Not a complaint just want to know. I am Canadian and ran bare foot most of the time as a kid around the house, along with all my cousins and most kids. Still is like that in Canada, kids seem to dislike socks in general there! hehe. But here, I have found constant remarks, quick put socks on where are you slippers?? You will get sick!! Now I have never heard you get sick from not wearing socks, but hey this may be true. Yeah sure if you are freezing it is easier to pick something up, but it seems more a total convinced opinion that if you are not wearing socks or slippers you will get sick? Also I have pretty high metabolism and often walk around in short sleeves, and am almost always asked hasch nid kalt?? Aren't you cold? Like a thousand times. I am sure it is out of general care and concern, but since I was NEVER asked this in FREEEEZING Canada, I am just wondering why I am asked this all the time here..NOT A COMPLAINT AT ALL!! Just wondering, find it interesting
There's an old watchmaker's saying, "Keep your feet warm and your head cool". Maybe there's a Swiss connection there?
If I go to somebody's place, I'll keep the socks/stockings on, just to be polite. Sure never caught a cold because of being bare foot.
So just smile and tell them about your life in Canada, I bet they'll love it.
You can't catch a cold or virus from being cold but if you are constantly a bit chilly your immune system can be compromised which then can cause you to be susceptible to any colds or flu you might otherwise fight off if your immune system was tip top.
The other thing about running about in bare feet is that you can pick up verrucas and fungal nasties which then spread around anyone else running about with bare feet.
I love to walk bare foot, but only at home, in my garden or in the nature.
It's very good for the foot just because it's been made to walk bare foot... and it's our contact with our Mother-Earth
and I don't talk all of the acupuncture points....
Now it's true that snow is a bit cold....
Unfortunately, as I am getting older, my feet are getting colder. By bedtime, my feet are like two large ice cubes and it takes awhile for them to get warmed up again.
So, it's back to wearing socks because I can never find where I last left my slippers.
I have underfloor heating at home... so my feet are pretty warm
And people wearing socks ... I don't see them wearing gloves at home. How come?
So do we but it wouldn't protect anyone else in the house from picking up my athlete's foot or verrucas if I had them, even if my feet were toasty warm.
Try it and see (and post the photos here).
What I came up with is that to compromise the immune system you have to almost be at the point of hypothermia.
I found one clinical study where subjects were exposed to lengthy cold temperature with little clothing, and others were kept warm; both sets had cold virus dripped into their noses and the cold (temperature) subjects fared better .
Having grown up in the deep South and spent years in the Sonoran desert I, for one, welcome my Cold Overlord with sockless feet.
when you wash the socks that they musn't swim onto other clothes? How do
they know not to hop onto the towel when you dry your feet? They're damnably
smart, these fungi are!!
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What you mean I shouldn't??? I bathe him too - is that bad??
In the Swiss German parts, the hostess will have a lovely pair of slippers ready for you in many a home.
Barefoot is a no no.
I love walking barefoot, especially in summer along the lake
You definitely don't 'catch' a cold by being cold.
Actually, I don't find the people who ARE cold are the ones going around with too little clothing on...
I feel the cold dreadfully. My husband feels the heat...he has twice as many red blood cells as I do - that may have something to do with it...certainly he rarely feels the cold even in his shorts and t-shirt all year round...
Some people do find barefeet dirty/offensive...
I dunno, I don't tend to eat my food with my feet...