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Having always lived in a shoes off house hold I find wearing shoes in the house very strange. At what point would you put them on after waking up if say you were spending the whole morning at home?

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For me, my shoes are predominately thongs (also referred to as flip flops in others parts of the world), and they’re directly next to my bed. They provide arch support which would otherwise leave me aching walking around the house presumably onto the flooring with little to no underlay.

I wear them non-stop until I hit the shower - I only have one pair but my wife has exponentially more and cycles through her pairs constantly, with a ritual cleanse in the shower for each used pair at least once a week.

That makes sense. I’ve mostly lived in houses with carpeted rooms so barefoot hasn’t been an issue, but in the bathroom and kitchen we’d normally wear some slippers.

Ahh thanks that’s useful to me as all. As someone that grew up with carpet everywhere, it would be always shoes off by choice - But now we avoid carpet everywhere as my son has dust allergies of all things, and carpets are ridiculously hard to keep clean.

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