Shoes on around the house

That's no way to live.

Shoes on downstairs, wood and tiled floors for that reason. Shoes off upstairs. I'm not obsessed with cleaning floors anymore as the DC aren't crawling about. No guest go in the sitting room. If I've walked over muddy fields and through the woods I change out of muddy boots into clean boots at the door.

I don't ask guests to take off shoes. I don't revisit houses where I'm asked to take off my shoes but can't think of anyone I'm friends with who has this rule. I grew up in a shoes on household.

I feel its all a bit too relaxed and familiar to take shoes off in other people's houses, and I'd be horrified if someone insisted on getting too flipping cosy and relaxed in my home unless they'd been invited to stay.

This is such a hilarious thread🤭 Perhaps a little box of plastic overshoes should become the social norm by every door, then the fastidious could either dispose of or launder, and the non fastidious can keep their shoes on🤣 Separate ones for the bathroom so that poo poo germs are kept contained.🤣🤣

It's literally a whole thread every few weeks here

Not yet….

I think people who want to have a chat on mumsnet about shoes on or off can probably still find time to worry about those other things too.

I've been known to lie on my bed with my shoes on! So far nothing dire has befallen me.

Shoes on or off is a very important matter, in fact it’s a faecal matter.
There is poo on them there streets.
People who wear shoes inside have been watching too many feel good movies with loads of healthy looking people who lie on their beds with shoes on, like Gilmore Girls and such shit.
It’s gross, take yer shoes off inside. Get some slippers for god sake.

Carpets can be hoovered, cleaned, its not rude in all houses in the least

If you come to Canada, every house is shoes off!

And every house has a mat by the door. If I pop into someone's house to drop something off, I won't step off the mat without taking shoes off. It's universal here.

We have a shoes off policy for us and our family but I wouldn't expect friends or distant family to remove them.

Just because I take my shoes off at home doesn't mean I expect visitors to. I don't sit with my shoes on all day every day.

I don't get this obssesssion with "nice carpets". Carpets are normal here and have been for as long as I can remember, and people don't obsess about them the way Brits seem to do.

We’re a shoes off and slippers on family and guests always notice this and take their shoes off, even though we never ask them to, and in fact always say they should feel free to leave their shoes on when they’re downstairs. We have hard floors throughout the downstairs, and we want guests to feel comfortable. We do ask children on playdates not to go upstairs in their shoes because it’s carpeted throughout upstairs, though.

Where I live the majority of people have carpeted houses, and have had for my entire life. I'm 65 and have only once or twice ever been asked to take my shoes off before entering a house. Even the most house proud of my acquaintances wear shoes inside.

Yes, same. Only my brother and wife do this because she is Polish and he has picked up the habit from her. To be honest, I’d prefer if they left them on in my house but I never say this.

This is what I mean... We're a firmly shoes off household and if someone like your beloved pa takes a wander round our house in his muddy shoes, where does that leave us with my little girl who potters round in her bare feet and socks, clambering on and off the nice clean sofa?

We therefore just always ask guests to remove their shoes if they don't offer and they can stay in the garden if they don't want to 😅 (I'm not a total monster btw, a very elderly friend visited recently and it is an ordeal for her to take her shoes off so we didn't ask).

Shoes off house here; carpets are ivory so would last about a day with shoes on. Also, I guess it is a cultural thing, so grew up in a shoes off house.

Shoes off definitely and I do the same to others

We are shoes off but only upstairs. I wouldn't ask guests to take their shoes off though.

Yes exactly
Very expensive
And with that in mind I very politely ask guests to remove their shoes - no one minds
My neighbour brings her slippers

Always shoes off inside for us

This post should open all shoes off on threads.
You just can't argue with this.
If you walk outside you will get dog food pooh residual on your shoes at some point.
(And your carpets get dirty)

It wasn't a big deal in the 60s and 70s. It has become a bigger deal over the years.

The DC's friends used to take their shoes off and it was expected but they tended to put their feet on the furniture!

We wear slippers inside and I have clogs for the garden for when I do the bins, etc.

Most workmen nowadays either take their shoes off or wear shoe covers.

If we have supper with friends we all tend to take our slippers nowadays. If there's a party, it's shoes on.

I don't have particularly strong feelings.