Did you ever solve your sock problem?

It’s universal. Too many, not enough, and none match.
I finally did. I started buying only white socks of the same size, with a particular sewing pattern, and just threw the clean ones in a cardboard “Sock box”.
The kids had to dig out their own everyday.

It was so successful that I graduated to one particular drawer in an antique dresser I had, but we always called it the “sock box.”