We have a big stack of these available at the door.
Posted on 07/31/2022 7:11:02 AM PDT by aquila48
After living 10 years in Japan, the shoes come off. Makes for a cleaner house and better living.
Clean shoes? Leave them on. My house is not a museum, it is meant to be lived in, and I know how to clean and care for it.
We have a big stack of these available at the door.
Lol. We will often walk around the house with shoes on. If we had kids who played/crawled on the floor definitely but it’s only used for walking on these days.
Same here. I don’t wear outdoor shoes inside my house, but I don’t ask or expect others to remove their shoes. Maybe in Britain it is some kind of class marker, but elsewhere I think it is just personal preference. Some people don’t want to track in dirt and whatever else they have walked on during the day into the house.
Everybody here in Japan removes their shoes and uses slippers and that goes for guests , workman and whoever enters someone’s home .
Also change to slippers when entering a church. No shoes allowed in karate dojo.
In these parts some of the really old houses have “mud rooms”.
They are just small rooms by the entry way. They might have coat-hangers for winter coats as well.
You would take off your muddy or wet shoes and boots and leave them in the mud room to dry.
Then you kept another pair of clean shoes in the mud room to put on before going in the rest of the house.
Shoes or slippers ON, because I don’t like stepping in cat barf.
My house isn’t a museum, either, although most of my stuff is old! ;-)
Our home is clean.
I put boot scrapers and two doormats at each door, inside and outside.
Of course, if it’s wet weather we remove our boots at the door.
We live on several acres and work outdoors a lot. Changing shoes or boots every time we come in or go out would be very tedious, although I often change them just because it’s so hot in the summer.
I would never leave shoes outside the door here unless I felt like finding a surprise scorpion or big spider inside! Lol!
The other day I leaned over to smell my new rose, still in the pot, which had just begun blooming. A very large garter snake was coiled inside the pot but it was below the foliage and I didn’t see it.
I stepped away and hubby pointed out the snake which had peeked up to take a look around.
Lol!
Are you turning Japanese?
No?
Then leave your shoes on.
Especially at the mosque.
Speak for yourself.
i take off my street shoes but wear socks or slippers. i don’t like to be barefoot in the house.
Socks pick up dust and dirt - - just saying...
Very Asian culture to remove shoes before entering house
Got used to doing this when lived in Hawaii
Article writer makes much ado of a cultural norm
Obviously doesn’t travel much
“Middle Class” = White
The females (my wife and my daughter) go barefoot in the house. The males ( my father-in-law and I) wear shoes or slippers.
If you’ve ever stood in front of a urinal and looked down, you would never want the soles of those shoes to touch the floors in your house.
I’ve tried to get my husband to take off his shoes in the house forever, with little or no success. It’s not as bad now that he’s not running in and out as often as he used to, but it’s because his health has declined. (Now I wish he COULD run in and out like he used to).
My wife is the biggest stickler for that. She will go nuts if she sees somebody without the booties on.
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