[Steve44]

I’d never considered that but it’s an interesting concept. When you’re deciding what to wear you only have half the number of shoes to look at so have a smaller physical area to search and compare. Once you’ve chosen it’s fairly straightforward to find the matching one in the second container.

One downside would be if you have a few very similar pairs of shoes, that would undoubtedly make finding the matching shoe much more difficult because you couldn’t immediately home in on it.

I don’t think I’ll try it, but certainly something new to ponder.

[athenot]

FWIW, us adults haven't adopted her process. But it worked especially well for her as she optimized for her biggest issue at the time, which was figuring out which shoe goes on which foot. Now she can tell almost instantly but the 2 boxes remain. :)