HA HA ...with you on that one annodomini ...I now have a pile of odd socks waiting for their other halves to turn up ....if that ever happens ! now I always buy coloured and patterned socks (mostly with cats on !) so they are (if I find two) easy to pair up ! Have to also wonder, clearing my late brother's house earlier this year if he was preparing for Christmas, or had all of them as gifts but there were THREE drawers full of unworn, still coupled together with those awful staples or cotton and price tags......it was a sad job to do, but we did laugh ...wish he were still here so I could ask him what ALL these socks were for .,,,,perhaps he couldn;t resist them in the shops !