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Post by Lizard Queen on Dec 5, 2013 10:16:30 GMT -5
Because socks aren't thick enough to keep feet warm. The fuzzy type of socks work great for me. I hate wearing socks in the house otherwise.
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Post by zibazinski on Dec 5, 2013 10:20:50 GMT -5
Can't wear those with shoes.
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Post by steph08 on Dec 5, 2013 10:25:10 GMT -5
I wear fuzzy socks with a pair of sandals - keeps my feet warm, easy to slip off if I curl up on the couch, good for when I have to go into the basement to fix the fire, etc. We don't wear our shoes past the kitchen, usually. Our three dogs track in enough dirt, I don't need more on our floors. That said, I don't care if guests take off their shoes or leave them on. Their choice. But when we finally build a new house, it will have carpet and I will make everyone take their shoes off. I'm in PA where our seasons are rain, road construction, almost winter, and winter.
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Dec 5, 2013 10:25:53 GMT -5
Awwww, she's absolutely adorable!!!! Even if she has puppy tendencies.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2013 10:29:22 GMT -5
Awwww....
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Post by 973beachbum on Dec 5, 2013 10:42:04 GMT -5
I just don't want to see other people's nasty bare feet in my living room. I live a half mile from the beach and have seen many a tourist crammed into the speedo they bought in 1984 50 lbs ago. I've suffered enough!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2013 10:50:13 GMT -5
I keep a disinfecting station by the front door. As my guest, it is your choice to wear shoes, socks or bare feet. However, you must wipe the bottoms (of feet, shoes, socks, boots, etc.) with a Lysol wipe before moving past the foyer. Easy peasy.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Dec 5, 2013 10:52:27 GMT -5
Can't wear those with shoes. The fuzzy socks are just for around the house. I change my socks if I'm going somewhere and putting shoes on (vs. sandals or something).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2013 11:03:03 GMT -5
I have slippers for the winter if I'm cold, but most of the house is carpet and there's a heated basement underneath, so it's not like the floors are cold. My parents house is all in floor radiant heat so even the stone floors in the basement are warm. You actually feel warmer going barefoot than wearing shoes.
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Post by zibazinski on Dec 5, 2013 11:06:28 GMT -5
Wood, laminate, and tile a cold and hard on the bottom of your feet. Some people actually get backaches standing on hard surfaces without shoes. The polite host would let their guests decide about shoes/no shoes.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2013 11:13:02 GMT -5
Wood, laminate, and tile a cold and hard on the bottom of your feet. Some people actually get backaches standing on hard surfaces without shoes. The polite host would let their guests decide about shoes/no shoes. Actually responsibility for that is on the guests. If you must have something on your feet in the house you bring indoor shoes that you change into once your in the house. I'm telling you, we have this all worked out.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Dec 5, 2013 13:24:14 GMT -5
I wear fuzzy socks with a pair of sandals - keeps my feet warm, easy to slip off if I curl up on the couch, good for when I have to go into the basement to fix the fire, etc. We don't wear our shoes past the kitchen, usually. Our three dogs track in enough dirt, I don't need more on our floors. That said, I don't care if guests take off their shoes or leave them on. Their choice. But when we finally build a new house, it will have carpet and I will make everyone take their shoes off. I'm in PA where our seasons are rain, road construction, almost winter, and winter. Can't you make the dogs wear socks when they come in
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Post by muttleynfelix on Dec 5, 2013 13:27:21 GMT -5
When our dog lived inside, DH wiped the dogs paws every time he came in from outside. Now the dog lives in the garage (for his own sanity - our house isn't big enough for him to have space away from the kids without the kids bothering him).
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Post by NoNamePerson on Dec 5, 2013 13:35:35 GMT -5
When our dog lived inside, DH wiped the dogs paws every time he came in from outside. Now the dog lives in the garage (for his own sanity - our house isn't big enough for him to have space away from the kids without the kids bothering him). Poor doggy. You need to get a larger house.
