How Long Has Everyone Been Barefooting?

Well, I started in the summer before 9th grade and now I'm in the middle of 10th grade... I'm only part-time in the summer and in the winter, it's 0% of the time, but I put 1-5 anyway.

 

Been going barefoot since I was a little girl, won't change for the world. Only way to go, you feel the earth beneath your feet and feel the trueness of life

 

since forever really

 

Since I was a little girl really, but just that last several years have I been going full-fledged barefoot as much as possible.

 

Your stepped answers are closest to what I can say about me. I live in a region of long, cold winters. But I do extremely well despite this. Even now, in the middle of a very snowy winter, I'm out and about in shorts and flops, but of course when working in the woods (and the snow is now hard enough to draw blood, on top of being cold) I have my low hiking shoes and ice cleats strapped to them, still wearing shorts, of course!

For the same 50ish years, it's the same for me, except mostly the flops replace socks for most of my winter indoor time, or errands.

For deliberately getting braver about barefooting in public, warm half of year, I have to say, more like 8 years.

 

Really cool. Someone else about my age. Only serious limiting factor is my cold climate (and I fear there's a tendency for the northeast to be stuffier than the west coast.)

 

You have the opposite of what I have to deal with here, with the extreme cold. Yes, it's a problem. I'm surprised Florida winters don't offer you the bf opportunity the way Maine's warm season does. Is it really that hot all the time? I admit, my one trip to Florida was in March, and damn if it wasn't over 90F even that early! Maine looked glacial when we returned, and waited the several weeks more for spring.

I had friends in California who grew up in those hot San Joaquin Valley towns like Fresno, and they claim they barefooted in the 105-115 degrees F heat as kids. Baking sidewalks and all.

 

Didn't observe the little word continously. As winter with temperatures down to -25C stops me from barefooting 24/7 all year round I really should have voted less than 1 year. I'm sort of a l i a r...

 

never I haven't started. i mostly look at this board to see peoples opinions on it and maybe warm up to the idea someday

 

No time like the present! Start small, perhaps at a nice grassy park and enjoy the feeling of the cool grass between your toes and the sunshine on the tops of your feet!

 

i appreciate your optimistic outlook seoh i might try that if i'm alone and I come acrosss a place like that
i have issues with exposing my feet which is mainly why i've been coming here to read and talk tp people who dont havethose issues

 

Rather than waiting to "come across a place like that", actively seek it out.

Take a nice spring day come April or May and hike into your nearest forest/parkland/wildlife sanctuary. Once you're well away from everyone and everything, shed the shoes and enjoy the cool grass, a span of sun-warmed granite or a cold stream bed with smooth stones.

Once you experience the wonders of actually feeling the world around you, the prospect of enjoying them again will easily outweigh your fears.

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WHOOT! 300th post on 3/3!

 

In college I used to be continuously barefoot all the time, but had to stop when I got out and landed my first full-time job--in an office, in the corporate world. I rediscovered the joys of barefooting about seven years ago after going to the beach and haven't stopped since. So altogether, the time being continuously barefoot would be about 10 years.

 

I really started bein' barefoot 2 years ago myself, but untill recently I didn't do it all the time, now its everyday thing, cept tomorrow cause I have to go into probation and don't think they'll allow barefeet