Come into my house with shoes on and you’ll be lucky to leave alive
UK and east Europe are you sure? Don’t think a place where rain is just the weather that makes sense
40% of the world weard shoes INSIDE??!
How could anyone feel more comfortable with shoes on than shoes off?
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.
This is bullshit every house I go to for all my friends in USA is shoes off…lol what?
UK is generally shoes off from everything I’ve seen but ok then
Slippers don’t count as shoes.
Yeah I converted to shoes off. It just keeps the floor cleaner and you’re more comfortable in the home
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 my society people usually don’t get their shoes off at home. We did this thing of using specific shoes at home as a compromise. Works pretty well, it’s not that I wouldn’t like a shoes off policy, but it can get too cold to stand on uncarpeted floors.
I wish we were shoes off culture. I take my shoes off in my house but everyone else gets dog shit and chewing gum.
Mud room
Coming from shoes off culture I’m considering giving shoes on a shot. But I still don’t quite understand how it’s supposed to work. I assume you’re not that savage to get in beds in shoes, so are you supposed to keep them near the bed? And lace them every morning when you get up? Or use simpler footwear that doesn’t require lacing like crocs or something? Isn’t that then technically wearing slippers outside rather than wearing shoes inside?
Shoes off on carpet.
I have a friend who is shoes off. I respect his wishes at his home but I’d hate to live like that.
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.
Here in FL USA, they don’t wear socks, they wear flip-flops. They claim their toes need to breathe. It smells like onions under there, but i see you point if they are socked. Guess it’s a regional issue.
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.
