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In your home: Shoes or no shoes?
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No shoes, Doghair on the floor is enough to worry about, don't need dirt and mud to go along with it.
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ahem.. Unless it's boots, or wet shoes the shoes pretty much stay on. Although, I have to admit we each have our "around the house" shoes and then "going out" shoes. I'd prefer shoes off, but in our house that wouldn't really work.
ahem.. Unless it's boots, or wet shoes the shoes pretty much stay on. Although, I have to admit we each have our "around the house" shoes and then "going out" shoes. I'd prefer shoes off, but in our house that wouldn't really work.
Shoes on, for sure. Houses are meant to be walked around in, used, enjoyed, and cleaned regularly. Telling people to take their shoes off is like buying an expensive sports car and then driving it one day per week.
I don't put shoes on just to go inside, nor do I change into a different pair of shoes when I come inside - but if I'm wearing shoes when I go into the house, I generally leave them on until I have a compelling reason to take them off.
We have mats inside and outside each door into the house, where we wipe our feet when we come in. I don't generally trudge through mud when I'm outside; if my shoes end up muddy, I take them off before I come in.
Yes, my carpet gets dirty from time to time, and about once every 18 months or so I get the carpets cleaned - but the dirtiest spots are from where something spilled, not from where people have walked.
We have mats inside and outside each door into the house, where we wipe our feet when we come in. I don't generally trudge through mud when I'm outside; if my shoes end up muddy, I take them off before I come in.
Yes, my carpet gets dirty from time to time, and about once every 18 months or so I get the carpets cleaned - but the dirtiest spots are from where something spilled, not from where people have walked.
Well, I'm caucasian and we've always taken our shoes off at the door. Did it when I was a little kid at home and now at 56 we do it in my own home. Floors stay a lot cleaner. Here in Millis we have winter weather. Snow, mud, you name it. Just makes logical sense to take em off.
At home there are no enforced rules but I generally leave my shoes at the door. Most of the time in the summer, always in the winter. My parents leave their shoes on for the most part.
At my house at college, however, my shoes are always on. We have lots of people tracking dirt inside, no housecleaner like we have at home, parties quite often (beer, dirt, etc).
At my house at college, however, my shoes are always on. We have lots of people tracking dirt inside, no housecleaner like we have at home, parties quite often (beer, dirt, etc).
I was born without the "radar sense" that a lot of people seem to have that keeps them from stubbing toes. By contrast, my older sister would go barefoot outdoors in the suburban streets (this was the late 60s/early 70s when that was hip) and never get a scratch -- of course, with how dirty her feet got, who could tell?
I tend to keep my socks on, even when I slip my shoes off, unless it's really hot. At others' houses, I tend to keep my shoes on unless I'm staying overnight.
Just curious: to you, and those who leave their shoes at the door, do you only have one pair of shoes, or do you leave all your shoes at the door?
Actually, that tends to be exactly what people do with expensive sports cars. Only a masochist would use a high end sports car as a daily driver.
I usually leave the pair I'm using that day at the door, and if I anticipate being done with a pair, I put them away in the closet. We don't expect others to take their shoes off here, though. We just do it out of habit ourselves.
I usually have my shoes off around the house, unless my feet get cold. Then I will slip on something. It's no big rule or anything, I just never see a reason to wear shoes inside. Plus, I am a huge static electricity conductor, and I get zapped all the time when I wear shoes inside.
We don't have a family rule, but around the house we don't wear shoes unless we are preparing to go somewhere. When guests come over they leave their shoes on as opposed to taking them off. We are not one of those families that takes off their shoes at the door, but I know people who are like that and when at their home I have always respected their wishes.
I wear my Birkenstocks around the house no matter how cold it is outside. We have cats that simply cannot keep the food in the bowl, if you know what I mean.
But theres usually a difference between outdoors and indoors. Out has mud, dirt and all that and inside has vacuum cleaners and carpets.
... and kids crawling about on the floor, too. Won't somebody think of the children?
I've never really understood why it's so bad. I can understand not driving in socks because you don't want your feet sliding around on the pedals, but what's the problem with barefoot?