My lifestyle necessitates being able to go outside at a moment’s notice.
It’s a cultural thing. In Poland because of the climate, central heating and probably some other habits everyone has a carpet so you take your shoes off because carpets are hard to clean. In Spain because of the climate you don’t have carpets because stone floors help cool the apartment down. Bare stone floors are easy to clean and are cold during winter so you keep your shoes on.
Even in more tropical countries it’s healthier to take off your shoes so place in which you sleep and eat is not filled with dust and dirt. I’d say it’s mostly cultural heritage and a bad one at that. I’ve been into many more tropical countries than Spain where people take their shoes off all the same and their winters don’t drop below 18°C.
Why is it bad to culturally take your shoes off? I am from Hawaii and we always take our shoes off. I think it’s cleaner and a good cultural practice here.
Cultural not to take your shoes off and is bad. Taking them off is clearly better.
I have house shoes (that I only wear inside) because orthotics don’t fit in slippers
Orthotics are probably no better than a placebo for some conditions.
“Conclusions: Foot orthoses are not superior for improving pain and function compared with sham or other conservative treatment in patients with PHP.”
After talking to my GP and talking to the specialist she recommended, this was the treatment plan that we decided on and it’s been working well. Thank you for your assumptions and condescension.
Dog pee.
Id like to add dog poo in the form of mud and dirt tracked in from the backyard during the 6 months it rains nonstop where im at
I live in the PNW and have dogs, so I feel your pain.
These days I just try to get them to step in the puddles for some kind of rinse before they come in the house. Lol
In Ireland it’s quite common to just wear your shoes indoor - never quite understood it myself.
Irish here, have always worn shoes in the house. I moved to the US in my twenties and it seems to be about a 50/50 mix of shoes worn indoors or not. Personally, I’d be stubbing my toes all the time if I was only in socks.
What do you do, walk around kicking things in your house?
i have big clown feet and a small, cluttered house.
Wearing no shoes, I’d argue, is more natural than always wearing shoes.
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Leftover habit from never having bare feet touch the ground from my army days.
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Kids leave and drop things all over house (Lego bricks).
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I wear huge clown shoes. No room near the door to leave them.
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Shoes off to flip-flops on. Feet feel protected.
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Because sometimes I do chores that require me to be outside? And I’m constantly going in and out, carrying things back and forth, moving tools from the shed to the garage, to the kitchen to hang a shelf, and back outside to put them away? When I do yard work I get sweaty and need a drink of water, and don’t feel like taking off my shoes or boots just to go inside for 30 seconds and then put them back on to go back out and continue working.
All my Asian friends houses have piles of shoes by the front door and piles of shoes just outside the back door for situations like this.
Yeah fuck undoing my laces for the 20 seconds inside. Cleaning up afterwards can be more efficient depending on what you’re doing.
You only have one pair of shoes? Or do all the shoes you buy have laces that take half a minute to undo?
Maybe invest in something else, like crocks or something.
Crocs don’t do well in wet sadly. But it honestly depends on what im doing, if i know I’ll be in and out the house a lot taking a single path and cleaning that is just easier.
I’m not sure what the problem is when you work in slippers or crocs. I often am barefoot at home but sometimes when it’s cold or when I do something that involves water I put on house slippers. When I go outside of the apartment to get the post, to the basement, to the trash, or the balcony, or the garden, I slip out of them and in another set of slippers that are used solely for “outside”. This takes like 2 seconds.
And for the water drink when you do yard work, maybe bring a bottle? Might save you even more time than running back and forth to put water in a glass.
Also, I don’t know your life, but I doubt that you hang shelves in your kitchen on a daily basis. But I mean, you do you.
You’d be amazed how much work some people do on a daily basis. Also my backyard is currently a swamp, and slippers would not last me a week of working in my garden, even if it were good weather. But you do you.
Every time someone ends a statement with a question mark I read it in the voice of David from Schitt’s Creek?
Because I have multiple doors in my house which lead outside. I normally take my shoes off when I come inside, but sometimes I come in one door and then want to leave via a different door only to realise my shoes are at the other end of the house.
pair of slippers and flip-flops that stay indoors, just for indoors. I just hate getting bits of whatever stuck to my socks/feet in between sweeping sessions. Though after a good sweep, I will do a stride of pride sans socks/shoes, just to feel how clean the floor is
Because we want to. It’s our house. We can do what we want.
So, how often do you wash the floors?
He washes them when he wants, okay?
I have bad plantar fasciitis so I wear special old person orthotic shoes. And most of my house is hardwood so generally if I’m on my feet I’ll wear my shoes inside to prevent foot pain.
🤷🏻♀️ It’s not like I don’t wipe my feet off on the doormat rug
You’re the only guy I understand here. The plantar fasciitis can definitely be painful without the shoes/orthotics. But for me, even that can’t negate the discomfort of being constrained in hot sweaty shoes all day
You ever banged you toe on something, and you’re also telling me you never thought ‘this wouldn’t be a problem if I has shoes on’?
Do you ever learn from your mistakes? /s
This problem is solved by slippers™
I keep stubbing my toe and it’s easier to go outside
Because we have dogs, cats, surprises and cold floors.
Tried slippers?
Slippers are just shoes for inside
Without all the crud from the outside.
I have inside crocs and outside crocs, checkmate.
Feet smell bad and are gross
Wearing shoes traps the sweat in and marinates your foot in it. Shoes are why feet smell bad in the first place.
Not really…
The smell is more due to fungus digesting the protein from dead skin, not just because of shoes. If you keep your feet clean and wear a fresh pair of socks with your shoes, fungus can’t really grab hold.
Yes but feet still smell bad when you take your shoes
