OT: Do Americans wear shoes in da house?

They do in Southern California. They don't as much in the rural West. Mud, you know.



Are you Canadians still going to restrict your air space to us? We might drop a bunch of muddy shoes on you if you do.


munk
 
I figure that would depend on one's heritage.

You should also ask those who don't use footwear in the house...

Socks for warm feet or bare feet for speed and stealth?
 
munk said:
They do in Southern California. They don't as much in the rural West. Mud, you know.



Are you Canadians still going to restrict your air space to us? We might drop a bunch of muddy shoes on you if you do.


munk
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Yea, I think so. You mean the missle defence program right?
 
Sometimes we do.

Sometimes we don't.

I'm wearing my fuzzy bear slippers right now, are those shoes or not?
 
Russia's gone. Everyone feels safe. Don't need NATO, don't need NORAD.

That's OK. You'll all just have to hope those missles have lots of gas, and don't fall short.

Nations have always had their own self interest first and foremost, and that's the way it should be.



munk
 
Texans dont take their shoes off unless they are dirty.
(of course)
Until you want to lay down on a bed or couch or take a bath or something like that.

General rules I assume are probably the same in a lot of places...
 
I saw on the History Channel there was a thick blanket placed at the bottom of the bed in a whore house in the old West, so cowboys could drop their drawers but leave their boots on.


munk
 
I grew up in Maine and we only took our shoes off if they were wet or dirty, but then moved to Maui, Hawaii for a few years. There everyone takes their shoes off before entering the house and you know, I think it just makes sense.

Think of where you walk! Public restrooms, gas station parking lots, hospitals :barf: :eek: , city streets (like public restrooms you might walk on: blood,vomit,feces,chemicals etc.) then you walk on the same floors your kids crawl on, drop their pacifiers on (yeah, but you only wash it evertime with your FIRST kid :p ), etc..

Do I wear shoes in my house? Only if I have my hands full of groceries. But the thing here is that I would offend people from Maine if I asked them to take them off. :grumpy:

I'm not a germaphobe, but it is gross if you think about it :barf:
 
Incredible.

I assume though that your floors would be hardwood not carpet for you to keep the shoes on?

I don't mean house slippers.

This is amazing. As far as I can tell, unless you are in cottage country, everyone here takes off their shoes. Isn't it more comfortable to walk around a carpeted house barefoot?
 
We keep our shoes on at my house unless we've been walking in snow or a lot of mud.

Bob
 
Take my shoes off and expose my bare feet to all those skin mites and their droppings? Never!!! :eek: (Never pays to look too closely.)
 
I hate shoes. The cleanest floors I ever had was when we took our shoes off at the door and put on slippers or went barefoot. Just hang a shoe bag by the door and it becomes a very easy habit to get into. It saves wear and tear on your carpet and keeps the dirt where it belongs....outside. Now I have a pair of Birks by the doors to slip into when I need to go out. Hardly ever bother with any in the house.
 
I wear sandals all the time, but I'm in a dorm where the floor is never cleaned. I usually wear sandals at home too.

I won't put shoes on just to sit around the house. Usually just sandals. This is Boulder, Colorado and Southern California.

edit - dorm floor is linoleum and house has some hardwood but mostly carpet.
 
I wear boots that lace up past my ankles and it would be a real pain in the butt if I had to take them off at the door. The only folks I see in So. Cal that leave their shoes at the door have some kind of decided asian influence. I have a friend who has an asian family that lives next door to him and his darn cat goes over and steals there shoes and flip flops off of the front porch. Get this though, the darn cat only steals the left ones :confused: Poor guys have a house full of right shoes and sandals :D :D Personally I would shoot the cat if I was his neighbor. I have to agree though that the house would be a darn sight cleaner and easier to keep that way if you left your shoes on the porch. But between the two dogs, the kids, and the grand kids it is pointless to try and enforce that one. I am a mechanic by trade so I just change out my boots at work and be done with it.
 
There's a nature guy from Australia that goes on all his adventures on TV barefoot. The bottom of his feet is like iron. He walks over the AZ desert without shoes, looking for snakes.

Dave Hahn; Canada is full of snow- what do you expect? You think you need to wipe the desert sand off your feet in Nevada?

My wife and I were both raised in Ca. It wasn't until we moved to areas of inclement weather- like the Rocky Mountain West, we came into contact with the shoe removal crowd.

munk
 
munk said:
It wasn't until we moved to areas of inclement weather- like the Rocky Mountain West, we came into contact with the shoe removal crowd.

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It is like that where my sister moved to (Conn.) they all have "mud porches" back there where you are supposed to take off all of your wet, muddy stuff before you come into the rest of the house. There are a lot of things that blow about California but the weather sure is top notch.
 
The religious folks who knock at my doors are lucky if I have clothes on let alone shoes...



Seriously, I agree with MauiRob...outside shoes stay outside, put on socks, slippers, sandals, houseshoes or moccasins inside. Theres a load of stuff I walk over during the day that I don't want tracked though my house.

I also rarely go barefoot outside...

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