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?

I'm a bare-footer (in or out), and most guests take the hint upon seeing the shoe-rack at the door (although I wouldn't dream of asking them to take their shoes off if they didn't notice)

What I find odd is people who think it rude to wear shoes, but also rude to be bare footed, so I have to pad around in socks..

I also want to add that just because you ask /expect guests to remove their shoes ,does not a bad host make !

As I said earlier ,I have the 'no shoe' rule -I am however ,a wonderfully warm and inviting host ~I take care of all my guests needs and wants .

I am in the US ,the Americans are quite organized and well versed in the the whole taking off shoes thing ...most bring socks or house -slippers :)

I visit my MIL sometimes ...we don't have to take off our shoes there ~that is fine , she is a cold/distant women who 'allows' us to trapse in dirt .
That particular combo works too ,I guess ...

Making people take their shoes off downstairs is weird and inhospitable.

Ooh, GOODY, this one again

YABTU but I know lots of other mumsnetters are also neurotically protective of their floors (Why? Do they eat off them??) so you're bound to have fun on your thread.

Agree that it's reasonable to take off visibly muddy or very wet shoes and obviously that goes for dog shit too but I'm afraid we are very cavalier about scary deadly invisible dirt....

I think it's common cos the hupper clarses had mainly hard floors with a few priceless but tatty carpets. They also had lots of dogs and horsey people running in and out all day. Plus of course they had more rooms the more formal of which would have been off-limits to dirty shoes and riding boots. Fitted carpets were a bit nouveau doncha know and CH prohibitive in a massive house.

I am a childminder and like to teach the children to remove their their shoes before coming into my house. All my parents remove their shoes happily also because they too like to think the floor is fairly clean where their children sit and play.

I have a sign up to ask people to remove their shoes before they come in and it does rile me if they walk straight past it or get their child to take their shoes off but not themselves.

However, I never 'ask' them personally because I think that maybe they don't take their shoes off because they are uncomfortable with it - and that is fine too. I have my Vax under the stairs

dearprudence....is it? Well I think treading shit and piss off the street into someone's home rude and nasty.

SeeJaneKick - do you insist workmen take their shoes off? What about if you have a party? Or a barbecue?

Not workmen, but I do put dropsheets down....which saves on sweeping later.

Bbqs are an exception tbh....people may want to use the loo etc...but I bleach after they leave.

Bleach what?

Carpets, walls??

The loo I can understand!

Bleach?? Blimey your house must smell like a public loo

Yes, Ormirian, and servants to clean up too!

Getting people to take their shoes off at the door is common. cf Harry Enfield's clean chavs.

Anyone very classy assumes their guests wipe their feet, and anyway has at least one dog.

This definitely isn't true for other cultures but true in UK. In fact, dead giveaway of the Hyacinth Bucket type.

Lol at common! So all Chinese and Japanese are common are they? Ha, ha!

I don't have carpets so it's not a problem.

SJK

see previous post exempting other cultures

Really, it is very naff in Britain not to accept people in footwear into your house. You won't like this, but it's true. Clean chavviness.

Presumably though, you'd rather be sanitised than considered upper-middle class or above and this won't fuss you.

"won't fuss me"?

I would rather be seen as clean and common, than middle class, dirty and ignorant.

I don't want to walk and sit on other people's saliva, vomit, piss and shit.

If that makes me a chav (awful word) then bring on the Juicy Couture jogging bottoms and the Burberry buggy.

o this thread reminds me I must go and give my door mat a shake outside today - haven't done it for a while...you see funnily enough that picks up most of the bits brought in from outside.

Mind - I used to let my DS's as toddlers crawl around the garden (and the park) and sit on the ground outside and one of them used to lick the playground equipment so I can't get worked up about a teeny weeny extra bit of muck brought into the house.

people shit on the street !

I got in the habit whilst living abroad (as I still do) of taking off my outdoor shoes at the door. Now I also cannot see why anyone traipses muck from outdoors around their home but when I was growing up we didn't take our shoes off when we wnet indoors (except for say wellies obviously)

i just let people do whatever they feel most comfortable with. however communal slippers are truly disgusting

Well, just to really freak people out...

One of my dogs is currently in season and laying on my living room carpet...

I agree with the OP. I too hate shoes in the house, and dogs or any animals for that matter. Oh and small children with snotty noses and sticky fingers.

They do shit on the street yes and they spit... and dog shit carries bacteria.

"I don't want to walk and sit on other people's saliva, vomit, piss and shit."

Bloody hell! I don't want to live where you do They have nasty manners round your way Thankfully I rarely see vomit and when I do I can usually walk round it and have never seen human excrement.