Comment on How does the day-to-day work of not wearing shoes in the house?

• Syd@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I still wear a light jacket inside often as I keep the place between 60-65. Stopped wearing shoes inside as I hate cleaning. That’s how I was raised though, and wearing shoes inside isn’t terribly uncommon here. Maybe it’s a regional thing, maybe a class thing, but people asking you to take off your shoes when you visit is way less common than not. I have to ask people to take off their shoes when they come over and it’s considered bougie.

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  • Sylvartas@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Interesting. Here in France the “bourgeois” thing is usually to not have your guests take their shoes off inside (because you’re not the one doing the cleaning later)

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    • Syd@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ya might be interested to know that “bougie” is an American slang term pronounced “boo-zhee” that refers to someone acting high class that isn’t. That’s really interesting though, how common are housekeepers in France?

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      • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Bougie is derived from bourgeoisie, and would mean the same thing, as in a bourgeoisie would let you walk in the house with dirty shoes since he’s the lord of the manor and cleaning is why he has servants.

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      • Sylvartas@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Old-timey style housekeepers are basically only a thing for the ultra rich, but hiring someone to clean your house and/or do some laundry is quite common in the upper middle class

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  • aStonedSanta@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh wow. That’s interesting as hell to me. Are you in America? I was born in Midwest lived in south and back in Midwest. I had one friend whose house I didn’t have to take shoes off at and I uh didn’t cause their carpet was gross… lol

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    • Syd@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah I’m in the US, fahrenheit probably gives that away, always lived in more rural communities too.

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