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Come into my house with shoes on and you’ll be lucky to leave alive
Was recently discussing with someone that it’s really weird that, on the internet, Britain is repeatedly labelled a “shoes on indoors” society, because nobody we know has shoes on indoors. Britain is a wet and muddy country.
Does anyone here do shoes on indoors? Where are you all from?
I’ve seen both in the UK. Personally, I’m a shoes off guy. Means less cleaning needed.
Me, in Italy it’s both, in 90% of the cases the situation is like:
You get in, remove the shoes and go barefoot/with slippers, if it’s like a party, festivity etc etc, usually no one cares to get off the shoes
There’s obviously no need for durable footwear when your whole country is a boot.
Living in Italy, both Rome and North, the floors are cold in the winter. We wear slippers at home and tell guests to keep their shoes on until spring.
UK too, shoes off too, have never lived anywhere where shoes on indoors was a common thing
The only reason I can think is that underfloor heating is relatively rare here and if you’ve got hard floors it’ll be cold to walk on, but then slippers exist so idk really
It might be in including having slippers or “indoor shoes”. Nigeria is there as a shoes on, but from my understanding, its only slippers/flip flops specificly for indoors, that are normal.
No, in “shoes off” countries it is very normal to wear slippers or other kinds of indoor footwear, so it wouldn’t make any sense to count those as “shoes on”.
Same for Japan. No chance they’re wearing full hiking boots or sneakers inside the house in Japan - the shoe cabinet is built in right next to the front door of houses, tiny apartments, temples, many restaurants, etc.
Canada is labelled as shoes off but we also have slippers.
Although not sure about Nigeria, are slippers and flip flops like expected to be worn or just available?
For me I have slippers which are worn often but it’s not expected that anyone inside wear them. Most people just wear socks if they come to visit. And myself I go barefoot unless my feet get cold then I grab the slippers.
Grew up in the UK, in a “shoes on” household. We just gave them a good scrape on the doormat when coming inside.
Since then, I’ve lived in a few different countries and am 100% converted to the shoes off way of being. I agree it’s much better.
Weird. I also grew up in the UK, and I’m in my 50s now, it’s always been shoes off in my and my family’s houses. Unless it was a quick visit.
Same goes for my friend’s houses.
I’ve worked in the other people’s houses for well over 30 years in different capacities, from ‘clean’ jobs such as surveying to the more physical jobs of handyman, plastering etc. And a high percentage of the time it was shoes off as well.
Or separate clean shoes for inside.
Basically it’s easier to change my shoes than it is to clean a carpet or floor after I have trampled dirt around.
Ok, yeah, you’d get people say “don’t bother about your shoes” if I was only doing a survey, but I took them off anyways.
The only time I wouldn’t remove my shoes is if the houses were cleaner outside than inside, but that hardly ever happened.
If I had to guess I would say that in all the thousands and thousands of houses I’ve visited in the UK that 90% were shoes off.
I reckon it depends on how warm someone’s home is and how good their circulation is. If I don’t have shoes on indoors, then for half the year it feels like my feet have been stabbed because they get so cold (slippers are not enough), but I don’t wear the same shoes indoors as outdoors. I suspect that if we set the heating higher and the house wasn’t constructed in a way that makes the floor always much colder than a few inches above the floor, this wouldn’t be a problem.
That’s interesting, I hqve a different experience - i used to have horrible foot circulation as a kid but i got into the habit of never wearing socks in my house (don’t like the texture, enjoy feeling air on feet and them being cooler) and i haven’t had the bad foot circulation since then… as far as i can tell. I have been wearing them for this winter though.
half the year it feels like my feet have been stabbed because they get so cold (slippers are not enough)
Get some down booties. It’s like your feet are cocooned in a loving embrace of warmth and comfort.
Do me the big decider is plush carpets. The first level of my house is mostly hardwood and tile. The second floor, and living rooms have plush carpets. So if someone is unloading a car, getting ready to leave, or just general in/out stuff, sure leave the shoes on. Once you’ve decided to stay, get those shoes off and be welcome in the cozy areas of the house.
The same in NZ. Is this that you never ever wear shoes on inside?
Is it acceptable to walk into your own house and walk around with shoes on? Sure.
Do most people do that most of the time? In my experience, people will be shoes off in their own home most of the time, but it’s not some big taboo to keep them on if you’re popping in to grab something.
Yeah as a kiwi this resonates. But it’s weird to see us labelled as a “shoes on” country when even shows outside are optional lol.
Yeah I’m US and my parents were always at least annoyed if we wore our shoes further into the house than right by the door.
Same for the U.S. Sometimes downstairs or in common areas for guests.
US here. Depends really. If I’m working around the house I like my shoes on but when it’s time to shutdown. They off, maybe some flip flops if I head out to the pool
Does anyone here do shoes on indoors?
