I did gift exchanges for several years and just got burned out. I would have serious anxiety about whether I had "sent enough" or whether or not my partner would like the items that I sent. In the early exchanges that I did, the gifts were smaller, but gradually the exchanges became more expensive with people sending bigger and more costly gifts. I found that I would buy, buy buy and worry that I didn't have enough so I would buy some more, and would ship my box still worried that it wasn't big enough or full enough or that my partner would be disappointed. Please understand that
all of the anxiety I had was self imposed, but stressful, nonetheless so I decided to take a break.
I sincerely hope that the Spring, 2009 GE is the best ever and that all participating have loads of fun!