I'm getting caught up on email & @kellysue.bsky.social had a list of little fun (some more than others) ideas at the end of last week's newsletter & one of the suggestions was "Host a perfume sample swap" & I'd love to do a Bluesky version of this, if I could figure out a good way to make it work.
I don't know if they still have it, but they did some kind of anniversary collaboration with Play-Doh. You could have the same olfactory joy you remembered, but without having to clandestinely eat tiny balls of gray, pre-fondled clay whenever a supervisory adult turned their back.
My notion was get, like 10 "players." Send out 50 samples to the first person on the list. They have 2 weeks from when they receive the samples to swap out as many as they want. They then send to the second person, who has 2 weeks, etc. At the end of 20ish weeks, it comes back to Player #1.
Oh yeah 10 is super manageable to keep track of. We'd do one week before sending back out but capped at 20. people put stickers with their initials on them for what they put into the box before sending along and mark off what they took and what they added on a spreadsheet
I would love to be part of something like this and limiting the number of "players" helps to keep it manageable. And this feels like a good way of managing the logistics. I'm happy to manage spreadsheets, but couldn't get my brain around the actual mechanics of exchange.
