I was really on the fence about joining this year. Then I over cut 2.5" strips for the quilt I'm currently working on, and now have about 15 wof strips of different fabrics. I thought I'd need two of each for the scrappy quilt, and ended up only needing one of most of them.
Selecting the fabrics and cutting the squares is one of my favorite parts of the swap. I cut the strips and then lay them out in bundles of 5, then line them up and use my stripology ruler to cut several strip layers at a time. It goes pretty fast.