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Post by muttleynfelix on Dec 5, 2013 13:38:29 GMT -5
Eh - Hubby goes out to the garage to smoke about 5 times a day or sometimes just to escape the kids. DS plays outside - sometimes just in the garage, a couple times a week. Our house was huge 4 years ago - I never went in the back to bedrooms unless we had guests coming or I was sewing. Add in 2 kids and our house has shrunk significantly.
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Post by Sunnyday on Dec 5, 2013 14:26:46 GMT -5
milee, zibamiski, and singleminmd and to those so adamant about not taking off your shoes? Have you ever lived abroad or traveled? Don't mean to sound snarky? I really am not. It's just that I've lived every where and when in Rome, I do as the Romans. It's not like people are asking you to kill a goat or something. I guess most people I know who have traveled a lot have that mentality, and the ones who I haven't that I know, are just as rigid in maintaining "their" way of doing things. If you're a guest in some one's home, you should be respectful as much as the host should be accommodating. It's this flexibility and the unwritten rules that grease social interactions. IMO, feel free to disagree. And I live in Canada, it's almost 100% guarantee that people will expect you to take off your boots. When I go to a party, I take my dress shoes in a bag, and change into them.
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Post by milee on Dec 5, 2013 14:49:28 GMT -5
rainyday, I think if you'll re-read my posts, I do not express the view that one should or should not take off shoes, I describe what is customary here. So my posts are about doing like the Romans, so to speak.
I travel quite a bit, but usually when I'm in far flung locations (South Pacific islands, Africa, Caribbean, Belize, etc.), I'm not in the personal residence of people so don't know what their custom is in their home. I will say that I've never been asked to remove my shoes in any of those countries, but again since it wasn't in a home not sure what the home customs are. My husband is English, so we've spent considerable time there and in Wales with friends and relatives - never had anyone take shoes off. One of the subsidiaries of a company I managed was in the Netherlands, and I made several friends there and was in their homes - never had anyone take shoes off. I've even spent a few weeks in the lake house of one of our Canadian friends (about 2 hours north of Ottawa) and neither they nor any of the neighbors we visited took off shoes, but that was in the middle of summer so no snow or mud and it might be different in the winter.
So my point is that there is no one answer here and people need to be sensitive to regional differences.
Oh, and I've eaten goat. It's pretty good.
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Post by Sunnyday on Dec 5, 2013 23:11:19 GMT -5
I grouped you into the adamant "no way, I'll never take my shoes off" group. Sorry milee!
And yes, goat is delicious, but I still wouldn't kill one even if it meant offending someone in their culture.
But I will take off my shoes. I will wear a veil in a mosque or dress modestly in a church. I will eat almost all foods placed in front of me. I will be polite.
I still don't get the others though. If someone invites you into their home, and at the door they ask you to take off your shoes, you would balk and leave? How rude is that?
Some people brought up the cleanliness issue, and I have never been to a dirty house where the host wanted me to take off their shoes. It's only been in the clean houses where I was asked to take off their shoes.
'Nuff said about people who wear shoes in the house.
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Post by zibazinski on Dec 6, 2013 12:40:56 GMT -5
I have also been overseas but not in someone's home. If a host is actually going to ask their guests to remove shoes, I hope they tell guests upfront.
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Post by swamp on Dec 6, 2013 12:48:57 GMT -5
I have also been overseas but not in someone's home. If a host is actually going to ask their guests to remove shoes, I hope they tell guests upfront. I expect to remove my shoes in someone's house around here, especially in the winter.
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Post by Sunnyday on Dec 6, 2013 12:49:55 GMT -5
I have also been overseas but not in someone's home. If a host is actually going to ask their guests to remove shoes, I hope they tell guests upfront. I don't think that most people would even think to tell you, just like they probably won't warn you ahead o time that they have a kitchen and door in front of the house. I'm starting to think you are Liz Lemon from 30 rock. Are you embarrassed about your feet? It just seems really odd your reaction.
