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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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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?