Why does this keep coming up? Are there really an appreciable number of people who do this?
For me, I’m fine with whatever guests want to do (unless visibly wet or dirty) since they are temporary and short term. But otherwise I’ve never really had to ask, because it’s so common for taking off your shoes to just be the more comfortable. It’s actually one of my bigger dislikes for going back to the office, that now I have to wear shoes all day and it’s so uncomfortable. I can’t wait to get home and take them off. Isn’t this most people?
Because they don’t own a broom or no how to operate one…
Or because they have or have had kids.
Growing up, we never thought twice about it, we just wore our shoes inside (or didn’t) and it was whatever, nobody ever said anything. I grew up in northeast US and the only time we really wouldn’t wear shoes in the house would be when it snowed or if we had mud on our shoes, otherwise it helped keep your feet warm. It wasn’t until I met my wife that she was like, “What the fuck?” She grew up in Kenya where it was mandatory to not wear shoes. It’s so dusty out there most of the time that the house would be a mess if you did wear your shoes inside, so it was just an automatic thing to take them off.
Birds and dogs shit all over the street then you people wear your shoes in the house!? 🤢
Birds and dogs shit in my house.
My condolences.
Worth
Meh
Wait til you learn what’s on your toothbrush
Less shit I tracked in from the street than y’all.
Less shit is still shit on your toothbrush.
I take precautions to minimize the amount of shit I’m exposed to. Tooth brush goes in the shower bag, which doesn’t live in the bathroom. Take my shoes off at the door, so I don’t get street shit in my house. You follow?
Not mine, it’s separated from the toilet by a door and has a uv light. Not perfect, but not straight up doodoo
The uv that destroys bacteria (uvc)will degrade toothbrush head extremely fast so… it’s unlikely your uv is anything but a gimmick to sell you something.
Nah it’s real I’ve tested it. I replace my brushes monthly, no issues with breakage it anything.
You don’t know shit about my life, quit assuming.
Need a hug?
Wut? Are you suggesting uvc test cards aren’t a thing? The fuck does Lemmy have to do with this?
Seems like you’re just out here assuming all sorts of stuff
You said i “know nothing about your life stop assuming”, i said you are on lemmy, which proves you are wrong.
Idk what’s going on in your life but sorry you are going through it. Let me know if you need someone to talk to.
Oh, you even breathe in shit. Nevermind the carpet.
Even worse than that - I wear SHOES in the OFFICE. How disgusting is that??!!??
You don’t notice when you step in dog shit?
Piles yes, but there be smaller trace amounts too
I treat my shoes like I treat my cutlery - if the pieces of shit are small enough that I don’t see them, I’ll gladly lick them
Same with anuses tbh
Insert Summer making ass eating noises.
You don’t brush your teeth?
you eat dog shit?
You eat dingleberries?
Guess what, everything has poo and bacteria all over it.
Your keyboard or phone are far more disgusting than any shoe. You’ll live sunshine.
Guess what, my floor is cleaner than yours.
Are you eating off it? Or are you just very concerned about keeping your socks clean?
Well I change my socks every day regardless, I guess I just think it’s gross to bring the street into your space.
Guess what, it makes no difference.
I’d rather less shit particles, thanks.
Your phone and your keyboard maybe lol.
Everyone’s
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/Germs/story?id=4774746&page=1
Shit mines probably cleaner because I change keyboards more often than the average user.
Been disinfecting my phones and keyboards long before 2008 lol.
The ley is the amount. If you’re actively tracking more shit into and all around your house you’re going to have more than someone who doesn’t.
Guess what, everything has poo and bacteria all over it.
I love this ‘why try; give up’ attitude. Getting out of bed must be hard if you’re just going to be back there later.
Welcome to Lemmy
Its more, theres no harm in wearing your shoes inside. It’s like saying we should all wear gloves inside to not touch germs, just kinda silly y’know. Humans evolved barefoot, a bit of dirt on the floor isnt the be all and end all of existence.
Nobody said it was lol.
Make sure you take your dog’s shoes off, too.
If it’s wet or snowy out, I throw down a town on my way out, so my dog has no choice but to step on a towel on the way in. Combine that with using a leash and she has no choice but to stop until I’m satisfied with her feet
My sister-in-law does similar with a bucket of clean water, so she even gets dry dirt off, but that’s excessive.
Humans have lived in filth their entire existence and whatever being tracked in, if it’s not visible, it’s cleaner than most of human history and it’s clean enough to not cause harm
I don’t have a dog.
