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

• aStonedSanta@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m so confused. Why would you track all that shit into your house?

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  • Syd@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨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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    • aStonedSanta@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What do you do if it was raining? Don’t you now have mud and water inside your house.

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  • Syd@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I usually don’t get mud on my jacket when it rains, how do you even do that?Unless it’s a complete downpour, microburst levels of water, the jacket would only be slightly damp. Jackets don’t hold water by design, and if it’s drenched I’d put on something else. If your shoes are muddy, wet, or covered in snow then you take them off.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Right so you do take your shoes off when you go inside.

      This is such a weird thing to try and suggest is normal.

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      • dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes but 90% of the time they are not muddy or wet or snowy, and they stay on.

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      • Syd@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, and I’m the strange one for asking guests to do so, and wasn’t raised that way. Even people with much nicer places than mine don’t expect others to take their shoes off.

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• iliketurtles@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Same, never crossed our minds growing up unless we were wet or muddy.

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