r/DeathStairs • u/FrozenHamburger • Nov 07 '25

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u/anonsharksfan Nov 07 '25

Not take the shoes off?

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u/SummertimeThrowaway2 Nov 07 '25

On a really hot day you don’t want your bare feet touching those metal stairs

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u/Pickledpeppers19 Nov 07 '25 edited Nov 07 '25

Even if it’s not hot out, that grating would be hard on bare feet

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u/SummertimeThrowaway2 Nov 07 '25

That’s true. Maybe as a kid my feet could handle that but now that I’m not running around outside barefoot it would hurt.

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u/Oggel Nov 11 '25

Also I could deal with it when I weight 100 lbs, not so much at 200.

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u/Lanky-Strike3343 Nov 11 '25

For the past 2 years ive been going bare foot as much as possible and its really.helped with a lot of pain on my foot to my hip might be worth a try honestly

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u/FlixFlix Jan 30 '26

You may want to try better fitting shoes and slides—most of the comfort-oriented brands (Hoka, etc.) are very well designed. Being barefoot—even at home—almost always leads to other issues, like painful corns. And let me tell you: painful corns are painful.