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The founder and author is an Adult Nurse Practitioner is a former ICU nurse and nursing instructor. She earned her Master of Science Degree and Nurse Practitioner Certificate from St. Louis University and her Doctor of Nursing Practice from Maryville University. She is also a 20 plus year veteran of the landlord-tenant business. She became a landlord by default after finding out the hard way that flipping property is easier said than done. In her limited spare time, she helps her husband renovate and manage multiple single-family homes. As a landlord, she soon discovered the sources of her greatest financial loss and greatest workload – CARPETS TOO DIRTY TO CLEAN and tenant-related damages. After much struggle, she realized that becoming a “No Shoes House” made a lot of sense out of nonsense.
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SOME HEALTH CARE ENVIRONMENTALIST DISCUSS 5 HARMFUL EFFECTS OF WEARING SHOES IN THE HOME.
Here are the surprisingly negative effects that result when you wear your everyday shoes inside your home.
And it really does not matter if you are wearing a $10 bargain pair of shoes or designer footwear that set you back $1000. The fact remains that shoes are essentially unhealthy for the interior spaces of your home.
So, here are the five reasons why you should not wear shoes in the house:
1-Consider that 98% of that dirt on the floors of your home is the result of debris that you bring into the house on the very soles of your shoes. Sure, a little of the dirt could be attributed to pets, kids, and those rare dust storms, but by and large, your everyday shoes are the real culprits.
2-Most people do prefer to have clean floors in their homes. If you want to relax and sit on your floor to play a game, read a book, exercise, or watch television, you would want to have a clean floor surface underneath your body, right? Well then, consider how unsanitary those carpets and hardwood floors are if you and everyone else track dirt in each day on the bottoms of their shoes.
3-Those hard-soles on the bottoms of most street shoes do protect your feet from becoming cut or bruised when you are walking outdoors, but these same soles will cause scuff marks on the hardwood flooring inside your home. The grit and sand that lodges in small grooves and crevices on the underside of your shoes may not even be noticeable to the naked eye. However, you can bet for the fact that your expensive flooring will feel the scratches each time someone walks over them wearing their street shoes.
4-Think about the Unknown for a moment. Unknown bacteria, unknown dust mites, and unknown particles from the floors in public restrooms. When you wear your shoes to work, school, or just to the grocery store and then track back into your house with these same shoes on your feet, you are inviting millions of unknown and undesirable microbes to come and stay inside your home. Even though you mop, dust, and vacuum do, you really think you are going to eliminate all of these ´sole travelers.
5-When you wear your work shoes or street shoes around inside your home, you are adding dirt, stains, odors, bacteria, and grime to your floors. There is no way possible to keep your carpeted and hardwood floor surfaces completely clean if you allow your outdoor footwear to have free rein inside your home. This type of wear and tear will also mean that the life of your carpets and other flooring surfaces will be greatly reduced.
If you want to prolong the beauty and longevity of your floors and carpets, you will want to change the way you think about shoes. Remembering to keep those shoes off the floors is only a small change to make in your normal habits, and it can make your home cleaner, more inviting, and healthier for everyone.
