by “Shoes out!” Barked my slightly huge friend kit when I wanted to cross her threshold. I was surprised: was this a new habit of social media or a lifestyle -guru?
Kit is not obsessed, but she is proud of the house. She lives in the country, her house is surrounded by muddy lawn near a beach, so it makes sense not to pull dirt on her beautifully polished parquetry or scratch it with sand. She goes barefoot all year round: slippers are not her style. She holds a few rubber slides on the back door to bring out the trash can or go to the vegetables.
I had no choice but to keep, relieved that I had good, clean socks and the kit’s house is well heated. At first I felt a bit uncomfortable, slipped and slipped like a shaky beginner skater on an ice rink. At the end of the evening, however, I was convinced that we should also follow this hygienic approach, although we should have concerns about the laying of boiling water or cooking of fat on my feet.
Many non-anglo-Celtic households naturally have a long tradition to remove the shoes on the door. In Japan called inner house shoes Uwabaki are usually provided to keep Tatami floors where they sit, sleep and eat, flawless. It is actually illegal to wear outdoor shoes in rental objects and can result in a fine. In Scandinavia, felt and wool house shoes are stylish accessories. In CanadaPresent If the heavy cold requires heavy shoes such as snow boots, houses usually have a wet room to remove all waterproof equipment and let them out of the way.
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A little reading informed me that shoes in germs, bacteria, pesticides and a variety of other unsatisfaction such as carcinogenic asphalt seals that are invisible but can linger in house dust can carry in household dust. As only two adults at home, we were not concerned that small children crawl on the ground floor, and we also have a pet, but this relatively low adaptation sounded healthy and sensible.
The decision turned out to be surprisingly split and complicated. When I raised it with friends, some said that they didn’t like to be asked and avoided houses where it is necessary.
Even small changes think. Unexpected decisions have to be made suddenly: How can you best suggest this new approach? Telephone when people umbrella? Or on the door? And then: where can you take off your shoes? Outside where spinning and other animals could make your home in you? Inside you will look messy? (Should we get a box to contain it? Or a rack?)
We take our decision enthusiastically and buy stylish slip-ons to avoid the kind of tartan wool gate shoes that our grandparents wore (a friend with a shoeless house told me that his partner said he would leave him if he ever adopted coupes); We try to remember not even to go to the trash can or to choose a herb. We keep separate shoes outside for the back door. The key is not to bend or put them in. The adaptation takes a few weeks, with a few stumbling blocks on the stairs of Muddy sole profiles.
In the city, in which the risk is rather dog shit, the trend of shoes has spread for other reasons. Friends in inner-city apartments in older buildings tell me that it is common for body corporate to ask the residents to remove their shoes from the consideration of those who live among them so that they do not have to endure the clip-of-heels on boards, since apparently nobody has any carpet anymore.
We are still at the beginning of our new shoeless life, but there is no back. In retrospect, we would probably have gradually entered it in summer, instead of starting now when everyone gets back into boots. As with all changes, it is one step after the other.
