I'm wondering... if you're going to someone's house, when you walk in the door, is the first thing you do is take off your shoes? Do you take off your shoes in your own home? Does it depend on if you know the person, like it's a friend or family or not?

(this probably seems pretty stupid, but for the longest time, when I was younger, I always noticed on TV how people never took off their shoes, and thought it was an 'American thing" LOL ... Then when I finally knew someone who was American, I asked him, and he said NO WAY would he take off his shoes in someone's house that he didn't know. I just thought that was bizarre, and have always wondered if it's a common thing)

Anyways, now that I have access to all you wonderful people, I have a good way to find out this thing that has bothered me forEVER!

Thanks,

Mandi

Mark, sounds like you were a young hipbone way back when. I'm the same age as you and I can remember a period of shoelessness in my teenage years, you know, the sweet hippie-chick waif look, or so I perceived myself. It took stepping in dog shit a couple of times to get me back into sandals.

Mark, sounds like you were a young hipbone way back when. I'm the same age as you and I can remember a period of shoelessness in my teenage years, you know, the sweet hippie-chick waif look, or so I perceived myself. It took stepping in dog shit a couple of times to get me back into sandals.

Yes, I was one of the beaded/bearded ones. A fabulous furry freak brother. I had long thick luxurious hair down my back that was right out of a commercial for L'Oreal or something. I always felt that a woman should have gotten my hair. I did not put it to good use. Eyelashes, too. Betty Boop would have known what to do with them.

Some of my favorite photos that I have from that time are my college ID photos. My eyes look like a couple of those cheap spiral "hypnosis" eyeglasses you could buy for a buck off the back of a comic book. Those were the days.

I don't really remember why I started wearing shoes. I think it must have been when I started college. They probably did not appreciate bare feet in the class room.

I think it depends on what climate you live in. If you live somewhere that that the 4 seasons can mean mud,snow,rain,sleet you probably were brought up to take "your muddy shoes off at the door!" I think it's common courtesy to offer to take off your shoes so you don't track dirt thru someones clean home. However living in a sunny hot climate the need to take off your shoes entering a home isn't as great. I still take them off unless someone tells me not too.

I just read that article in Macleans magazine, I guess some Americans feel it's a Canadian thing. Maybe it's just more a "Northern thing" including the northern States.

i dont let people in my house.

I don't wear shoes...or underpants :ogre

I live in NW PA and we get alot of snow amd rain here so we do take our shoes off when we enter someones house.

OK, for those of you who live in Canada or the northern U.S., do you take your shoes off in the summertime? Let's say you had flip-flops on. Would you walk around barefoot in someone else's house?

Yup, but that is just me. :phanvan I just hate wearing shoes. I always have. I don't even like wearing socks. I own a pair of really nice down-filled slippers and a pair of sheepskin slippers but I almost never, ever wear them even though we live in an old house with hardwood floors.

My husband is the opposite from me. His feet are super-sensitive and he always has to have them covered up. The soles of my feet feel like dog's paws and the soles of my husband's feet feel like the hands of a wealthy woman. :Banane30:

I would also take off my flip flops in someone elses house.

absolutely no shoes in my house. shoes worn from outside have dirt plain and simple. put them off or stay out! case close.

I too live in Ontario Canada, I also hate wearing shoes. When I go outside I wear sandals (to work) or flipflops until their is too much snow on the ground. I love getting pedicures and love to see my painted toes. On cold winter nights I wear heavy winter boots to walk the dog.

Basically to me shoes are like mittens. I wear them when I am freezing, but they are a little cumbersome, and I cant wait to get them off !!

I take my shoes off at peoples houses. In the winter I sometimes throw a pair of wooly socks in my purse in case they have a cold house. I have a basket of knitted slippers in my front closet, which people can "borrow" from if they are at my house and get cold feet. A lot of people are not used to my hardwood floors and get cold feet. (literally)

Sometimes I wear bare feet in my boots or shoes. This gives me the excuse to buy really good quality ones in order that I won't get blisters.

Congratulations on your weight loss, Michee.

Yuk, just think where the soles of those shoes have been. Public restrooms, ewwwwwwwwww, then to track into my home.

First thing off when I walk in the door are the shoes, then the bra, :Banane35:.

Yuk, just think where the soles of those shoes have been. Public restrooms, ewwwwwwwwww, then to track into my home.

First thing off when I walk in the door are the shoes, then the bra, :Banane35:.

That's too funny! I never wear a bra around the house, either. I find them very uncomfortable. That is why I am glad that my jugs ain't all that big.

Are youg uys kidding me? Unless I'm going right back out, my bra is off within the first 5 mins of getting home. Usually the first 5 seconds. And sometimes, it's off before I'm home. I hate bras, and I really don't like clothes all that much. I will compromise with a knit house dress, a big tshirt, or a bathrobe/nightgown. I NEVER understood the point of being dressed and trying to lounge in jeans and a shirt when I'm in my own home and no one is coming over.