Here is my strategy: I make cocoa beans, veggies, down, meat, flowers, books, booklets, calendars, wax, motor oil (or similar), aluminum, acid (thickener now), sapphires, silver, plywood, dairy and some other stuff overnight. In the morning I first check the contest, then the assignments. Only after that I unload my goods. There is a good chance I already have something required. I also keep potatoes, paper, down, plywood etc in my inventory so making bunnies or starch is easy. Yesterday I was actually making bunnies and nightstands and giving them away.
{Summerville; the head honcho - Elloriana, lvl 58; Charleston, SC}