Extended family members wear hiking boots that leave scuff marks on my hardwood floors

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have foot and ankle issues and it’s painful for me to go barefoot. Please don’t prioritize scuffs on your floors over your guests health.

I wear leg braces and have one pair of shoes to wear with them. My shoes don't scuff floors like hiking boots do. Do your shoes leave marks?

No. I wear sneakers. They don’t harm peoples floors.

Just clean your floors after the party, op. A bunch of people wearing no shoes in a house that isn’t theirs is a situation rife for broken toes or foot pain. Not to mention gross stuff like athletes foot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have foot and ankle issues and it’s painful for me to go barefoot. Please don’t prioritize scuffs on your floors over your guests health.

I bring house shoes w me, you can too. It’s not hard.

What are “house shoes”? Little slippers aren’t enough support. I wear sneakers or Birkenstock milanos in my own house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

We are not a shoes off household, we let people do what they want and most kids take shoes off but adults leave theirs on.

Just ask your guests to wear different shoes than their boots. Some guests need shoes and no slippers are not shoes and boot covers are slippery.

My mom has had 2 hip replacements, my MIL is an amputee, and my father has balance issues. All these people need sturdy, stable, non-slip shoes to be safe. Some people need ankle support and perhaps that’s what the hiking boots are for. No adult guest owes you an explanation of their health issues, but you could ask that they wear sneakers or shoes with non-marking soles.

No one should wear hiking boots for ankle stability! Anyone needing ankle support should be wearing an ankle brace and, especially with chronic instability, custom orthotics.

My family has genetic, chronic instability in our ankles. My youngest has worn bilateral DAFOs since he was 15 months old. I've had 2 surgeries on one ankle and, in addition to a plate, have a syndesmosis tightrope running through my fibula/tibula to help stablize the ankle.

We are a no-shoes house because of allergies and, frankly, it's just dirty. Anyone coming to our house is informed and we either provide slippers/covers or guests bring house shoes to change in to. My own mother has a pair of house sneakers that she keeps at our house with a 2nd set of custom orthotics. We do make allowances for people who are in a walking boot or other assistive device.

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NP here. I once had a sprained ankle and my ortho told me to wear hiking boots. The ankle brace wasn’t fitting me right because my foot heel was super narrow but my ankle bones sticks out a lot. The hiking boots I had worn to the appointment for me so he gave me a neoprene brace to wear along with the hiking boot.

The no shoes people on this thread are being very ableist.

[Anonymous]

Who are you gross lazy people who don’t or aren’t willing to clean your floors after you have a party? It’s part of hosting. If you have a bunch of people over to your house your house will get dirtier. Deal with it or don’t host.

And the reason people in Canada take off their shoes is that it’s snow and mud season there nine month out of the year. We rarely have that in DC.

[Anonymous]

This is my favorite debate on DCUM! So many feelings.

Am I the only one who just doesn’t care one bit either way? Wear shoes, don’t wear shoes. Sometimes I do sometimes I do based on something or nothing at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm trying to picture a large family gathering with 30+ pairs of shoes by the door and everyone walking around in bare feet.

And as a South Asian person, I've never been to a South Asian household gathering where there are not 30+ shoes on the porch/garage/foyer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate shoes of households with the fury of a thousand burning suns. If you don’t want to clean your floors after people leave don’t have people over.
Send your family to my house where we don’t worry about this ridiculous sh!t.

Some people’s shoes actually damage the floors but you go off!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have foot and ankle issues and it’s painful for me to go barefoot. Please don’t prioritize scuffs on your floors over your guests health.

Then bring other shoes to change into.

+1. I have foot problems and need the support of shoes. I have shoes that I wear only indoors. This isn’t difficult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who are you gross lazy people who don’t or aren’t willing to clean your floors after you have a party? It’s part of hosting. If you have a bunch of people over to your house your house will get dirtier. Deal with it or don’t host.

And the reason people in Canada take off their shoes is that it’s snow and mud season there nine month out of the year. We rarely have that in DC.

Yes, DC never has mud.

BTW, you don’t know Canada very well. Most cities are so cold in winter, mud isn’t a problem. The ground is too frozen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is my favorite debate on DCUM! So many feelings.

Am I the only one who just doesn’t care one bit either way? Wear shoes, don’t wear shoes. Sometimes I do sometimes I do based on something or nothing at all.

Same. I laughed when I saw how many pages this got to. The never-ending debate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm trying to picture a large family gathering with 30+ pairs of shoes by the door and everyone walking around in bare feet.

And as a South Asian person, I've never been to a South Asian household gathering where there are not 30+ shoes on the porch/garage/foyer

Same here except East Asian. And everyone knows to wear socks or house slippers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm trying to picture a large family gathering with 30+ pairs of shoes by the door and everyone walking around in bare feet.

And as a South Asian person, I've never been to a South Asian household gathering where there are not 30+ shoes on the porch/garage/foyer

+1

This is totally normal and no big deal. Any Muslim man or woman or child who's ever been to a mosque, also somehow survives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have foot and ankle issues and it’s painful for me to go barefoot. Please don’t prioritize scuffs on your floors over your guests health.

I wear leg braces and have one pair of shoes to wear with them. My shoes don't scuff floors like hiking boots do. Do your shoes leave marks?

No. I wear sneakers. They don’t harm peoples floors.

Just clean your floors after the party, op. A bunch of people wearing no shoes in a house that isn’t theirs is a situation rife for broken toes or foot pain. Not to mention gross stuff like athletes foot.

What a weird overdramatic take. You think people gathering together for a few house to eat a meal are suddenly going to suffer from broken toes and athletes foot? Are you some kind of never nude but with shoes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate shoes of households with the fury of a thousand burning suns. If you don’t want to clean your floors after people leave don’t have people over.
Send your family to my house where we don’t worry about this ridiculous sh!t.

So you hate all Asian households?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who are you gross lazy people who don’t or aren’t willing to clean your floors after you have a party? It’s part of hosting. If you have a bunch of people over to your house your house will get dirtier. Deal with it or don’t host.

And the reason people in Canada take off their shoes is that it’s snow and mud season there nine month out of the year. We rarely have that in DC.

Yes, DC never has mud.

BTW, you don’t know Canada very well. Most cities are so cold in winter, mud isn’t a problem. The ground is too frozen.

Do you know Canada? I grew up in interior alaska and snow that gets packed on your shoes is filthy and dirty. I wouldn’t call it mud per se but it’s not just clean snow and no one wears shoes inside in winter for this reason. We take them off in the Arctic entryway.