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amother
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 Mon, Oct 02 2023, 6:56 pm
| amother OP wrote: | I have never heard this term, as a "thing". I'm aware that certain cultures and ethnicities do not wear shoes inside for religious or cultural reasons. I know one frum individual who is concerned about stains on her living room carpet, so she has her kids take off their shoes.
Outside of that, can someone explain this to me? Do you think that shoes will scratch your wood floors? Do you think it tracks germs and household members are more likely to get sick if people coming inside the house don't remove their shoes? |
I’m the mother on the other thread who said I have this policy in my house but NEVER would ask my parents to do it. It’s beneath my father’s dignity to undress and kibbud av veim is no comparison to clean floors
So I have the policy because it tracks dirt throughout the house. It’s pretty disgusting to me that everything you stepped on outside is now on the floors of the house. If the ground outside is even slightly wet or the grass was cut recently it’s even worse.
My second reason is because while many shoes don’t scratch floors, the taps on the shoes do, and besides for my children’s sneakers, all the shoes in my house are tapped.
I work double as hard to keep my floors clean when someone comes inside with shoes
It’s really not a big deal. But the most important part is that I’m not a fanatic, I don’t breathe down peoples necks ever. I calmly remind my kids with one smiling word “Chaim, shoes!” And zehu. If I was anxious and stressed about it, that would be a different story
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Mon, Oct 02 2023, 7:06 pm
It’s cultural.
In places where everyone takes off their shoes, keeping them on would be considered gross and rude.
Every single time I ordered water in Ukraine, I had to reassure the delivery man that it was okay to carry it to the kitchen without removing his shoes. Because it would just take a second.
Guests and repairmen (like when someone came to fix the washer) always take off their shoes without being asked, or they bring those blue plasticy covers.
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