So today’s tip is almost too simple but I’m surprised at how many of us Americans don’t do it.  Growing up, removing our shoes before entering our home was a must.  We even asked all of our friends to do so, whether they were Indian or not.  It always made me slightly uncomfortable when I wasn’t asked to take off my shoes at my friends’ houses…like it was almost too weird to walk around on someone’s beautiful, clean rug and floors in my dirty shoes.  But being raised in an Indian family, my parents enforced this rule…a rule which is common amongst many Asian cultures. And it’s something that is engrained in me now that I’ve got my own home and family.
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