Come into my house with shoes on and you’ll be lucky to leave alive
Only barbarians wear shoes in their own homes.
Shit, even wearing shoes in an office job can be kinda sus.
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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.
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.
See, you get it
The IT guys putting you pc equipment together hate you.
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.
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.
IT guy’s wearing Birkenstocks
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
I once had dedicated office slippers under my desk
I’m also team office slippers. They’re so snuggly!
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.
Buncha weirdoes ITT. As soon as I get in the door, my house or yours, you can bet I’m stripping down to just my shoes and nothing else.
Fuck society and their oppressive insistence on wearing “pants”.
Clothes are a cage!
40% of the world weard shoes INSIDE??!
How could anyone feel more comfortable with shoes on than shoes off?
No, this map is reductive at best. Mostly it’s just complete bullshit though.
You can actually just color in a map any way you want and claim the colors mean things, and odds are there are people out there that will believe you.
Was recently discussing with someone that it’s really weird that, on the internet, Britain is repeatedly labelled a “shoes on indoors” society, because nobody we know has shoes on indoors (in their own home). Britain is a wet and muddy country.
Does anyone here do shoes on indoors? Where are you all from?
UK too, shoes off too, have never lived anywhere where shoes on indoors was a common thing
The only reason I can think is that underfloor heating is relatively rare here and if you’ve got hard floors it’ll be cold to walk on, but then slippers exist so idk really
I’ve seen both in the UK. Personally, I’m a shoes off guy. Means less cleaning needed.
For me, in Italy it’s both, in 90% of the cases the situation is like:
You get in, remove the shoes and go barefoot/with slippers, if it’s like a party, festivity etc etc, usually no one cares to get off the shoes
Living in Italy, both Rome and North, the floors are cold in the winter. We wear slippers at home and tell guests to keep their shoes on until spring.
There’s obviously no need for durable footwear when your whole country is a boot.
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.
In what backwards and uncultured shithole do you have shoes on in the house? That’s filthy.
See map
I have no idea why anyone would want to wear shoes in the house.
It’s so constricting and unnecessary. Do y’all not clean your floors? Do you feel like your floors are gross and shouldn’t be touching your bare feet?
When you lay on the couch do you need to take your shoes off and then put them back on when you get up to go make a snack in the kitchen?
Makes zero sense to me
I got in and out of my house about 50 times per day, and my feet are size 13.5s, so all my shoes are tight (they don’t make most shoes in anything larger than 13s). Plus my back isn’t what it once was. If I had to bend over and take my shoes off 50 times a day, I’d actually lose it, “it” being my L3-4 disc.
Whereas, litereally nothing bad has ever happened to me because I wear shoes in the house. It’s all some hypothetical … I don’t know what exactly. Grossness? Is grossness hurting me?
Tell you what’s ‘gross,’ as a thought exercise tho - walking around barefooted where my dogs and cats walk barefooted, they’re not exactly wearing shoes outside, or in the litterbox, nor are they putting a handkerchief down under their assholes when they sit down.
But a pair of flip-flops for in the house plus floor cleaning regularly… I don’t really worry about it either way. IDK why anyone does.
You dragging in shit from outside is not a “hypothetical” lol
What if you have to quickly go inside and grab something? Do you take your shoes off for that or just walk inside?
Shoes are ok inside they’re not mandatory
Yes I take my shoes off? I don’t want to dirty up my floors
Slippers don’t count as shoes.
The only thing this map tells me is “Fuck the Colorblind”
What a shit map
Whoever says Greece is shoes on, I’ll spit in their coffee.
UK is generally shoes off from everything I’ve seen but ok then
I’m an American and you take your shoes off at the door, bub.
Living in Ohio (midwest U.S) its not entirely a yes or no and more of a “it depends”. Ive noticed older people assume shoes on but anyone under 40 will either ask or assume shoes off at the door. Theres also a layer of midwest nice to the whole exchange of not wanting to inconvenience the other person, so you get situations where a party will start with everyone wearing shoes, but end with everyone shoeless.
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?
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.
