Walking barefooted? How often do you, if at all? Health benefits?

debodun said:
I am surprised at how many clients I deliver meals to are barefooted when they come to the door. If they have arthritis in their feet, it may be painful to wear shoes. I suppose that's better than the man that answered the door only wearing a shirt.
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I don't have arthritis and it isn't painful for me to wear shoes - but that would be me in warm weather.

I don't wear shoes at home in warm weather so I wouldn't be putting them on to open the front door.
 
I have high arches. Anyone else that goes barefoot deal with this?

Yesterday, I put cream on my heels and wore white socks around the house. It wasn’t enough support. Also, socks are slippery. I wouldn’t even consider walking on the stairs without shoes.
 

When I was a Toronto Ambulance officer, my partner and I would find a nice shady spot in the big ( 500 acre ) city park that was within our station response area, and stand by for radio calls. It was a very common call for us to attend to some adult who had cut their foot on broken glass or a metal fragment in the park. Same thing at the city beaches along the shore of Lake Ontario. A purely preventable injury..Wear shoes.
 
One of the customs that new commers to Canada learn is to "take your shoes off at the door " when you visit somebody here. Seven months of winter ice, snow, and mud are the reason why we ask you to take your boots or shoes off. I cringe when I see those TV shows where a couple is looking at homes to buy, and they walk through a house with their wet shoes on, right across the carpets.
 
I was invited to a home where there was a pot luck meal. When I waked in the front door, the hostess asked me to take my shoes off. There was a large mat at the side of the door to put them on. I said, "I will, but in a few minutes you'll be begging me to put them back on." She let me keep them on.
BTW - they weren't Japanese.
 
debodun said:
I was invited to a home where there was a pot luck meal. When I waked in the front door, the hostess asked me to take my shoes off. There was a large mat at the side of the door to put them on. I said, "I will, but in a few minutes you'll be begging me to put them back on." She let me keep them on.
BTW - they weren't Japanese.
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So, you are proud of your smelly feet ? Really ?
 
debodun said:
I was invited to a home where there was a pot luck meal. When I waked in the front door, the hostess asked me to take my shoes off. There was a large mat at the side of the door to put them on. I said, "I will, but in a few minutes you'll be begging me to put them back on." She let me keep them on.
BTW - they weren't Japanese.
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My wife always says "At your risk, cheese alert!" She has no smelling feet, but she likes this joke.
We as hosts would never force our visitors to take the shoes off. And we don't like, if other people request us to take our shoes off. But I know that in some other countries (not only Japan) people take off their shoes. Of course, if we would book a stay in a Japanese house for an evening with the hosts (which is possible), we would take them off.
 
jimintoronto said:
One of the customs that new commers to Canada learn is to "take your shoes off at the door " when you visit somebody here. Seven months of winter ice, snow, and mud are the reason why we ask you to take your boots or shoes off. I cringe when I see those TV shows where a couple is looking at homes to buy, and they walk through a house with their wet shoes on, right across the carpets.
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Same in Alaska (I lived there several years). Also, Scandinavia.
 
Living on a farm, we always leave our barn shoes on the porch & put on our Stegmann clogs. One couple we know has a no shoes policy in their house when they ran their kennel. I didn't mind because I understood. They did the same at our house. At holidays, I don't ask for shoes to come off unless they go out to the barn. My one SIL has always brought her slippers to put on, I'm not sure why because I've haven't asked her to.

I understand why during the winter when the weather is bad & your dealing with the salt to melt the ice.
 
There are benefits to being connected with the Earth.
I am always wearing shoes, outdoors or indoors. I am a tenderfoot.
In the last year, I have found that sitting in a lawn chair with bare feet on the ground for a while, makes you feel better.
 

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