2007-11-10 23:12:43 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
If it does then don't visit them. If you know that it is that way there you coud take some shoes such as flip flops etc that have never been worn outdoors. I guess it would feel strange to be all dressed up (for example) and have to be barefooted. It is also uncomfortable for some people to walk without shoes.
2007-11-11 00:11:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, not really, you need to respect other peoples wishes in their own home. Of course I wouldn't actually go barefoot (unless I arrived in sandles), I be in my socks.
My Mom works realestate. There are quiet a few homes that are "no shoes allowed." She's gotten use to wearing slip on shoes, because of this.
I do really dislike it when someone has the no shoes policy, and they have no place to sit comfortably and re-tie your shoes, or you must trip over piles of shoes to enter the home.
If you are talking about having your house actually BARE feet, and even minuse socks, I most likely would not come to visit. First your floors would have to be spotless, and warm in the winter. Second and most important would be the fact that I do not want to pick up a fungus or warts.
I worked for a Dermotologist for 8 years. Yes you CAN pick up the wart virus from walking on floors where someone has walked barefoot before you that has warts. Plantar warts are painful, and you simply do not want them on your feet. This too is one of the reasons it astounds me where some people let their babies crawl around!
Also some people (usually Vietnam Vetrans) have picked up a type of foot fungus that is terribly painful, and causes skin breakdowns. There is no cure for this fungus....only control. Once you have it, it's forever. You are more apt to pick it up in a warm shower-room at a gym or pool, but I still wouldn't take the chance. I've seen how bad it can be.
When we build our next home, it will be no shoes after a certain point. We live on a farm, and can track a LOT of dirt into the house. Their will be a HUGE mudroom/laundry room where people can enter and comfortably take shoes off, and filthy clothes if needed. A bathroom with a shower will also ajoin. So someone can come in and use the bathroom, and keep their shoes on. Those will be the only two rooms in the house where outside shoes are allowed. We will also have radiant heat floors.
~Garnet
Homesteading/Farming over 20 years
2007-11-11 01:13:35 · answer #2 · answered by Bohemian_Garnet_Permaculturalist 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No I would gladly go barefoot if they had that policy.
My friend's mother has that at her house. On my first visit when I took off my shoes after my friend took of hers her mother asked me to remove my socks as well. I didn't ask why I respected the rules of her house and walked around in bare feet. Now when I go there I always take off both shoes and socks before entering, everyone I have seen there has always been barefoot.
2007-11-11 00:02:59 · answer #3 · answered by Sarah D 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. At least not here in India. Vast majority walk barefooted in their homes and others' homes as well. Homes are considered too clean to allow dirts through foot wears.
But this culture is wildly different from the West's and other parts of the world's, as I hear. It is like vast majority uses foot wears for out doors exclusively and for indoors, no foot wears are used.
2007-11-10 23:25:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. But, another alternative, if it's for cleanliness rather than custom, is to keep a box of surgical shoe covers by the door to offer as an alternative to kicking off the shoes. My hubby kept them in his truck when he was self employed, and installing custom ironwork in homes.
His customers thought he was so thoughtful when he covered his boots before coming in. Only one said, "No wedding ring, but you're obviously married." I got a kick out of that one.
2007-11-11 23:54:59 · answer #5 · answered by cnsdubie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it would. I'm always barefoot, but as anyone reading the responses to those barefoot questions will know, many people are just as uncomfortable barefoot as I would be wearing shoes. I think people should be free to wear or not wear whatever they want, and I will defend a person who prefers to wear shoes just as strongly as I will defend my preference to be barefoot.
I can understand those people who don't want outside dirt (although I personally think a house is meant to be lived in, and I would never want to live in a showroom-type place with a sparkling white carpet). But they should be okay with indoor slippers, socks, etc if someone doesn't want to be barefoot.
2007-11-11 22:56:02 · answer #6 · answered by Sheriam 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. I have a only bare feet house policy too.........yeh, I am one of them.
2007-11-11 19:36:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Especially if the floor was dirty, cold, wet or otherwise. I hate getting stuff stuck in my feet too.
2007-11-10 23:43:40 · answer #8 · answered by Mr. Len 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Isn't it more like an "either you're with us or against us" ;)where's the freedom of choice buddy!
2007-11-11 01:00:59 · answer #9 · answered by Ms_4peace 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It would bug me if the floor was cold.
2007-11-10 23:30:57 · answer #10 · answered by holly 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