Come into my house with shoes on and you’ll be lucky to leave alive
Slippers don’t count as shoes.
Midwest EU when visiting someone’s house.
X: you guys take your shoes off in the house?
Y: yeah but it’s ok, I’m cleaning later on anyway.
Or
Y: Yes please, I just cleaned.
40% of the world weard shoes INSIDE??!
How could anyone feel more comfortable with shoes on than shoes off?
Buncha weirdoes ITT. As soon as I get in the door, my house or yours, you can bet I’m stripping down to just my shoes and nothing else.
I’m an American and you take your shoes off at the door, bub.
Shoes on is fine… if you live in a barn.
I live in America.
If you don’t take your shoes off in my house my wife will scatter your dismembered body across the hillside for the animals to feed on.
Only barbarians wear shoes in their own homes.
Shit, even wearing shoes in an office job can be kinda sus.
edit: DOWNVOTE ME HARDER YOU FILTHY BARBARIAN HORDE, you know in your heart of hearts that I’m right
I work in a cubical, and I take my shoes off before putting my feet under the desk. If it was more accepted I’d take them off outside my cube, but, I live in a country that likes shoes on.
See, you get it
SAME HERE
I often take my shoes off as soon as I can be where nobody will notice them. Under my desk is a no shoes zone.
Same. I have this balance board in my office and it doesn’t even work with shoes on.
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Removed the brand name from the comment.
Nubby balance board for anyone else who was curious
That link shows them using it with shoes on for what it’s worth.
Whoops, sorry about advertising. Didn’t think about that before posting.
The IT guys putting you pc equipment together hate you.
Fun fact, I’m the IT guy lol I dont have to go around the office much, most my day is at my desk also as an IT guy I’d rather crawl under someone’s desk that never put their shoes under there. After walking around the office, in the bathroom, outside on the side walk in your shoes, your socked feet are cleaner.
Worst desks I crawled under were for people who would wear their winter boots. Desks where people change into seperate shoes just in socks or slippers were much preferred.
IT guy’s wearing Birkenstocks
I once had dedicated office slippers under my desk
I’m also team office slippers. They’re so snuggly!
shoes off in the office??
Oh yeah, I’ve worked in a bunch of offices where the policy was to leave shoes at the door, or to change into office slippers etc. It’s not at all uncommon in Helsinki; keeps the office clean in the months when the streets are full of slush and grime
Sounds comfy…
It is! And makes the place feel a bit more human, somehow
Back when I went to an office every day, I usually wore loafers. Easy to slip off and on under your desk without drawing lots of attention.
Ain’t no way I’m taking my shoes off in the office unless I know for a fact that the floor is clean AF.
That’d be the point, yeah
I would never make such a demand of a guest in my home. They are my guest and I will feed them and clean up after.
Don’t need a doormat when you are one I guess
You obviously choose your guests wisely, and surely they are as witty as you.
Don’t have to when living in a country where keeping your shoes on indoors at someone else’s house would be incredibly rude
I don’t mind prioritizing the guest over the host. So, that is how I operate in my home and no one is being rude. Not that either approach is wrong. But, given the rudeness I’ve encountered here it dosen’t feel like avoiding rudeness is the driving factor.
You’re still that salty over some random joke comment?
You can send me the therapy bill
Naw, just replying to pompousness and scrubbing my floors furiously.
Shoes off, you filthy animal
We wear shoes/slippers in the house. For 2 reasons
I have never been able to teach any of the dogs I’ve had to take their shoes off when they come in the house. So the floor is getting dirty anyway even as we speak. Sweeping and vacuuming happens more than once a week.
When you live in a place where the temperatures are below freezing for 6 months out of the year, your house cold soaks. So the floor is most likely going to feel uncomfortably cooler than people who live in a more temperate climate experience. And it doesn’t matter how well insulated or sealed your house is, it will cold soak. Slippers/shoes for the win.
In what backwards and uncultured removed do you have shoes on in the house? That’s filthy.
See map
I’m weirdly conflict conflicted, I mean we are on the map, but it is incorrect.
But most kiwis are shoes off in the house.
Be glad you’re on the map for once
You’re too far away to get accurate data on.
Are Kiwis shoes off outside the house too, or is that just Aussies?
The map is wildly simplistic, as usual for these Internet takes lol.
In Portugal, for example (where I come from), I don’t know anyone that keeps their shoes in-doors 95% the time. If you’re doing some quick work or holding an event, people might be a bit more lack about taking off your shoes, but I (and many my friends) always make an effort to take some kind of home footware when visiting other people’s homes. As a general rule? Everyone puts some socks/sleepers/flipflops on.I am surprised to see some continental Europe here. I know it is different in Ireland and their floors look it.