Solution: adopt a dog.
If I got a dog it would be half way to having a kid. I can barely take care of myself, I don’t need another soul to disappoint.
A lot of people’s dogs are trained to wait inside at the door for their paws to get wiped down before walking into the house/apartment/whatever.
But sure, if the dog did go walk outside with boots/shoes then yeah their owner would obviously take them off once they were back inside.
The two dogs I had were easily thought to wait on the floor mat right by the door. Once someone wiped their paws with a towel they would proceed forward. 🤷🏼
You can wash your dog’s feet you know.
Many places have indoor and outdoor footware.
So you still wear shoes inside, but not the same shoes you take outside.
You will quickly learn your friends shoes, and start to pick up on signals like whose shoes are outside. Who is home, someone has guests… all by the shoes.
In winter, my feet get cold
I love me some cozy socks
Why not have a cozy pair of slippers?
what are slippers but inside shoes?
Slippers never go outside. If they do its for but a few seconds to avoid picking up a ton of dirt.
What people seem to miss when thinking about how dirty their shoes are are the chemical residues from vehicles. Exhaust pipes drip contaminated water, oil drips from cars, brake dust accumulates in those wet and oily spots on the road, etc… Every time you cross the street or walk in dense public areas your shoes pick that stuff up. If you walk around your house with those same shoes, you invite toxic residues into your living space. The effect might be negligible but the thought makes me wanna gag.
Because I have a “thing” about having those little floor-crunchies on my feet. Floating flooring is nice, but every little thing lays right on top of it… So instead of constantly dusting the bottoms of my feet off on my calves, I just throw on some house shoes. Freshly cleaned floors excepted.
I generally don’t just because i enjoy the freedom of wiggley toes, but I’m not adverse to it either.
Theres no snow or mud where I am and most of the places I walk in are cleaned daily (Work, shops). Honestly its just not a big deal for me here in Australia, shit people walk down the street or in stores with no shoes at all, so who cares eh. Bit of dust gets on the floor at home big deal, ill clean it on a weekend.
I’ve only ever seen this done by Americans. They also have really car centric cities. I guess it kinda makes sense to just keep your normal shoes on to warm your feet if they can’t get dirty since you mostly only walk indoors.
I’m American and I know people from multiple states and I’ve never heard of anyone doing this. Always surprises me to see it assigned to us online. I’m sure it must happen in some region of the country but I don’t know where.
It’s a reoccurring internet discussion you can google. The rest of the world thinks Americans wear shoes inside, even on their beds, because that’s what we see in US movies/series, and Americans always deny they’d ever do such a thing.
I hate that shit. When someone wears shoes in bed it’s all I can focus on and it ruins the scene. As a fat American slob, I’d never wear shoes to bed. The only time I wear shoes inside is if I have to run inside quickly for something on the 1st floor or in the basement.
I should wear shoes in bed. My feet got attacked by a cat this morning at Oh God o’clock.
You just think it was a cat because your brain can’t handle the truth. There’s a reason we use bursery rhymes to teach kids not to let their arms and legs hang over the side of the bed. You are so lucky you still have feet
That’s a good point. I hadn’t thought about actors almost always wearing shoes on set. I guess it would look like everyone does that in their home.
Not American myself. However, I’ve seen people from Pennsylvania do this.
Otherwise, for some reason it happens a lot in movies.
From Michigan, it’s about 50/50. I don’t really think twice about it.
I’m not American and I always wear shoes in the house. Why the fuck not?
So… do you clean them every time you get home? Or is there just not much rain, snow or even just dirt in your area anyways?
We do have a lot of rain, specially in this time of year, but we have something here that is called a schoonloopmat which cleans/dries your shoes quite good. That together with hard wooden floors throughout the house makes I never take off my shoes at home.
Flip-flops for the house are great, especially for the kitchen
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Indoor shoes are fine, but wearing outside shoes in is wrong.
Ah, this reminds me of uwabaki (上履き) back when I went to elementary school in Japan. Outside shoes and inside shoes which are called Uwabaki are different. The only time I use Uwabaki outside is in an emergency situation. I remember doing this in 2011 Earthquake
Wrong why, though? Is the ground outside really THAT dirty? Even if it is, can you guarantee that the floor in your house isn’t effectively as dirty?
Living in Southern California, where we don’t get much inclement weather, tracking in muddy or otherwise physically dirty shoes in the house isn’t really a concern 95% of the time.
Living in Canada the outdoor shoes are unthinkable! So much mud and snow.
