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When I was in high school, a certain friend came over to visit and he was shocked, shocked I tell you, that we were strictly a shoes-on household, and none of u

When I was in high school, a certain friend came over to visit and he was shocked, shocked I tell you, that we were strictly a shoes-on household, and none of us had ever given it much thought; that's just how we lived, with our shoes on. Shortly after that, we would remodel our home and expose a lot of bare wood flooring, which is unpleasant if you're barefoot, I must say! We were also cat-owners (mostly indoor cats), and my mother would constantly shame me in advance, every time I wanted to trim my nails, that I must never leave a scrap of nail to fly onto the floor, because she would inevitably find it, as she was the "barefoot outlier" of our typically shoes-on policy. Living alone for the last 30 years, I gradually developed a strictly shoes-off household. I've found it's easier to organize my shoes if they're doffed in one place by the door, and as a renter, I prefer to keep a clean carpet, because landlords don't really clean them, they only replace them after disasters. So a tenant's carpet tends to just accumulate nasty stains until it's unusable. However, my fiancée came in from Barcelona and she was appalled at my barefoot habits! She said it would never do at her home! She immediately found slippers for me to wear, and that was a lot of trouble, because I am not accustomed to wearing slippers and I tended to slip out of them at all times. But she owned a cat, and cats tend to leave little surprises on the floor for us to find with our feet. And I'm unsure whether that's why fiancée wanted to enforce slipper-wearing, but it sure was a big deal for her.

n1b0m 1y ago
Having always lived in a shoes off house hold I find wearing shoes in the house very strange. At what point would you put them on after waking up if say you were spending the whole morning at home?
- mortar 1y ago
  For me, my shoes are predominately thongs (also referred to as flip flops in others parts of the world), and they’re directly next to my bed. They provide arch support which would otherwise leave me aching walking around the house presumably onto the flooring with little to no underlay. I wear them non-stop until I hit the shower - I only have one pair but my wife has exponentially more and cycles through her pairs constantly, with a ritual cleanse in the shower for each used pair at least once a week.
  - n1b0m 1y ago
    That makes sense. I’ve mostly lived in houses with carpeted rooms so barefoot hasn’t been an issue, but in the bathroom and kitchen we’d normally wear some slippers.
    - mortar 1y ago
      Ahh thanks that’s useful to me as all. As someone that grew up with carpet everywhere, it would be always shoes off by choice - But now we avoid carpet everywhere as my son has dust allergies of all things, and carpets are ridiculously hard to keep clean.

n1b0m 1y ago

Having always lived in a shoes off house hold I find wearing shoes in the house very strange. At what point would you put them on after waking up if say you were spending the whole morning at home?

mortar 1y ago
For me, my shoes are predominately thongs (also referred to as flip flops in others parts of the world), and they’re directly next to my bed. They provide arch support which would otherwise leave me aching walking around the house presumably onto the flooring with little to no underlay. I wear them non-stop until I hit the shower - I only have one pair but my wife has exponentially more and cycles through her pairs constantly, with a ritual cleanse in the shower for each used pair at least once a week.
- n1b0m 1y ago
  That makes sense. I’ve mostly lived in houses with carpeted rooms so barefoot hasn’t been an issue, but in the bathroom and kitchen we’d normally wear some slippers.
  - mortar 1y ago
    Ahh thanks that’s useful to me as all. As someone that grew up with carpet everywhere, it would be always shoes off by choice - But now we avoid carpet everywhere as my son has dust allergies of all things, and carpets are ridiculously hard to keep clean.