Shoes or no shoes?

[Karen]

I cannot walk about in slippers or barefoot all day, I need the orthotics that I put in my shoes or my feet will ache by the end of the day, if I walk a lot. However, when I am seated anywhere, the shoes come off.

[Taz_Zoee]

lol I dont mean that its a personal rule, in this part of the country, its social custom to always remove shoes at the door, not doing so is considered highly improper. its not just homes either, this social rule extends to schools, churches, rec centers, open houses, some docters offices etc..

I wish it was custom here. My house might stay a little cleaner!!! But then again, Zoee tracks in stuff anyway.

[Miss Z]

Wearing shoes is a no-no in our house, as my mum can't stand even the smallest speck of dirt on the carpet!

[lute]

In the summer my shoes are off. Even outside. By the end of the day my feet are a totally different color.

Any other time of the year my shoes are on until all the dogs are pottied. Then they come straight off.

[Cataholic]

No shoes in my house. I figure if I can 'train' a toddler to do it, anyone can learn.

[Suki Wingy]

ew, shoes. I find it funny that some people don't consider flip flops as shoes. There were several summers when I only wore the same pair of dirty flip flops, even when I went on vacation.

When my family wears shoes in the house I get extremely annoyed. Mostly because my room is in the basement and it seems to magnify the sounds made in the rest of the house so my sister walking around upstairs in tennis shoes sounds like someone's stomping around in army boots.

In the house I have to wear no shoes, and I can't go to bed with my sock on either, for some reason. Even when I'm cold.

[Ginger's Mom]

I voted sometimes I wear shoes at home. Quite frankly, weather has almost everything to do with it. If it is cold and dry I wear shoes until I go to bed because it is too cold not to. If it is cold and wet/snowy outside the shoes are left by the front door and slippers are put on. If it is warm outside, the shoes come off as soon as I sit on the couch to get comfortable, so my feet can breathe, but the shoes usually go back on when I want to walk around the house. The only time they don't is in the middle of summer when it is just too hot to wear shoes. I really feel quite vulnerable moving around without something protecting my feet. I always have been that way. You will almost never find me wearing sandals and absolutely never will I wear flip flops. Flip flops are not shoes.

[luvofallhorses]

usually because I always have to go outside with the dogs and chase Miagi or Tiger if they get out. but usually for that I wear slippers. at work I HAVE to wear shoes - I work at my local animal shelter and it would be bad if I went bare foot.

[Glacier]

Shoes all the time. I hate being barefoot. I take my shoes off at other people's homes, but never at my own. I don't expect guests to take their shoes off. Not only do I hate being barefoot, but around here you never what you might step in!!

[shais_mom]

I hate tennis shoes but seeings that I have broken my foot 3 times in 2 years I have to wear them and can't wear flip flops - I gave my flip flops to my mom and only have sturdy looking sandals.
I don't go barefoot out of the house b/c of my foot fracture AND b/c I've been stung too many times on the bottom of my foot.
But in the house I'm barefoot especially this time of the year. In the winter I wear slippers or slipper socks.

[Alysser]

I never wear my shoes in my house. I barely ever wear socks. It's not a rule in my house but it's WAY more comfortable. When I am rushing, coming in for a minute, etc. I wear my shoes but that's it.

[jennielynn1970]

I wear flip flops all the time in the house. Too many cat toys to be stepping on, lol!

For work, as soon as it's warm enough, I wear my sandals. Thank goodness they haven't "outlawed" them in our school district yet. If it's cold and snowy, then I wear my shoes, but as long as it's nice out, it's always sandals. They have a thing about no flip flops on the kids, for safety reasons, but they never enforce it.

[kallisto4529]

I can not stand to wear shoes, I hate wearing them when I have to leave....lol So when I am home, except for Reilly's walks I never wear them at all.....

[Hellow]

No shoes because my parents hate shoes inside the house .

[Genny]

I wear flip flops all the time even in the house. I can't stand for my feet to get dirty I don't know what I'd do w/out flops!!!!