you pick a swap, you find the pattern, you find the ingredients, you tie the flies, you pack them up, you mail them (with a SASE!!), and you wait a little bit, and then--hooray!--you get this box of flies in the mail...

now what? do you open the box, admire the contents, and

1) throw the box in a drawer?
2) take out the flies and sort them in to your boxes by type or destination or whatever?
3) take out the flies, put them on some sort of display, print out the recipes and add them?
4) put them in a drawer and occasionally take them out and wonder how they'll fish?
5) something else?

i've got 9 boxes of flies in that drawer. some of them belong in a frame. some of them ought to be in my own box (but if i lose them i'll never know what they were!). some of them ought to be adopted and duplicated quick before i forget what i meant to do...

surely i'm not alone in all this?