Do you wear shoes in the house?

[MC BumSlap]

Yes and no. Yes on hardwood downstairs. No on carpet upstairs.

 

[bikeama]

I wear shoes at my home. I have a daughter with a Ph.D. in microbiology and no shoes in her home. Maybe she knows something I don't.

 

[msethhunter]

I pretty much only wear shoes at work, because they force me to. Otherwise, it’s bearfoot or flip flops. My shoes usually last years. My flip flops usually last 3-6 months at best. I also have wood floors, and I’m a clean freak.

Maybe I can find some dress flip flops to wear in the cockpit?

 

[Mr. White]

No, gross. I even have outside slippers (flip flops) and inside slippers.

My parents are the only people that won't take off their shoes in my house. It drives me crazy!

 

[Butch]

Nope. Outside, especially the roads, are filthy. If we can avoid tracking it around the home that is good.

 

[Pushrod]

S/O has an immune-deficiency disease. The outside world is filthy and humans are icky. You bet we shuck our shoes. And no one is allowed inside unless the shower was recent and the clothing is fresh and clean. (THAT MEANS YOU, FAVORITE GRANDSON!)

My kitchen is tighter than food service in a hospital, the 'facilities' have sparkling surfaces and sanitizers are bought wholesale.

Yeah, no shoes in my house. Ever. And every surface is grime free. Welcome to a sickness free environment.

 

[bojangle]

Yes and no. Yes on hardwood downstairs. No on carpet upstairs.

Pretty much same here, though most of the time, shoes come off at the door just inside the house. Sometimes I will walk through the downstairs hardwood with shoes on, but we try to minimize that. Take them off for carpet areas.

 

[Dubbington]

Yes. Also I didn't grow up in no shoes in the house household either. I'm too active going in and out of the garage or yard to have to take my shoes off and and on.

In the bedroom I try to take them off (carpet is in there) but it's like 50% of the time.

 

[SM610]

Now that walking around outside never includes needles, garbage and human shit everywhere (we've moved out of the city years ago), i can wear my shoes without thinking about it too much. But i dont blame you filthy city dwellers for seeing the reality of your situation...

 

[Agent Orange]

I certainly don't. In general, almost all asian households will require you take off shoes before entering the home.

 

[Johndicezx9]

The older I get the less I want to buckle, fasten, or tie....

Slip on boots and shoes, sure; tied shoes... not so much.

 

[Yakoo752]

I have house slippers. Flippies I only wear inside the house.

 

[CDONA]

I got into the habit when I moved to a house on wheels, & retirement, shoes are @ the door,

 

[fartbike]

I work in healthcare, and try not to track stuff into the house. I just wish they made Japanese house slippers in my size...

 

[DucatiHoney]

If I'm running in/out, shoes stay on, but then I usually use the back door. I have house-shoes to wear inside and outdoor shoes to wear outside normally. I do this mainly because I don't want to have to clean the floors all the time. I'm a pretty clean person, but I'm not hostile to all bacteria and stuff. Ya gotta live with the little guys.

I tightened things way up when Covid was goin' nuts but have eased up since. I'm not eating gum off the underside of tables or rushing to dig in my eye after touching stuff at the airport. I don't subscribe to anti-bacterial everything either. Wash your hands frequently, keep them away from your face, go on and live life. No, you cannot eat off of my floors. I got other stuff to do!

 

[Eldritch]

While I appreciate many aspects of many Asian cultures, I am not Asian, so no, I wear shoes in my house.

Exceptions of course are if I have been in some kind of particularly yucky situation outside, in which case the boots/shoes get washed and left in the garage.

As a related lifestyle statement, I neither sit nor kneel on the floors in my home, they are just for walking.

 

[Blankpage]

Of course not I’m not an animal

 

[berth]

As a rule, we don't wear shoes in the house. It's not 100%, it's not "shoes off as soon as you enter".

It's mostly no shoes on the carpet. But, as a general rule, shoes come off early.

 

[DucatiHoney]

Of course not I’m not an animal

Actually, you are. And animals don't wear shoes anywhere, sooooo....

 

[Johndicezx9]