Anonymous wrote:It’s not particularly weird, but I’m not a fan of situations where the host asks you to remove shoes and there’s no advance warning that it’s a shoe-free house and no provision of slippers. From cold feet, to holey socks, to athlete’s foot, there are a lot of reasons why some of us are more comfortable with shoes on and need some sort of heads-up if we must remove them.

I'm Asian. You know 9 out of 10 times that shoes are coming off. Get WOKE!

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Anonymous wrote:This could have been a great thread but the shoe posters ruined it!

I know! Well, now I want to report that I have a no shoe house but it’s on a voluntary basis. Meaning guests don’t have to comply.

Also, I keep lots of toilet paper in the bathrooms along with a plunger & a plastic knife.

Plastic knife?!?!?

You have not been around DCUM long enough...

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Anonymous wrote:This could have been a great thread but the shoe posters ruined it!

I know! Well, now I want to report that I have a no shoe house but it’s on a voluntary basis. Meaning guests don’t have to comply.

Also, I keep lots of toilet paper in the bathrooms along with a plunger & a plastic knife.

Plastic knife?!?!?

Anonymous wrote:This could have been a great thread but the shoe posters ruined it!

I know! Well, now I want to report that I have a no shoe house but it’s on a voluntary basis. Meaning guests don’t have to comply.

Also, I keep lots of toilet paper in the bathrooms along with a plunger & a plastic knife.

Trust me the agent is fine with that

Thank you shoe wearing poster!

I would rather wear my filthy shoes into someone's house than go barefoot in someone's house. I do not want to walk around on their floors barefoot. Warts? Mold? Dirt? Plus the smell of feet.

My house is clean, and if something unsavory is on my shoes (which I know it is) . . . well, I have a housekeeper and if she does not get any nastiness I figure whatever nastiness is there will help my immune system in one way or another.

Non shoe houses are gross.

And if I am going to an open house and an agent asks me to remove my shoes, no thanks and adios!

I am one of those people who will just ignore you when you say no more shoe posts.

I will wear my shoes right into your no shoes house as if I didn't notice all the shoes by the door or didn't hear you say it was a no shoe house. It's because, for various reasons, I wear shoes from getting out of the shower to putting my pjs on right before getting in bed. And I sleep in socks.

If you don't like it and let me know I will thank you for giving me the opportunity to never come to your house again. And please, bag up some hot dogs for me to take home, thanks!

Anonymous wrote:omg ^^ I am a DCUM mess. Was trying to tell you I don't measure coffee grounds either.

Blaspheme! Get a scale (or better yet a grinder with a built in scale).
You're not going to get consistently great coffee if you don't measure. You might get lucky every once in a while... maybe that's part of the fun?

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Anonymous wrote:I once stayed at a friend's house on an island in Maine where there was no electricity other than a generator. They had indoor plumbing and an outhouse, but you were expected to use the outhouse during daylight hours. With the inside toilet, you flushed only for #2. Showers were limited and if you took one, you had to turn the water on only while getting wet or rinsing off. It was different...but made me realize how wasteful our creature comforts can be sometimes.

This reminds me of staying with friends of my parents who had a boat - like a 40ft thing with a couple of cabins. They had a rule that you could only use 5 pieces of toilet paper at a time. It was fine... and I understand that the plumbing on ships is different.. but I did worry about what would happen if I really needed more!

Omg if I was restricted to 5 pieces of toilet paper I would have turned around and left immediately. No way that would fly in my world!

You can’t clean yourself with just a square or two? What kind of excrement do you have?

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I don’t understand these people who clog toilets and use a half roll to clean themselves. I don’t have huge no.2s

I do. I'm a guy, that's what I do. A "square or two" wouldn't even begin to get it done. Nor even five. Usually I have to wipe three or four times with a handful of TP before I'm clean.

Change your diet

Seriously. A handful of tp? Go to the doctor.

How much do you use???

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Anonymous wrote:I once stayed at a friend's house on an island in Maine where there was no electricity other than a generator. They had indoor plumbing and an outhouse, but you were expected to use the outhouse during daylight hours. With the inside toilet, you flushed only for #2. Showers were limited and if you took one, you had to turn the water on only while getting wet or rinsing off. It was different...but made me realize how wasteful our creature comforts can be sometimes.

This reminds me of staying with friends of my parents who had a boat - like a 40ft thing with a couple of cabins. They had a rule that you could only use 5 pieces of toilet paper at a time. It was fine... and I understand that the plumbing on ships is different.. but I did worry about what would happen if I really needed more!

Omg if I was restricted to 5 pieces of toilet paper I would have turned around and left immediately. No way that would fly in my world!

You can’t clean yourself with just a square or two? What kind of excrement do you have?

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I don’t understand these people who clog toilets and use a half roll to clean themselves. I don’t have huge no.2s

I do. I'm a guy, that's what I do. A "square or two" wouldn't even begin to get it done. Nor even five. Usually I have to wipe three or four times with a handful of TP before I'm clean.

Change your diet

Seriously. A handful of tp? Go to the doctor.

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Anonymous wrote:I once stayed at a friend's house on an island in Maine where there was no electricity other than a generator. They had indoor plumbing and an outhouse, but you were expected to use the outhouse during daylight hours. With the inside toilet, you flushed only for #2. Showers were limited and if you took one, you had to turn the water on only while getting wet or rinsing off. It was different...but made me realize how wasteful our creature comforts can be sometimes.

This reminds me of staying with friends of my parents who had a boat - like a 40ft thing with a couple of cabins. They had a rule that you could only use 5 pieces of toilet paper at a time. It was fine... and I understand that the plumbing on ships is different.. but I did worry about what would happen if I really needed more!

Omg if I was restricted to 5 pieces of toilet paper I would have turned around and left immediately. No way that would fly in my world!

You can’t clean yourself with just a square or two? What kind of excrement do you have?

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I don’t understand these people who clog toilets and use a half roll to clean themselves. I don’t have huge no.2s

I do. I'm a guy, that's what I do. A "square or two" wouldn't even begin to get it done. Nor even five. Usually I have to wipe three or four times with a handful of TP before I'm clean.

That is disgusting. I only need a few squares to get myself squeaky clean. Not sure what is in your bowels.

Lol at wearing shoes indoors. How gauche.

This could have been a great thread but the shoe posters ruined it!

Anonymous wrote:I visited a couple in which the wife insisted she was allergic to all smells (like, not just perfume, but any scented soap or shampoo, flowers, food, etc.). They provided unscented Rainbath for all their guests' lathering needs, which was fine for me but not for anyone without straight, untreated hair, and no one was allowed to wear bug spray.

They lived in the county, surrounded by farms, and were annoyed by the farmers.

probably Mast Cell Activation. It can make people miserable.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not particularly weird, but I’m not a fan of situations where the host asks you to remove shoes and there’s no advance warning that it’s a shoe-free house and no provision of slippers. From cold feet, to holey socks, to athlete’s foot, there are a lot of reasons why some of us are more comfortable with shoes on and need some sort of heads-up if we must remove them.

This is such a common expectation now its weird to be put off by it. And as there’s so much supporting evidence of all the literal crap shoes bring in-I find shoe wearing homes gross.

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