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This question is not only valid, but the answer also haunts me because, to be honest, I don't know if the limit exists. The passion math may be mathing too hard. Here's the thing, if we're going to calculate the true number of pairs of heels in my possession, first we'd have to count the uppers, right? Okay, like just the top part. Because keep in mind, every single upper, even when it doesn't have a heel, is still a fully functioning flat shoe. So that alone is a pair of shoes. Here's the thing though, as the founder, I get one of every shoe we make. So like this right here, just some open-toed shoes. We come over here, this is going to be some of the closed toes and boots. Then this is kind of overflow and like specialty. If we're going to be super honest, yes, I have way more in the garage. Those are all shoes. I feel like we can't talk about those though. This is going to get out of hand. If we just worry about the shoes actually inside the house, it's going to be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 160, I think. And that is just the flats. Here's the part where it starts getting tricky. Not only is every single shoe I just showed a flat, but it can also be worn with a heel, right? And every single one comes with at least one matching heel. So it's really not 160 pairs of shoes because everyone's a flat and at least one heel. That's really 320. I can't do math. That's also assuming you only get one matching heel, though. Every single color that we make comes in a full suite of different heels. So for instance, you could swap to a matching 4-inch block if you want a different height. You can swap to a matching 3. All of our stilettos and flare stilettos come in 4-inch and 3-inch. All of our traditional blocks come in 4-inch, 3-inch, and 1-and-a-half. And then we have even some other blocks that come in either a flare shape or a cylinder shape. And that leads me to the next point that not all the heels have to be matchy-matchy, right? Like you can mix and match any heel onto any shoe. Obviously not every single heel is going to look amazing on every single shoe. That being said, red's actually kind of a bad example because this is a neutral and does look good with everything. But for instance, maybe you're looking at a full rhinestone shoe, right? That might not look that good with the cork block and yes, that is going from one shoe to the other. Okay, they literally fit on every single shoe. So, you know, like that. That actually looks kind of good. You know what I mean? Like you probably wouldn't style a tweed heel on a rhinestone shoe. I mean, you could. You could, that's the thing. We start trying to filter by only heels that look good with every shoe, that's going to get crazy. For the purposes of this exercise, we just have to assume you pair every heel with every shoe. Also important to note, I have mostly 4-inch heels on display because they're bigger and they're far more visual for a display. Every single heel we make in 4-inch is also available in at least 3-inch. Some are also available in 1-and-a-half inch, and some are available on other shapes. Keep a lot of the backups in the garage because I would be drowning in heels. Oh, what was me. But again, for this exercise, we're just going to focus on what is physically in this room right now. Oh boy. Also going to ignore the Taylor Swift heels because those were custom and can't be sold. Okay, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 345, I think. I am not going to count what's down there because I just can't. 345 heels, 160 shoes that can also be worn as flats. I really hate to admit it, but I am going to need Google to figure this out. If 160 shoes that can all be worn as flats on their own, i.e. counting as one full shoe, and also can be paired with each of 345 separate heel kits, and each individual pairing also counts as its own shoe, how many shoe combos to calculate? Things that have never been typed into anything ever. It's 55,360 shoes. Oh. 55,000 360 shoes. Again, we aren't counting anything in the garage. And there's much more in the garage. Oh my god, I'm a hoarder. And like every season I keep making more shoes and more heel kits. This may be my single most valuable asset.