I have been reading a lot lately about not wearing outside shoes in the house and it interests me even more because I’ve been saving to re-carpet my whole house. It hits me every now and then about how to do things though, like, say I’m cooking all day on Sunday then need to take the trash out. I’m assuming it’s change shoes, then say the grandkids stop by and want to go go for a bike ride? I’m assuming it’s change shoes. I guess maybe what I’m asking is how many baskets by how many doors with how many pairs of slip-ons (both indoor and out) do I need?
TIL I learned some people wear shoes all the time. What a time to be alive.
I learned from TV, American shows like Seinfeld or Simpsons where the characters are always wearing shoes. Growing up in Canada we didn’t do that and I thought it was weird
I have been rewatching Friends and it drives me nuts. They regularly jump on top of the couch and the coffee table with their outside shoes on…
That’s super dependent on the social group.
Mr Rogers had inside and outside shoes so that’s the end of the line, champ
You come from outside
You keep your shoes on
Sounds like it dirties up your apartment and is lazy, but okay, it’s about laziness I guess
You come from outside
You switch to different shoes
Makes no sense to me. Why would you do that?
It is a mixture of things. Carpet gets dirty quicker and is harder to clean than hard floors. Hard floors are worse for your feet, ankles, knees, and cause more pain. It is healthier to walk on hard floors with shoes on, padding and carpet wasn’t much of a deal (closer to grass).
Many people are moving to house shoes, I personally don’t like them. But then again I don’t like walking on tile floors for long periods of time either. It encourages sitting/laying down more often.
We just have those regular carpets (not whole floor carpeting) and socks inside. Don’t have to clean the carpets very often and isn’t hard on the feet or anything.
Wait that’s not just artists being lazy?
So is it not rude to leave your shoes on in some places?
That’s just their workplace. They aren’t going to stop to have Kremer take off his shows. Also for people like Tom Cruise, the shows are used to change the perception of height.
Uh ya, it’s called TV not real life.
They are on set, not in their comfy house.
At least that explains Seinfeld. Not sure why they would do it in the simpsons. I’d imagine it’s because the writer does this shit at home too like a savage.
People wear shoes indoors? That sounds utterly barbaric to me lol
Go on with your bubble boy mentality. Git.
Do you wear gloves before opening public doors too?
I think in this example it’d be the shoe wearers wearing gloves inside all day
How often do you vacuum mop your floor?
When you come in you leave the shoes in the mudroom and when you go out you put those shoes back on. What exactly is the issue here? This is like asking how do you shower without clothes on.
What if you aint got a “mudroom?” Whatever that even is… Check your privilege.
Foyer, mudroom, entrance way. If you don’t have a small cube between a storm door and a front door, then just as you come inside.
This isn’t some privilege thing, it’s literally just an area of your house or apartment. Different environments have different entryways for the houses there. No need to be so hostile just because you don’t know what a “mudroom” is.
Then you just take it off at the front door area. Have some sandals you can slip on in half a second if you need to take the trash out. “Check your privilege.” How fucking cringey.
Excuse the fuck out of me for not having a whole separate room for that.
I grew up in Texas. I understand your confusion. Houses are oriented a little differently here, but think of the “mudroom” as the garage. You know how you have a side door and a front door? And the side door is usually sort of attached to the garage, basement, or maybe laundry room? It is just that. A lot of people have a spot right inside that door, off to the side, for piling shoes. Otherwise you have a rack when you walk in, or you can use the closet right by your front door. It isn’t really a separate room. Good idea to have mats on both sides of the door. For whatever reason people are obsessed with split levels up here, so there is easier access to basement type areas.
Excuse me but my cardboard box only has one room. Check your privilege!
How many fucking doors do you have that you’re concerned about multiple shoes and multiple baskets brother?
I can’t imagine sitting on my couch with shoes on.
People wear shoes in their house like it’s normal? Wtf?! Fucking savages
We did growing up. Most people I know are indifferent minus a few friends. I don’t wear them at home now, but I don’t see the big deal in keeping them on once in a while.
Do you not have carpets or what?
I couldn’t imagine fucking up all my carpets and furniture over time from being too lazy to take shoes off.
Plus I just don’t understand how it’s comfortable to wear shoes all day long. I usually can’t wait to get home just so I can take my shoes off. I don’t feel like I can truly relax without them off.