I prefer shoes off, but I have dogs that track so much dirt and filth in so what’s the point 😭
UK is generally shoes off from everything I’ve seen but ok then
This is bullshit every house I go to for all my friends in USA is shoes off…lol what?
Was recently discussing with someone that it’s really weird that, on the internet, Britain is repeatedly labelled a “shoes on indoors” society, because nobody we know has shoes on indoors (in their own home). Britain is a wet and muddy country.
Does anyone here do shoes on indoors? Where are you all from?
I’ve seen both in the UK. Personally, I’m a shoes off guy. Means less cleaning needed.
For me, in Italy it’s both, in 90% of the cases the situation is like:
You get in, remove the shoes and go barefoot/with slippers, if it’s like a party, festivity etc etc, usually no one cares to get off the shoes
There’s obviously no need for durable footwear when your whole country is a boot.
Living in Italy, both Rome and North, the floors are cold in the winter. We wear slippers at home and tell guests to keep their shoes on until spring.
UK too, shoes off too, have never lived anywhere where shoes on indoors was a common thing
The only reason I can think is that underfloor heating is relatively rare here and if you’ve got hard floors it’ll be cold to walk on, but then slippers exist so idk really
Same with France, many if not most no longer wear shoes inside of their homes.
It might be in including having slippers or “indoor shoes”. Nigeria is there as a shoes on, but from my understanding, its only slippers/flip flops specificly for indoors, that are normal.
Edit: Talked to my Nigerian friend, shoes off is expected, and slippers are just a personal preference. The map is just wrong.
No, in “shoes off” countries it is very normal to wear slippers or other kinds of indoor footwear, so it wouldn’t make any sense to count those as “shoes on”. I just think the data used for this map was very faulty.
Same for Japan. No chance they’re wearing full hiking boots or sneakers inside the house in Japan - the shoe cabinet is built in right next to the front door of houses, tiny apartments, temples, many restaurants, etc. I assume the schools still do too.
Canada is labelled as shoes off but we also have slippers.
Although not sure about Nigeria, are slippers and flip flops like expected to be worn or just available?
For me I have slippers which are worn often but it’s not expected that anyone inside wear them. Most people just wear socks if they come to visit. And myself I go barefoot unless my feet get cold then I grab the slippers.
Although not sure about Nigeria, are slippers and flip flops like expected to be worn or just available?
In my (limitted) experience, its expected. When I visited a friend who was Nigerian, they offered me slippers to wear in the house, and they felt uncomfortable going barefoot in my (Canadian) house.
Edit: Talked to my Nigerian friend, shoes off is expected, and slippers are just a personal preference. The map is just wrong.
Yeah that’s probably why it’s labelled as shoes on then I imagine and why Canada is labelled shoes off since any sort of foot covering is expected / not expected.
Correction: asked my friend, and shoes off is the normal expectation in Nigeria. Slippers are just a personal preference, so the chart is just wrong.
Grew up in the UK, in a “shoes on” household. We just gave them a good scrape on the doormat when coming inside.
Since then, I’ve lived in a few different countries and am 100% converted to the shoes off way of being. I agree it’s much better.
Weird. I also grew up in the UK, and I’m in my 50s now, it’s always been shoes off in my and my family’s houses. Unless it was a quick visit.
Same goes for my friend’s houses.I’ve worked in the other people’s houses for well over 30 years in different capacities, from ‘clean’ jobs such as surveying to the more physical jobs of handyman, plastering etc. And a high percentage of the time it was shoes off as well.
Or separate clean shoes for inside.
Basically it’s easier to change my shoes than it is to clean a carpet or floor after I have trampled dirt around.Ok, yeah, you’d get people say “don’t bother about your shoes” if I was only doing a survey, but I took them off anyways.
The only time I wouldn’t remove my shoes is if the houses were cleaner outside than inside, but that hardly ever happened.If I had to guess I would say that in all the thousands and thousands of houses I’ve visited in the UK that 90% were shoes off.
That’s funny because, thinking back on it, I’d say about 90% of my friends and family were shoes on.
Perhaps it’s regional. I grew up in the South East, for reference. Not London, but in one of the surrounding counties.
I reckon it depends on how warm someone’s home is and how good their circulation is. If I don’t have shoes on indoors, then for half the year it feels like my feet have been stabbed because they get so cold (slippers are not enough), but I don’t wear the same shoes indoors as outdoors. I suspect that if we set the heating higher and the house wasn’t constructed in a way that makes the floor always much colder than a few inches above the floor, this wouldn’t be a problem.
That’s interesting, I hqve a different experience - i used to have horrible foot circulation as a kid but i got into the habit of never wearing socks in my house (don’t like the texture, enjoy feeling air on feet and them being cooler) and i haven’t had the bad foot circulation since then… as far as i can tell. I have been wearing them for this winter though.
half the year it feels like my feet have been stabbed because they get so cold (slippers are not enough)
Get some down booties. It’s like your feet are coremoveded in a loving embrace of warmth and comfort.
