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In your home: Shoes or no shoes?
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I pretty much always take my shoes off when I am home because
1) It's more comfortable
2) My mom is a crazy clean freak. Not quite OCD, but its pretty annoying. I'm not allowed to hang any type of poster in my room unless it is framed. Everything in my house always has to be just so. I go to other peoples houses and they don't seem to be nearly concerned with having their house be immaculate.
When guests come over, I don't make them take off their shoes. Usually they will on their own, especially in the winter.
At my best friends house I never take off my shoes because no one in his family ever does, and I am basically their 2nd child
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1) It's more comfortable
2) My mom is a crazy clean freak. Not quite OCD, but its pretty annoying. I'm not allowed to hang any type of poster in my room unless it is framed. Everything in my house always has to be just so. I go to other peoples houses and they don't seem to be nearly concerned with having their house be immaculate.
When guests come over, I don't make them take off their shoes. Usually they will on their own, especially in the winter.
At my best friends house I never take off my shoes because no one in his family ever does, and I am basically their 2nd child
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i don't know what it has to do with asian since everybody around here is doing it at home (unless it's a party on hard floor or older people who would have trouble with putting shoes off and on all the time)
i only walk in if i realize if i forgotten something like my mobile phone or switching of the light somewhere in the house etc.
walking around the own house or flat only in shoes would be really weird
i only walk in if i realize if i forgotten something like my mobile phone or switching of the light somewhere in the house etc.
walking around the own house or flat only in shoes would be really weird
We're barefoot most of the time. Visitors the nice ones notice and offer to do the same. But I never enforce the "rule"
I just prefer to be barefoot.
I just prefer to be barefoot.
We're barefoot most of the time. Visitors the nice ones notice and offer to do the same. But I never enforce the "rule"
I just prefer to be barefoot.
workers have the most dirty boots, and they never insist on taking them off, so in that case, i would enforce the rule.
one company worker did decline but his company provides over the shoe plastic bag things (kinda like a shower cap), so that was quite decent of them.
No rules here either, guests can do as they please with their shoes. The entryway and living room is hardwood so it's not a big deal if something gets tracked in. We're a top floor flat though, most junk gets wiped off on the way up the stairs. If it were all carpeted I might feel differently.
I usually take my shoes off but that's just because I hate wearing shoes.
If it were all carpeted I might feel differently. I usually take my shoes off but that's just because I hate wearing shoes.
I don't wear shoes, not because of dirt, but because to me it's more comfortable to be free of shoes on your feet
Carpets! I hate wall-to-wall carpets!
Especially in houses with pets. Nice rugs (washable) on timber or tiled floors are so much nicer. Worst is a carpeted bathroom. SO hygienic... 
I tend to be shoes-off in the summer, shoes-on in the winter. Saves on heating/AC. We have a cleaning service to keep things clean.
no shoes at home or work (well, i put them back on when i go outside my office ). sometimes when it's cold i'll wear some fuzzy slippers or something.
i don't make people remove their shoes when they come to my house because the usually seem to do it anyway. my parents don't, but they normally don't come to visit when it's snowing or raining, so it's not a big deal.
). sometimes when it's cold i'll wear some fuzzy slippers or something.i don't make people remove their shoes when they come to my house because the usually seem to do it anyway. my parents don't, but they normally don't come to visit when it's snowing or raining, so it's not a big deal.
kids = shoes off
me = shoes off
wife = shoes on --- she stubs her toes often.
As other people have stated, it is more for comfort than anything. In fact, it
can be dangerous to walk on the second floor, because the floor is in need of
repair. Watch out for the splinters!
Company can make their own decisions!
me = shoes off
wife = shoes on --- she stubs her toes often.
As other people have stated, it is more for comfort than anything. In fact, it
can be dangerous to walk on the second floor, because the floor is in need of
repair. Watch out for the splinters!
Company can make their own decisions!
At my current place, it is shoes off at the door. When I move into my condo in October/November, it might be different. I'll be on the 8th floor, so there'll be plenty of room to wipe off all the shoe crap on the carpets before you get to my front door.
White Karastan carpets and fine marble floors - no outdoor shoes. Soft leather slippers available for all.
I grew up in a shoes on household but the floor was always dirty (though I really didn't notice it as a kid). In my home now we are a shoes off at the door family. It is more comfortable and cleaner. When others come to visit we enjoy it if they follow suit but we do not enforce the rule.
Take 'em off
As is the custom in Japan, the shoes come off and are kept in a cupboard in the entrance area.
Traditionally this was because Japanese houses usually had flooring made of tatami.
And tatami can be hell to clean after dirty shoes take a walk all over them - especially given the crap on the streets here and the fact most people dont drive to-and-fro from work and trek this into houses.
Most houses now have wooden flooring called flooring but shoes still get removed...
As is the custom in Japan, the shoes come off and are kept in a cupboard in the entrance area.
Traditionally this was because Japanese houses usually had flooring made of tatami.
And tatami can be hell to clean after dirty shoes take a walk all over them - especially given the crap on the streets here and the fact most people dont drive to-and-fro from work and trek this into houses.
Most houses now have wooden flooring called flooring but shoes still get removed...
definitely a shoes off person... it feels wrong to have them on when lounging around the house... definitely a comfort factor mixed with doing it for so long. the only time that this was a problem was a long time ago when i was at my sisters house and we were going sledding in the snow, but I couldn't because I got a splinter from the wood floor... but still take them off every chance i got
the rule isn't enforced because of the already disgusting carpeting and the fact that we are moving very soon. after we move the rule might be different and we may be more conscientious of our own shoes.... please let us find a place with a mud room or place by the door to store shoes/coats
the rule isn't enforced because of the already disgusting carpeting and the fact that we are moving very soon. after we move the rule might be different and we may be more conscientious of our own shoes.... please let us find a place with a mud room or place by the door to store shoes/coats
When I'm in my own home, close friends' homes, or family's home, I always take my shoes off.
If I'm a guest in someone else's home, or guests are visiting for a few hours that aren't good friends, I keep my shoes on.
If I'm a guest in someone else's home, or guests are visiting for a few hours that aren't good friends, I keep my shoes on.
At my house, it doesn't really matter. I prefer to take my shoes off when I'm at home though, because it's much more comfortable. Sometimes during the warmer days I take my socks off as well, and walk around in my bare feet.