what does "a spare handful of times"mean? does it mean=seldom?
He liked his ties. It wasn’t as if he had an emotional attachment, but he liked having a variety. Choices.
Which still didn’t explain why he’d brought them all to the beach, especially when he’d worn a tie a spare handful of times in the last six months.
Okay, maybe a slight emotional attachment. He’d won court cases in these ties, and lost a few. He’d selected one every day of his working life. Had loosened them during late nights at the office. Knotted and unknotted them countless times.