To me, the big decider is plush carpets. The first level of my house is mostly hardwood and tile. The second floor, and living rooms have plush carpets. So if someone is unloading a car, getting ready to leave, or just general in/out stuff, sure leave the shoes on. Once you’ve decided to stay, get those shoes off and be welcome in the cozy areas of the house.
Which, coincidentally, is also the areas where other warm stuff is.
The same in NZ. Is this that you never ever wear shoes on inside?
Is it acceptable to walk into your own house and walk around with shoes on? Sure.
Do most people do that most of the time? In my experience, people will be shoes off in their own home most of the time, but it’s not some big taboo to keep them on if you’re popping in to grab something.
Yeah as a kiwi this resonates. But it’s weird to see us labelled as a “shoes on” country when even shoes outside are optional lol.
Yeah I’m US and my parents were always at least annoyed if we wore our shoes further into the house than right by the door.
Same for the U.S. Sometimes downstairs or in common areas for guests.
US here. Depends really. If I’m working around the house I like my shoes on but when it’s time to shutdown. They off, maybe some flip flops if I head out to the pool
Does anyone here do shoes on indoors?
In/out doors doesn’t really make a difference. If I need shoes outside, I’m probably wearing them inside. And vice versa.
It would be different if I had carpet. Carpet is impossible to thoroughly clean in situ. I would never want outside shoes on non-rental carpet. But I’ve got 100+ year old hardwood floors that have seen way worse than I’m tracking in.
My parents keep their shoes on, I take mine off.
the opposite for me, my floors are dirty, i can handle it
wouldn’t be dirty if your shoes were off!
yeah but then i have to take my shoes off and put them on multiple times a day which is annoying
also i can live with a dirty floor, does not bother me, full of essential dirt to help keep my immune system on edge 😁
You must not have pets, or children.
So when I visited my friend that moved there, the rule was if you aren’t muddy shoes on in the first floor is fine but no shoes on the second floor.
They also have guests slippers for the first floor. I think this kinda makes sense since they like having parties then they don’t allow anyone upstairs.
I have no idea why anyone would want to wear shoes in the house.
It’s so constricting and unnecessary. Do y’all not clean your floors? Do you feel like your floors are gross and shouldn’t be touching your bare feet?
When you lay on the couch do you need to take your shoes off and then put them back on when you get up to go make a snack in the kitchen?
Makes zero sense to me
What if you have to quickly go inside and grab something? Do you take your shoes off for that or just walk inside?
Shoes are ok inside they’re not mandatory
Yes I take my shoes off? I don’t want to dirty up my floors
Everyone cleans their floors 🤷♀️ the common living spaces don’t have to be pristine and most people don’t wear their shoes upstairs to their bedrooms where you would more reasonably expect an immaculate room
Everyone cleans their floors but obviously the floors get a lot dirtier a lot quicker if you just waltz in with your shoes you’ve walked around in outdoors.
Maybe it’s a level of cleanliness thing but I wouldn’t want my floors to be as dirty as they get when walking around with shoes on tbh. If it doesn’t bother someone then it doesn’t bother them ofc.
Could be a level of cleanliness thing in part but I also think you’re overestimating just how dirty things get
Very few people take muddy boots inside lol but there’s also little reason to care about mild dust and dirt you can just sweep.
I mean kids can actually develop asthma if your house is too clean so I’m highly skeptical what is almost always an unnoticeable amount of dust and dirt actually matters with regards to a healthy standard of cleanliness
I wear shoes. I know from my front hall (whatever is the correct word for room where people leave shoes, coats etc.) how much dirt shoes carry to the house. And from visiting people in the same building who don’t take their shoes off. I just can’t imagine why someone would choose to carry that dirt further into the house.
I just couldn’t get used to that. I like things neat.
almost always an unnoticeable amount of dust and dirt
I guess you’re used to that dirt and whatnot but for someone who leaves shoes in the front hall, it’s definitely not unnoticeable lol.
Moved to a shoes off country over a decade ago.
That’s EXACTLY what I do.
I have a pair of slip-ons I’ll throw on when i need a quick trip outside
Do you take your shoes off for that or just walk inside?
Yeah shoes off. It’s a pain in the butt.
However, you often wear shoes that are easier to take off / put on.
Also, you just learn to really check that you’ve got everything before you put your shoes on.
I take one off and hop. Or throw a rug on the floor and shuffle.
I got in and out of my house about 50 times per day, and my feet are size 13.5s, so all my shoes are tight (they don’t make most shoes in anything larger than 13s). Plus my back isn’t what it once was. If I had to bend over and take my shoes off 50 times a day, I’d actually lose it, “it” being my L3-4 disc.
