Come into my house with shoes on and you’ll be lucky to leave alive
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What. i live in the US, i never wear shoes on in the house, never have, unless im getting ready to go somewhere.
Why is the US shoes on? So not the norm anywhere I’ve lived.
Majority counts I suppose. Would be interesting to see if it is different per state though.
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.
Map is just bullshit. Wrong for france
Wrong for Georgia as well
How is it ok lie on a white coach with your muddy shoes is completely beyond me.
Shoes on is just gross and disgusting.
Lot of germaphobes in here. Like I get taking them off if it’s muddy or something but otherwise who cares.
Yeah it’s much better to track dirt around, wear out floors faster, be less comfortable, and make your feet stinkier
Wearing shoes in the house is psychopath behavior
Whoever says Greece is shoes on, I’ll spit in their coffee.
tbf, greece is so small that I can’t see the colour on the map.
Whenever i get out, i scream ‘shoetime’
Does he not agree with your position on shoes off in the house?
I must ask the shoes on people: at what point in the house do the shoes get removed?
I’d expect that you wouldn’t want them in the bedroom or bathroom, getting gravel or dirt in bed. Is it that the main living room for entertaining guests is shoes on, and shoes off is for personal rooms? Or do you have a specific set of indoor shoes? Or do your outdoor shoes go everywhere?
Shoes on everywhere, just not on the bed. If your shoes are so dirty that they leave dirt everywhere, you take them off. In the morning and evening it’s usually slippers that don’t leave the house
We have hard wood floor not carpets, have dogs so it’s never going to be some “you can eat off the floors” situation. We run a Roomba thrice daily, my shoes are kept in the bedroom so that’s where I put them on/take them off. So in general it’s the big open room with the kitchen/dining and living room and lounge area that are shoes on spaces, but I am not generally tracking gravel into the house. Y’all really ask everyone to take off their shoes at parties & all? Like a barefoot cocktail hour, barefoot dinner?
The Roomba vac makes an enormous difference, I CAN walk around barefoot without feeling grit on my feet. But it doesn’t bother me that the floor is not pristine, no. And cooking feels safer in shoes.
In other people’s houses I do whatever they want, obviously, but I would never tell someone to take off their shoes for my floor’s sake.
ETA: I asked my husband and he said “up north people take their shoes off at the door in a mudroom and put on house shoes or socks because they have wall to wall carpeting and it gets filthy so fast.” I don’t have a mudroom just a front door.
Spaniard here. “Shoes-on” is mostly for when you have guests over. You’ll wake up in the morning and use slippers, only put on shoes to go to outside, and when you come back home you’ll remove the shoes typically in your bedroom (unless wet or dirty). But when you have guests over, everyone wears shoes typically, even hosts.
My kin just have home shoes, usually slip ons, flip flops, or sandals. Not to say they can’t be worn outside just generally they aren’t at least not as much as proper boots.
I switch to slippers when inside.
What does that count as?Shoes off
And what of those cases when I go barefoot?
Shoes offer.
Are you wearing shoes?
Yeah, but now I’m not wearing slippers either so…
Is it really the same!?Shoes are not Slippers.
That’s like calling a car a boat.
Yes
I think a lot of the countries that wear slippers got classified as “shoes on”. I have family in the Caribbean and South America who wear slippers, but never their outdoor shoes.
In my opinion they should be called “shoes off” or at least their own category to differentiate from places that would track mud and gravel throughout their house
Although the map seems wrong altogether, simply because you will find different areas in the same country having different ways, this is one part that makes quite a bit of difference.
More urban areas might have a shoes on culture, specially depending upon how the room is designed.I mean there are schools having outdoor and indoor shoes, both of which are proper shoes, so going just by the word meaning would make it wrong too.
UK shoes on? Not a chance! I’ve never met a person who is a shoes on person. Unless you count indoor slippers as shoes…
Maybe an age thing? When I was a kid nobody cared untill be got an expensive new carpet. My mum still doesn’t care. I take my shoes off at the door and she says I can leave them on if I like.
Same for Switzerland
If the UK is like Ireland, house slippers, pyjamas and a robe are good enough to go outside.
In The Netherlands, within my social circles, it’s mostly seen as overly informal and quite intimate to take off your shoes.
You can do it at friends, but certainly not by default at acquaintances (unless they ask), as it might even be a little disrespectful considering taking off your shoes could smell a bit after some hours. Like you force your bodily odours or sweaty feet on to someone’s house.
I totally get the opposite and am noticing a slow shift (also in my own house) to dropping the shoes. But it’s interesting to see that both stances are based on some form of respect, and perhaps also some pragmatism on our side.
I would rather someone bring sweaty socks in to my house than dirt, microplastics, gum and literal shit on the bottom of their shoes.
We went from a shoes on / dont care to a shoes off / dont you fucking dare household when we had a kid and the difference is unfathomable.
It actually repulses me that I can walk around in houses people consider clean, with bare feet, and my soles turn black. Not to mention then dragging that in to bed with you.
