Come into my house with shoes on and you'll be lucky to leave alive
It's as if by living in a nordic country I didn't want to bring the dirt and snow inside my home. Curious.
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Well this makes me more proud to be a Canadian.
Buuut, I’m noticing a pattern. If it’s a very dry country then I guess you have less chance of mud and are more likely to wear your shoes inside.
I wear house shoes in the house. What does that make me?
Look at this one, owning 2 pairs of shoes!
Full on shoes? That’s very odd.
Why not sandals? That’s very normal and imo way more convenient
I'm imagining you got bird houses on your feet.
I don’t do that.
Yet.
I do that too.
They’re bright white Allbirds that would get too dirty too quickly if ever I wore them outside, so it’s a bit of a mental nudge for me to take them off and put on my outdoor shoes in case I forget to do so.
…sidebar: how do I clean bright white fabric shoes? it’s bleach, right? I don’t know why I’m intimidated by the task.
I would try dish soap and a toothbrush first. If that doesn’t work, a weak bleach/water mixture might work, but make sure to rinse it well. Too much bleach can discolor it. I’m sure there are some howto videos out there.
See that's definitely shoes on. The existence of house shoes - sliders and crocs - demonstrates that some people in that country are shoes indoor people. Those types of shoes exist purely to facilitate a shoe on lifestyle.
For me, I have a tendon issue in a couple of toes that refuses to heal. I can’t walk around barefooted without aggravating it. So I have a couple pair of slides that are only house shoes.
Where do slippers fall on this? I'm a shoes off person, but in the winter I've started wearing slippers inside.
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Shoes stay at the door and showers are taken at night!
Boomer from Hamilton , Ontario, Canada, and growing up it was probably 70% shoes ON in my parts...lots of kids, in and out constantly. Obviously, snow and mud were exceptions. The 30% shoes OFF homes were the outliers...
It wasn't until my late teens that I started to notice a shift, personally and societally, to shoes OFF.
Nowadays, even if the host *insists* that I keep my shoes ON, it doesn't feel right, so I tend not to.
This. Shoes on was the default, not so anymore.
Yeah this shocked me coming to the Netherlands. Thing is, when everybody else is wearing shoes, you don't wanna walk around in socks or barefoot cuz the floor gets nasty. It's a vicious cycle
I feel like the US is very split on this.
Personally I have all hard floors and don't care if someone has shoes on, but personally shoes in the house feels weird to me.
Our house is not as clean as I want it, but, if we wore shoes in the house it would be way worse. We have a family member that lives next door and is constantly walking around our house with shoes and it drives me nuts. If they weren't so helpful I'd say something.
chanclas ftw
Dobles para defensa del hogar también
I don't know any non foreigners in the IS who keep their shoes on, with the exception of VERY rural areas.
What the fuck does this mean??
When you walk into a house, do you remove your shoes?
Yes
Then you would fit in in the red areas.
I am from the US
Shoes off means you don't wear shoes inside your house. The reverse the opposite.