Shoes on around the house

We're a shoes off household but I never ask anyone visiting to take their shoes off

I just hope that they do when I do if they're coming inside with me or if they see I'm not wearing shoes when I open the door to them

I only did when the DC were younger and their friends were over

I was judged for taking my shoes off the first time I met the future in laws in their home, as I'd been brought up to take shoes off when you enter a house. "All fur coat and no knickers" was what they said to DP behind my back. As a 19 year old, I was baffled. They would use "fuck" in every other sentence and thought nothing of calling their 15 year old son down to dinner with "get down here you fat fucking cunt".
God forbid (they were Roman Catholic) you would "take the lords name in vain" while they themselves spouted "Jesus fucking Christ you little shit!" People can be impossible.

We are a shoes off house. I don't feel comfortable inside with shoes on and the kids have just copied me I guess. I don't care if guests leave their shoes on or take them off. It's not a hygiene thing or anything else to me, it's just my personal preference to not where shoes when I don't need to.

We keep shoes on in the hallway and kitchen. We let guests keep their shoes on despite them insisting to take theirs off. We just tell them we have tiles so keep shoes on. However, upstairs and the lounge we remove shoes. Since having a dog I've realised things like dog poo etc that can get stuck to your shoes.

I am 100% shoes off and I would never wear my shoes In someone else's house. Just preference I guess

Do you wash your dogs feet every time then?

I genuinely don't get people that are shoes off but have pets.

I hate shoes in the house and I have wooden floors that can be mopped daily.

The only place I've ever known this issue to be divisive is Mumsnet. I've never met anyone else in real life who cares.

We are shoes off. We generally take slippers or indoor only flip flops places.

Wearing outdoor shoes inside really spoils your carpets plus i find it odd sitting with shoes on all the time!

But i think posh people always keep shoes on. I think its perceived as being in a slight state of undress to remove them, like your outfit is incomplete.

I am in and out of the house, into the garden, all the time, it takes me at least 7 mins to get my boots on and laced up. I have arthritis and cannot wear shoes that slip on and off, or even walk, without my boots on.
It is just not practical for me not to wear shoes in the house.
I have hard floors which I can mop, I think carpets are disgusting, collecting dust and filth which is never properly removed by hoovering.

I chose suitable flooring so I’m happy for guests to wear shoes. However, we tend to walk bare foot as a family… which this week has resulted in 3 of us getting glass in our feet after a large glass pan lid shattered everywhere and despite vacuuming multiple times, clearly we didn’t get it all up. Maybe we should just wear shoes 🤔😂

dm finds it rude to ask guests to remove shoes, mil thinks it’s rude not to remove shoes. Mil is also an introvert who hates people in her house. Dm has guests over all the time - all wearing shoes. Dm had athletes foot and struggled to get rid of it many years ago and she’s paranoid about catching it from someone, or verrucas.

Shoes on when i was a child but we're shoes off at home now. I was very distressed when I was told I need to wear orthotics in ankle boots to support osteoarthritis. It's a huge culture shock.

I've compromised by having inside boots and outside boots but it feels weird to wear shoes indoors.

Unreasonable - so many bloody threads about this on MN recently 🥱

I was raised as a shoes off person and in my home now it's strictly shoes off.

I go into differently people's houses regularly as part of my job. The only homes I go into now that are shoes on, are homes where the floor isn't particularly clean.

My elderly mother had carers that refused to take shoes off which I thought was so rude. Her house was spotless and it was clear she worried about dirt and hygiene, and as she was frail it was hard for her to hoover or wash floors after people left. In the end she stopped letting people in her home if they wouldn't take shoes off, until we bought her shoe covers to hand out!

I'm in NZ and find the same about dog shit. In fact in response to yet another thread on this subject I took notice when I went out for my next walk. I was out for around 70 minutes and saw one pile of dog shit on the whole walk.

And yes, tradies offer to take their shoes off here too - I always tell them not to bother. I own a Hoover!

floor socks

I’m from a West Indian background and walking in someone’s house with your shoes on is akin to spitting on their floor. So, if you’re someone who’s unfussed but happen to be bringing your elderly Bajan neighbour some soup on a cold day, be sure to take your shoes off at the door!

I'm 65 - how long is it going to take?

And have you excluded all possible confounding factors?

It's done to death, revived & done again!! It's the thread that NEVER stop giving!!

I take mine off automatically at someone else's house, if it's carpeted. Or on a hard floor if there's a pile of shoes near the door or they have a baby/young child.

it's definitively a contentious point on here, people with very strong feelings.

I would never ask a guest to take off their shoes, though I change my shoes on coming in from dog-walking (sand), gardening etc. I'm not sure about this concern with dog shit. Surely you'd know if you'd stood in it? As it happens, I've very rarely seen dog shit on the pavement in my bit of Melbourne but that's by the by. I'm pretty sure my dog is trailing poo-crumbs all over the timber floors in my house, so people in stockinged or bare feet would have shit on them.

As an aside, I'm in Australia, and all tradies without exception take off their boots at the door unless you say otherwise.

Why are you vacuuming at your friend's house, and why are you comparing the speed the cannister fills ?

So do the shoes off people who own dogs clean their paws every time they come in from a walk?

(Shoes off here, handknitted guest slippers provided but no dogs)