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?

Are you not going to let your DD outside in summer if she's still crawling? Seriously, you need to chill out

I hate other peoples feet ,especially my mums bunion ridden feet ,so I insist visitors keep their shoes on

Very well OP - And I allow shoes but I'm not dirty.

Ok yah? That settled? Good.

So with you there usualsuspect!

Why create more hoovering ? YANBU

Would you let someone bring a bicycle into your home?

I wouldnt let them bring a wheelbarrow in either, or a tractor.. but I wouldnt demand they took their shoes off. That is what a doormat is for.

"Goodness, some of you must live like pigs in shit. And, you are proud of the fact!!"

:o PMSL!!! You remind me of "The Clean Chavs", about the only funny thing on Harry Enfiels woeful last series!

"I WONT have it in the house, its wheels have been been on the pavement so its FILFFFFFEEEEEEE" on discussing her babies pram, Bugaboo natch

oink

"Goodness, some of you must live like pigs in shit. And are proud of the fact"

Oh do fuck off with your sactimonious "I'm better than all of you" attitude, never mind downright bloody rudeness.

who really cares what other people accept in their own home?

I often wonder how 'no shoes people' manage. I mean I am constantly popping in and out of the house.
We have 3 doors in our house, and double patio doors. Kids are in ,out, in the garden, on the trampoline, back in for squash/biscuits, in getting a toy in the lounge , out on the patio playing again.
I pop to the shed to the huge freezer for food. then i pop out the front side door, to put bag rubbish in bin/re-cycling in boxes. then i realise i've left something in the car, so ....

in-out-shake-it-all-about. I must go thoughh our 4 entrances more than 15-50 times a day.

do you come in. and stay? and never move ?

OP - I'm assuming it was a different house you lived in when you had your pets. Either that or you have had the whole house fumigated and re-carpeted.

Dog and cats never wipe their bums, then they come in and place their sphincters directly on the carpet.

< ponders if carpet lickers are the same as rug munchers but with less of an appetite >

I actually do take my shoes off most of the time in the house. I have a pair of slip on () shoes that I just step in and out of depending on what door I'm using (I also have three different doors I regularly use).

But I wouldn't dream of asking anyone else to take their shoes off. That's just rude.

I also bring bags and pushchairs in and have a cat (and an occasional dog). I'm really just trying to avoid cleaning :o

yanbu. I would go barefoot all the time given a chance. I'm not comfortable in shoes, I think my muscles work better if I'm barefoot.

I go barefoot at home all the time ...but I don't expect my visitors to

I was brought up that asking people to remove shoes is a bit lower class...

Also if you remove your shoes in this house you run the risk of a nail through your foot.

Oh we allow shoes and we are disgusting. Totally.

OP you are a twat. HTH

Me too gaelicsheep (re. your 21.51 post)
Caring more about your carpet than your visitors comfort is a bit naff really.

I not only wear my shoes in the house, but I also have a bike, in my kitchen

But funnily enough, it doesn't really matter that much 'cause we eat off the table, not the floor.

i wonder how you think the human race has survived for hundreds of thousands of years without sanitised cream carpets for children to play on!!

"Dog and cats never wipe their bums, then they come in and place their sphincters directly on the carpet."

That made me spit my coffee out. Luckily no-one is here to hear me giggling away to myself.

We used to allow shoes in the house, until we got new carpets just before xmas. We now all have slippers/inside shoes.

I couldn't bear the thought of dirty shoes on my new carpets!

Perhaps someone right-minded person will invent antiseptic arse mats for cats and dogs. Or nappies even.

When we had old dark carpets and nowhere to keep bikes but the hallway...we didn't bother taking our shoes off (and that was the house where our babies did their crawling)
Now we live in a house with cream carpets (didn't choose them but certainly don't want to fork out to replace them/have them professionally cleaned all the time) we do mostly. I even take my slippers off to go upstairs as I have walked in the hall/kitchen with them on the laminate and might take dirt upstairs!
I ask children to take shoes off but not adults. I was not brought up that way. What does it all mean?

Oh I never ask people to take their shoes off. Most visitors go in the kitchen and conservatory where there is no carpet, so shoes are allowed.

I am always popping in and out to the garden- to take out recycling, hang out washing, have a nose around see what's coming out in the garden, water stuff. I don't really see much difference between my house and garden. So I couldn't constantly be taking my shoes off and putting them back on again. Usually I take them off and keep them off - inside and out which presumably is just as disgusting.