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Walking around barefoot
Do you walk around barefoot at home? I do, a lot, especially in summer. DH won't do it though. He wears flip flops or shoes at all times. When he goes to bed he leaves his flip flops by the bed to slip on when he gets up. Cultural thing or personal quirk? Hmmm.
Re: Walking around barefoot
I'm gonna live up to my Southern stereotype and fully admit my frequent, if not, usual barefootedness.
Shoes, although I have a whole closet full of them, are for wussies and yankees.
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In Beijing, even though we didn't wear shoes inside, the floors get so dusty so fast that I wore slippers at home a lot.
lol is it more of a Southern thing? that might explain why its so normal to me! Though it always drove my mum nuts that I would pretty much go barefoot around the block when I was a kid
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I go barefoot all the time, I love it. I hate gross feet but I love being barefoot more.
I embrace my love for being barefoot. My parents have old hardwood floors that are unfinished, and even the splinters didn't deter me from walking around without shoes. Here, I only wear shoes inside if I know someone has really dirty floors, or who tend to keep shoes on in the house. Most of the time when I'm outside (meaning, all seasons except winter) I'm in flip-flops. I don't know why, but I can't stand having trainers on. Too restricting, I think.
I think it's gross to wear shoes inside the house, especially outside shoes. Designated house slippers or flip flops are fine and in the winter I'm a slipper girl. But outside shoes, nasty! I would make him break that habit before the baby comes. The idea of a baby crawling around on a dirty floor makes me want to gag!
Sorry, I come from a no shoe house so that explains my vehemence
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Maybe a bit of both.
I love to be barefoot and hate to wear shoes and/or socks unless I'm freezing. I prefer flipflops in summer.
At home, I do tend to wear slippers though, unless it is supremely hot, only because our floor in the kitchen is linoleum and our floor in the laundry/bathroom/toilet is ceramic tile. Both of these seem to be extremely cold and a shock to my feet unless it is really hot out.
At home in the US, I was always barefoot. Mom, my younger bother and I are barefoot kind of people. My older brother and my Dad always wore shoes or slippers. I think it must be a personal thing -- we're all from the South and all lived in the same house.
Here, I usually have socks or slippers on. DH leaves his shoes on all the time. He only takes them off to go to bed.
It surprises me when visitors or workmen leave their shoes at the door. The delivery people who brought my shipment took their shoes off before coming in with the boxes and put them on again to walk to the truck. I have never been comfortable with being barefoot in other people's houses, so I never think to take my shoes off.
We go barefoot here in Korea it's a cultural thing through the year. We could do indoor slippers but we didn't. In England our house stay generally cool even in the summer so slippers indoors because I preferred it over shoes, but not a house rule.
When we have friends where it is a house rule so they always take their shoes off even though I tell them that they do not have to, especially in the winter when the floors are cold, but they insist on taking off their shoes anyway.
Barefoot for the week after the cleaning woman comes, shoes for the second week when the floor is sticky and I hate walking on it. Haha! How's that for lazy?? I never wear shoes on our second floor, though, becuase it is carpeted.
My kids are always barefoot, though. I can barely get Bruce to put on shoes when we go outside. If we're staying in our own yard its next to impossible.
I'm always barefoot. I hate wearing socks.
It took me awhile to get used to wearing closed shoes when we moved from Asia to France. We don't wear shoes in our house, but I don't feel comfortable asking our guests to take them off, so I let it slide and mop after they leave.
Hey! This yankee proudly goes barefoot too!
The Spanish can't deal with me. I remember first time I stayed at FH's family's house his mom gave me slippers to bother. Think I messed up big time there, I didn't know about the slipper thing at that point! (FH is an abnormal Spaniard who hates slippers. Sometimes I think he's more American than I am.)
I'm from the north east US, and if I am inside in my own home, it wouldn't even occur to me to wear shoes. If it is really cold I might put on socks.
In the summer when I was a kid we didn't wear shoes unless we were going to someone else's house or out to dinner or something. By the end of the summer we could pretty much walk on hot coals if we wanted to :P
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One more barefoot and pregnant...I cringe every time H makes a joke about it. I just don't like shoes though.
In our new apartment I have been wearing flip flops a lot because no matter how many times the guy cleans the floors, they still turn the bottoms of my feet black. Eww.
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OK, I'm in the minority here, but I wear shoes indoors - but only Uggs, which ARE indoor shoes - they never get worn outside. (Uggs traditionally in Australia are slippers). I don't go barefoot because we have floors that collect dust, a dog that sheds a bit and the house is never warm enough for me because the hubs is northern irish and doesn't feel the cold.
If I were home in Australia where it's warmer, then I'd go barefoot too inside the house.
And outside shoes are not for inside - totally agree on that.
The first thing I do when I get home in is to take my shoes off. I'll wear socks in winter but otherwise, I'm barefoot.
The house is pretty much shoes off though H often forgets & I don't make guests take them off. The day we have a little one crawling about, I'll enforce it properly.
Azure, I'm assuming from your siggy that you're Canadian (DH wholeheartedly embraced the Ceasar culture when we were there!). I learned quickly to plan on taking my shoes off wherever we went in Ottawa. It made planning party outfits interesting.
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I still go outside barefoot. I think it is way too much effort to slap on flip flops if I am just walking down the road to get my garbage can from the collection point.