flowerbug
Sustainability Master
I believe I said to enjoy your footwear of choice.
Like @Mini Horses , I believe, my environments involved animal wastes of varying types, nasty weeds, and other things to damage feet. Old habits die hard
i found out that jumping off the back end of a pickup will still make a nail go through the bottom of even work boots... we sawed off the board and took it and the nail through my foot to the ER where they cut it off. luckily no really permanent damage was done but i did get a lot of questions in the ER waiting room...
crocs will not survive hard sticks and other pokey things, but they are comfortable and can be bleached and soaked without damage. i do that a few times a year for the gardening ones and the mud ones.
for around inside the house we don't normally wear shoes at all. socks almost all the time. very rare to go without socks (as i can't stand the feel of sticky feet on the floor either). my feet sweat too much. can't cut them off... or at least i don't want to...