No shoes inside the house is a required thing, which brings me a question:
What Louboutin shoes and Havaianas flip flops have in common?
They both bring stinking filth into the house.
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Since we had our girl eight years ago back in Brazil, we decided NOT to wear shoes inside the house. Unfortunately, we didn’t have this consciousness when our first son was born. This habit kept our home cleaned, and also it protected her during the crawling times. The idea became a habit, and today we are used not to wear OUTSIDE shoes inside the house.
Every time I mop the floors of my house, I see the difference between my clients’ homes and mine. Most of them wear shoes inside.
I know, I know…ask for the visitors to remove their shoes before coming into your house is embarrassing sometimes; however, the soles of your boots harbor more grossness than you might think. The obvious stuff is your garden variety dirt, grass, leaves, grime, debris, and liquids from various unknown sources. Disgusting!!!!
What’s on your soles?
Charles P. Gerba, a professor, and microbiologist at the University of Arizona, studied how many and which kinds of bacteria linger on the bottom of shoes.
Check out his article about why not to wear shoes inside the house and take your conclusions, maybe kick off your shoes at home is not that big of a deal after all.
Keep in mind that the struggle we already have on our regular basis cleaning is enough. However, there is an exception, of course.
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Shoes can and should remain on at cocktail parties or other formal occasions. In these instances, guests have probably spent some measure of time and care in deciding what to wear. For women, in particular, shoes can be the cherry on the top of the cake for their look, so let’s not mess with that.
Another point is some traditions remove one’s shoes before getting into some places. Accordingly to Wikipedia – “In religions originating in the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East, it is customary to remove one’s shoes when entering a house of worship. In the Bible, God commanded Moses to remove his sandals before approaching Him on Mount Sinai.[1] The Eastern cultural context of this narrative regards shoes as bringing in dust into the home, and removing one’s shoes “would be a way of recognizing one’s uncleanness in the presence of holiness.” [1] Hinduism and Islam also regard feet as unclean; it is considered sinful to touch books with one’s feet and an insult to point one’s feet at someone.[2] As such, in many mandirs and mosques and churches and synagogues of the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East, it is customary for worshippers to remove their shoes before entering a house of worship, where they believe they are entering into the presence of the divine.[2]“