Do you wear your shoes when you’re in bed and snuggling on the couch under a blanket too???
Yes and what’s best is we can be fully relaxed while having shoes on anywhere outdoor as an added benefit.
Savage!
Do you not have carpets or what?
I don’t, no. Only one room in my house has carpet, and they’re from the original owner and already gross anyway, and that room is a storage room. The rest of the house is hardwood (which needs to be redone) or linoleum.
I couldn’t imagine fucking up all my carpets and furniture over time from being too lazy to take shoes off.
It’s not always laziness, I prefer just having my shoes on unless I’ve got my feet on the couch, then it’s just socks. People have their own preferences, there’s nothing wrong with that.
Plus I just don’t understand how it’s comfortable to wear shoes all day long. I usually can’t wait to get home just so I can take my shoes off. I don’t feel like I can truly relax without them off.
🤷♀️ Don’t know, I just feel more comfortable in shoes an/or socks. I’ve never understood people who have to take their shoes and socks off as soon as they get home, you’re just getting dust and dirt and whatever else all over your feet.
Do you wear your shoes when you’re in bed and snuggling on the couch under a blanket too???
No, shoes don’t go on the furniture, unless I’d get too high in the past and fall asleep with them on. They’re warm and protect my feet.
I’ll also add, I have a dog, so, to me, it’s a moot point. He’s not wearing shoes, and he’s going to drag even worse stuff in the house on his paws, and I’m not cleaning his paws literally every time he’s gotta go out and pee, so… 🤷♀️
Idk, I see all of the points people are making about why you shouldn’t wear them inside, but I don’t understand why people are acting like they’ve never even considered the concept of just… Wearing shoes inside? Like, to me, it’s more astonishing (as a former chef) that people will cook barefoot, like, haven y’all never seen what hot oils can do to bare skin? That’s insane to me, but I’m not losing my mind over the concept.
Same here. Wood floors, 2 dogs, 2 cats, 2 kids. I will still argue that wood floors are cleaner than carpet but cat litter, dogs don’t wear shoes and it doesn’t snow here or anything like that.
I just don’t have the sort of controlled situation that people who ban shoes in house seem to have. Yes we wipe the dogs’ paws before they come in in the summer when it’s muddy and yes I have gardening boots that don’t come inside, but I put on shoes when I get dressed. We do run the Roomba twice a day, have a biweekly cleaning service, central A/C with filters and an air purifier, it’s not filthy by any means but the floor is the floor, we walk on it.
Like, if you are having a party and people are dressed up, they are barefoot? When they go on the back deck do they run to the front and grab their shoes then take them off again to come inside to grab a drink? Is it just that people up north are used to getting undressed when they come inside anyway so shoes are just like coats and scarves and hats to you? Like OP I have questions.
OP specifically mentioned grandkids, so I’m assuming they are on the older side. When you get old, it can be nice to have the extra support of shoes, even inside your house. I never wear shoes inside but my parents (in their late 60’s) always do since their house has hardwood floors.
My dad has a few pairs of boat shoes for this reason, and my mom uses her old pairs of Birkenstocks.
I have sneakers that I only wear indoors.
Right? It’s disgusting. I don’t even see how some people can rationalise it. Would rather hurt my feet going barefoot/with socks on than drag in a thousand contaminants from the outside.
I actually noped out of a potential roommate situation when I saw 20 pairs of shoes on the stairs leading to the apartments front door.
So… I keep crocs at the door for those moments where I need to step out for a moment. slip on, slip off. For anything more… extensive than checking the mail or running out the trash; yeah, I put on proper shoes.
You’re house will be cleaner if you don’t wear shoes inside. If your feet get cold, socks, or slippers that stay inside are useful, but I generally just go barefoot. (or socked,)
Updoot for Crocs!
I have a shoe tray near the front door, so anyone coming in has a place to put their shoes.
For mine, it has
- Crocs, for those quick errands like taking out the trash. Easy on and off!
- Sneakers, for anything longer, like walking the dog or going to the grocery. It’s no big deal to take a few seconds putting them on, since it’s for something that takes a while
- if I wore boots or work shoes or dress shoes, I’ll leave them there until they dry. No big deal to get them from my closet, since I don’t use them every day, and it would be only once
- socks for inside
This is the way. My wife has a pair of crocs just for around the house.
and now, I’m having visions of all the mandalorians in crocs.
with socks. because whose going to criticize a Mandolorian going full on dad mode?
