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Wow, TIL that some people puts their shoe before even putting the second sock ? And that they are the majority ? Where is that ? Is the civilization finally collapsing ? How do you do that ? Your socks are near your shoes ? Near the door ? What do you wear inside your house ? Am I an alien on this planet ? So much questions it broke my brain.

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As someone who is doing that at the moment, the reason for me is because I treat the floor as dirty (due to cats) and want to avoid touching it with bare feet or socks. When I'm in the apartment, I wear slippers. My socks are stored inside my boots (merino wool, so doesn't need cleaning often). When I leave, my process is: remove foot from slipper, put on the sock while standing on one leg, put sock into shoe or boot, repeat for other foot.

I'd be surprised if my process is common though.

Coming up on the site:

Is a slipper a shoe?

Here in Germany, even the gloves are called hand-shoes, so I'd guess the vote here would finalize with a resounding "yes".

Whereas the joke for English speakers learning German is that they really should be called hand-socks ;-)

Only if they're made from fabric. Leather gloves would certainly be hand shoes.

They aren't they majority actually, according to the website they're like at 10% of all answerers.

Oh yes, i misread the result. You can't imagine the relief right now. No more civilization collapse (as long as we tackle this little climate thing, that is)

Being in the “socks drawer is nowhere near the shoes” camp, there is one situation where that happens: in summer I’ll walk around my house in sandals, without socks.

The only situation I’ll put socks on is when I’m going outside in closed shoes, and in that case I’ll bring a pair of socks to the front door because why bother removing the sandal, putting on the sock, putting the sandal back on, walking to the front door, removing the sandal, putting on the shoe? Instead I’ll usually go “foot at a time” so remove sandal, put on sock, put on shoe, repeat for next foot.

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