So, do you shovel your snow barefooted? Think it’s all the rage?
Nah, you’re just late to the party.
I found a short blurb from February of 1967 about a women who did her snow-shoveling barefoot.
The story is dateline Richmond, Virginia.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The snow-covered ground doesn’t give Joyce Miller cold feet.
Mrs. Miller was out shoveling the snow in front of her suburban apratment Friday — barefooted.
Don’t her feet get cold?
“No colder than they would get if I had shoes on,” she insists.
Often she trudges barefooted through the snow to hang out clothes or to visit a neighbor, she said. “I almost never have a cold. I don’t have as many colds as people who wear shoes.”
Of course a lot of us shovel snow barefoot these days. As long as you carefully monitor the state of your feet and maybe go inside periodically to let them warm up, it’s actually pretty fun and can let you build up cold-tolerance. And the fact that you are working pretty hard means that your body has plenty of warm blood to send down to your feet.
Shoveling Snow
What I found amusing about the story is the way it got picked up by the Associated Press and how many newspapers ran the story. I’m actually a bit surprised we haven’t seen a similar one this year.
When these stories go out over the wire they usually appear exactly the same. However, it is always the local editors, though, that add the headlines. Now those were really amusing.
This woman scoops snow barefooted
Tough Tootsies
No Cold Feet For This Barefooted Gal
Shovels Snow, Barefooted!
Walking Barefoot Through the Snow
She’s Barefoot — Even in Snow!
Woman Wades Barefoot in Snow
Goes Barefoot To Shovel Snow
Snow Doesn’t Give Woman Cold Feet
Hey, it’s really not that hard. But if you never do it and are afraid of it (as the editors were), it somehow seems miraculous.
Ahcuah 
And there’s the stereotype of women who always get cold feet, but I assume a lady’s circulation can work just as well as that of a man,- here we see the proof!
Cheers from one who’s just spending the first really barefoot winter (well, about 96% barefoot, but still …)
I’ve never had a chance to try this, since I have lived in apartments for so long. Maybe someday. I imagine it’s pretty easy if you mostly walk on the part that’s already shoveled (a good idea regardless because standing on the unshovelled snow packs it down and makes it harder to remove).
I’ve had a snopwball fight in just a teeshirt and shorts, and I outlasted everyone wearing gloves coats and boots by about twenty minutes. XD Granted the snow was that stuff that is so cold it doesn’t cling so my feet were pretty well insulated.
Weather is really up and down again at the moment, yesterday and day before was like late May, today is like a horrid wet March.