I can’t imagine wearing shoes indoors (at home), My feet are kept warm by socks.
Added benefit of socks is being able to do a ‘turn on your heel’ little spin 180 move.
It’s fun and satisfying, for me at least.
We have tiled floors and a sock lets you rotate easily on one heel, when you want to turn around. I never gave the saying any thought before this(“to turn on ones heel”).
My feet are kept warm by keeping my house at a temperature where I am comfortable.
So… burning energy rather then improving local insulation.
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Doesn’t that destroy your socks prematurely?
Doesn’t wearing your shoes constantly destroy your shoes prematurely?
They’re a helluva lot more durable than my socks.
Are you wearing shoes without socks?
No, the whole point of socks is to protect your shoes from your feet.
You know what? We could just put a plastic layer over the carpet to extend its life. That way we’d have shoes plus plastic and our carpet would always technically be clean, too!
Not sure who’s down voting you, but socks are meant to be in shoes and shoes are meant to be in contact with the ground. Shoes have rubber soles, socks are cloth. One of these things is much more durable than the other.
I have 90% hardwood floors and my socks get destroyed if I don’t wear slippers of some sort.
What are your floors made of???
hardwood
Sandals for a quick trip outside shoes for everything else. No shoes inside.
I don’t understand this question. Are there people who wear their filthy, disgusting shoes around their nice, clean house? What animals and monsters do this? And how do you afford to constantly sweep and mop your house five times a day to keep your house clean? Or do you actually not do this and live in a disgusting, filthy, dirt-covered house all the time?
How revolting!
I don’t even wear my outside clothes inside. I change when I get home into comfy pajama clothes to relax in.
Or do you actually not do this and live in a disgusting, filthy, dirt-covered house all the time?
Sadly, in my limited experience with people who wear their shoes inside by default, it has been this one.
Outside shoes …. In a carpeted house!
No, and also no
Throw in a fully carpeted bathroom too.
Jesus Christ, some places…
My house is held together by mouse shit and the chucks of flesh I’ve lost trying to keep it up right lol
Ya know what, I work at Home Depot. Maybe we could help you with that.
And I know Jimmy Carter is in hospice now, but I bet he knows a few people who can help!
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How dirty is your outside, that this is a concern? Are other places strewn with trash and excrement? The sidewalk outside my house and the grass in my yard isn’t any dirtier than the century-old cottage between them.
It’s dirtier than the inside of my house, and I don’t want to track that inside.
Is that truly so difficult for you to grasp?
How often do you go outside?
How often do you go outside?
I’m in and out at least ten times a day. Hauling firewood, tending a greenhouse, shoveling snow, walking to work depending on weather, going outside to enjoy nature, etc. Changing my clothes each time would be extremely impractical.
Not everyone trudges through mud when they go out. My state has asphalt and concrete most of the places I want to walk.
I live in a major city that is almost entirely concrete, steel, and glass— I’m not trudging through any mud either. That doesn’t mean I don’t encounter filth, grime, and dirt, as would anyone.
I don’t want that in my nice, clean home. Ew.
Don’t forget spit.
Street asphalt and concrete are incredibly dirty. Car exhaust, dust, whatever the wind brings, bird droppings, insects, trash, there is like a thousand contaminants.
Civilizations are filled with these disgusting things called humans. Hairy, greasy, smelly things, constantly touching and smearing themselves all over everything with their excretions and fluids and dandruffs… eeeuugghhh….
So gross.
Clean asphalt, of course. Pristine, even
Perhaps you’re overthinking this? In the house you can go barefoot, keep socks on, and/or wear slippers/loafers.
When you go outside you put on shoes.
So yes most people would have a shoe rack or just keep their shoes placed near the door. If you have multiple doors sure you can consider keeping extra pairs of shoes there or some sort of in between like outdoor slippers/something for when you just need to go check the mail or whatever.
What? This is like asking people if they wear a coat inside the house.
