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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Re: Walking around barefoot
I don't think it's a Southern thing at all, actually. If you live in a snowy place, you CAN'T wear your outdoor shoes inside. I don't know anyone in Minnesota who did. That's just nasty. In Florida, though, a lot of people did/do. My parents wear their shoes inside, and growing up, I was never once asked to take my shoes off to go inside. In Minnesota, people hung up little signs and everything!
I will wear socks if my feet are cold, but ordinarily I'm barefoot. And we don't have carpet. (ick)
DH and I both hate wearing shoes in the house we both feel more comfortable going barefoot. We wear shoes so little inside our dog knows that if we are putting shoes on we are leaving and he goes straight to his bed; it's kinda cute and sad at the same time.
This, sortof. We have marble, hardwood and carpet in the house, on the marble and hardwood I go barefoot (or when it's cold I wear socks), but the carpet on the stairs and in the guest bed/crafts room is coco mat textured whatever you call it carpet and that actually really hurts my feet, so I usually wear birkenstocks indoors when I walk up to those floors and kick them off whenever I'm in the living room/kitchen.
No designated house shoes though. I just wash my feet when they're dirty. If we have kids I might change that up, but for now this works for me.
My food blog
What I'm looking forward to in 2012:
Eating our way through (northern) Italy on vacation
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DI only air condition down to about 80*F so bare feet feels just fine here.
Duke's House: Eating and Running with the Big Dog in Chennai: eatrunbrit.com
2010 Race PRs:
5K - 24:57 10M - 1:28:20 13.1M - 1:57:29 26.2M - 4:28:29
Haha! I've been having plenty of Ceasars this summer. I almost want to bring back a jug of Clamato in my luggage!
I hate it when people expect shoes off at a party.
Yeah, I could never wear my skinny jeans because I HATE how they look without tall boots on.
Shame that Clamato is so heavy and would ruin anything it spilled on, because that would be a great thing to bring back!
Ahhh - yes, much warmer. We'd have to put the heater on to get 80F. It's not been that hot at any point during the summer so far. Still hoping though!
I wear house slippers. My feet get too rough if I go barefoot.
It's a boy! -- EDD 11.17.11
Back in the USA...for now...
I'm barefoot here all year round. I like the cool floor on my feet in spring and summer, and in winter would wear socks but for slipperly laminate flooring and safety while carryin babies...
See, you're further north than me - assume your house is toasty though. Ours is an old place so it's not great at keeping whatever warmth you do have.
Mystery solved though - was wondering how everyone could go barefoot so often! V jealous!