Shoes - I hate getting my feet dirty and even worse, I’m a tenderfoot who feels pain if I even step on a grain of sand. Dirty feet really gross me out.
I wear slippers indoors.
PS - Misnomer, Merrells are one of my favorite brands. I have the Gardena thongs and they are the most comfy flip-flop type shoes I have ever worn. I wear them on my walks they are so comfy. Mine are red - a TJ Maxx $20 find - I wish I could find 5 more pairs at that price!
I’m more in the “barely shod” category. I hate socks and enclosed shoes, but I’m uncomfortable barefoot. So in the warm months, I’m usually in some sort of slide or sandal. I like my feet to look nice, so my nails are always polished (red or black polish only.) I also wear toe rings.
I’m enough of a glamor girl that my only pair of Birkenstocks are black patent leather, and my flip-flops are platform style, with sequins.
Shoes just to get around.
When I get to the office, I take them off and I have sandals at work.
At home, I wear house slippers. . .with socks or without depending on the temp.
When I’m working in the yard, I wear shoes, but for basic puttering around, I wear the house slippers. I don’t think it’s healthy to confine your foot in a shoe all day.
Count me in as another barefooter. I have several pairs of sandals, and i live in the cold Northeast but try to wear sandals ten months out of the year. I never wear anything at home, and socks and shoes make me feel claustrophobic.
I always like to tell the story of when my parents tried to put me in jammies-with-the-feet. I nearly screamed the house down trying to get them off. I was pretty young. They never tried again.
If it were possible, I’d be barefoot all the time… I try to balance it by wearing sandals whenever possible / appropriate.
Shoes sucks, but unfortunately, they’re necessary
Shoes. For one, I lurve shoes and always want to wear something stunning on my feet. I get compliments on my shoes almost every day.
Two, I don’t enjoy going barefoot. My feet aren’t tough enough for outside anymore (my feet were tough as rocks when I was a kid, we never wore shoes unless it was for school) plus I don’t want to step in something icky. Inside, I usually wear slippers or flips fliops 'cause I have cats and there’s constantly fur around.
When I was a 5-year old boy, our babysitter Mrs. Gibbs wagged her finger. “Don’t go outside barefoot, you’ll step on a bee.” I ignored that. I went out in the yard barefoot, and promptly stepped on a bee. :smack: I’m always shod outside, but inside the shoes come off.
Another vote for the barefooter.
I love padding round the house with no shoes on. If I absolutely must, I’ll put socks on. I save the shoes for going outside.
My husband is the opposite. He wears shoes everywhere.
I feel naked if I’m not wearing shoes outside. I have a pair of Colorado Work/Hiking boots that I wear all the time, with a pair of heavy duty black shoes for work, and a couple of pairs of dress shoes for those really snazzy occaisons.
But yeah, I like boots (and we won’t go into my thoughts on knee-high or thigh-high boots on women! 
), and I’ve always thought people who went barefoot outside were probably… poor or something. :eek:
In the summertime, around the house or on the beach, I’m barefoot practically all the time.
Any other time, and I’d rather be properly shod.
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Barefoot around home (except when it’s winter and I need socks), shoes when I’m out and about. I can’t walk very fast barefoot out on the pavements.
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Yep, me too. My shoes come off right after I get home, and by this time of year I’m usually in sandals (unless it’s wet like today) until it’s way too cold for them - like early October.
Feet, esp. toes are just too darn delicate and precious to just let them out in the open - those babies need some serious protection - I have no sympathy for anyone who risks unprotected feet and gets them injured bacuse of that.