Poll: Whats up with wearing shoes indoors????

[Lizmichi]

I have hard wood floors and my feet get cold easy so I keep them on and just because I'm too lazy to take them off. All I have to say is I'm not in Japan so my shoes stay on.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

I tend to keep my shoes on, but that's mostly because I don't ever stay round people's house long, and I always wear Doc Martens, so taking them off and putting them back on again is an absolute chore.

 

[dkyros]

gross floors, but usually flipflops not shoes

 

[Sion_Barzahd]

Hell i don't even like wearing socks, but going around bare foot in someone elses home can get you weird looks.
As for the shoe thing, it depends on who's house it is really.

 

[Koeryn]

If I'm awake, my feet are generally encased in thick leather and hardened plastic. Inside, outside, wherever.

I do not like not having my combat boots on.

 

[Acier]

Well I like to keep my shoes on, ever since my foot got infected from a sand spur wven I was walking around barefoot.

Being in crippling pain was enough to encourage me to keep them on

 

[Valiance]

It depends on where you are, obviously.
And who you're with, of course.

I know people who insist on me taking them off right away, and I know people who think bare feet are heresy; just ask them first.

 

[loppopoo]

Honestly I do keep my shoes on, but only because I'm lazy. Oh, and the taking them off because they're dirty? can't you just wipe them off?

 

[Gardenia]

Over here, it is customary to remove your shoes at all time before entering a place of living, unless you are only going inside for like 10 seconds and you either: A: Live there, or B: They tell you to not bother to take off your shoes. At all other times, stomping inside with dirty shoes on is rude.

 

[Klepa]

In Finland, keeping your shoes on while in someone's home is about as acceptable as smashing the place up.

So that's about it for me.

Edit: Observation: Most of the people who keep their shoes on, a lot of whom are americans, seem to think taking shoes off is only a custom in Japan. Most people who do take their shoes off, seem to think that keeping them off is a purely american thing. The truth may lie somewhere inbetween...

 

[molester jester]

prefer not to wear shoes or socks even when outside

 

[Nicolai]

It seems in general, colder climates with potential snow and mud make taking shoes off a priority. Warmer countries do this far less often. Here in Australia, it'd be seen as pretentious to be the sort of person who had to keep their carpets neat and clean unless there were religious reasons for it. So most houses have shoes on as the norm, partially because of the casual way Australians tend to live.

I've lived in houses with both rules as the norm and frankly, I'd prefer a dirty carpet to having to put up with foot odour, particularly if people have just been out walking somewhere. Some people would rather have their place smell like unwashed feet than have to vacuum more often.

 

[Standby]

In my university halls I often wear my shoes; the reason for this is at time the floor can be pretty dodge. Broken glass for alcohol bottles, what I assume was once food (either just starting to go off or vomit) and always just a little bit sticky. The price for a good night out

This. Do not wear shoes in student accommodation at your own risk.
Growing up we always took our shoes off in our house but as of the last few years it's a tradition that has gradually fazed out.

 

[Double A]

I take them off all the time. My socks, too. Not because of "cleanliness," but they're just so uncomfortable. And loud.

 

[duckfi8]

I take them off in my own house and my friends houses, except for 2 of my friends houses because they think its weird to take your shoes off at the door, even though its polite.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

It depends on how long I will be in their house.

 

[LewsTherin]

I take my shoes off because more often than not they're covered in snow/mud/dirt

 

[muckinscavitch]

I always thought leaving your shoes on was an american thing. Being canadian, you ALWAYS remove shoes, never met anyone who doesn't. But whenever I see stuff in the states, they always leave shoes on..

 

[masher]

I always try to take off my shoes, unless there's more important matters to attend to at the moment, like something really heavy weighing down my arms, but other than that, off!

 

[funksobeefy]

I think its incredibly rude to wear your shoes inside someones house unless they tell you other wise.