This shoe horn is the most norwegian thing ever, yes I know they exist everywhere but seems so popular here and I’m happy with that!

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1. Huh I never knew there was a difference in popularity. How much difference do you feel there is in its popularly here vs other countries?

   Can’t imagine not having one, my poor fingers would be broken (or maybe I would stop being lazy and untie my shoes properly…)

2. Maybe be because among the western nation, we are one of the places where it’s most common to take off your shoes when inside? Not super sure about that being a fact, but at least compared to some other western countries I’m somewhat familiar with, we do it to a larger degree.

3. It’s likely bought at IKEA.

4. Any place old people put their shoes on this is mandatory equipment. For younger people it is a convenience, especially if there is no place to sit down to put on shoes.

   You can buy them fairly cheap from [IKEA](https://www.ikea.com/no/no/p/omtaenksam-skohorn-antrasitt-70378070/), if you want one for yourself.

5. You use that back scratcher to put your shoes on?!? /jk

6. Every Japanese household has a shoe horn…

7. I’ve never understood the purpose of a shoe horn. Can’t people just put on their shoes normally, you know, with their hands?

8. Apparently they used to be very common in the UK as well, but when I moved here ten years ago I was shocked to find that a) no one had them and b) I couldn’t buy them anywhere except IKEA.

   A good shoehorn is *essential*. Which… I mean, plastic shoehorns are objectively the worst option. They break if you look at them funny. Metal ones bend. Wooden shoehorns are second only to wooden shoehorns with metal cores.