I have been meaning to go through my sock drawer for a few months now.  For Christmas I got 5 pairs of new socks and just recently was gifted some Sesame Street socks to match Marceline’s Sesame Street socks, leading to sock drawer overload.

I dumped my sock drawer on the floor and decided to weed out unmatched socks, but that equated to three solo socks, so something more needed to be done.

I switched tactics and started putting socks I would keep back in the drawer and created a giant toss pile.

None of these socks have holes in them, but most have stretched out elastic creating neverending floppy sock, or are really thin and not worth keeping. Even my old favorites like Space Invader socks and robot socks are getting tossed.

But… That still leaves me with 39 Pairs of socks, which seems extreme. This doesn’t count the running socks I have either, those are in another drawer.

How many pairs of socks do adults have? It has to be less than 39 pairs.