Whereas, litereally nothing bad has ever happened to me because I wear shoes in the house. It’s all some hypothetical … I don’t know what exactly. Grossness? Is grossness hurting me?
Tell you what’s ‘gross,’ as a thought exercise tho - walking around barefooted where my dogs and cats walk barefooted, they’re not exactly wearing shoes outside, or in the litterbox, nor are they putting a handkerchief down under their assholes when they sit down.
But a pair of flip-flops for in the house plus floor cleaning regularly… I don’t really worry about it either way. IDK why anyone does.
You dragging in shit from outside is not a “hypothetical” lol
I’m sick less than most of my friends on average and I wear shoes indoors when it’s more convenient than taking them off. Germaphobes can hate it but I hardly think it’s really that bad for anyone’s health
I was thinking about just keeping to floors cleaner lol
Well that’s fair then. I do clean my floors once a week. Maybe they’re dirtier than others’ on average, but I think I’d clean them once a week no matter how much dirt there is. So I guess to me it doesn’t make a noticeable difference, but I would agree that wearing shoes indoors objectively brings more dirt into the house.
IDK why anyone does.
My floors are dirty enough without wearing shoes inside. Shoes would make it ten times worse. Shoes are uncomfortable. And I don’t want to turn my socks black because my floors are so dirty.
Being a cripple makes yours very specific circumstances. Most people can bend over at will with no ill effects.
You need a cobbler, then.
For what? Sounds like they’ve found a solution that works for them.
For shoes that fit properly. Wearing too tight shoes all the time is not great for the feet.
I got in and out of my house about 50 times per day
I mean I just wouldn’t wear enclosed shoes at that point. Flip-flops outside and barefoot/socks indoors. Proper shoes go on when going farther away from house.
Laced shoes are a pita to flip on and off. If you’re in a dry area there’s no reason to take off your shoes.
If you can wear sandals, or it’s a wet sloppy environment, then yeah it makes sense to take them off at the door.
Even in dry areas you will be dragging in dirt from outside
I mean, if you’re doing yard work or something understandable to leave your shoes on in your own home if you’re coming inside for a snack or to grab something etc I do that all the time.
But like, if I invite someone over to hang out for a few hours I expect them to take their shoes off tying the laces isn’t that complicated.
And if I am taking the day off and don’t really need to leave the house for any reason I won’t even touch my shoes I’m going to be barefoot or in slippers all God damn day.
?! You wear your yard work shoes in the house? Those usually come off before I go inside even if it is a quick grab n go.
Only if it’s a quick trip <3 minutes after using a boot scraper and brush. Unless I know I’ve stepped in something particularly sticky like mud.
Edit: and only if it’s my own home, not someone else’s
Being barefoot is a luxury not everyone has. Combine that with not being able to wear slip on shoes and it’s a bit of a bigger problem.
I can get it for some environments. For example in central Asia, coming from a nomadic lifestyle and living in yurts (big tents) it’s totally understandable to keep your shoes on. Maybe the building style is a continuation of the yurt and lends to similar choices.
I was once in Paraguay and their buildings typically don’t have a hallway, every room is accessible from the outside. Most of their life is also spent outside, like cooking and eating. It’s nice weather for most of the year, why not.
But for European style weather and houses, I will always take my shoes off.
My friend told me he felt the same way about jeans which is why he wears sweatpants everywhere. I didn’t understand it with those and I don’t get it with shoes. Both are super comfortable to me. Only times I’m not comfortable in shoes is when I’m forced to wear anything besides tennis shoes (mainly work boots and dress shoes).
Actually I absolutely agree with your friend and I don’t even stop at jeans.
If I get home after work and I have zero plans to leave the house again or have anyone over I am in my Pajamas as soon as I can get my pants off, even if it’s only 5pm lol
That’s not me. It’s not uncommon for me to sleep in my regular clothes as soon as I get home cause I’m too exhausted to bother changing. My pajamas only see use early in the morning unless I’m jumping immediately into the shower after waking up (which is usually what I do on weekdays).
You sleep in your clothes, wear shoes in the house, and prefer jeans to softer pants…? 😳
Yes I am the weirdest man alive.
I feel like I’m probably older than you.
Most likely. I’m a young boy of 30.
I just find regular clothes so uncomfortable in a relaxing setting like lying on the couch and watching tv.
Perfectly fine with them If I’m at work or going about my day outside but pajamas and loose clothing are just so much nicer to me than jeans or collared shirts at home
Collared shirts aren’t even as bad a jeans for me. I can unbutton a little and be just fine, the jeans are pretty thick and have seams though. They can get uncomfortable quick.
