd with surfer music, cd with popular music from that year, glow sticks, bottle cap necklaces with characters, bottle cap magnets, dry erase boards that had good magnets or could hang, reusable bags, earrings made with shrinky dunks (somehow) and a ship in a thick glass bottle that had little charms related to Disney and nautical items in the sand.
The lists were sent to everyone, so if you wanted to do both A/B cabins, you were welcome to give to those on the opposite list, also.
Either way, I would post a closing final date to sign up very soon so that there is no confusion on how long the list will be available to join.
IMO, two months is a reasonable deadline to sign up because I also ordered things to make my items personal. I had other things to line up in the last month leading up to the cruise.
Hope that helps
not meant to offend anyone, just thought it was a good live and learn experience from our trip.
Think you've got some very valid ideas! Thanks for heading all that up!
I think we left at about 6:00 pm. Like you, we still had a great time though! 
