Barefoot????

Not at all. In a lot of homes, (especially Asian, in my experience - and also people with white carpets, ha ha), it is actually expected. Keeps the floors cleaner.

No shoes..... yes,,,, but bare no!!!!!:noway: socks a must....

I don't think it's weird at all? i'd be more offended if someone walked through my house with their grubby shoes!

If you live in Hawai'i, you leave your shoes outside the front door. Never walk in someones house with shoes on.

hmm. Most people I know walk in their own and others houses with barefeet. In fact, I'd think it was a little unusual (but it wouldnt bother me) if someone walked around our house with shoes ON.

We just have that kind of house. As do most of my friends.

Most folks I know ask as they come in. I say "whatever". They see that our shoes are at the door. There are slippers there, and I tell them that's optional. Most of my caucasian friends go barefoot. The asians are a mixed bag. Some put slippers on, some go barefoot.

But that's just us.

I think it's weird if you don't ask first. What if your feet are fugly or smelly?

Yes, the fugly/smelly part is essential. But speaking as someone who works with people with disabilities including things like OCD, if you knew they were OCD in regards to cleanliness, you should have asked first. If its your house...screw EM!! I was raised in the south and as soon as I get home my socks & shoes are off!!

I'm always barefoot, so everyone expects it of me...I also live in the south so it's very common to take your shoes off when or before you go in somebodies house.

That is kind of strange though, like others say, it's usually the other way around. But, now you know to leave your shoes on at that persons house.

some people are just grossed out by feet?

Unless i'm working out or running you won't ever find me with socks on. Even with 3ft of snow outside. So I would walk around in another's house barefoot and not think twice.

Most people I know take their shoes off at the door when going into a house. We even have these "mud rooms" at the entrances of some homes that are built specifically for that purpose.

To each their own.

A bare foot is actually cleaner than one in socks, because socks tend to trap bacteria and make things moist. I even did an experiment in microbiology where I swabbed various peoples' feet with and without socks, in different kinds of shoes. Bare, dry feet were much more sanitary than socks, hand-down.

Now I'm a barefoot kinda gal myself, but I generally follow the cues of whomever I'm visiting. If they take off their shoes when they get in their house, I do, too. I would prefer to just take them off whenever, but I wait to see if it works with the host first. I don't have any issue with feet myself, but some people just can't stand the thought of them.. It's a mental issue, and not an immediate physical thing.

I was raised a country girl. Spent my whole summers in my bare feet and so did most others, or sandals. I still spend most of the summer in my bare feet. I would not feel uncomfortable wearing them in someone's house. I might wipe them off on a doormat or something depending on where i'd been. (grass clippings or dirt)