[ SECRET POST #3351 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3351 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Do Americans really not take off their shoes in the house?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm American, from Minnesota, and YES we absolutely take our shoes off! I would expect that any guest I had would know to take their shoes off at the door and I'd be pretty shocked if they didn't. I mean, every house and apartment has a shoe closet. And in the winter, with all the snow, shoes would track in mud and wet and just no, yuck.

So you are incorrect. In my region at least it is 100% expected to take off shoes.

Re: Do Americans really not take off their shoes in the house?

[diet_poison]

You live in Minnesota, though. You are drowning in snow. And I've never even heard of a shoe closet. Some people have baskets or racks, but not all, and an entire closet for storing shoes when you're not outside? that's a lot of wasted storage space IMO

/lives in Indiana

Re: Do Americans really not take off their shoes in the house?

[herpymcderp]

Up here in Canadia, not having a shoe closet is an enormous pain in the ass. Most of the time it's so bloody wet that you would never ever want to wear your shoes indoors unless you are a filthy, filthy individual.

You also need some place to hang your coat to dry or umbrella or whatever else.

Re: Do Americans really not take off their shoes in the house?

[diet_poison]

It's a good thing I don't live in Canada, then.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

from Wisconsin, and same. It's not an American thing, it's a regional thing. up north here we know better than to mess up someone else's carpets.

I have a lot of visitors who ask, but the default assumption is to take them off unless given permission not to - and I give permission if the weather's not shitty no matter what kind of indoor and outdoor rugs I have for wiping off your feet. Some shit just doesn't come off.

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

At the same time, though, I remember going to a family reunion-type party one year, someplace in New York state in the dead of winter. She told us all to keep our shoes on, so of course all the floors were soaked with melted slush and mud.

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

The reasoning is usually that someone is going to leave their shoes on for whatever reason*. At that point, either you have everyone leave them on or they all have wet socks.

*At a family thing, there's also a decent chance that someone is elderly and has trouble with the bending and maneuvering involved with boot removal, but doesn't want to call attention to it. In most of the US, it would be considered a bigger faux pas for the host to make a big deal out of it in that case than to just have everyone leave their shoes on and clean the floor after they leave.

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I'll basically only say "oh you can leave your shoes on" if the weather is nice and someone literally is moving stuff - like hauling furniture or something else heavy in and out of the house to the point where it'd be a pain to take them off and put them on again constantly. I do not want peoples shoes on my carpet as a rule.