Do you have a shoes off rule in the house

[theonerealdiva22]

So do you have a shoes off/socks off rule at the door. Personally in my house it's like this
Shoes are ok in the house if they are clean

If your shoes are dirty then it's shoes off. For me and the DDs (15 and 11) socks are fine. For DH and DS(15) it's socks off as well although that is for a very good reason which I'd like to keep private. these same rules apply if your going upstairs.
So what are your rules like in your house and please no one judge me for my rules I get enough Judgy people in my local village

We tend to take ours off in the hall, but that's mainly so the kids in particular can put their shoes away and find them again... well it's a nice aspiration anyway.

Most of our guests are intelligent enough to remove anything particularly muddy, for example if we've been tramping around the woods, but normal shoes that have only bern on pavements and in cars, I have no issue with. The hall carpet is an original 1980s feature and surviving well enough. We have hardy constitutions.

I generally end up taking shoes off for comfort, but I think it's inhospitible to make guests cram and teeter around at the front door to take their shoes off. It's also not nice in the summer if you realise that you have worn, scruffy nail varnish or that you have manky sweaty sandal feet that are grottier than the sandals were!

Slippers are uncomfortable, dangerous abominations. You are far more likely to slip and trip in them because they are poorly fitting and you can't feel around in them. Most styles fall off so you have to do a stupid shuffle, and few have comfortable soles that flex with your feet. They make your feet sweat and get cold. Horrid things!

Our hallway isn't big enough, so we tend to come into the main room and take our shoes off there. I prefer no shoes upstairs but it does happen.

Do the men in your family run a risk of falling over if they wear just socks? I'm a slipper wearer because of my anxiety about slipping over in stocking feet.

We take our shoes off at the door because laminate scratches horribly easily with the tiny stones that come in on shoes. Also our jobs involve muddy locations, as do dog walks - no point tracking mud in.

Plus we have recliner sofas so need shoes off to take proper advantage!

Shoes off but purely for comfort, not germs.

I tell visitors, ‘whatever you are more comfortable with’ and I mean it (I have awful bunions and hate taking my shoes off at other people’s homes).

Shoes off. I'll allow guests inside with shoes on, but not upstairs Shoes are minging, My floors are clean. Hoovered/swept daily and mopped every other day too.

If I have guests who I can't ask to remove their shoes (my 84 yr old grandma and her BFF) I'll immediately clean and hoover the rug/carpets after they leave.

Shoes off in my house including visitors. Those who visit really regularly, mum, dad, best friends ect actually now have their own slippers at my house. Never asked them to provide slippers but for some reason after a few visits they brought slippers so now I have a basket of slippers at my front door.

Shoes off, it makes sense to me to not walk outside dirt all over the house.

When it comes to visitors I don't ask people to remove their shoes but most do and I say 'yes' if asked.

Is it that your husband and sons socks shed black bits onto the carpet and you don’t like it OP?

Shoes off. Everyone. Shoes are for outside.

I prefer shoes off but I don’t enforce it, except with my young nieces as they climb over everything, including people, and I don’t want their sharp shoes digging in to me. I really do prefer it though.
I don’t like when I go to someone else’s house and everyone has their shoes on as it makes me feel like I can’t take mine off but I don’t really understand why anyone would want their shoes on inside the house, I don’t feel relaxed if I’m sat on a sofa with my shoes on.

It’s not even really due to the dirt aspect altho that is part of it, just seems wrong to have shoes on when in the house.

Shoes allowed for anyone over 16 years old. After moving here I realised quickly that people don't pick their dog shit up and in the first 4 months of living in this house, I'd had shit trailed through the house SEVEN f%#!ing times by one of my DC and all my DC's visiting friends. Now their shoes don't make it past the foyer/porch.

I tell visitors feel free to leave your shoes on if you prefer or leave them by the door as I have one friend who's home country considers leaving shoes on rude.

