Submitted 1 month ago by Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to [deleted]
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Come into my house with shoes on and you’ll be lucky to leave alive
Well this makes me more proud to be a Canadian.
Buuut, I’m noticing a pattern. If it’s a very dry country then I guess you have less chance of mud and are more likely to wear your shoes inside.
American here. My childhood home was completely covered in thick carpet, except the entryway and the kitchen, which was laminate tile. Yes, even the bathroom was carpeted. My bedroom literally had shag carpet.
My family always wore shoes indoors. And then wondered why the carpet was discolored, worn, and tearing in places.
I spent 20 years traveling the world after becoming an adult and learned about many other cultures who took off shoes before entering homes. Now I feel weird wearing shoes even in the entryway.
By the way, I’m retired now and living back in my childhood home, which I inherited when my father passed away. The whole place has been re-carpeted, the bathroom and dining room floors have been swapped out for laminate/wood paneling, and when I get around to remodeling the living rooms, I’ll probably switch them to wood floors as well.
I love that you got your childhood home back.
I always dreamed of getting my childhood home back but it’s just not in the cards. It was a beautiful acreage - the house sucked, but the property was what made it great. We had about 15 40 ft spruce trees in our yard, a dogwood hedge that would grow from 5 ft to 8 ft if you turned your back on it for more than 3 days (lol), tons of Aspen for a young Shovel to stomp around in, and a slough in the back for said Shovel to catch woodfrogs.
We sold to move into town a few years after my parents split.
Some dickhead moved in, built a big barn thing on one side of the property and cut the bottom branches of a lot of the spruce trees which ruined a lot of the privacy the place had.
I always wanted to move back, rip the house down and build my own house on it. Instead, I moved my young family to a small town about 15 minutes from where I grew up. I still get the country feel and the connection with the landscape I longed for, even though it’s not exactly the same, and we have a new-build house.
I guess I did ok.
Our house is not as clean as I want it, but, if we wore shoes in the house it would be way worse. We have a family member that lives next door and is constantly walking around our house with shoes and it drives me nuts. If they weren’t so helpful I’d say something.
Living in Ohio (midwest U.S) its not entirely a yes or no and more of a “it depends”. Ive noticed older people assume shoes on but anyone under 40 will either ask or assume shoes off at the door. Theres also a layer of midwest nice to the whole exchange of not wanting to inconvenience the other person, so you get situations where a party will start with everyone wearing shoes, but end with everyone shoeless.
Older people have a much harder time taking on and off shoes so it makes more sense that they leave them on all the time. The same is true for overweight people. (Although I would have thought the old people definition would be >60 not >40)
This is so incorrect it’s funny. Shoes off in UK? When everyone has fucking carpets?
You walk with shoes on carpets??
They got it wrong in the message — uk is shoes off on the map (and no one wears shoes inside!)
What does this comment even mean?
I was so outraged, I typed off.
Hello shoes off gang, do you enjoy spreading your filthy mold spore colonies from other people’s feet to your floor where it can spread to everyone else? Because that’s how you spread athlete’s foot. Indoor slippers gang rise up
I will never let you in my home.
Ever heard of socks?
Oh, look at you. You have shoes AND slippers. Show off.
Socks stay on in someone else’s home lol
in the tropics you’d be lucky to find someone wearing shoes outside
Shoes on the main floor are ok but not upstairs
Tell me you don’t know anything about the US without telling me.
Not true. Over 44% of you guys like boots inside on so you can continue to lick them. Hence the map accuracy. The remaining percentage didn’t care to vote or had too strict a purity test to rally enough consensus to kick out the boot lovers.
well at least your bio is accurate
Slippers don’t count as shoes.
im not trying to be negative, im happy for anyone enjoying this post. but i do feel compelled to comment that i find it hilarious that we are out here discussing, and dare i say “arguing” about this topic in particular. thank you all, good day.
Shoes ok downstairs, but usually off except for if I’m about to go out and roaming about finding things. Guests do what they prefer and I usually mention it’s fine to leave them if they prefer. I think the fact that I have dogs is important. My floor normally has paw prints and hair so I wouldn’t expect a person to take off their shoes downstairs, it’s pretty much like the dogs leave their shoes on spoiling it for everyone.
I want someone to overlay the map of countries that still use TP instead if water. Then we will know the real barbarians. \s
If you wear your shoes in the house, you are a a less-than
How the hell did Canada become a shoes off country when it’s not only surrounded by shoes on but also both of its major contributing cultural influences (UK and France) are supposedly shoes on?
Our outdoors can be very mucky and wet and very dry and dusty depending in the season. Polite northern folk are clean, and we like to keep our hosts houses clean too. Shoes on is considered quite rude. During the summer we allow for short walk throughs with dry shoes on, but you ask first if its ok. House slippers are common but not everyone wears them, up here it’s a “socks or slippers” debate.
