Apparently, there are multiple ways people wash their feet and I never even realized that. Even though my wife and I often shower together, I never noticed that she and I wash our feet entirely differently. what do you do? The internet discussion I stumbled across had 4 groups of people and I seemed to be in the smallest group. 1) Don’t. Gross, but lots of people apparently don’t scrub their soles. I’m usually barefoot, so this definitely isn’t for me, thought for most people, just the running water might be sufficient… but I mean, you scrub the rest of you, right? 2) Picking one leg up, washing, then switching. It’s is what started the whole discussion is someone was doing exactly this, and slipped and got hurt very badly. Tubs are slippery, and soap is mostly oil. I would never do this and was shocked to find it was the most common way of doing it. 3) Sitting down and doing it. It’s what the original guy who hurt himself says he does now. It’s also what my wife does. We have a full bathtub, and she sits on the side, seems like if you had just a shower stall, that wouldn’t be as useful. 4) Shuffling your feet over the washcloth. This is what I do, and seems to me the most logical. It’s the same motion you use to clean the bottom of your shoes. Don’t y’all shuffle your shoes clean when going from outside to inside? Why wouldn’t you use the same technique in the shower?
Hahahah. I recently learned, via Reddit, that some people only wash the “stinky parts” of their body (genitals and armpits, basically) and just let soap run down the rest and I was horrified. As for washing feet— I use the flamingo stance. I respect the shuffle technique, but… what about getting between your toes? That’s where the “jam” accumulates if you don’t wash it.
I wait until one of the local fundamentalist churches reenacts the foot washing incident in the Bible, go to visit at that time, and get someone else to wash my tootsies.
Eww Done with legs. Tops, sides, and between the toes are all accessible without picking feet up. The shuffle just does the sole and heel.
Think of the time you will save over a life time of only having to wash one foot. I'm sure you count that among your silver linings. Hope you are doing well post-surgery, by the way.
i generally wash my feet when i have a bath... if i'm just having a quick shower i don't generally bother with the soles of my feet
Have you found someone to share shoes with? A long ago acquaintance had a shoe friend who'd lost the opposite leg, wore the same size shoe, and who preferred crutches to a new leg (seems to me they each lost a leg at the hip, but it has been a long time).
Lol, I just saw a post about that on imgur. Though, of course, I don't find it anymore. Anyway, my bathtub is right next to the wall and there is a tight silicone seal between them, so I just put my foot up on the bathtub rim under the tap if I want to remove the dead skin from the sole. Otherwise it's Flamingo method or sitting down.
That occurred to me as I was writing the post. Prosthetics have improved since 1967. I wonder if she ever got one.
Flamingo, but I also do a foot peel once or twice a year. That's fun, as it leaves the whole house full of sole dandruff Spoiler PM me if you want pictures, you preeverts!
No, I don’t scrub my feet. As for the rest of me, I shower once a fortnight, whether I need it or not.