For Immediate family it’s shoes off. Guests can do as they please

Yes. Shoes off. We have 'luxury' limo which may be damaged by heels and marked by trainer soles plus the amount of crap we inadvertenly walk in..spit urine filth even poo why would you want to walk that in the home
Every guest that comes here takes their shoes off without even asking

Lino not limo lol

DP and I almost always change shoes for slippers coming in, and we aim never to wear shoes going upstairs where there are pale fitted carpets. Don't ask guests to take shoes off unless they are going upstairs (i.e. almost never) but lots of people do anyway.

Yes and no. If you live here or close family/friend, shoes off bitches. If you are an esteemed guest or just popping in and out, up to you what you do. We don't really have carpets anyway.

we have a fully carpeted home, brand new carpet on may 29th 2018 in fact, so shoes off!!! we have a shoes off policy in any of the homes we have lived in, from our own home to the homes that are supplied to us in the work contracts
Shoes collect all sorts of crap and we dont want it in bedded in the carpet, we like to sit on the carpet and the kids lay on it watching movies or playing and i dont want to have to bloody shampoo it weekly to keep it clean
also as a side note one farm house we lived in the carpet was over 10 years old when we moved in and because of a no shoes policy the farm had, not that they can enforce that, and having it cleaned yearly the carpets where in perfect condition and would last another 10 years at least, where as the home we moved in to now the carpets were replaced just days before we arrived as the 5 year old carpet previously in place was ruined by the former manager not taking care or removing footware .... take care of your assets and not sure about the UK but carpet is expensive here in NZ, not something you want to replace every 5 years

Shoes off here, I asked visitors to take shoes off when baba was small but I don’t ask them now his walking. That said I don’t like shoes in the house for hygiene,dirt,mud, rain reasons. Anyway surely it’s more comfy for people not to wear shoes indoors? I’ve never quite understand how peep keep them on

No rule here. I’m sat here still wearing the ugg boots I’ve had on all day. My feet still feel cold so they’re staying on, unless I decide to put my feet up on the sofa.

The only reason I sometimes ask the kids to remove their shoes is because we have wood floors and it can be noisy
In an old terraced house. Depends on their shoes though. And if I see them putting them on the sofa they’re told to take them off.

The wood floors are cold in my (old) house. Depends what the weather is like. Wet shoes always come off as well as noisy shoes and wellies.

We have a shoe rack in the porch but it’s always full.

My kids (6 and 9) still often sit on the floor to play games and do colouring. They find it comfy (god knows why when it’s hard and cold). I don’t worry about bringing in dirt. I hoover several times a day. Don’t mop as often as I should but my kids rarely get sickness bugs so it can’t do them any harm. My house is tidy and I clean but not obsessively. I’m sure it helps their immunity. One of my friends who steams and bleaches obsessively has kids who are often sick!!

The kids so mostly take shoes off automatically though. It’s a rule at their dad’s house (tented with carpets) and at my mum’s house (brand new carpets). I do take slippers to certain peoples houses who I know insist as I hate having just socks. I’ve my own slippers permanently at my mum’s house. She has concrete floors under her carpets and they feel cold at this time of year.

Oh and to answer a question about how people find it comfortable to keep shoes on. I only buy comfy shoes. 😂 I don’t wear heels. Ugg boots, sketchers or trainers at this time of year. All comfy.

Growing up no one had shoes off, my family was large, some v wealthy, some lived in poorest parts of UK, we lived in a fluent area. No shoes off anywhere.

Except one family friend whose mum was Austrian.

Super posh large Georgian houses, old Persian silk rugs etc all shoes on.

It's only in past decade or so has shoes off exploded. I wonder as more people can afford cream carpets or un walkable on bamboo floor that it's become a thing...

All fine all survived.

No one ever walked dog shit in or anything particularly awful in decades.

Sorry op. Shoes firmly on here.

I prefer shoes off but I only insist on it for those that live here. Most visitors ask/offer, to which I say, only if you're going upstairs (ground floor is hard floor and IMO can be cleaned).