In/out doors doesn’t really make a difference. If I need shoes outside, I’m probably wearing them inside. And vice versa.
Maybe it would be different if I had carpet. Carpet is impossible to thoroughly clean in situ. I would never allow outside shoes on non-rental carpet. But I’ve got 100+ year old hardwood floors that have seen way worse than I’m tracking in.
Same with France, many if not most no longer wear shoes inside of their homes.
So when I visited my friend that moved there, the rule was if you aren’t muddy shoes on in the first floor is fine but no shoes on the second floor.
They also have guests slippers for the first floor. I think this kinda makes sense since they like having parties then they don’t allow anyone upstairs.
My parents keep their shoes on, I take mine off.
I have no idea why anyone would want to wear shoes in the house.
It’s so constricting and unnecessary. Do y’all not clean your floors? Do you feel like your floors are gross and shouldn’t be touching your bare feet?
When you lay on the couch do you need to take your shoes off and then put them back on when you get up to go make a snack in the kitchen?
Makes zero sense to me
What if you have to quickly go inside and grab something? Do you take your shoes off for that or just walk inside?
Shoes are ok inside they’re not mandatory
Moved to a shoes off country over a decade ago.
That’s EXACTLY what I do.
Yes I take my shoes off? I don’t want to dirty up my floors
Do you take your shoes off for that or just walk inside?
Yeah shoes off. It’s a pain in the butt.
However, you often wear shoes that are easier to take off / put on.
Also, you just learn to really check that you’ve got everything before you put your shoes on.
I have a pair of slip-ons I’ll throw on when i need a quick trip outside
I take one off and hop. Or throw a rug on the floor and shuffle.
I got in and out of my house about 50 times per day, and my feet are size 13.5s, so all my shoes are tight (they don’t make most shoes in anything larger than 13s). Plus my back isn’t what it once was. If I had to bend over and take my shoes off 50 times a day, I’d actually lose it, “it” being my L3-4 disc.
Whereas, litereally nothing bad has ever happened to me because I wear shoes in the house. It’s all some hypothetical … I don’t know what exactly. Grossness? Is grossness hurting me?
Tell you what’s ‘gross,’ as a thought exercise tho - walking around barefooted where my dogs and cats walk barefooted, they’re not exactly wearing shoes outside, or in the litterbox, nor are they putting a handkerchief down under their assholes when they sit down.
But a pair of flip-flops for in the house plus floor cleaning regularly… I don’t really worry about it either way. IDK why anyone does.
You dragging in shit from outside is not a “hypothetical” lol
IDK why anyone does.
My floors are dirty enough without wearing shoes inside. Shoes would make it ten times worse. Shoes are uncomfortable. And I don’t want to turn my socks black because my floors are so dirty.
Being a cripple makes yours very specific circumstances. Most people can bend over at will with no ill effects.
I got in and out of my house about 50 times per day
I mean I just wouldn’t wear enclosed shoes at that point. Flip-flops outside and barefoot/socks indoors.
Laced shoes are a pita to flip on and off. If you’re in a dry area there’s no reason to take off your shoes.
If you can wear sandals, or it’s a wet sloppy environment, then yeah it makes sense to take them off at the door.
Even in dry areas you will be dragging in dirt from outside
I mean, if you’re doing yard work or something understandable to leave your shoes on in your own home if you’re coming inside for a snack or to grab something etc I do that all the time.
But like, if I invite someone over to hang out for a few hours I expect them to take their shoes off tying the laces isn’t that complicated.
And if I am taking the day off and don’t really need to leave the house for any reason I won’t even touch my shoes I’m going to be barefoot or in slippers all God damn day.
I can get it for some environments. For example in central Asia, coming from a nomadic lifestyle and living in yurts (big tents) it’s totally understandable to keep your shoes on. Maybe the building style is a continuation of the yurt and lends to similar choices.
I was once in Paraguay and their buildings typically don’t have a hallway, every room is accessible from the outside. Most of their life is also spent outside, like cooking and eating. It’s nice weather for most of the year, why not.
But for European style weather and houses, I will always take my shoes off.
My friend told me he felt the same way about jeans which is why he wears sweatpants everywhere. I didn’t understand it with those and I don’t get it with shoes. Both are super comfortable to me. Only times I’m not comfortable in shoes is when I’m forced to wear anything besides tennis shoes (mainly work boots and dress shoes).
Actually I absolutely agree with your friend and I don’t even stop at jeans.
If I get home after work and I have zero plans to leave the house again or have anyone over I am in my Pajamas as soon as I can get my pants off, even if it’s only 5pm lol
Buncha weirdoes ITT. As soon as I get in the door, my house or yours, you can bet I’m stripping down to *just *my shoes and nothing else.
