I have been reading a lot lately about not wearing outside shoes in the house and it interests me even more because I’ve been saving to re-carpet my whole house. It hits me every now and then about how to do things though, like, say I’m cooking all day on Sunday then need to take the trash out. I’m assuming it’s change shoes, then say the grandkids stop by and want to go go for a bike ride? I’m assuming it’s change shoes. I guess maybe what I’m asking is how many baskets by how many doors with how many pairs of slip-ons (both indoor and out) do I need?

  • Syd
    103 months ago
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    I grew up in a shoes inside, coats inside house. To see this much shock at both is kinda crazy to me, didn’t realize it was so uncommon.

    • aStonedSanta
      133 months ago
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      I’m so confused. Why would you track all that shit into your house?

      • Syd
        53 months ago
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        I still wear a light jacket inside often as I keep the place between 60-65. Stopped wearing shoes inside as I hate cleaning. That’s how I was raised though, and wearing shoes inside isn’t terribly uncommon here. Maybe it’s a regional thing, maybe a class thing, but people asking you to take off your shoes when you visit is way less common than not. I have to ask people to take off their shoes when they come over and it’s considered bougie.

        • Sylvartas
          73 months ago
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          Interesting. Here in France the “bourgeois” thing is usually to not have your guests take their shoes off inside (because you’re not the one doing the cleaning later)

          • Syd
            13 months ago
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            Ya might be interested to know that “bougie” is an American slang term pronounced “boo-zhee” that refers to someone acting high class that isn’t. That’s really interesting though, how common are housekeepers in France?

            • ikiddEnglish
              33 months ago
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              Bougie is derived from bourgeoisie, and would mean the same thing, as in a bourgeoisie would let you walk in the house with dirty shoes since he’s the lord of the manor and cleaning is why he has servants.

              • Syd
                13 months ago
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                Yeah that’s where it’s derived but the connotations are a little different.

            • Sylvartas
              13 months ago
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              Old-timey style housekeepers are basically only a thing for the ultra rich, but hiring someone to clean your house and/or do some laundry is quite common in the upper middle class

        • aStonedSanta
          53 months ago
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          Oh wow. That’s interesting as hell to me. Are you in America? I was born in Midwest lived in south and back in Midwest. I had one friend whose house I didn’t have to take shoes off at and I uh didn’t cause their carpet was gross lol

          • Syd
            13 months ago
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            Yeah I’m in the US, fahrenheit probably gives that away, always lived in more rural communities too.

    • Echo Dot
      33 months ago
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      What do you do if it was raining? Don’t you now have mud and water inside your house.

      • Syd
        03 months ago
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        I usually don’t get mud on my jacket when it rains, how do you even do that?Unless it’s a complete downpour, microburst levels of water, the jacket would only be slightly damp. Jackets don’t hold water by design, and if it’s drenched I’d put on something else. If your shoes are muddy, wet, or covered in snow then you take them off.

        • Echo Dot
          23 months ago
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          Right so you do take your shoes off when you go inside.

          This is such a weird thing to try and suggest is normal.

          • dwindling7373English
            23 months ago
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            Yes but 90% of the time they are not muddy or wet or snowy, and they stay on.

          • Syd
            03 months ago
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            Yeah, and I’m the strange one for asking guests to do so, and wasn’t raised that way. Even people with much nicer places than mine don’t expect others to take their shoes off.

    • iliketurtles
      33 months ago
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      Same, never crossed our minds growing up unless we were wet or muddy.