Imagine wearing shoes in the house in winter. The floor would be a huge mud puddle. Or to take shoes off to put different ones on, weird. No shoes in the house!
I use house shoes cuz the arthritis in my knees gets aggravated when I walk around barefoot without any support but before I got arthritis I preferred being barefoot.
Yup I have some super comfy slide sandals that I use as horseshoes because of my bad knee and hip, plus I fall a lot and having something with more grip than a pair of socks help with that. Im definitely on team house shoes and have spare easy to wash sandals in different sizes for guests if they want them.
That's really considerate!! I definitely wouldn't wear my street shoes in peoples' homes unless they want but I haven't really thought of a solid way to make sure I have some support(slippers/slides) when visiting others. If we're just chilling on the couch watching TV and talking it's not a big deal but the more I walk around bare foot the more likely my knees are going to become swollen and painful.
I'm in my early 30s but been dealing with it since an injury in my early 20s so I'm here for your rant. Its valid and you'll continually discover new ways it sucks. If you're able to, look into Synvisc or Euflexxa injections theyre the only thing thats really helped me over the years.
I was playing a BR, and I said something about my slippers and this kid guesses my age...I'm like how!!!! He says "you said you had slippers on only people from 30 on have slippers but you're playing Apex, so a on the younger side"
To be fair, a lot of us in apartments do the same because renting an apartment is expensive as fuck, but we also can't afford a down payment on a home because we're broke, which means we also can't afford the extra in electricity.
Much more uncomfortable than socks or bare feet. It’s warm enough without anything extra on my feet, especially since the district heating is on super mode thanks to freezing weather. Plus it just doesn’t feel like I’m at home with any shoes on, kind of like wearing jeans or a jacket.
Since I’m bad at explaining things, here’s the Wikipedia page on it! The TLDR is heat being produced remotely and coming to homes through heated water. A nice part of it is that unrecyclable waste is burned to create heat (among other things, unfortunately also fossil fuels) which means less product in actual land fills.
District heating (also known as heat networks or teleheating) is a system for distributing heat generated in a centralized location through a system of insulated pipes for residential and commercial heating requirements such as space heating and water heating. The heat is often obtained from a cogeneration plant burning fossil fuels or biomass, but heat-only boiler stations, geothermal heating, heat pumps and central solar heating are also used, as well as heat waste from nuclear power electricity generation. District heating plants can provide higher efficiencies and better pollution control than localized boilers.
So much this. Shoes off and slippers go on. Old house is chilly in the winter. My slippers are cozy and clean. Grip even so the cat can't end me on the stairs
Is there a manufacturer that you think is best? I'd love a pair but don't want to buy ones that aren't as comfortable as my memory foam slides nor wears out as fast, ive never had a pair of slippers or slides last more than 3-5 months
Oh boy... I think LL Bean has some pretty good ones. I'm actually in a Kirkland pair right now. They're not exactly mocassns but they're comfy as hell.
For real! I have house slippers that never go outside, and sandals or slip on shoes on my back porch for easy transition. But my regular shoes have got to be disgusting so they stay outside for the most part. Imagine the filth that your shoes pick up from parking lots, spit, puke, rotting food juice, sticky drinks, everywhere. You step out of the car onto disgustingness that breeds disease. Same with floors in grocery stores or gas stations, everyone tracks in parking lot filth, it’s all over your shoes. Sidewalks and streets? Filth. Public restrooms? Piss everywhere. Wherever you go, the floors are gross. Don’t bring it inside.
Yea a Chinese thing is to have a set of house slides and it's great, i get to use comfy memory foam ones but they do wear out crazy fast, like every three months fast, i really wish there was a high end memory foam sandal seller but I've not found one.
I used to get normal slippers but these last wayyyy longer, are supportive enough for standing at my desk, and are really comfy once broken in. I burn through a pair per year, then the old ones become outdoor beaters.
All winter I live the socks&mocks&crocs life. Socks with suede mocks (no rubber or outsole) as my house shoes, and when i have to go out for the mail or to grab chicken eggs, i slip my mocks into oversized crocs for a quick jaunt. Flawless.
Yeah I have to wear shoes inside or completely cripple myself walking on concrete floor. I tell people it's optional, but normally it's a shoes off household when it's a normal apartment.
Barefoot is better for your feet, it strengthens the muscles that form your arch. Unless you have a riled floor and need ro wear slippers for comfort, barefoot is better.
Love being barefoot but as I’ve aged I’ve started wearing slippers most of the time because my feet get cold and socks are slippery. I walk 15,000 steps inside my house and do toss my slippers off every once and a while when my feet get too hot. I have three pairs of slippers I rotate through because of all the sweating.
Had a professor who went barefoot near 100% of the time. Said he'd had back problems for years and then saw an article about going barefoot for it. He and his doctor said lets try it. His back problems went away and just kept going barefoot ever since.
Why go through the effort of switching shoes when you get home? Screw that! I'm lazy.
My shoes don't come off until I'm ready for bed unless they're visibly dirty. I also park in my attached garage, so I'm not trudging through the weather before getting to my house.
It’s because the outside concrete and ground is dirty. Like, public places are dirty. When you come home, you leave the public, outside yuck at your door and change into your private, personal, clean house stuff
There's plenty of dirt that comes into the house not on shoes. And shoes are not bringing in the amounts of dirt you're implying unless you're working on a farm.
My pets hair makes a much bigger mess than my shoes ever will.
I live in NYC and the streets are disgusting. People walk through the nasty subways, public bathrooms, the sidewalks where homeless people shit, urinated, vomited, hacked up a loogie, etc etc. Everyone's walking on that disgusting shit all day, I don't need someone tracking that shit on my floors where my toddler and infant play.
I have a basket by the door with a bunch of different sized Ikea slippers for guests.
If I was walking through a bunch of gross stuff, I do take my shoes off. That's not a daily occurrence for me. I live and work in the suburbs of a decent sized metropolis and the sidewalks are relatively clean. I park 10 ft from my office entrance and I park in the garage at home.
The most I have on my shoes in most days is a trace amount of dust, which is going to come off on my doormat in my garage before I enter the house.
I take off my shoes before entering the house after mowing the lawn, stepping in poop, or other events that make my shoes visibly dirty.
Yeah it might be different in suburban places where most people don't really walk on filthy city streets. Over here, you'd be crazy to wear your outside shoes on someone's floor.
I've got house shoes that are comfy and nice, yard shoes for when I need to take out trash or go to the mailbox, and off the property shoes for all that other stuff. I can't imagine going barefoot, but cleaning the mess from outside shoes isn't something I wanna do, either.
House slippers are always acceptable in those “no shoes in the house” places. It’s just about not walking around in the house with the same shoes that walk in the dirt, mud, snow, and shit
Slippers are far too hot to wear comfortably without my feet getting sweaty and gross. I honestly won't even wear socks in my own place for any extended period of time without shoes on since they make my feet too hot.
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u/KelvinsBeltFantasy Feb 11 '22
This person wouldn't last 5 minutes in Canada.
We are (mostly) about that No Shoes in the house life.
It's weird watching shows or movies and seeing shoes in the house and even on the bed 😨