# Barefooters unite!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 4, 2015, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176 "2015-07-04T00:40:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@liontamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liontamer)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2015, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176/1 "2015-07-04T00:40:41Z")
As soon as the weather gets nice I shuck my shoes if at all possible.
Does anyone else enjoy the pleasure of going nudefooted?
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### Author:  [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176/2 "2015-07-04T01:26:33Z")
Not me; I won’t even do it around the house. But I’ve had a few friends who have done so - one even in the usual PA winter.
Congrats to those who can and don’t think less of me because I can’t. 🙂
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### Author:  [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2015, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176/3 "2015-07-04T02:21:23Z")
Not me either. I don’t like the skin on my feet to get hardened.
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### Author:  [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2015, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176/4 "2015-07-04T02:44:40Z")
Absolutely. Only wear shoes if I have to. If I take holidays in the warm weather, going back to work afterward is always hard having to put on shoes again.
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### Author:  [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2015, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176/5 "2015-07-04T02:58:35Z")
Going barefoot is one of the joys of living in the extreme southern US - I can keep my feet uncovered at least half the year. Sure, a pedicurist is apt to be completely grossed out by my calluses, but I don’t especially care - my feets are happy!
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### Author:  [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2015, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176/6 "2015-07-04T04:55:13Z")
I wish I could still walk barefoot. It honestly hurts to walk from the bed to the bathroom. When I see all of you folks wearing sandals on the street and going barefoot at the beaches, I cry bitter tears of jealousy.
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### Author:  [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2015, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176/7 "2015-07-04T05:14:50Z")
Now that I don’t work anymore I wear foot coverings iof I am going … well, no I don’t even do that anymore. If I have rocky stuff to walk on or mowing or motorcycle riding, I might wear Crocks™.
Last time I wore shoes, black Velcro closing running shoes, was to a funeral almost a year ago. I added jeans instead of shorts. Bout as good as it gets.
If I have to be out for over an hour in snow I might use socks in my Crocks™ if I am feeling dainty.
Up until I was 30 or so by June 15th I could walk & run on gravel roads barefoot.
We were 7 and Mama did not waste money on summer non school shoes.
I still get looks of horror when medical people and especially feet docs & nurses see my feet. They put down their Dremel™ Tools and drag out the chainsaws. When they find out I am 71, their eyes get big as pies. I got some good calluses… Bawahahahaha
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### Author:  [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2015, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176/8 "2015-07-04T05:15:00Z")
I am barefoot at home all the time in the summer, most of the year, really. I’ll walk down to the mailbox barefooted if it’s not too hot. I keep flip flops handy if the sidewalk is too hot. When I go out in public I wear nice shoes or sandals.
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2015, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176/9 "2015-07-04T13:25:56Z")
One of the few things I like about my current job is that it’s ok to walk around the office in flip-flops, sock feet or even bare feet. I have happy toes!
Nava, currently barefoot.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Duality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Duality)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2015, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176/10 "2015-07-04T14:15:53Z")
Anyone who has rolled an ankle in inadequate footwear a time or two, as I have, knows better. There is a time for bare feet, and a time for above-the-ankle hiking boots or steel-toed shoes. Our friend **Scylla** learned [the hard way](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=558610&highlight=mower) that shoes can serve a purpose.
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### Author:  [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176/11 "2015-07-04T19:29:56Z")
Oh yes, barefoot just about all the time. And wearing flip flops only when I absolutely must go shod.
There is one perk of living in the far south with all this abundant heat and that is I can wear flip flops damn near all year round.
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### Author:  [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176/12 "2015-07-04T19:47:40Z")
Shouldn’t it be: “Barefooters untie!”?
But, no, I have shoes on all the time, unless I’m sleeping or in the shower. As for why, I think that feet are ugly.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176/13 "2015-07-04T19:49:45Z")
I put on shoes if I have to. I have zoris when I need something on my feet but don’t have to wear shoes. Otherwise, I’m barefoot.
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### Author:  [@HeXen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeXen)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2015, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176/14 "2015-07-04T20:07:51Z")
I don’t even walk around my house barefoot. I’m only barefoot while in the shower or in bed. I wear shoes while around the house and boots when I go out.
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### Author:  [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2015, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176/15 "2015-07-04T20:10:21Z")
Barefoot kid - even in light snow to get the mail or paper. I wear some soft house shoes in later winter when the basement office floor gets cold. I wear sandals out as much of the year as I can.
The Mrs. gets cold feet so usually has socks on if not slippers. The kids hardly ever go barefoot. It’s weird.
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### Author:  [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2015, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176/16 "2015-07-04T20:17:33Z")
Around the house I’m barefoot in summer, sockfoot otherwise. Hate, hate, hate shoes in the house–noisy, dirty, and they endanger my toes. I’m going to double down on this in two weeks, when we move to rainy Seattle. We’re going to do like the Japanese and have no shoes in the house, at all.
Outdoors, though, I wear shoes. Pavement is hot and our patio has a pebble finish that is agony on bare feet. Also, bees in the grass.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2015, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176/17 "2015-07-04T21:00:59Z")
I had spent 69 years being barefoot indoors . . . and often, outdoors. I mean, I don’t recall ever wearing anything on my feet indoors, in my entire life.
Until recently, when I went to the podiatrist with several painful foot problems. He explained to me that every single problem was caused by being chronically barefoot. He said I should always wear something on my feet . . . and at my age, it needs to be something with real support, like hiking shoes. So I’m wearing my hiking shoes indoors now, plus a heel insert for one foot. Happily, they’re Merrells, and almost as comfortable as barefoot.
Barefoot may feel great now, but in time there’ll be a price to pay.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2015, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176/18 "2015-07-04T23:17:04Z")
In my previous cubicle farm, going barefoot in summer wasn’t uncommon; I’d join in whenever I wore sandals to work.
Hell, I’ve been out barefoot in _December_ but that was in Texas near the Gulf and I was only out long enough to get firewood.
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### Author:  [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176/19 "2015-07-04T23:36:18Z")
Around the house, almost always, but not outside anymore. Florida grass feels like fiber cereal. Until I left East TN I thought all grass felt like velvet.
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### Author:  [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176/20 "2015-07-04T23:38:59Z")
> [@Becky2844](#):
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> Around the house, almost always, but not outside anymore. Florida grass feels like fiber cereal. Until I left East TN I thought all grass felt like velvet.
Bluegrass is super nice underfoot. Zoysia and fescue, popular in dry climates, will cut bare feet to ribbons.
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