Barefoot accidents

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If you're a household where most of you go barefoot, how often do accidents happen? Stubbed toes, things dropped on feet, stepping on something sharp?

I like to go barefoot, but I try to remember to wear slippers in "high risk" situations, such as washing up, where there's always the risk of dropping something pointed!

Another home barefooter here, and my daughters are, too. My son and husband aren't so much, so I think it's a female thing; perhaps we're just free spirits. I'll also go barefoot in the garden and to the car parked on the street, and in Summer, even to the shop nearby, and I've never had an accident. Maybe I'm just lucky, but life's too short to worry small things.

I knocked a drill battery off the kitchen counter last year, landed on my big toe. After several months of the nail being black, it fell off, and it is finally nearly regrown... Over 11months since the incident. That's the only real injury.

My sister goes barefoot and her soles are so calloused it's like she's got an inbuilt shoe!

Her feet are absolutely disgusting.

I’m always barefoot at home and have three dc who like to play on the floor so have the odd accident standing on toys (Playmobil deckchair was the most memorably painful). But apart from that it is fine.

I stepped on a mucousy froth of cat sick the other day.

I much prefer being barefoot as you get sensory feedback which is lost when wearing socks or slippers. I realise I'm about to tread on something and tend to avoid before I've put the pressure on.

I live in a minefield of Lego. My callused size 2 feet come off surprisingly lightly DH and his soft, socked size 11s on the otherhand...

I think there is a high degree of paranoia about going barefoot round the house. Your feet will toughen up if you have bare feet a lot of the time and it's really good for foot strength, agility and sensitivity.

I only wear shoes and socks if I absolutely have to, my feet are so tough now I can walk down a gravel path (and step on Lego!) without even flinching

Upturned plugs though I still can’t handle

We are a barefoot loving family.
As far as I can recall no one has hurt their feet.
I did however slip on the kitchen floor and do the splits when the washing machine emptied its guts all over.

We are a barefoot family, mostly. DD & I have slippers for winter (DH doesn't like them), & I usually have a pair of slip-on sandals & short wellies easily accessible for going out to the bins, gardening etc. I often go barefoot though if it's dry & warm as I forget...

I've always been a barefoot person. I have walked home barefoot from parties or the supermarket before when I'd had shoes start to rub. Have been able to walk on gravel, pebbly beaches etc since I was a child. My parents always thought I was strange! Especially as my feet aren't even that calloused, they're quite soft & I regularly put cream on them overnight with socks on.

Live barefoot wherever possible which is always in the house no exceptions and generally outside. The only time I wear shoes outside is when I’m doing something heavy duty in the garden such as turning earth with a shovel etc.

I’ve only ever had two issues in over 50 years. First was as a uni student, walking down road barefoot and must have trod on some shattered glass. Thought I fished it all out but it was still a bit uncomfortable. No one else (medical colleagues) could see/find anything there at the time or over the next few years as every now and again I had a pain in a certain spot when I stood a certain way on it. 4 years later I was hiking and felt a sharp pain in my foot and some crunching. Removed hiking shoe and sock and there are several glass shards that have come out of my foot. On squeezing the heck out of it a few more materialised. Never had an issue with it again.

Only other issue has been treading on the odd LEGO piece when the kids were young.

I don’t wear shoes if I can help it, thongs are an acceptable compromise if something is needed. I always had a pair of suitable shoes at my locker or under my desk at work. Arrive in thongs, change into shoes, change back into thongs. Has meant I have spent little on shoes over the years. These days I have one pair of winter shoes and one pair of summer shoes left at work (wear same every day), one pair of formal going out shoes at home, one pair of joggers. And about 20 pairs of thongs for different occasions.

Aren't knife handles weighted so they're unlikely to land point down?

I think that is the same as the toast theory!!!!

Last year, barefoot, I stood on dogs marrowbone, rolled, fell against wardrobe, crashed to floor on top of handheld vacuum and free standing fan fell on top of me! Oh my ribs!!!! They were painful for weeks! (Foot was fine!)

I once broke a toe after jumping up from the table in a hurry and stubbing it hard on a table leg.
Very painful and a colossal bloody nuisance, since for a few weeks I could only hobble.

I rarely go barefoot but am a big flip flop fan. Have badly stubbed the same toe twice leading to loss of the nail and a broken foot whilst wearing them. My DH hates me wearing them with a vengence even though he wears them himself on holiday

I'm always barefoot.

In the garden once playing with my Nephew I stood on a child's plastic garden rake.

Got stuck in my foot and i had to pull it out.

I'm barefoot 100% of the time im in my house, and unless I'm digging/dealing with brambles I'm always barefoot in the garden too. The only accident I've really had was once at a soft, sandy beach where I hit my toes forcefully into a rock that was covered with sand (so I didn't see it). That was a bad bruise, bloody cut and broken toenail and hurt sooo bad.

Not very often. It's my hands I'm always cutting or injuring somehow, rather than my feet.
I take my shoes off the minute I walk through the door, as well as socks or tights. Hate wearing them if I dont need to.

Never, ever go barefoot. The thought really disturbs me. I trod on a slug as a child

Ironically, I've just been in the garden barefoot, and stood on a stone! Not very painful, but painfully ironic!

Wouldn't exactly say washing up is high risk. More like low risk but anyway I always walk round barefoot. My in laws are always going on about me going outside with bare feet. It's annoying cos I am fully aware of the risks but choose to ignore it. I also hate wearing slippers. I will wear bed socks round the house but that's it.

I'm barefoot inside but never outside. About 20 years ago my mum cut her foot very slightly on a stone when she was hanging the washing out. She developed osteomyelitis, ended up having part of her toe amputated. Wouldn't have happened if she'd been wearing something on her feet.

Barefoot everywhere at home except when cooking/doing DIY and in the garden. Will also take recycling out the front barefoot, as it's all path and I don't deliberately grow prickly plants out there.

What I hate, is how 'health and safety' has worked its way into this area, making people paranoid.

My daughters and I went to a soft play area, on holiday last summer, wearing flip-flops, and were told that everyone entering the play area had to wear socks; and this was during last year's heatwave! I then had to actually buy my daughters socks (they sold them), but refused to buy any for myself, and so the soft play area itself was out of bounds to me.

Some shops also get funny about bare feet, too. I tend to drive barefoot in the summer, as I usually wear flip-flops, and find driving barefoot safer than driving in them. If I stop somewhere, to get something from a shop, I will often just nip in barefoot, but in more recent times, in a few places I have either noticed signs saying that footwear must be worn, or on one occasion, been told that customers were required to wear footwear.

I understand that certain levels of decency should be adhered to, such as not being topless (male and female), but barefoot? Who really cares?

Where will it end? Isn't it up to the individual? Will flip-flops themselves be banned from shops, as they don't offer much protection? Will we all need to wear gloves? Helmets?

Rant over, lol.