Not enough shoes

Hubby and I have been going to a lot of open houses because we've started looking for a house. Mortgage rates are fairly low, and Hubby has an actual job now rather than a barely-paying one as a grad student or postdoc. Thus, open houses. Since he's been trying to keep the houses we see relative to what we can afford, we've actually seen a lot of crappy houses. Some are tear-downs. Most have no yard. Some are actually nice. A few are possibilities. I feel like the female mouse from Richard Scarry's The Best House Ever. Like we will never have a nice house (not like ducks, cats and dogs are conspiring bullies). But one thing has stood out. And that is that women have a lot (and I really mean a lot) of shoes. That, or they just keep all of the shoe boxes? But then, why would you keep sixty to eighty empty shoe boxes? Or is this just emblematic of the area I happen to live in? Do you really need that many different pairs of shoes? I suppose it depends on who you ask.