Come into my house with shoes on and you’ll be lucky to leave alive
UK and east Europe are you sure? Don’t think a place where rain is just the weather that makes sense
Buncha weirdoes ITT. As soon as I get in the door, my house or yours, you can bet I’m stripping down to just my shoes and nothing else.
Fuck society and their oppressive insistence on wearing “pants”.
Clothes are a cage!
Some.people are into caring their genitals…
Thank you, I hadn’t seen that before!
I gotta say it’s one of the benefits of kids being at college - everything constricting comes off as I walk in the door, there’s no one’s objection to consider. You might not want to make a surprise visit unless you’re ok with seeing me in my underwear
In what backwards and uncultured shithole do you have shoes on in the house? That’s filthy.
I prefer shoes off, but I have dogs that track so much dirt and filth in so what’s the point 😭
Wipe their paws off at the door. Your dogs will thank you.
If you don’t already have a mudroom then designate a room as the mudroom.
For us that is the kitchen. The dog goes right to the kitchen which is cleaned daily. Only after the dog sits around and it falls off do we let the dog into the rest of the house.
It makes a very nice buffer.
Shoes off inside the house is only really useful when one has shoes on, when outside.
Get your dogs some shoes.
I have no idea why anyone would want to wear shoes in the house.
It’s so constricting and unnecessary. Do y’all not clean your floors? Do you feel like your floors are gross and shouldn’t be touching your bare feet?
When you lay on the couch do you need to take your shoes off and then put them back on when you get up to go make a snack in the kitchen?
Makes zero sense to me
What if you have to quickly go inside and grab something? Do you take your shoes off for that or just walk inside?
Shoes are ok inside they’re not mandatory
Moved to a shoes off country over a decade ago.
That’s EXACTLY what I do.
Do you take your shoes off for that or just walk inside?
Yeah shoes off. It’s a pain in the butt.
However, you often wear shoes that are easier to take off / put on.
Also, you just learn to really check that you’ve got everything before you put your shoes on.
I have a pair of slip-ons I’ll throw on when i need a quick trip outside
I take one off and hop. Or throw a rug on the floor and shuffle.
I got in and out of my house about 50 times per day, and my feet are size 13.5s, so all my shoes are tight (they don’t make most shoes in anything larger than 13s). Plus my back isn’t what it once was. If I had to bend over and take my shoes off 50 times a day, I’d actually lose it, “it” being my L3-4 disc.
Whereas, litereally nothing bad has ever happened to me because I wear shoes in the house. It’s all some hypothetical … I don’t know what exactly. Grossness? Is grossness hurting me?
Tell you what’s ‘gross,’ as a thought exercise tho - walking around barefooted where my dogs and cats walk barefooted, they’re not exactly wearing shoes outside, or in the litterbox, nor are they putting a handkerchief down under their assholes when they sit down.
But a pair of flip-flops for in the house plus floor cleaning regularly… I don’t really worry about it either way. IDK why anyone does.
IDK why anyone does.
My floors are dirty enough without wearing shoes inside. Shoes would make it ten times worse. Shoes are uncomfortable. And I don’t want to turn my socks black because my floors are so dirty.
Being a cripple makes yours very specific circumstances. Most people can bend over at will with no ill effects.
Laced shoes are a pita to flip on and off. If you’re in a dry area there’s no reason to take off your shoes.
If you can wear sandals, or it’s a wet sloppy environment, then yeah it makes sense to take them off at the door.
I mean, if you’re doing yard work or something understandable to leave your shoes on in your own home if you’re coming inside for a snack or to grab something etc I do that all the time.
But like, if I invite someone over to hang out for a few hours I expect them to take their shoes off tying the laces isn’t that complicated.
And if I am taking the day off and don’t really need to leave the house for any reason I won’t even touch my shoes I’m going to be barefoot or in slippers all God damn day.
?! You wear your yard work shoes in the house? Those usually come off before I go inside even if it is a quick grab n go.
Only if it’s a quick trip <3 minutes after using a boot scraper and brush. Unless I know I’ve stepped in something particularly sticky like mud.
Edit: and only if it’s my own home, not someone else’s
Being barefoot is a luxury not everyone has. Combine that with not being able to wear slip on shoes and it’s a bit of a bigger problem.
I can get it for some environments. For example in central Asia, coming from a nomadic lifestyle and living in yurts (big tents) it’s totally understandable to keep your shoes on. Maybe the building style is a continuation of the yurt and lends to similar choices.
