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| No Shoes, No Dice: Just say NO to no shoes and YES to house shoes |
No Shoes, No Dice: Memes by Eve @ Imgflip
Inspired by what we practice in our home – house shoes.Our entrance area has two trays of shoes, one for each of us, along with plenty of room to maneuver and set stuff down when changing shoes. I don’t keep all our shoes there, but only a select few pair that are most commonly worn outside, along with the house shoes.
- House shoes can be any kind of shoe, but its purpose is to stay in the house and not be worn outside, so that no outside dirt gets on them and tracked all over the house; i.e., cross-contamination.
- House shoes are not slippers
- House shoes are intended for working in the house
- Slippers are intended for relaxing in the house
- House shoes are not slippers
I prefer easy slip-on shoes, nothing with laces; the point is to make it quick and easy; if changing shoes takes longer than it’s worth then it’s just a nuisance; and the trick is to make it a habit, then it’s what you automatically do because it’s a habit. I can actually feel that I missed a step if I don’t change my shoes now because my muscles remember the routine and habit; muscle memory is awesome like that.
We have plenty of dirt outside, so this way all the excess dirt stays on the entrance area rug and makes it more efficient for cleaning, instead of dirt being dragged all over the house; I don’t even vacuum my entire house every day now since the majority of the dirt stays in the entrance area, which was why I designed the entrance area to function like that – to clean smarter, not harder.
I find it quite gross and disgusting with all the unseen microscopic bacterial diseases in America that it’s expected to remove one’s shoes in someone else’s home when I don’t know their level of cleanliness, and they don’t know if a guest is carrying something on them and leaving it behind – and the guest may not even know they’re carrying something.
Not only that, whatever happened to treating guests like guests instead of one of the family; or just being civilized in the 21st Century in one’s own home? People start hanging barn doors inside and everyone acts like they were born in a barn.
Walking around in bare feet or socked feet is rudimentary and negligent and tends to create problems that could be avoided altogether by wearing sturdy shoes like people in first world countries do; my ancestors left other countries for something better and I like to think something better includes not being barefoot or shoeless in my own home.
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