We have outside clothes and we have inside clothes, and the outside clothes are not worn inside, because they’re outside clothes.
say I’m cooking all day on Sunday then need to take the trash out. I’m assuming it’s change shoes, then say the grandkids stop by and want to go go for a bike ride? I’m assuming it’s change shoes.
Yeah? Why would I want mud and dirt tracked into my carpet?
I grew up in a shoes inside, coats inside house. To see this much shock at both is kinda crazy to me, didn’t realize it was so uncommon.
I’m so confused. Why would you track all that shit into your house?
I still wear a light jacket inside often as I keep the place between 60-65. Stopped wearing shoes inside as I hate cleaning. That’s how I was raised though, and wearing shoes inside isn’t terribly uncommon here. Maybe it’s a regional thing, maybe a class thing, but people asking you to take off your shoes when you visit is way less common than not. I have to ask people to take off their shoes when they come over and it’s considered bougie.
Interesting. Here in France the “bourgeois” thing is usually to not have your guests take their shoes off inside (because you’re not the one doing the cleaning later)
Ya might be interested to know that “bougie” is an American slang term pronounced “boo-zhee” that refers to someone acting high class that isn’t. That’s really interesting though, how common are housekeepers in France?
Bougie is derived from bourgeoisie, and would mean the same thing, as in a bourgeoisie would let you walk in the house with dirty shoes since he’s the lord of the manor and cleaning is why he has servants.
Yeah that’s where it’s derived but the connotations are a little different.
Old-timey style housekeepers are basically only a thing for the ultra rich, but hiring someone to clean your house and/or do some laundry is quite common in the upper middle class
Oh wow. That’s interesting as hell to me. Are you in America? I was born in Midwest lived in south and back in Midwest. I had one friend whose house I didn’t have to take shoes off at and I uh didn’t cause their carpet was gross… lol
Yeah I’m in the US, fahrenheit probably gives that away, always lived in more rural communities too.
Same, never crossed our minds growing up unless we were wet or muddy.
What do you do if it was raining? Don’t you now have mud and water inside your house.
I usually don’t get mud on my jacket when it rains, how do you even do that?Unless it’s a complete downpour, microburst levels of water, the jacket would only be slightly damp. Jackets don’t hold water by design, and if it’s drenched I’d put on something else. If your shoes are muddy, wet, or covered in snow then you take them off.
Right so you do take your shoes off when you go inside.
This is such a weird thing to try and suggest is normal.
Yes but 90% of the time they are not muddy or wet or snowy, and they stay on.
Yeah, and I’m the strange one for asking guests to do so, and wasn’t raised that way. Even people with much nicer places than mine don’t expect others to take their shoes off.
I have a question, do you put on your shoes when you wake up if you’re not going anywhere?
Yes, in the winter. No, in the summer.
I can’t imagine wearing shoes indoors because of how filthy the outdoors is, but good for you for taking the leap!
Wear socks in the house only. Have an indoor doormat near the door where your outdoor shoes sit. Treat your indoor doormat as the “outside” and treat it like lava, not to be touched by anything but outdoor shoes. When you come in from outside, you remove your shoes near the edge of your indoor mat and step your clean socked feet one at a time off of the mat and onto your normal flooring (not on the mat, the mat is dirty).
When going outside, step your clean socks from your flooring into the shoes on your mat.
TL;DR: the outside is lava, your indoor door mat (because your outdoor shoes touch it) is lava. Your shoes are all lava-walking shoes. Your socks will burn up in the lava 🔥
Your floors will be so much cleaner and more sanitary and won’t have to be cleaned as often, and you won’t have microscopic amounts of dog poop and piss and grime and dirt everywhere.
I walk around barefoot in the house. Thr moment I get home I take of my shoes, and when I’m comfortable somewhere I’ll then take off my socks. If I need to go outside to take out the trash or something I’ll use flip flops and if I need it go somewhere in the car I’ll put socks and shoes back on but the shoes never leave the foyer.
I pretty much wore shorts and a tank top at home for decades. My new place has concrete floors but I don’t like the hardness on my feet so I have indoor sandals.
I used to always do that until my carpet guy told me the oils from my feet directly on the carpet accelerates it’s end of life. He suggested keeping socks on or using indoor shoes (slippers, etc).
I think I’d still just go barefoot personally. Socks aren’t bad, but shoes for carpet kinda misses the point of carpet IMO.
