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[quote=Anonymous]There is a very easy way to be shoes free.  Have your family and kids' friends be shoes free and let any guests keep their shoes on.  Many will notice on their own and take their shoes off, others won't.  No big deal.  Don't be a perfectionist about it and you will still track in less dirt from the outside.

I personally am grossed out by shoes free to an extent.  I don't like the idea of sweaty stinky feet spreading bacteria all over my house.  I prefer shoes.  Yeah, they may track in some outside dirt but they are less likely to actually bring a bunch of microbial stuff into the house.

We lived in Canada for a while where most people are shoes free (at least in the city where we lived).  So we were all shoes free within reason, and our child picked up the habit the best and continues it here years later without us even asking.  It's very ingrained.  We are back to maybe 60% shoes free.  But we need slippers in the winter to feel warm.  I grew up with slippers as well so that's fine.

In Canada even workmen were shoes free.  They would either bring their own shoe covers or take shoes off (which again kind of grossed me out--don't need someone's stinky sweat).  We had movers who would actually blindly slide shoes on at the door while holding enormous pieces of furniture as they exited.  I kept telling them it was unnecessary, I didn't require it, we were moving out anyway.  They insisted!  Canadian politeness I guess.  [/quote]

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