I was once in Paraguay and their buildings typically don’t have a hallway, every room is accessible from the outside. Most of their life is also spent outside, like cooking and eating. It’s nice weather for most of the year, why not.
But for European style weather and houses, I will always take my shoes off.
I live in America.
If you don’t take your shoes off in my house my wife will scatter your dismembered body across the hillside for the animals to feed on.
Shoes on is fine… if you live in a barn.
As with most things. If America does it one way, then it’s probably the wrong way.
America does it both ways, so…
In this case, America does it two ways.
Shoes off, you filthy animal
The US one should be stripped, it varies state to state
The US is a nation of immigrants, so it depends on the host’s culture of origin. So it varies from house to house.
Striped, yeah
I prefer the other spelling
I am Australian and we are a shoes off household - don’t care if you wanna have shoes on in the house but why would you wanna wear shoes in the house?
We barely wear shoes in public let alone in the house - shoes are just foot prisons, barefoot is best
I appreciate you not wearing shoes but please put on the house slippers. Also please switch from house slippers to toilet slippers, and switch to the garden slippers when you go into the garden. Please make sure to not mix up the slippers, it will upset my family.
Yeah. I’m “barefoot shoes” on outside for the minimal amount of time necessary, and off as soon as I can manage it. If it’s summer and I’m in a park, I take them off so I can walk on the grass with bare feet. If I’m at someone else’s house hanging out outside, you bet my shoes are already off. If it’s winter and I’m at a movie, I’m not leaving my feet in winter boots rated to -30C for the whole 2 hours.
UK is shoes ON. Canada definitely shoes OFF. US is shoes ON, drives me nuts seeing tv show characters hop on the BED with shoes on. 😡😡😡
The US is shoes OFF most of the time. Hollywood is just filled with sociopaths.
Speaking of Hollywood, it was a Japanese movie that made me realize how ironclad their “shoes off” rule is, compared to ours.
Where I live, it’s shoes off, but nobody’s going to bat an eye if you forget something inside and keep your shoes on while you go back and get it. Even if your shoes are dirty, as long as you clean up the mess you made when you get back, it’s no big deal. So, it’s shoes off, but it’s not like there’s a special zone by the door where you must switch footwear and you must never wear shoes after that point.
So, what I saw when I watched the Japanese horror movie “The Ring” surprised me. It was a movie where people were running in terror, they were out of their minds in fear, but even in that state, when entering a house / apartment, they’d still take off their shoes. For me, as a westerner, it was really distracting to see someone take the time to observe that shoes on / shoes off rule even in a state of utter panic. But, the reason they did it that way is that for a Japanese audience, it would have completely broken their suspension of disbelief if someone entered a house / apartment and didn’t remove their shoes.
I used to believe art could be used to gaze into the zeitgeist of their production times.
Then I realized what you have just said. If someone in the future looks at hollywood productions, they’ll have very wrong ideas about how people live nowadays. Like, it will be comically wrong. You could throw a dice to select a verb from a dictionary and you’d be more correct.
There’s an idea among foreigners that Americans use Mayo in every meal. It’s because there’s a set prop list for refrigerators in productions that every sitcom uses.
Another example is the Transatlantic accent. At most, it was just used by actors and public announcers because it was clear and easy to understand. The general public didn’t talk like that.
Can confirm, US is mixed, mostly off in my area. I’d be curious to see this broken down by state.
I’m in the US and shoes off inside.
Heres the thing tho, do slippers count as shoes?
House shoes are not shoes
Yeah maybe the dude is in the interior? Anywhere near the coast is shoes off
Places with diversity, basically. You visit a Japanese friend and realize how much better that is, lol.
That, and have you seen interior people’s floors? The shoes are sometimes cleaner, oof.
yeah, last time i visited the statesian interior (utah), the floors inside were cleaner than the floors outside until you got to my buddy’s home who used to live someplace civilized. so i get your point.
I’m kind of poking fun as a Missouri friend of mine who had dogs who came and went outside freely. Obviously when you’ve got animals coming and going, the floor gets really dusty and dirty.
California is shoes on in my experience.
Whoever says Greece is shoes on, I’ll spit in their coffee.
tbf, greece is so small that I can’t see the colour on the map.
The only thing this map tells me is “Fuck the Colorblind”
What a shit map
Hello my brother.
Shoes on is just gross and disgusting.
