do you wash your feet before going to bed?

Nope. Street or generally outdoor dirt doesn't bother me. I like dirty feet. They tell me who I am and where I've been. I sleep well with that in mind.

 

right on, i'm the same way dude.

 

No,I never wash my feet.Take me as I am us what I say.Washing would take all the fun away.

 

For me it depends, I don't care about a few grains of sand or soil -my cats are in and out all day and also lay on the bed anyhow But when I've been in the city, train station, public restrooms etc I'll sometimes wash my feet when I get home. I haven't ever seen anything so gross I wanted to wear shoes for it but sometimes I have stepped in things that I don't particularly want on my sheets and furniture. I rarely avoid getting my feet dirty -except maybe when I'm on my way to visit people in a dressy place- but neither do I take particular pride in black soles... for me it's the toughness of my soles that has the 'cool factor'; dirt is just something that happens but it doesn't mean anything to me. So I don't mind washing the dirt off, sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Apart from those times I walked in real gross places, it depends mostly on whether I get around to taking a shower night or morning.

Only last year when my mom was in the hospital and I visited there, I washed hands and feet right away when I came home. Hospitals, however much desinfectant they use, are also home to some of the nastiest & most resistant bacteria known to us. I trust my skin to keep them out but at home I like to sit with my feet up on chairs and the like, I didn't want to spread those bacteria around off the floor. Especially not since my mom would be returning home with lowered resistance due to her illness.

 

I agree that the toughness of the foot is it’s character. From your foot photos Myranya, you have some of the thickest and toughest that if have ever seen. If you have more pics please post….they are inspiring.

 

I never wash my feet before bed either. I prefer to have my feet dirty black. As some have said already, its a great feeling to wake up and see your dirty feet in the morning, knowing that you have been everywhere barefoot and stepping on all sort of things.

 

Would love to see your dirty soles hippychickmommy.

 

No, I never wash my feet before bed.

 

Yes, I always wash my feet before going to bed. They may still look dirty due to being all rough and stained and all, but they're clean at least once a day. I usually do that when I take a shower at night. In fact, I spend more time washing my feet in the shower than I spend on the rest of my body. I usually run some water in the bathtub first and just stand there soaking my feet in it as I scrubb them with a stiff brush. That's the only time during the day that I ever wash my feet, though sometimes I might brush extra mud or dirt off them before coming in the house. It's natural to get your feet dirty - that's just part of barefooting. I don't mind that at all. But I still want them clean about once a day, and bedtime is the most practical time to do it.

 

Rarely , unless me and and one snail had the mutual misfortune of a crushing encounter (though the snail is usually far more upset from this than me, but around my home at night is DARK) , and those little creatures are the stickiest thing on earth and stay slimy for centuries unless you use some rubbing alcohol to remove their tiny guts . In winter, though my feet tend to stay cleaner, I use to wash them more just because of the pleasure of hot water , relaxing after a freezing walk .
BTW, before my bed there is a real big mirror, which gives me the opportunity to see the effect of the day on my soles before I fall asleep :lol:

oh , and another thing, let me say how much I love You sisters and brothers , who still can take pleasure from simple innocent things in a world like this in which everything good must have some kind of commercial value . no, I'm not (yet) high on pot right now.

 

sure ? I dont know how restrooms are near you and I'm not the squeamish kind of guy , but here restrooms floors vary from "perfectly tidy" (fairly rare) to "defying any description" (quite common) . I've seen things that you foreigners cant imagine. I've seen hospital restrooms flooded with ... well you know. I've seen hospital patients folded in two by hernia who had to carry buckets of water in a sordid restroom because there wasn't one single toilet working. I'm not kidding ...

 

I usually wash my feet if they're particularly dirty. this isn't because I don't like the dirt, but I don't like the feeling of dry, dirty skin, anywhere on my body. for me it feels like running fingernails over a chalk board. also, I really like when my feet are really dirty, and I stick them in a little bit of water, and seeing how much mud I can make in my bathtub

 

ja, mud is bliss. Here we're enjoying a weirdly warm october , and when I feel I deserve a treat I like to take a trip along the river or in the pinewood, where after some heavy rain the woods turn swampy (up to 2 feet of water and plenty of muddy terrains) , but usually I get to the shore to have my feet washed before goin back home . Everything is sill pleasantly warm ... about dry skin, it's a good idea to keep your skin moist: at least on me, dry soles tend to crack and hurt a lot.

 

i don't when i'm at home, but in the summertime when i go down to my g-pa's he makes us clean up before bed so we don't make his sheets all dirty. i don't give a shit what my house is like, but if g-pa asks me to do something, i usually do it. even if i argue about it at first, i end up doing it in the end.

 

Restrooms here aren't *that* bad but there is stuff on the floor quite frequently. I'll wash my feet when I get home but my skin is strong and in one piece, I'd wade through shit rather than wear shoes. I trust my skin completely, at least in most of the Western world, since the types of worm that can enter the skin don't occur there. I might feel different in Africa or Asia. And if a restroom is *really* bad I'll try to find another one; wearing shoes will only cause me to have *more* contact with the crap (while handling the shoes, taking them off & carrying them afterwards), while I still have to use the doorknob, the button to flush with, and the like. If there's no other choice than to use a restroom covered in shit, I'll go in with bare feet and bare hands (who carries gloves?), use toilet paper to handle stuff if possible, however usually there is none so I have to use my hands. And I'll feel more concerned about my hands than about my feet since I literally *handle* all kinds of items with my hands... I'll spread *those* germs to my bag, to my coat, the button to open the train door, the bicycle handlebars... all the things I can't avoid handling before I get home. The germs on my feet I'll spread only to the pedals of my bicycle and the ground which few people are going to touch anyhow. No, unless you have an open wound on your soles, worry about hands, not feet.

 

about open wounds, this is a prominent point. I can't avoid to get small cuts, in those point where real thick skin cracks . In fact those small wounds are a real pain in the ... foot.

 

sorta wash them in the shower. thats it.

 

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lol my beds always so dirty anyway, i would never bother. my dog sleeps with me and he drags dirt in all the time lol

 

I never get under the sheets with dirty feet...unless im camping...