Photo: Found Image Holdings Inc/Getty Images It’s the second week of January. The COVID-testing line is around the block, Betty White is dead, and there’s not much we can do about everything being pretty awful. But here, in my apartment, I have managed to wrest a modicum of control over the chaos of daily life. Because here, I wear house shoes.
I first became a house-shoe devotee during the very specific relationship milestone of booking a monthlong Airbnb with my significant other. Cohabitating for the first time as a couple is famously rocky territory, and this was no truer than for us. I am messy; he is not. So when we sat down to discuss how we would meet in the middle, the first thing he said was, “I need you to get house shoes.”
Here’s why: When you walk around barefoot, your feet pick up stuff from your floor. Our floors are pretty gross if you think about it. There’s dirt and particles from the ground outside coming in. It’s worse with hard floors, but even carpets have a habit of transferring some of their contents onto your foot. No-shoe policies, while great, don’t quite solve this problem, because you still have spills and crumbs coming from inside the apartment. There’s dust, too, which comes from nowhere at all.
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