^^ Sure. Whatever floats your boat. I don’t have a problem with either practice (as long as my feet don’t hurt!).
i answered shoes off but we wear something else. We have a new house with white carpets and the wife totally insists on absolutely all shoes off at the door and slippers on.
Shoes on: all the time except for bed. Hubby’s family are a completely different story: walk in the door, shoes come off.
I believe that plantar warts are a virus – I don’t think you can catch them from going barefoot in your house.
The plantar fascia is a ligament. Plantar fasciitis is an inflammation of that ligament.
You don’t necessarily get that from walking barefoot, but walking barefoot on hard surfaces after you’ve developed it is painful, and the wearing of shoes is recommended:
(from WebMD)
No doubt you are remembering another legendary thread about this subject.
I have bunions and am in the same boat. I just try to find slippers that give me some support.
I’m not crazy about shoes in the house (especially now that we live in a place where sand is ubiquitous) but I’m not a fanatic about it, either.
I never wear shoes if I can go without. Carpet, bare floors, inside, outside, no shoes. I hate socks even more.
On or off, doesn’t matter. As long as you aren’t putting your shoe-bottoms on any fabrics or where one would put their food, it’s all good.
Now, if your shoes are all wet and/or muddy, it’s common sense to take them off at the door.
Seven have answered “including the bed.” That reminds me of what Helena Bonham carter said about filming her bedroom scenes with Woody Allen. Said he kept his shoes on in the bed. When she asked him why, he said it was in case a fire broke out on the set and they had to flee. She couldn’t tell if he was joking or serious.
well, only 31 out of 187 for shoes in the house. a marked difference from before polls were anonymous. the same lopsided results (17 vs 146) for the poll on toilet paper. i guess being vocal does muddy the water abit eh? the two polls aren’t as polarising as i thought it might be.
what other non-consequential, yet hotly contested, issue is next? 
whatever floats your boat when you visit, and I am generally shoes off (this time of year I put on socks and then slipper socks so the shoes wouldn’t fit so well and my feet get cold).
We are remodeling the house and have “Redneck Laminate” (trademarked) in the kitchen which is the room currently under construction. It means we have large cardboard boxes flattened and duct taped together to protect the sub-floor before we install actual flooring. He actually did a little drawing of a logo on the floor itself as a joke! 
Well, to be fair, you’re really looking at different questions–previous threads were frequently about requiring or expecting that other people would take their shoes off in your house, not about what you personally would do. There is often a large disconnect between what we personally do in our own homes and what we consider polite behavior as guests. Just because I sit around in my underpants scratching myself at home, that doesn’t mean I would do that somewhere else, or that I expect or want guests to do that at my house, ya know?
Me, I’m pretty shoe-apathetic. I typically take 'em off within 10 minutes at home as a comfort thing, but the only real opinion I have about shoes in someone else’s home is that people who have the vapors about how uncivilized it is to wear shoes in the house are wankers. But to me, trotting around barefoot is rather linked to being at home, kind of like unbuttoning my pants after a big meal or rooting through the fridge at will–something I only do in places it’s been made clear I should make myself that much at home.
My wife is Korean and I value my well-being. That should tell you the rule in my house.
(I do get a bit of leeway, however. While most of the house is carpeted, the hardwood extends from the front door to my office room, so I usually make it into there before ditching the footwear.)
I wish it were a non-consequential issue. How many of our poor feet have been wrecked by ill-fitting shoes that were designed by manufacturers who think they’ve got it all figured out?
Anyway - counting mine, that’s two that I know of.
When we go to a Christmas house party next weekend here in Calgary, I’ll take a picture of all the shoes at the front door for youse guys. 
I feel like I have never been able to get across how much of a non-issue it is to take your shoes off in someone else’s house - everyone at the party is a Canadian, we were all raised with the habit of taking our shoes off in the house, and no one ever asks us to do it - we just do it automatically. It was here on the Dope that I first learned that not every culture takes their shoes off inside.
Pffft. Amateur. :rolleyes:
I keep a pair of Kino’s in the truck and change into them as soon as I’m done working. Shoes are just like little straitjackets for your feet. Or big straitjackets, in my case. I hate shoes and only wear them when necessary. Otherwise it’s bare feet or sandals.
I went with “Other.” Shoes are on if other people are around. If it’s just me, I’m content being barefoot at home.
ETA: I am, apparently, weird about my feet.
Shoes off man, no socks either, socks are strange without shoes.
Shoes off, but not because I’m wierd about germs or dirtying up the floor I just prefer to be barefoot as often as possible even when outside in the grass and dirt.
I have a pair of Veggies shoes (they’re like Crocs) that are fleece-lined and incredibly cozy and comfortable! They go on my feet when I get up in the morning. They come off when I go to bed at night (well, and when I shower or bathe).
I have a large apartment, and except for the kitchen, it’s carpeted (don’t even get me started on how stoopid it is to have carpeting in the bathrooms!), but the older I get, the colder I get, dammit. My feet get cold!
Even in bed, I’m usually wearing socks by this time of year.