Wearing ahoes is just less comfortable. For those that wear shoes at home, when do you put them on? When you get out of bed? Before you go to the bathroom or eat breakfast?
It just seems weird sitting at home by yourself watching TV with your shoes on. I have my shoes by the door and i put them on when I go out and take them off when I come in, just like with my coat.
I never have taken my shoes off. But when I see shoes by the door, I take mine off. It's THEIR house! I respect their rules for their house!!!
Yeah, their house their rules. I don't have this rule, I have enough sense to not go around wading through mud, dirt, and feces. I assume other adults do too.
Unless someone is literally vacuuming your sidewalks then your shoes are dirty and you're gross. Have some standards.
That’s because you should know better and take them off without being told like a five-year-old. In what situation would anyone ever need shoes INSIDE a house? Shoes are for outside, are you going for a run or walking over dangerous terrain in the house?
hats off to the 'murican who thinks he leads the pack by having been in 6 countries outside the us. mind you he probably counts canada, ,mexico, and hawaii.
the other three are likely the uk.
Actually turns out to be seven countries where I've been in homes and maybe fourteen more where I haven't. Mexico is not on the list. I have been in people's homes in Hawaii, but Hawaii as a country? How did you come up with that? And how does the UK count as "the other three?"
A significant percentage of Americans are technically hillbillies. Also, I would venture to guess there is a lot of overlap between people that don’t take off their shoes in a person’s home (including their own) and Trump supporters.
Do you think that Baltimore, Philly, Gary, Compton, and Oakland type Dem supporters take their shoes off when they go inside? You know the answer.
hats off to the 'murican who thinks he leads the pack by having been in 6 countries outside the us. mind you he probably counts canada, ,mexico, and hawaii.
Since 1922, the United Kingdom comprises three constituent countries: England, Scotland, and Wales (which collectively make up Great Britain), as well as Northern Ireland (variously described as a country, province, jurisdict...
I have a short leg, so I wear shoes all day, otherwise I'd be walking around like the leaning tower of Pisa.
Also, I go in and out of the house a lot. That would get really annoying taking them off and putting them on all the time. Does no one else leave their house?
Also, if you have PF you're supposed to never go barefoot. I don't know if that's for real, but that would be another reason to wear shoes inside.
Shoes were invented to protect your feet and keep them clean. Unless you have rocks and pieces of broken glass on your floor you don't need shoes in your house.
Look at all the dirty people on this thread who wear either dirty shoes or sweaty socks or germy feet around the house.
I have a bathroom (well, kinda) next to the front door with a full sanitation pod. Feet to hair all made immaculate by a glorious steam cleaning. Clothes get burned, of course, with a fresh set of plain white 100% Andean wool -soft as a baby's bottom, but, you know, clean - clothes. Top it all off with a UV flash to incinerate any germs left over.
This process is also repeated every time I or a guest should happen to use the bathroom.
Regarding containment breaches, the whole house can convert itself into an incinerator, so I leave, press the button, then can go in again to my 'reset' abode. I also like to do a reset monthly even if there are no breaches just because some particles of dust do happen to be smaller than the sensors can recognize. I'm still working to improve those sensors...
A significant percentage of Americans are technically hillbillies. Also, I would venture to guess there is a lot of overlap between people that don’t take off their shoes in a person’s home (including their own) and Trump supporters.
No, my lord and savior told me to put bleach on my feet when I enter a home.
After you step in dog crap, vomit, smashed up worms, and whatever else is outside on the ground, I don't want you tracking it into my living room carpet or onto my furniture (because I know you'll put the feet on the furniture if you'll wear shoes in the house).
When I lived in Japan, they went a step further: you didn't just take shoes off in the house, you wore a separate set of shoes (technically, flip flops) only in the house; no bare feet.
I also think it’s courteous if you’re a man to pee sitting down when in someone else’s home. Otherwise your pee is splashing all over their toilet rim and bathroom floor. Gross!
I told my cellmate in prison he better piss sitting down. He was my wife for 7 years.
I've been in homes in six countries outside the US and was never asked to remove my shoes.
I don't want to have to ask you to remove your shoes. But I appreciate if a guest shows their host some common courtesy by asking me if I would like them to take their shoes off before just barging in.
That’s because you should know better and take them off without being told like a five-year-old. In what situation would anyone ever need shoes INSIDE a house? Shoes are for outside, are you going for a run or walking over dangerous terrain in the house?
So I should have taken my shoes off even when the people living in the house were wearing shoes?
Wearing shoes inside is just like wearing sunglasses inside, there is no purpose being served. But at least sunglasses don’t track grime around the premises or scuff up the floors. If I went inside a house and everyone else was wearing sunglasses, I would still refrain from doing so indoors. Same with shoes. Can you explain, is it a safety issue, more comfortable for you to have shoes on, or something else? I’m genuinely curious what would induce someone to wear shoes inside a house.
I know an athlete that left their coach after 14 years. She claimed he laughed at her boundaries. When asked which boundaries she said "you didn't always take your shoes off in the house." He laughed, and by the way her house was always filthy.
We offer people slippers when they enter out house, so they can have comfortable footwear and don't troop sht into our house and onto our carpet.
Simples.
Sharing slippers is gross. The purpose of a floor is to get dirty. The thought that a floor needs to be kept clean at all costs seems weird to me. You sweep and vacuum when needed.
To each their own.
Im stunned by the upvotes and down votes. First post gets 19 ups, 0 downs. This one 10 ups and 40 down. Is this a self selecting thread where the people who approve of mandatnig you take your shoes off come to this thread or do most people really approve of it.
Wouldn't have someone walk around in your house in sweaty socks be even more hygenic if its the summer and super hot like it is now?
I've been in homes in six countries outside the US and was never asked to remove my shoes.
I don't want to have to ask you to remove your shoes. But I appreciate if a guest shows their host some common courtesy by asking me if I would like them to take their shoes off before just barging in.
It's so abnormal to take your shoes off in the world I've lived in that when I, and really everyone I know, go into someone's house it is never something I'd think of especially if the people who live in the house are wearing shoes, which has always been the case in my experience except in some very unusual circumstances. If you'd like me to take off my shoes but don't ask me to you've got only yourself to blame. I'm not a mind reader.
