i've been doing the fabshophops for 10 years now---at the beginning of each new hop i see how many shops are involved for that one-it varies hop to hop- then i divide that number by the number of days in the month- and know how many each day i need to find (usually between 5&8)
then if i miss a day i know how many to make up- so it's not so time consuming to find them all- i can usually find my day's bunnies in 10-15 minutes....no where near the time i spend reading here :)