But even in good weather there’s dog pee and gum and all sorts of junk on the bottom of your shoes.
The ground outside is literally made of dirt. It is as dirty as it gets.
The only way your shoes don’t get dirty is if you never actually walk on dirt. Which, sounding like you are American, is probably true since everything is concreted over to make space for your cars.
And even then, you never encounter dog shit, right?
Why not? They aren’t getting dirty, i don’t step in mud or water or stuff like that.
Because slippers are so much comfier and easier to take off when you want to lay down on the couch/go to bed and don’t have to take shoes off to put other shoes on when going outside.
Slippers are terrible. They are floppy, and i have to keep my toes curled to keep them from falling off.
Sounds like you need better slippers
I don’t have slippers, and my shoes are pretty comfy. If I want to lay on a bed, I’ll take my shoes off, it’s not hard. I use the same inside and outside shoes, cos I’m way to fking lazy to swap shoes when going in and out, if I had to then I wouldn’t wear shoes inside. I’m not saying you should, so please don’t reply with 40 paragraphs about why I shouldn’t.
I just assumed you meant you had separate outside shoes and indoor shoes since you said “they aren’t getting dirty” in your original comment.
If you’re walking around your house with shoes you walk around outside in the yes, they are getting dirty. Even if you just use them to walk from your front door to your car and your car to your office.
I can’t imagine walking around in my house in my shoes that I go to my office in, they get dirty enough without doing that.
Not saying you should change what you’re used to, just saying that’s definitely not the norm from where I live and can’t imagine a situation where that wouldn’t result in daily floor cleaning.
Over here there really isn’t anything that would make shoes visibly dirty. The only time is when there’s tonnes of rain and I take shoes off when that happens. Do you live in an area where it snows or is muddy? Those are the only reasons for needing to clean the floor often I can think of .
I live in Canada where it does snow in the winter so you have water/salt concerns but even in the summer there is still the risk of dusty dirt coating the bottom of your shoes and other random things, like bugs you step on, gum, gasoline at the gas station, a muddy puddle, etc.
I travel a lot for work and I even take my shoes off before walking around in my hotel room 😂 just a culture thing I guess.
For the comform of bare feet
Why do people ware shoes outside the house?
to scare off the fetishists
As other have said, they’re usually not the same shoes I wear outside.
But generally, for the same reason I wear them outside: to protect my feet. Especially if I’m going in and out a lot, like when doing yardwork or grilling.
Every time this question comes up, I can’t tell if it’s that homes outside the US are much cleaner or streets are much dirtier.
What are you protecting your feet from when relaxing in the living room? Is your coffee table regularly attacking you.
I was a barefoot all the time person until I got a bunch of cats. Now I need socks.
Loose nails in the floorboards, kids’ toys, yes table legs, things dropping on them from height, cold floors, cold air, pouncing cats, slipping in puddles, hot oil spatter in the kitchen… life in a 140-year-old house with three kids and five cats, basically.
Intresting, we have around the same aged house, four cats, a dog but no kids and have never really felt the need for shoes indoors.
I wear slippers inside mostly to protect agains cold floor, coffee tables, and most important of all, Lego bricks on the loose.
Also another reason to wear shoes inside is when you are constantly going inside and outside. Which means then your floor is dirty… which means you want to protect your feet from the dirt. That’s a vicious cycle but can be one of the reasons.
This is what Crocs were invented for. Just slip your feet into “outdoor slippers” on your way out, and kick them off on your way back in. You don’t even have to search for matching socks, and it still works in the rain
My coffee table broke my toe last year, vicious thing!
I had taken some shoes off 5 mins earlier as well 😞
In that case I perfectly understand you. Society really doesn’t take coffee table attacks as seriously as they should, really vicious things if left on their own.
Slip-on shoes at the door seem to be an alien concept.
Did you not have mothers who’d throw things at your head if you wore your shoes in the house? Were you not better than ‘shoes in the house’ people?
I explicitly said the shoes I wear inside are different then the ones I wear outside. Don’t insult my mother.
Where I live it’s very unnatural. Definitely because of the weather (lots of snow, long winters).
Came here to say the same. I feel like “indoor shoes” are a lot more rare in places where you have a chance of tracking in snow
What do you mean by that? (English is not my native language)
We have a moderate amount of snow and relatively long winters here. Most people wear indoor shoes (slippers, Crocs etc) when inside, at least in their own home. At guests we either get them from the host or you walk on socks.
What does the weather have to do with that?
They mean wearing your outdoor shoes indoors
