And they got their name from the fact each cell normally has 2 pairs of 23 chromosomes.
You don't keep your shoes in 2 different piles for lefts and rights; you pair them together.
My toddler actually came up with that very process. Box of left shoes and box of right shoes. It works pretty well for her.
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.