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Why do people wear their shoes in their homes?

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I always wear shoes. But I don't eat on the floor, we have dinner plates. When I go into a customers house I put on booty boot coverings.
 
Just asked my roommate why he wears sandals all the time in the house. "I don't like dirty feet and I'm too lazy to clean the floors". So there you have it.
 
I've done both- lived w/ a roommate that preferred no shoes- was fine w/ it...now I don't care either way...I have a dog so anything she's walking on is getting in anyways.

Honestly I don't care either way. I am surprised that no shoes is so prevalent on here...hasn't been my experience outside Asian houses from personal experience.
 
Some people actually clean their floors. My mother vacuums daily after the two dogs even though she does take shoes off in her home. Ichinisan's loft apartment is just a concrete slab for a floor that can be swept or mopped if need be.
 
Always have worn my shoes inside, same with everyone I know. I can only recall a few people that when I went to their house took their shoes off.

My dog tracks in enough dirt and sheds enough that I have to sweep the house daily anyways, thankfully with it being hardwood, tile, and marble flooring it is quick and easy and I mop once a week.
 
CZroe said:
Some people actually clean their floors. My mother vacuums daily after the two dogs even though she does take shoes off in her home. Ichinisan's loft apartment is just a concrete slab for a floor that can be swept or mopped if need be.
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Yes. Asians never clean their floors. Not wearing shoes is purely an excuse to not clean floors. Everyone knows this.
 
First thing I do when I get home is kick the shoes off. Not because of cleanliness (I don't have any carpet so I don't have to worry about stains), but because of comfort.
 
CZroe said:
Some people actually clean their floors. My mother vacuums daily after the two dogs even though she does take shoes off in her home. Ichinisan's loft apartment is just a concrete slab for a floor that can be swept or mopped if need be.
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you can wash the floor all you like. but its like saying that after you crawl on the floor on your hands and knees in public bathrooms you wash your hands....at the end of the day..eventually...
 
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you can wash the floor all you like. but its like saying that after you crawl on the floor on your hands and knees in public bathrooms you wash your hands....at the end of the day..eventually...
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You're picking up more pathogens by walking around barefoot. Protect yourself. Wear shoes.

That said, I always remove my shoes when I step into someone else's home due to the remote possibility that I have stepped in something I didn't notice. Almost 100% of the time, they stop me and say "Oh! You don't have to do that!" ...but I usually insist anyway.
 
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I just saw a video where they mentioned how muslims take off their shoes in a mosque. Apparently mosques smell like total crap because of people walking around with dirty sweaty feet. Doesn't bother Allah though.
 
Ichinisan said:
You're picking up more pathogens by walking around barefoot. Protect yourself. Wear shoes.

That said, I always remove my shoes when I step into someone else's home due to the remote possibility that I have stepped in something I didn't notice. Almost 100% of the time, they stop me and say "Oh! You don't have to do that!" ...but I usually insist anyway.
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So your bare feet pick up the pathogens they tracked in their house on their shoes? Nice of you.😛
 
Ichinisan said:
You're picking up more pathogens by walking around barefoot. Protect yourself. Wear shoes.

That said, I always remove my shoes when I step into someone else's home due to the remote possibility that I have stepped in something I didn't notice. Almost 100% of the time, they stop me and say "Oh! You don't have to do that!" ...but I usually insist anyway.
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When I'm home I just take the shoes off and walk around in sliders/flip flops that stay inside all the time. My feet stay clean, the floor stays clean.
 
i dont wear shoes on carpet because you will ruin the carpet no matter what. even if you never wear your new shoes outside, the black rubber soles dig into the carpet and stains it. thats why carpets get darker and its hard/impossible to wash out. if it was just dirt it would wash out easily.
 
OP is right, but it depends on region. The more barbaric southerners are more apt to say "you can leave your shoes on" when you visit their home, whereas the more north you get the more it's frowned upon. This is ostensibly due to more snow in the north but in reality because the people were not raised in barns as often.

Shoes are uncomfortable indoors and do track filth around. They are stupid. Japan knows this the country over and it is sad some in the West don't.
 
I only wear my shoes indoors if I am going to be standing a lot. I also have to buy expensive support shoes because of plantar fasciitis with falling arches. Very painful to be barefoot for long standing.
 
Dice144 said:
I only wear my shoes indoors if I am going to be standing a lot. I also have to buy expensive support shoes because of plantar fasciitis with falling arches. Very painful to be barefoot for long standing.
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Yeah some people need to wear shoes indoors for that and they are exempt from my barbarian category.
 
Ichinisan said:
You're picking up more pathogens by walking around barefoot. Protect yourself. Wear shoes.
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That's what socks are for. There is nothing more comfy than removing shoes when you get home and putting a new pair of socks. Some of you need to try it some time. You also get the best of both worlds, no dirty floors, and no foot print marks either.

Heck, I sometimes take off my shoes at work just so my feet can breathe for a bit, especially on 12 hour shifts.
 
I would assume that most people mop and vacuum their floors regularly. Its not like its normal to eat off the floors. We all wear our shoes inside the whole time till we go to bed except once in a while i wear flipflops in summer and i mop regularly.
Our bare feet never really touch the floor...i just assumed that's how most normal people lived.
 
Shoes off indoors. I eat off the carpet on the floot all the time, and touch the floor a lot and then eat.

The human body is probably built tough enough to eat off a bathroom floor (okay, too far), so I just do it for peace of mind. It's not like it's hard taking shoes off. Not to mention freaking comfortable. I do the 8 hours indoors in shoes at work all the time.
 
RedRooster said:
These people don't lay on their plush carpet floors and their kids crawl around in all this crap(kids and animals are my concern with shoes in the house). I could see it if you live in one of those giant 100 year old houses with squeaky hardwood floors, nobody cares of the condition of those houses.
But in a modern home, that is sick.
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How sad. You don't lay on the grass at the park, or in your own back yard? Or let your animals and kids spend time outdoors? No sandbox at the park for your kid, I'm guessing.

I bet you'd really be weirded out to know what's crawled into your open mouth while you were sleeping.

EDIT: I usually take off my shoes indoors once I'm home for good. Barefoot is far more comfortable. In the winter I'll wear socks or slippers if I'm not going out.
 
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Paladin3 said:
I bet you'd really be weirded out to know what's crawled into your open mouth while you were sleeping.
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Ha, ya, think too hard about this shit and you realize how pointless it is. Someone in the house doesn't wash his hands after shit/piss a lot of the times, picks through garbage outside, then feels up all our "pristine" surfaces.

I occasionally eat off my desk at work which I've never wiped down too.

It's reward vs inconvenience for the piece of mind when it comes to shoes. Taking off shoes must be one of the easiest things to do in a germaphobe's repertoire.
 
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