Are shoes off people a bit weird?

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We are an International Family. Shoes off please!

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Anonymous wrote:This is so strange to me. I come from a typical suburban family background. Live now in upper NW DC with kids in DC private school. Lots of friends and neighbors who are professionals in this area. Doctors. Lawyers etc. I’m my 15 years of living here - attending parties, dinners, visiting with friends, play dates etc I have never once been asked to remove my shoes. The kids usually kick them off as soon as they get into the house. But adults are always wearing shoes …. I have never once experienced this request. In our own home we all take our shoes off. Just for comfort more than anything. Not because we are thinking about germs and dirt. We have a fairly clean house with weekly visits from cleaners … I don’t know a single family in our circle who demand shows off when we stop by for a visit ….and have never ever experienced this request. Strange.

And I have never been to a home where we HAVENT taken our shoes off. It’s gross if you don’t have people take them off in your own home. All the poo and pee and dirt and vomit goes in your home

What exactly has happened to you or family friends when you have encountered all this fecal matter and vomit in your or others' homes? Bacterial infections? Viruses?

You are the reason we will never end disease in this country.

So you or loved ones have come down with a disease by encountering pee and vomit tracked into your home on others' shoes? That sounds horrible.

Why take the chance? Someone might track in the bubonic plague? Is that what you want?

[Anonymous]

I am from a shoes off EE family and all my family members have slippers in the house that they wear around that never leave the house as well as multiple sets of guest slippers. Nobody walks barefoot.

This said I married someone from shoes on except in bed household and it doesn’t bother me. I don’t plan to roll on the floor or lick it. I am not grossed out walking on the sidewalk in shoes not sure why I would be grossed out by a cleaner indoor floor.

Also someone asked if you wear a bra right before you go to bed - why wouldn’t I? I wear the same clothes inside and outside, from morning to evening until bedtime. I am not sure why that’s weird.

[Anonymous]

I work in a shoes-off child care center. We just went shoes-off several years ago. The difference in cleanliness is amazing. We used to constantly have to replace carpet after people would track in filth. Salt after a snowstorm was the worst! Of course we still clean the floors and have to replace carpet from time to time for toileting accidents/vomiting, but nothing like before.

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There is a family in our neighborhood who are a pants-off household. They believe pants are restrictive and they don't like the fact that they provide you with pockets, I think for taking things, or maybe carrying a weapon. Obviously you can keep on underwear. The funny thing is they are politically conservative and the pants-off household thing doesn't fit that. It seems more new agey but they love Trump and Republicans. Go figure.

[Anonymous]

Shoes off people always wear shoes in my home and the office.

Usually they are in religious cults.

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Anonymous wrote:We are an International Family. Shoes off please!

My parents grew on a farm in Europe with mud and and shit everywhere outside so they took their shoes off.

In America my father left the office, in his business suit and dress shoes and drove his new Cadillac home and came in to house shoes on.

We don’t live in a third world County. Taking shoes off is like saying in India we took a crap in an outhouse so we crap in an outhouse here. Why?

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I bring a pair of clean indoor shoes to people's houses.

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Anonymous wrote:This is so strange to me. I come from a typical suburban family background. Live now in upper NW DC with kids in DC private school. Lots of friends and neighbors who are professionals in this area. Doctors. Lawyers etc. I’m my 15 years of living here - attending parties, dinners, visiting with friends, play dates etc I have never once been asked to remove my shoes. The kids usually kick them off as soon as they get into the house. But adults are always wearing shoes …. I have never once experienced this request. In our own home we all take our shoes off. Just for comfort more than anything. Not because we are thinking about germs and dirt. We have a fairly clean house with weekly visits from cleaners … I don’t know a single family in our circle who demand shows off when we stop by for a visit ….and have never ever experienced this request. Strange.

And I have never been to a home where we HAVENT taken our shoes off. It’s gross if you don’t have people take them off in your own home. All the poo and pee and dirt and vomit goes in your home

What exactly has happened to you or family friends when you have encountered all this fecal matter and vomit in your or others' homes? Bacterial infections? Viruses?

You are the reason we will never end disease in this country.

So you or loved ones have come down with a disease by encountering pee and vomit tracked into your home on others' shoes? That sounds horrible.

Why take the chance? Someone might track in the bubonic plague? Is that what you want?

For my house it's not a matter of disease. It's just that it's gross. I often sit on the ground in my house so I like to keep it as clean as I can, within reason. Same reason I close the toilet lid before I flush. And run my pillows in the dryer. It's just... cleaner.

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Anonymous wrote:Shoes off people always wear shoes in my home and the office.

Usually they are in religious cults.

This sounds like Never Nudes, but with shoes instead of pants.

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Anonymous wrote:Having sweaty guys’ bare feet on your rug is gross but having everyone’s shoes that walk around outside in excrement daily is grosser.

Perhaps just don’t walk in $hit. It’s easily avoidable if you have functioning eyes

You can't see fecal matter, urine, vomit, and other bodily fluids that have residuals all over streets and sidewalks. Imagine walking all over the streets of a city like San Fran where it smells like urine everywhere, and people are constantly defecating in the streets. Sure, you might not step in a mound, but the residue is everywhere. You really want to walk in the streets of San Fran that's teeming with hepatitis C and then all over your house to track it on the floors and carpets? So nasty.

Well I don’t live in San Francisco nor do I have carpet. We wear shoes inside

There have been studies on this. The stuff you are tracking in often contains heavy metals, etc. Plus it's not great if you have pollen allergies. You should also be changing your clothes after work or a day outside.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are a shoes off household but I can’t walk barefoot, I have plantar fasciitis so I have my cushioned house slippers. My husband kids too wear house slippers, strictly to be used only inside the house.

I think people who wear outdoor shoes inside their house are super weird, also, how can you relax in those shoes???

Maybe you have plantar fasciitis BECAUSE you spend so much time walk-in around in slippers rather than real shoes

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Anonymous wrote:We are an International Family. Shoes off please!

My parents grew on a farm in Europe with mud and and shit everywhere outside so they took their shoes off.

In America my father left the office, in his business suit and dress shoes and drove his new Cadillac home and came in to house shoes on.

We don’t live in a third world County. Taking shoes off is like saying in India we took a crap in an outhouse so we crap in an outhouse here. Why?

Are you this ignorant IRL? You associate taking shoes off today with "crap" and "shit" and "third world" countries with brown people?
I have family in Sweden and in Korea--guess what, both countries are shoes off cultures that are arguably far cleaner and technologically superior to the US.

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Anonymous wrote:We are an International Family. Shoes off please!

My parents grew on a farm in Europe with mud and and shit everywhere outside so they took their shoes off.

In America my father left the office, in his business suit and dress shoes and drove his new Cadillac home and came in to house shoes on.

We don’t live in a third world County. Taking shoes off is like saying in India we took a crap in an outhouse so we crap in an outhouse here. Why?

I grew up in a house that was agnostic c about shoes but now run a shoes off house because we live in the city and walk everywhere and I know enough about what is in city sidewalks to know I don't want it tracked through my house.

I also wipe down bike tires before bringing them in the apartment where we keep them.

Never used an outhouse in my life.

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Anonymous wrote:Asking guests to take their shoes off at a party is so weird to me. I would never think of demanding that to party guests. Floors are meant to be walked on and vacuums exist for a reason.

Signed, someone who doesn’t wear shoes in their house.

Me too! We ask guests when they visit to be shoe-free but when we have a party, heck no. We also host inside outside parties most time so it's also not practical. I just clean the floors after the kitchen gets cleaned...even if that is days after>