To think wearing shoes indoors is disgusting?

[CJ2010]

I have a 'No shoes worn in the home' rule at my own house but I have noticed that a lot of people are not fussed if peps walk into their houses with their shoes on. Why do they allow this?

Last night when I arrived at my mum's, she ordered me not to enter the living room, as she had accidentially trod dog poo through the room and was busy scrubbing the floor. All because she bizzrely wears her shoes in her home. How hard is it to take your shoes off in the hallway, once you get home?

I tried to hide my annoyance as it is her home, but I wouldn't allow DD to crawl about on the floor. The room stunk of poo and i felt sick.

AIBU?

Shoes off. Guests are ok to keep shoes on but most people offer nowadays anyway.

I love shoes off. I take slippers to work as well.

I actually find it uncomfortable and a bit wierd if someone asks me to remove my shoes. I would always make sure they are clean before entering someones house and if it has been raining outside or is muddy I would always remove them.
However, I can't bear uptight people who are paranoid about a speck of dirt on their precious carpets.

'I take slippers to work as well.'

You're lucky to work in such an informal place. It's against dress code to wear slippers in many offices - because it looks horrid and unprofessional.

I made all the people who came to look around our house when we were selling it take their shoes off after some tosser walked dog poo all the way up the stairs, I mean how can you actively avoid a door mat outside and then inside? And what kind of person are you to not wipe your feet properly on entering a house? Made the agent pay for carpet cleaning too with a toddler in the house, they weren't best pleased but they were in locum parentis of my house

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I do beg your pardon expat

but then you don't know what my job is do you, or indeed how very professional it is, or indeed why it's too important for your footwear to matter

'but then you don't know what my job is do you, or indeed how very professional it is, or indeed why it's too important for your footwear to matter'

That's why I speculated that it must be place with no strict dress code. I mostly worked in the legal field where there were strict codes.

I couldn't care less what some random stranger on the internet does for a living.

nor about your horrid little throwaway remarks either

you must be so proud

Now the world don't move to the beat of just one drum.
What might be right for you, may not be right for some.
It take's diff'rent strokes to rule the world!

If you want to get wound up by internet sprites, goose, it's entirely your business.

er what

get over yourself, seriously

Likewise.

I'm trying to work out what expat said that was so "horrid"

i used to take flip flops to work

it was more a smelly foot issue - quite a professional setting - i swear i was doing them a favour really

Yeah, but we all know you are klarty, custy :o.

Seriously though, "All because she bizzrely [sic] wears her shoes in her home" annoyed me. Just because you say it's bizarre, doesn't mean it is.

We're a shoes off house where poss, but to protect the floor, not from germ-fear.

One of the maaaaaaany times this thread was done before, in 2004 IIRC, a poster said they valued their friends over their furniture and I find this true, hence my compromise. I keep all the shoes by the door so people always ask if it's shoes off, to which I reply yes please if you are comfortable with it, and if not, then not to worry. Then you don't look uptight.

protect the floor from what - floors are meant for walking and putting stuff on aren't they.

I don't like walking around just in socks, except for carpeted rooms because of the risk of slipping. But I honestly find comfortable shoes more comfortable to be in than to be barefoot. Shoes support your feet and ankles.

Rizzo ..Isn't it normal to have a shoe rack by the door? I have one, but I haven't been into many other people's houses recently. I just assumed everyone had a shoerack by the door.

Our shoe rack is in the dining room (first room off the hallway) - no space in the hallway for one.

To me Baroque?

Ah, well tis only because it's an engineered wooden floor board, with a sandwich type construction to conduct the underfloor heating and I don't fancy replacing it for a verrrry long time as it will cost a fortune!

I think it is a dirt thing with me. I don't mind germs, but I don't want dried up dogs urine and just general dirt in the fibres. Like. And I'm too busy to wash the floors every day.

So if you wear shoes, you have to wear them all the time, because if you then go intermittently barefoot and wear shoes, it all ends up on your feet, on your sheets and through the bedrooms.

I think it's the idea of filth really.

Gooseberry, yes I imagine it is indeed a very normal thing to do. I doubt fashions have change since you used to call upon people more frequently.

I have the room to do it whereas I didn't before is all. I'm not claiming to have devised a ground-breaking method for shoe storage...

Although I have two under five and a dog so I doubt everone who comes would want to take their shoes off anyway [wunk]

Hence giving them the choice. (And a slightly menacing stare)

no we neer take our shoes off

theres a mat - wipe your feet

i mean ffs who gives a shit

They might have done.. I lived abroad a long time and got back after Christmas, sorry should have said. It's been hell on a stick getting organised so we haven't done a lot of visiting!

I would actually like a ground-breaking method for shoe storage, so just give me the nod.