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Post by swamp on Dec 6, 2013 12:50:51 GMT -5
Most people take their shoes off at the door, but I don't require it. But my FIL always tracks in mud, snow, amd dirt. I wish he would talks his shoes off. OK, so I have a dumb question. We don't get snow, but we have mud and dirt. They tend to come off shoes when people use this thing we have called a mat. Is the mat a regional thing, too? If you guys have mats up there, why are these people not using them? Give me the scoop. Inquiring minds want to know. We have a mat, but FIL chooses not to use it, or uses it half assed. He also usually wears workboots which has deep treads and the mud won't come out just wiping your feet.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2013 12:53:13 GMT -5
We don't really talk about it, it's a given that you will take your outside shoes off. Being a foreigner we might not say anything to you if you leave your shoes on. We'll just talk about you after you leave.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2013 12:54:52 GMT -5
I have also been overseas but not in someone's home. They probably heard you're weird about taking your shoes off.
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Post by zibazinski on Dec 6, 2013 12:55:47 GMT -5
Fine by me. I have very nice feet that I take care of. But I'm not taking my shoes off in someone's home, period. I wear sandals when weather permits.
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Post by Icelandic Woman on Dec 6, 2013 15:16:19 GMT -5
Very interesting responses to this topic. Being from Scandinavia we never wear our shoes in the house. It is just something I never think about I just take them off whether at home or in someone else's home. I don't have guests a lot but all my friends and family always take their shoes off when then enter my house. My BFF keeps slippers at my house. I do have light carpet and all service people that have ever had to come into my house have always put on booties, which I appreciate.
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Post by zibazinski on Dec 6, 2013 17:27:05 GMT -5
It seems to be a regional or even cultural thing. That being said, other than DF who CHOOSES to take his shoes off, no one is asked to in my home.
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Post by dcmetrocrab on Dec 8, 2013 2:11:49 GMT -5
Wow, I never thought this was such a big deal! As a guest, I follow and respect the host's house rules. For shoes, the biggest visual cue is always right at the front door, so if I see a pile of shoe and/or I see the host with their shoes off, I take them off. I know a lot of folks in MD btw, who do not wear shoes in their homes. That said, I am Japanese. In most East Asian cultures, it is a given that you never wear shoes in the home. In Japan, you sit/sleep on the floor often, and people fully know to take their shoes off (all homes have built in step up alcoves just for this purpose), so their feet/socks are NOT going to be nasty nor will the floors be nasty. Slippers are typically provided. There are also usually special bathroom slippers for the water closet. You can get away as a foreigner to not take your shoes off, but it is considered highly offensive to walk in with shoes on. I feel extremely uncomfortable walking inside a person's home with shoes on, especially if it is carpeted, BUT I will of course keep them on if if that's what the house rules are. For people highly incensed about being expected to take your shoes off in other countries, I do suggest reading up on the cultural etiquette since the host will most likely NOT mention it ahead of time.
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Dec 8, 2013 2:18:24 GMT -5
Wow, I never thought this was such a big deal! As a guest, I follow and respect the host's house rules. For shoes, the biggest visual cue is always right at the front door, so if I see a pile of shoe and/or I see the host with their shoes off, I take them off. I know a lot of folks in MD btw, who do not wear shoes in their homes. That said, I am Japanese. In most East Asian cultures, it is a given that you never wear shoes in the home. In Japan, you sit/sleep on the floor often, and people fully know to take their shoes off (all homes have built in step up alcoves just for this purpose), so their feet/socks are NOT going to be nasty nor will the floors be nasty. Slippers are typically provided. You can get away as a foreigner to not take your shoes off, but it is considered highly offensive to walk in with shoes on. I feel extremely uncomfortable walking inside a person's home with shoes on, especially if it is carpeted, BUT I will of course keep them on if if that's what the house rules are. Of all the East Asian friends and acquaintances I have in the States, not a single one wears shoes in the home. For people highly incensed about being expected to take your shoes off in other countries, I do suggest reading up on the cultural etiquette since the host will most likely NOT mention it ahead of time. I just love learning new things about posters that I thought I "knew" - you know - you picture someone a certain way and then - boom- totally different.
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Post by dcmetrocrab on Dec 8, 2013 2:22:38 GMT -5
I just love learning new things about posters that I thought I "knew" - you know - you picture someone a certain way and then - boom- totally different. I'm a lurker, so I'm surprised anyone would have a mental picture of me. I do think in the earlier years that people thought I was a guy, which is fine by me.
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