awkward situation: no shoes at baby shower

[Sweetpancake]

For the life of me though I don't know why this is presented as a big concept.

I'm not talking at you just it's come up more than once (many times really), oddly from a good amount of Canadians. Many Americans live in snowy or rainy conditions. We all aren't heathens here (despite what some other posters think ) We are capable of discerning the weather and thinking "hmm I'll remove my shoes" even if we normally don't (or just don't have an issue with it like a firm yes or firm no).

I guess it just strikes me as a thing that is presented as black and white when it's not, at least to me. Like there's only one choice either your weather says you remove your shoes or your weather says you don't when there's tons of us who live in the midst of both of those and don't only wear our shoes in the house or only take them off, we switch it up as needed. I guess in my life I've not known someone to be 100% one way or the other but the DIS is def. a place of learning the infamous.."must be regional" spiel.

**Please know I'm not picking on your one post it's a reflection of all the posts on this particular aspect of shoes off/shoes on debate

I see your point,lol I guess I feel the people who don't wear shoes in their homes likely don't experience winter and live in more southern states. That was at least my assumption. I've noticed lots of people from Minnesota on here who also don't wear shoes in their homes and expect guests to remove them.

 

[FQLover]

The bottoms of my shoes can't catch athlete's foot or plantar warts, nor have sweat glands. They are not connected through blood vessels and nerve endings to the rest of my body.

You walk with your shoes on at your place of employment, your church, school, grocery store, etc. Why would it be weird then to walk with your shoes on at home?

This discussion may be something that is impossible to see/understand from 180 degrees away?
I never knew until reading through all this that people in Canada do not believe in wearing shoes in the house. I live in a US snow belt, too, and I still can't fathom that. I am not far from @Dan Murphy, so maybe it is a Midwestern thing.

 

[Lilsia]

The bottoms of my shoes can't catch athlete's foot or plantar warts, nor have sweat glands. They are not connected through blood vessels and nerve endings to the rest of my body.

You walk with your shoes on at your place of employment, your church, school, grocery store, etc. Why would it be weird then to walk with your shoes on at home?

This discussion may be something that is impossible to see/understand from 180 degrees away?
I never knew until reading through all this that people in Canada do not believe in wearing shoes in the house. I live in a US snow belt, too, and I still can't fathom that. I am not far from @Dan Murphy, so maybe it is a Midwestern thing.

I don't have to live and clean my school or grocery store. We have a door mat that we step on right when we come in and then take our shoes off. That thing get incredibly filthy within a few weeks. I can't imagine all of that coming into my house and carpet. I don't think some people realize how filthy their floors get when you wear your outside shoes inside.

 

[CdnCarrie]

The bottoms of my shoes can't catch athlete's foot or plantar warts, nor have sweat glands. They are not connected through blood vessels and nerve endings to the rest of my body.

You walk with your shoes on at your place of employment, your church, school, grocery store, etc. Why would it be weird then to walk with your shoes on at home?

This discussion may be something that is impossible to see/understand from 180 degrees away?
I never knew until reading through all this that people in Canada do not believe in wearing shoes in the house. I live in a US snow belt, too, and I still can't fathom that. I am not far from @Dan Murphy, so maybe it is a Midwestern thing.

Not just Canada. Several posters from places like Minnesota and North Dakota have indicated that they don't wear outdoor shoes in the house. And lots of people have said they wear shoes in the house just not outdoor ones.

 

[Lilsia]

Not just Canada. Several posters from places like Minnesota and North Dakota have indicated that they don't wear outdoor shoes in the house. And lots of people have said they wear shoes in the house just not outdoor ones.

And, it is a cultural thing too. I have yet to go to a Polish person's house where everyone does not take their shoes off.