r/barefoot

Anyone in Colorado springs that can help me with places I can go barefoot I'm ready to try it just nervous about places to go and all that.

Hi everyone

Over the past few days I have been going barefoot, I have CP and my right foot is very difficult to get into a shoe. Does anyone have any advice on if I should become a barefooter? As a kid my feet were always in splints and boots. I am 35m and in the UK

Walking barefoot has become such an important part of my life. It makes me feel free and helps me experience something new. However, I’ve started to notice that my skin is drier than usual, and callouses are forming more quickly. To prevent cracked heels, I use a cream before bed every day, and once a week I soak my feet and scrub the skin with a pumice stone. I’m curious about your daily or weekly foot‑care routine. Also, how do you deal with dirt that won’t come off your skin after a longer walk?

there are hundreds. I’m not sure why. But every year, when I walk my dog along the beach, I see literally dozens of not hundreds of people barefoot. It’s like the Fourth of July holiday (American Independence Day) gives people license to shed their shoes. I assume these are the same people who would wear sandals to the beach on any other day, especially if they’re going to a party at someone’s house, but today they won’t even bring them.

I can’t explain it.

I really like wet grass.

Hello! I recently walked in the woods barefoot when I was on vacation, just to try it. And i loved it! I want to do it more often but I'm super inexperienced. Does anyone have any tips for a beginner? All info is welcome!

When I was in my 20s I sort of told myself that I’d stop barefooting when I turned 30, because old people have uglier feet and don’t need to be barefoot in public. Obviously I’m still barefooting at age 59, but 60 seems like a them to reconsider whether it’s appropriate. I must admit, I can’t remember the last 60 year old feet I saw, man or woman, that looked “good.” Yet I feel like my feet, by virtue of being shoeless for so many hours and years, look like a much younger man’s feet.

Should I consider giving up the lifestyle when I turn 60, in compliance with the social contract?

what family think of you walking and being barefoot?

You know, like in a grave.

Ok this is an update from my past two stories. I have to admit I am starting to understand why people like it. I think last update I was still kinda in a shock like state where I didn’t want to admit that I liked it. I’ve gotten used to the sounds and am starting to enjoy the feelings. The past few nights I feel cooler and have not been overheating. Yesterday I went on a walk through the grass and it felt really good. Very soft and slightly wet. We also had a fire pit going and the heat drying off my feet felt amazing. My favorite so far has been when I helped with the garden and the tilled soil. That felt really good. These are kinda the exceptions though. I still don’t like how dirty my feet feel all the time. Most surfaces hurt. while walking on the grass I stepped on rocks and nuts half the time. Right now though I still think in most cases that I would rather be sh0ed. I definitely won’t go to sleep in socks or in like nice grass anymore but I still don’t want to be stepping on rocks all the time. Tomorrow I an going to the beach so that will be a new experience. I’m a little worried about being barefoot in front of all the people there but since everyone is barefoot it shouldn‘t be too bad. I will update if I feel different. Thanks for reading!

In addition to just walking around barefoot a ton, what do y'all use to keep your feet stretched and toes stretched?? My day job requires dress shoes so I spend a lot of time getting my feet back right. Was gonna pull the trigger on some bands.

So I’m planning a dinner for my 60th birthday in a few months. There’s lot of nice restaurants walkable from my house, but the guests — two couples I’ve known for 30-40 years — have various dietary restrictions and preferences which caused me to rethink my initial choices of restaurant (steakhouse, fish). I ended up proposing an Italian place we can walk to that is right along the beach.

It now occurs to me that without making a big deal out of it, I could do my 60th birthday dinner barefoot. I could carry my sandals on the walk to the restaurant — because everyone now knows I always walk along the beach barefoot — and then when we get seated on the patio, just continue carrying them in like I haven’t gotten around to putting them on yet. Once we get seated, I can just put them under the table. I doubt anyone will even notice except maybe my wife who has an eagle eye for,things like that, but I doubt she would say anything.

Should I go for it? Or is a 60th birthday dinner a time to just suck it up and wear nice sneakers? FYI, the walk is about one mile.

I thought about one idea. Its statistically close to impossible in reality but just as an idea. In every country in the world there are some people who really like walking barefoot and will certainly never react negatively to whoever they see without shoes even in public places. But for many of them (if not most) possible negative reactions from other are a barrier that makes walking barefoot in most places (with exceptions like beach or informal park) something from socially risky to impossible (yeah, apart from you lucky NZ/AU/some other warm coastal relaxed areas residents). So wouldnt it be awesome if it just somehow happened that for each country all people who like walking barefoot a lot turned out to be in one town/city or a few neighborhood towns? Like everyone who enjoys it a lot is in one town, everyone else (who finds being barefoot anywhere else apart from beach or park at most) would be in all other cities and towns and so everyone in such town would be absolutely free to walk barefoot anywhere with zero probability of social disapproval. And everyone who finds being barefoot in public places bad/disgusting/weird/unhygienic/immoral/... would very rarely see people walking barefoot down the street. I guess if it happened to be this way (such distribution of people across cities/towns) all people who enjoy walking barefoot would be so happy:) And at the same time people with very high standards for an appropriate look would probably a thousand times more rarely meet those impolite uncivilized mentaly unstable weirdos (guess its close to what some people think about barefooters lol). I think purely theoretically it is possible but of course statistics says its less likely than throwing a coin one million times in a row at one side. Do you think its okay to have such dream at all? Do you think it would be good if it somehow (statistically close to impossible) but still happened? Probably even in the least barefoot friendly country (very conservative or extremely formal) there could be enough people who enjoy it for a small town:) It would be so awesome feeling: you know that your hobby is pretty rare in general but exactly where you live its very common so you can enjoy it every day everywhere without any social friction.

