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[American Horror Story]

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[Beverly Hills, 90210]

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[Homeland]

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[Skins]

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[Signs]

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[Downton Abbey]

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[Epic Rap Battles of History]

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[Mass Effect]

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[orange is the new black]

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[The Swapper]

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[Rune Factory 4]

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ayrt

Are you American? But yeah, I agree, shoes should be taken off in the house. I lived in Japan, where they believed they were the only country in the world to take off their shoes, and yeah. I've only known one American family that kept their shoes on, which probably had something to do with their house being really disgusting - I didn't take off my shoes there for fear of stepping on something dangerous or sticky. Otherwise, taking off shoes for me is the norm and should be enforced. lol

DA

American here - and I wear them inside because...well. Half the time I'm stopping inside for a short time before heading back out, so there's no point in taking them off. Plus my home is also where the family business is based which means it's entirely possible that there are needles and other nasty-to-step-on guff on the floor you can't see.

* The guff is all business related [and mainly various sewing instrument related]. So it's not because it's ~disgusting~.

And for whatever it's worth, I've only known person who actually makes it an "enforced" thing to take your shoes off at their place. It's just not common here.

What's guff???

Trivial miscellany.

Didn't know the latter word so I looked it up and a little more confused, but basically meaning random stuff?

Basically, yeah. Sorry to have confused you further, I'm just oddly fond of the word miscellany and jumped at the chance to use it.

Yeah, I'm American.

Yeah, I wear shoes in the house because the floors are filthy. If I wear socks only, the bottoms turn gray in only a few minutes. I don't like dirty feet or crumbs sticking to my feet, and there's the potential for splinters with the wood floors, so I keep my shoes on.

I don't even like stepping out of the shower barefoot. There's always stuff on the floor (or on the mat, when there is one) so I leave my discarded clothing that is going to go in the laundry on the floor so I can stand on that before I put my socks on.

Of course, houses where shoes aren't allowed on in the house don't have any of these problems.

Crazy idea: Clean the floors?

Maybe your floors are filthy because you wear shoes in the house?

I'm an American and the only friends' houses I take my shoes off in are Asian. In my house it is standard to keep your shoes on until you reach the place where you take them off. My sister and I keep our shoes in our bedrooms, my dad and brother keep their shoes in the laundry room (because they are gross and their shoes are not to be worn where the rest of us step) and mom keeps her shoes by the side door.

But... don't basically all houses/apartments have shoe/coat closets by the door? I understand the idea of keeping them in your room, but I can't really get wearing them farther when the closet is right there. :P

My old house didn't have any closets near the doors when I was growing up, so we all go in the habit of keeping our shoes in our rooms. (The house was built in the 1950s)

Also the convenient spot to keep shoes would be in the laundry room but my dad and brother don't respect my shoes and so I have to keep them in my room to avoid being damaged or dirtied by their shoes.

Oh dear.

We leave shoes on in the house because it's all hard wood and cold. We change to slippers later. We don't wear our shoes inside if they're muddy.

I don't think your house will be disgusting because of this if you ACTUALLY CLEAN THE FLOORS. So either your friends just don't fucking clean or you have really weird standards.

When is later? Like an hour or what? So you will wear your shoes but also slippers - just later?

I really don't get it.

Generally whenever it is we change into pajamas.

I'm talking about my parents' place, mostly. We're in Central New York (upstate) and most of the house is wood flooring. Shoes are just more comfortable. However it depends on the shoes. A dry day and sneakers, we'll wear them inside. Snow? Of course we take our boots off.

But seriously--dirty floors aren't a problem because we ACTUALLY CLEAN THEM. Our floors aren't disgusting. I'm not sure what that anon means. I think their friends seriously just don't clean ever.

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