This is exactly it. I’m mostly in the sock camp, and only wear slippers at my computer in the basement.
Bare feet is somehow almost as bad as shoes, the only caveat is if you show up in sandals
I don’t know for UK, but France is not a full shoes inside society. It really depends where you live, and probably when.
I have shoes I wear specifically in the house I broke my ankle a couple years ago and ever since, walking without shoes has been uncomfortable and even painful. So I have inside shoes and outside shoes.
You get a pass. That’s a legit reason
Hooray!
Where do slippers fall on this? I’m a shoes off person, but in the winter I’ve started wearing slippers inside.
I wear slippers or socks. Bare feet are just as bad or worse than shoes because of oils and such from your feet.
Shoes stay at the door and showers are taken at night!
Yeah this shocked me coming to the Netherlands. Thing is, when everybody else is wearing shoes, you don’t wanna walk around in socks or barefoot cuz the floor gets nasty. It’s a vicious cycle
I feel like the US is very split on this.
Personally I have all hard floors and don’t care if someone has shoes on, but personally shoes in the house feels weird to me.
chanclas ftw
Dobles para defensa del hogar también
We wear shoes/slippers in the house. For 2 reasons
I have never been able to teach any of the dogs I’ve had to take their shoes off when they come in the house. So the floor is getting dirty anyway even as we speak. Sweeping and vacuuming happens more than once a week.
When you live in a place where the temperatures are below freezing for 6 months out of the year, your house cold soaks. So the floor is most likely going to feel uncomfortably cooler than people who live in a more temperate climate experience. And it doesn’t matter how well insulated or sealed your house is, it will cold soak. Slippers/shoes for the win.
In my society purple usually don’t get their shoes off at home. We did this thing of using specific shoes at home as a compromise. Works pretty well, it’s not that I wouldn’t like a shoes off policy, but it can get too cold to stand on uncarpeted floors.
I have a friend who is shoes off. I respect his wishes at his home but I’d hate to live like that.
Is there a particular reason why you wear shoes inside? Does that feel comfortable?
I’m not the person you are responding to, but I am a fellow shoes-oner. I find the soles of my shoes to be way more comfortable than walking on the ground. Like I go to shoes-off homes and they have these foam mats on the floor in their kitchen and it’s like “imagine those foam mats were on the bottom of your feet and went with you everywhere”. Additionally I live in a place where it gets cold. Cold feet suck.
Now before the “well then wear slippers” gang comes in. I have tried that. The soles of slippers pale in comparison to whatever the fuck my Allbirds are made out of. Additionally, slippers are often TOO warm. I don’t want cold feet, but I also don’t want sweaty feet.
If I have to wear boots or larger/warmer shoes because of snow/rain, I will absolutely take those off at the door. But when I take them off, I am putting on my Allbirds.
For me, ultimate foot comfort is my sneakers. I’ll take my shoes off if you have a shoes off home, but I’m not going to enjoy it.
I don’t always wear shoes inside. I’ll typically walk around bare foot between waking up and showering but I won’t take my shoes on & off constantly if i’m entering and leaving the home during the day. Although in the winter, shoes can be pretty critical defense against the cold flood.
I wish we were shoes off culture. I take my shoes off in my house but everyone else gets dog shit and chewing gum.
Mud room
Coming from shoes off culture I’m considering giving shoes on a shot. But I still don’t quite understand how it’s supposed to work. I assume you’re not that savage to get in bends in shoes, so are you supposed to keep them near the bed? And lace them every morning when you get up? Or use simpler footwear that doesn’t require lacing like crocs or something? Isn’t that then technically wearing slippers outside rather than wearing shoes inside?
It fascinates me that people care this much.
What. i live in the US, i never wear shoes on in the house, never have, unless im getting ready to go somewhere.
I don’t but my dad does. His excuse is that just wearing socks he always steps in something wet. To which I had to wonder “Why is stepping in wet shit such a common occurrence at your house?”
Think it comes down to percentages.
I agree it’s gross.
My FIL is not only shoes on in the house but I bed. Mfer sleeps in shoes. Needless to say his bed is disgusting.
What the fuck 😭
I worked with a guy who wore shoes every waking moment. The only time he didn’t was in bed or in the shower. Imagine waking up and first thing you do is throw on your new balance shoes.
tpihkal@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sandals when I’m inside. On rare occasions I’ll wear socks and house shoes, but that’s usually when I’m cleaning floors or something wet.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
I could get behind sandals. I had back issues for years and sometimes the only thing that helped when I was in the kitchen were slippers with a good rubber sole. Even then it kind of felt like kissing your sister - kinda good, but the good didn’t out weigh the moral shame