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  • silvasava
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    Ive worn what I call House Shoes for years - mainly becuase I'll go out into the garden to peg washing out & no footpath. At the moment I wear a pair of nice soft leather Aldi moccassins!
    Small victories - sometimes they are all you can hope for but sometimes they are all you need - be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle
  • Well, yes, farming, you would do - even general rural, it makes sense... but in My Intended's and my 1960s-80s school years we can't remember any house we were in, family or friends, where people took their shoes off except, as I said, a few households with Scandinavian or Muslim families. Nor can our parents, who grew up hundreds of miles apart in working- or middle-class households! 

    We grew up variously in SW England, East Anglia, SE Scotland, Home Counties, in market town, large port, capital city, suburban sprawl...

    But somehow all our families' memories are apparently wrong because "everyone" has "always" taken their shoes off on entering a house :) 

    Weird things, memories, aren't they?

    Nothing against taking shoes off - but it's just something that really *didn't* used to be 100% uniform across the country... but apparently it was :) 
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