Barefoot Holidays

Anyone else spend their holidays in bare feet? I'm assuing that most people see friends and family on Thanksgiving and I'm wondering if your shoes and socks (if applicable) come off or remain on during these gatherings. When I get to my relatives, I always take off my shoes and socks and some of my cousins (mostly the ones around my age and younger) do the same.

 

I will be spending Thanksgiving at home this year, so the shoes and socks will stay off as usual. I recently moved out of state, so normally I would be visiting my mother and sister, but I'm not going anywhere near an airport during Thanksgiving!! However I will be visiting them during Christmas, sadly with shoes and socks on. I'm not really game on explaining my barefooting thing to them......they just don't get it, besides, I don't feel they need to know everything about my lifestyle since growing up and moving away.

Anyhoo, half of Thanksgiving day was usually spent visiting my wifes' family members. One time upon arriving, a cousin on her side of the family answered the door in her barefeet. Dianne as she's known, offered to take our coats and she knew I liked to go barefoot too. Without skipping a beat she offered me to get out of those shoes and socks and get comfortable. Ahhhhh.

 

Yea i dont care who see's me barefoot. My parents are used to it. And as for my boyfriends parents and family.. well i converted his little sister to it

 

Wow! You've turned your boyfriend's sister into a barefooter too?

Please, tell us more about your feet, Fleassy!

Regards

DG

 

whenever i go visit my dad i don't even bring my shoes. he lives in a new house.. so he's got new carpet.. nice new fluffy lawn to run around on (just have to make sure theres no doggy messes)

someone in the family always has to ask too "where are your shoes? aren't your feet cold?"

 

Since the holidays are pretty much just another day for me, yeah I spend them barefoot. At my wife's family, they have the most incredible brick tile floors that are smooth and cool - they're a little hard on the soles though...but that just gives me an excuse to lie back in the recliner with my feet up.

This year for Thanksgiving we couldn't afford to make the trip to Arizona so we're going to my best friends parents' house, and I always hang out barefoot there. They have a policy of removing shoes at the door, which because I only wear flip flops means that I will put them on only to get from the car to the entryway and back again.

 

hehe yea apparently she's allways been a little hippie at heart, shes only 10 but i worry about her little feet when i walk her to tesco cos the floor is covered in glass :S

 

Yeah im not really a barefooter but if I really wanted to and didnt have to deal with my parents when I go to relatives on holidays id just go barefoot and not worry about it but my parents dont know about much of my lifestyle anyways and they wouldnt understand it even if they did cuz ive tried to talk to them about some similar things that have to do with it and they just areint real positive about it so im just gonna wait till I live on my own and then I can go and see anybody I want barefoot, shirtless, nude whatever and not worry about it.

 

Well, that's cool. You are her model

Keep barefooting!

Regards

DG

PS: Please post pics of you barefoot

 

I spent Thanksgiving at my aunts house and as soon as I got in the door, I took my shoes off. While we were sitting in the living room, my granny almost broke her neck trying to look at my bare feet. She finally asked me where my shoes were. I simply pointed to them on the other side of the couch and smiled. She have me a disapproving look but didn't say anything else. I mean, I don't want to offend people, but I don't want to conform just b/c everyone is wearing shoes, when I perfer barefootin. Afterall, I was NOT born with shoes on my feet.

 

RainbowGrl, I'm glad you don't give in to people whose bigotry causes them to think that you are "wrong" for going barefoot and they are "right" for wearing shoes.

Who is your grandma to "disapprove" of you being barefoot? What is wrong with being barefoot? Not a thing. What it comes down to is some people think that others should conform to their way of doing things just because those people are not used to seeing the unconventional. People like your grandma would rather see you uncomfortable and shod, than comfortable and barefoot, because they think they are right and you are wrong. I say, such people can go stuff it. Anyone who wants me to be less comfortable than I can be, just to make them more at ease about my appearance, is an asshead.

-Jeffrey

 

When I visited my brother's family and went around the house barefoot, his kids would say, "Uncle Monty, you're setting a bad example!"

 

if its cold i'll leave my socks on. i don't like the cold too much, unless i'm skiing and bundled up and warm! but if it's warm i'm barefoot. i like my toes to be free. i don't care who sees my feet!!!

 

That's sad. It seems those kids have been brainwashed by ignorant, prejudiced adults who have made fallacious conclusions unsupported by facts, i.e. there's something dangerous or bad about being barefoot. So the kids pick up the misinformation from the parents and this is what you get. They never even realize that they are failing to stop and think, "Why do I believe this way?"

Truly sad.

-Jeffrey

 

Oh now, hold on there--this was all in good fun. The kids had been told to "Do what you see grownups do" except of course when adults do the wrong thing, and then it's grownups "setting a bad example" to be avoided. And they'd been told to wear shoes most of the time, hence an adult who's barefoot gets accused of doing the wrong thing in front of impressionable children, and it's the children themselves who say so. Was that clear?

 

Always have, always will. :sunglasse