You know, im really sure if just randomly it turned out to be this way, it would be such a paradise for everyone who likes it (including me of course 😀). Coming out of home without having shoes on, feeling every piece of floor before leaving building and then feeling dirt or asphalt with every step melting into the sensation. And then walking to whatever public place you would usually go (shop/mall, school/work, music concert, bus/train/metro, doctor if need to, office, bank, any place) without even little possibility of someone else thinking or saying anything bad or unpleasant about how weird you are and how unhygienic/improper/immodest this is:) It would be such a luck for people who like doing it but are limited by possible judgements from other people and negative social consequences. Dont know about you but i personaly would most likely be barefoot always when temperature is lets say between 5C and 35C (41F and 95F). Ah, sweet dreams... Hypothetical place where walking without shoes could be seen by society as normal as not having gloves lol:)

What is the Hottest &/or Coldest temperature you've been able to handle? What are your solutions for being too hot or too cold, but already left without protection?

I shared before that about the only place I have a problem shopping barefoot is my local dispensary. They’ve always been pretty strict when it comes to bare feet, including NSNSNS signs both inside and outside the store and a security guard who has enforced the policy against me numerous times.

Well, two visits ago, the woman employee who checks IDs outside the store made some friendly comment about my bare feet. I couldn’t make out what she said — probably something like “hey you’re barefoot” but with a smile — but I responded with an equally friendly comment that I never wear shoes and the weed store was ironically the only place that hassled me about it. She said “yeah, they’re old school” and that was that.

Last visit, I got in barefoot but I assumed it was because the security guard was also assigned to checking IDs (I thought the ID checker might be on break) and didn’t notice.

But today, I got in again. Again, the security guard was checking IDs so again he might not have noticed, but I also saw that the NSNSNS sign outside the place was gone. The one inside was still there, but off in a corner and it might just be they forgot to take it down. And I was in there for awhile and at least a few employees must have seen I was barefoot, but no one seemed to care.

I wonder if that employee I had the nice banter with later talked to her bosses and was like, why do we have this strict policy again? And no one had a good reason, so they have just stopped enforcing it.

Who knows, but I guess I’ll find out over the next few visits. Lesson: I could have just given up and put shoes on once I got rejected a few times, but I kept trying, and now I’ve succeeded two times in a row and witnessed the removal of the most prominent NSNSNS sign.

Hi, as I’ve said in a previous post, when I’m barefoot is usually at night in short walks with my dog.

I run a lot, but I never tried barefoot running. Yesterday for no particular reason I tried it. It didn’t hurt while running, but when I finished I did feel some pain, but decided to remain barefoot the rest of the day. Today in the morning I didn’t run, but when I got to the door, I just didn’t feel like grabbing shoes.

Right now a day and a half after the barefoot run, I finally see some progress in the callous of my soles. It’s the first time I actually see and feel it. I’m very happy for the progress and wanted to share it.

Tomorrow I’ll go run barefoot again, peace

I'm an American international traveler and I would love to at least hike some distance in bare feet, but I'm trying to be very conscious of Norwegian customs and realize how unusual it is in some parts of Europe. Might anyone shed some light on this?

So I subbed to this reddit because I spend every possible moment barefoot. Obviously if its cold, go to work, know im running a million errands today i wear shoes. Outside of that, as long as its comfortable, im barefoot. I walk into a hundred stores without shoes without issue. Full grocery trips, dinner at "respectable" locations, the local convenience store. Fact is, one in 20 tell me i need shoes. Normally I have shoes available but most situations I just go next door.

If it matters, im 38, known for be barefoot,and carry a set of tools to pull glass from my feet.

I love being barefoot, and go unshod in parks, hiking, farmers markets, and even at work. I've gone into stores a handful of times, and gotten asked to leave a handful of times. I can't help but wonder if it's just plain rude and not worth breaking the social contract and making others uncomfortable.

I started going to work barefoot and I love it! I live 2 km from the train station and I started to cover this distance by walking barefoot.
Streets and sidewalks are not extremely clean, but I like the feeling below my feet.
During my walk I have some encounters, but just few people look astonished to my feet and this is the funniest part of the trip.