It matters what order you use up the eggs in the carton. It changes the weight distribution, which changes the drop risk. Secondarily it changes the ease of estimating how many are left, but that's not particularly difficult in any arrangement.
I've seen three schools of thought, even distribution in all directions, clumping on the end, or clumping in the center.
Even distribution is of course, evenly weighted, and is therefore the least contentious. It's one downfall is that you have to think about how to keep things even as the eggs dwindle, which is more effort than it should be.
Clumping on one end is classic, people do it because it's obvious, not because it's optimal. If you keep the egg end out it can be easier to grab since the center of mass is in your hand, but I'd rather have consistent weight than risk grabbing the wrong end one day and accidentally dropping the carton.
Clumping in the center is the odd compromise, easy to do and mildly balanced, but slightly weirder to pickup as the weight is neither evenly distributed nor concentrated in your hand.
What you favor will depend on how much and often you eat eggs and how you store the carton in the fridge. I still haven't settled on an arrangement.
But if you eat eggs, at least think about it once rather than defaulting to one end.
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This gets infinitely more complicated when multiple people are sharing eggs, at which point I would give up and do what everyone else does if only so no one is surprised by the weight distribution.
Some things are too petty to set standards for.
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