Fuck society and their oppressive insistence on wearing “pants”.
Relevant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouBKE7SG1rE
I gotta say it’s one of the benefits of kids being at college - everything constricting comes off as I walk in the door. You might not want to make a surprise visit unless you’re ok with seeing me in my underwear
In what backwards and uncultured shithole do you have shoes on in the house? That’s filthy.
See map
I prefer shoes off, but I have dogs that track so much dirt and filth in so what’s the point 😭
what kind of monster wears shoes in the house
Insanity! I go so far as pants, too—I have Outside Pants for leaving the house, and as soon as I get home, I swap into my comfy Inside PJs. I’m not sitting on my nice chairs or bed wearing dirty ass Outside Pants!
I live in America.
If you don’t take your shoes off I bmu house my wife will scatter your dismembered body across the hillside for the animals to feed on.
Do shoes on people immediately put on shoes as soon as they wake up or something? I don’t even put on socks!
Rookie mistake. You sleep with your shoes on.
Shoes on is fine… if you live in a barn.
As with most things. If America does it one way, then it’s probably the wrong way.
I’m an American and you take your shoes off at the door, bub.
I’m in the US and shoes off inside.
I am Australian and we are a shoes off household - don’t care if you wanna have shoes on in the house but why would you wanna wear shoes in the house?
We barely wear shoes in public let alone in the house - shoes are just foot prisons, barefoot is best
The US one should be stripped, it varies state to state
UK is shoes ON. Canada definitely shoes OFF. US is shoes ON, drives me nuts seeing tv show characters hop on the BED with shoes on. 😡😡😡
What does it mean the US is shoes on? In my entire life the only family I know of that did that was a hoarding family with layers of filth on their floor.
Whoever says Greece is shoes on, I’ll spit in their coffee.
Map is just bullshit. Wrong for france
The Netherlands look red but it’s definitely a shoes on country. People find me weird for asking them to take off their shoes. Any idea how nasty the roads are? Any idea how easier it is to clean your floors when you don’t bring all the nastiness from outside under your shoes? Plus it’s much better not to wear shoes in general, for your feet. That’s why I wear barefoot shoes outside and nothing inside. Because outside is naaaasty. Otherwise I would be barefoot everywhere.
I don’t wear shoes in my own home. If I’m visiting your home, I’ll follow your rules – but tell me before I head over so I know if I need to wear my good socks.
40% of the world weard shoes INSIDE??!
How could anyone feel more comfortable with shoes on than shoes off?
Shoes off, you filthy animal
It seems the whole world got together to say “Fuck the Colorblind”
What a shit graph
Shoes on is just gross and disgusting.
I switch to slippers when inside.
What does that count as?
Wearing shoes in the house is psychopath behavior
How is it ok lie on a white coach with your muddy shoes is completely beyond me.
Why is the US shoes on? So not the norm anywhere I’ve lived.
In The Netherlands, within my social circles, it’s mostly seen as overly informal and quite intimate to take off your shoes.
You can do it at friends, but certainly not by default at acquaintances (unless they ask), as it might even be a little disrespectful considering taking off your shoes could smell a bit after some hours. Like you force your bodily odours or sweaty feet on to someone’s house.
I totally get the opposite and am noticing a slow shift (also in my own house) to dropping the shoes. But it’s interesting to see that both stances are based on some form of respect, and perhaps also some pragmatism on our side.
Guests take precedence. That’s my cultural position. Otherwise, I do whatever I want in my home and clean up after as habit, regardless. Sometimes I wear shoes.
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Only barbarians wear shoes in their own homes.
Shit, even wearing shoes in an office job can be kinda sus.
SpacePanda@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
I work in a cubical, and I take my shoes off before putting my feet under the desk. If it was more accepted I’d take them off outside my cube, but, I live in a country that likes shoes on.
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
See, you get it
faltryka@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
SAME HERE
I often take my shoes off as soon as I can be where nobody will notice them. Under my desk is a no shoes zone.
Postingllamas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The IT guys putting you pc equipment together hate you.
jellyfishhunter@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I once had dedicated office slippers under my desk
smh@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I’m also team office slippers. They’re so snuggly!
owsei@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
shoes off in the office??
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Oh yeah, I’ve worked in a bunch of offices where the policy was to leave shoes at the door, or to change into office slippers etc. It’s not all that uncommon in Helsinki; keeps the place clean in the months when the streets are full of slush and grime
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Back when I went to an office every day, I usually wore loafers. Easy to slip off and on under your desk without drawing lots of attention.
arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Ain’t no way I’m taking my shoes off in the office unless I know for a fact that the floor is clean AF.
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
That’d be the point, yeah
slackassassin@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I would never make such a demand of a guest in my home. They are my guest and I will feed them and clean up after.
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Don’t need a doormat when you are one I guess