To think that no one should be allowed to wear a sandal without some proper foot grooming?!

[williaminajetfighter]

It's that time of year again... Ah summer and its long days of sunshine. I so love it but the one thing I fear most in this change of season? The sandalled "foot claw"!

Suddenly everyone is wearing heel, toe and full foot exposed foot-wear. And the exposed foot often is a scary site to behold: yellowed toe nails, bunions, fungus, severely cracked heels, dry skin. I am constantly shocked by how many people so casually don sandals with their feet looking a hot mess. Certainly not for public view.

AIBU to expect people to invest in a little foot grooming in the summer? Have people not heard of a podiatrist or a pedicure?

This is an honest question as the flagrant disregard for foot hygiene drives me nuts.. But I may be the only person who feels this way?!

OP i dont think you are bu. a ped egg some moisturiser and nail varnish can make an awful difference. takes 5 mins.

Thanks to this thread my DH has gone off to work leaving the entire house REEKING of tea tree oil

And I'm still not sure how putting nail polish on your toenails classes as "foot hygiene". Nail polish seems pretty unhealthy stuff to me.

well OP talked about foot grooming.

No, to be fair it was another poster, not the OP, who said something like even her old mother cares about foot hygiene e.g she'd never seen her without polish on her toenails.

My feet might not be upto the OPs standards but at least they now smell lovely. I've just started using Olbas oil, fingers crossed it will work.

hestershaw I am just going on the actual OP itself.. foot grooming which to me would include some nail polish thats all.

Feel slighly traumatised after reading this thread. not sure why I did, as a person with a foot issue!!!

I'm with the OP here (so therefore YANBU) I couldnt give a fig about painted or un painted toes, of bendy squished one. But hidiously dry heels make me shudder and wish the person atrached to them would put some moisturiser on them (you don't need to have a professional pedicure to do this surely? There appears to be many on here that yhink so mind!)

Don't think feet need to be hard and dry, soft feet don't hurt. Mind you I'm not one to ask, if any one has their bare, or part clad feet within a foot of me ( ) I have to move.

I think, from skimming the thread, that many, many people's sore cracked heels DON'T just clear up with a spot of moisturiser.

Used to judge away about my mum's sandpaper feet and cracked heels. But it seems it's hereditary. Hey ho.

Dry heels are indeed yuck, and cracked ones make me shudder! Having said that, I don't generally notice people's feet (unless they're wearing some amazing shoes).

(After reading this thread I did go and buff, moisturise and polish my feet to within an inch of their lives, they are now as pretty as feet get!)

My feet are nice IMO but the OP wouldn't notice then due to my ill fitted clothes, hairy chin, saddlebags and spare tyres.

Yanbu. A quick scrub in the shower or bath with a pumice stone and a quick moisturise when you get out doesn't take time. Nails can be tended to 15 mins every 2 weeks or more. I don't understand how having children means you can't tend to your nails! You just cut them when you cut the children's nails. It's a family event in our house!

Re. dry heels: we do all know about Flexitol, no?
(No axe to grind, just offering a handy hint).

what exactly is wrong with dry heels?
I mentioned my friend earlier who hasnt worn shoes in decades. The soles of her feet are as tough as rocks but she has never had an infection, foot problem or even stubbed toe. Nothing could penetrate them!

Infamous, if your friend wasn't female I'd assume it was the very odd mate of mine from university who never wore shoes, and had a terrific argument with the authorities about whether he could graduate in full rig minus footwear...

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with dry heels, but, for me, if I leave them dry for too long tbe skin splits and it's really painful.
Flexitol.

Used every one going shotgun. My feet can be soft and smooth at the start of the day, and end up dried out and painful again by the end of it.

Vicks on one foot
Garlic on the other

I don't go out if my way to check other people's feet out, but I do sometimes notice if they're particularly grotty and think yuk (though mine aren't always perfect either!). But grooming won't fix a bunion, so I think that criticism is a step too far, if you'll pardon the pun!

Off to tidy my feet up now!

Talkinpeace I suspect that would work, if only by repelling anyone of sensitive nostrils-- disposition to a safe distance.

Probably get rid of vampires too.

I wanted to try the setting fire to toe hairs to see how that worked. Would you believe 20 yo son wouldnt let me give it a go?! Some people have no sense of adventure

I rarely look at people's feet. Why are so many of you staring at the pavement? I never notice what shoes or sandals anyone is wearing.
The OP and her ilk should never travel to India or Africa!

MN has changed a lot.

Only one sandal?

50shadesofmeh

Are the people whinging about bare feet the same people who yatter on about how "one should never wear socks and sandals together"?