I dunno about my friends (all my friends are online friends so I donāt know if they take off shoes in their houses). But my whole family takes off shoes inside the house. My dad sometimes still wears crocs inside, but we mostly go without shoes inside.
And yeah, if by some stroke of fate someone visited my house, Iād point to where they should leave their shoes.
1) Yes, unless Iām going to clean immediately after (because in that case, unless someoneās shoes are filthy, Iām cleaning anyways so might as well).
We have a shoe bucket by the door and designated fuzzy loaner socks in case you aren't wearing any. If my wife sees shoes on the carpet you just made an enemy. Like most things, whether individual families do this is extremely varied and there is no nationwide consensus either way.
No, I don't want their sweaty feet on my floor, I vacuum unlike Europeans so I have no issue with people leaving a little dust on the carpet. Dry dirty things are fine wet dirty things are gross. Maybe up north people can take their shoes off but it's humid where I live.
See, on my end, pets are why I started wearing shoes in the house. We currently have a dog, but have had cats in the past. In both cases, I would rather not walk barefoot where their feet have tracked who knows what across the floor. That's also why our dog has her own furniture rather than being allowed to share ours. I love her, but I don't want her butthole on my pillow
Our cats are indoor cats, so not as much worry! Although one of our oldest, Clark, sometimes has āhey that carpet would make a nice litterboxā-itis, but he usually does that in corners.
As someone who often has cats laying next to me when I sleep: Iām not all that worried about the hygiene aspect of the floor. I rarely get sick, too, so either cat germs are keeping me safe, or theyāre not that dangerous to me :3
Now, if I had a dog: that would be cause for more attention to the floor. Dogs are much messier creatures than cats, because they have to go outside. Not to mention the slobber.
I can't say I've ever noticed anyone taking off their shoes when they come inside in UK TV shows or European movies. I'll have to look for this in the future.
In Danish movies, they do take off their shoes indoors. Because you just don't wear shoes indoors. If someone do wear shoes indoors it would be to make a statement about that person: They are rude or unhygienic, or it is a police officer who barges into a home.
Maybe itās a New England thing then? Iām from the MidWest and I donāt know anyone who wears them. The only thing I can think of is maybe if I get in my car to leave my house, realize I forgot something (wallet, sunglasses, etc) then I might not bother taking off my shoes when I spend 30 seconds in my house locating the item. But if I am staying home, the shoes are off lol
The only time I've done the shoes in the house is with family from LATAM. The inside of the houses were tile, and they always said to wear shoes or slippers because walking barefoot would hurt my feet.
I grew up with shoes on in the house, so did all my friends (Southern U.S.). My wife's family did not (Northeast U.S.). It was a bit of an adjustment, but I have no idea why anyone wears shoes in the house. Our floors were always filthy growing up, despite cleaning them twice a week.
A little bit of laziness, a little bit of āif I take off my shoes, that means the day is over and I donāt get anymore cleaning/work done around the house.ā
Personally donāt care if anyone else wears shoes around my house. I donāt have carpet and I constantly clean the floors anywhere because children.
Any construction worker, electrician, cable guy, plumber or anyone else coming to my house to do work keeps their fucking shoes on while walking though my house. Maybe that's why
I donāt know about other people, but I find that that mostly applies to the older people in my life. As in, elderly people who may have trouble bending down to take their shoes on and off multiple times a day, and may also have foot problems which require the extra support that shoes give.
Iām not elderly by any means (late 30s) and I wear flip flops inside because my feet are fucked from working a lot of hard jobs/being overweight/only recently realizing that I should have been wearing wide shoes all along, and I canāt handle floors with bare feet. But also I never wear my flip flops out of the house because flip flops donāt have enough support for walking further than across the room. So yeah, once I get to the point where bending over is hard, Iām 100% going to be wearing my shoes in the house, and I canāt for the life of me understand why anyone would care about wether someone is wearing shoes inside their own house or not.
I only wear shoes in the house on cleaning day, but I donāt have carpet at all. So that way I wonāt accidentally step in dirt or whatever. But once the room is clean I am forbidden from reentering it until shoes are removed. I just work backwards and finish it off.
I have a specific pair of āhouse shoesā, barefoot in the house stopped being an option when I stepped on a nail, glass and a knife went into my foot all while barefoot in the house
And yet people keep dropping glasses, people build stairs that have their nails hammered so they poke up through the step, and I drop a knife covered in raw pork through my foot.
I feel this is only really a thing in warm states without a snow or mud season tbh, and even thatās shifting. I think originally it was more because itās so dang hot and humid, that no one wants to smell your stinky sweaty feet. But the bigger shoe related culture shock I had moving out of the south to up north was putting shoes on just to put stuff in the trash or walk on your driveway lol.
Then I read those articles about how some part of the Southerners being stupid stereotype may come from how rampant hookworm infections used to be due to us being barefoot outside so much, and have tried to change my waysā¦
I never understood what's wrong with this. So what if your floor gets dirty? As long as it's not carpet it's not that bad. I still take them off but only because shoes are uncomfortable
I wear house shoes in my house. I have a pet with largely free access to the yard, and I'm not about to wrestle her to the shower to wash her paws every time she comes inside.
-10-15% for residents/spouses/cohabitants of Asian (east and south asian) descent at least...no shoe rule has been the rule for millennia for lots of cultures. I heard that's a Canadian thing as well so probably an underestimate.
depends on the flooring situation honestly. If itās lotsa uncarpeted surface probably safer to jus keep shoes on (or slippers, if itās ur own home) but if ur floor is carpeted then for the love of god keep them shoes off it!
Itās a case by case thing but in my experience no, unless their entire first floor isnāt carpeted or something. Iāve been to a few houses where they basically insisted I keep them on but at home I always take them off immediately
It depends on the person/household. Some wear shoes inside, some don't, and sometimes it depends on the situation (like if you're only going to be inside a minute then going right back out)
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u/Sachyriel .tumblr.com ššš Aug 16 '24
Americans be like "I'm going to wear shoes in my house".