to expect you to take your shoes off in my home?

[BelleTheBeatnik]

That sounds so much more confrontational when I use direct address! [bublush]

I'm not criticizing those who don't remove shoes in their own home, but do the British automatically do it at other people's houses?

Asking this question is a life-long supporter of slippers, by the way. [bugrin]

Oops, damn autocorrect.

Igggi, come to think of it, I have never seen anyone on tv remove their shoes when they enter a house.

Sorry

It's raining and I am bored :)

Know that feeling. About to do ironing. In shoes

200 shoes though :) Am impressed! Do you keep them in the boxes with photos on? Am in awe of people who do that

I bought a really good pair of winter boots this year and swore I would look after them but they are shagged due to total lack of care :(

My feet are usually far dirtier than my shoes, - and they stink!

and I have athletes foot and don't wear socks!

If it's such a US thing why does Flylady always insist you must get dressed including lacing up your shoes before you start the day?

Genuine question?

Well, the more shoes one has, the less you wear each pair so the longer they last. It's economics really!

I have shoe storage built into the bottom of my wardrobes for the most regularly worn. Then others in the spare room wardrobe & under the spare bed in boxes (yes, with photos!) and then others are stored in a trunk in the hall. There's always a new outfit that needs new shoes a way to find room!

Seems to me there is a simpler solution than all this shoes off rubbish. Don't buy cream carpets. They aren't lovely, they are totally impractical dirt magnets that lead to mad prissiness and annoying heaps of shoes by the door.

I had a fungal nail infection that I couldn't take any medication for as I was pregnant and then breastfeeding(gone now thankfully). In the summer I had found nice sandals that managed to cover my toes but kept my feet cool. Major dilemma when arriving at a shoes off house. Do I just traipse my fungal nail infection through the house hoping no-one comments on my manky toenails, ask for a pair of socks or slippers that they would never want back, or just ignore the fact that no-one else has shoes on and keep mine on? I hate no shoe rule houses.

Oh and I totally agree about the cream carpets nooka. Totally impractical. They are usually found wall to wall in new houses though, so probably the owners didn't have much choice.

I think it actually very rude to ask someone to remove their shoes, so would never do so. A obsessive friend of mine makes you remove your shoes on the doorstep - so if it's raining you just stand there getting wet and step into the house shoes in hand. FFS.

I would expect visitors to wipe their feet (we provide a doormat specially) but that's it.

I think it's the same people who manically clean their kitchens with anti-bacterial sprays and iron their knickers [bugrin]

nooka "mad prissiness" - couldn't have put it better myself!

In my circle, everyone has a wicker basket at the front door, filled with packs of those slippers you get in hotels and health spas.

So you take your shoes off and put on the nice slippers. I thought everyone did this. I have never been anywhere where they didn't

Thank goodness they don't in mine! I can take removing my shoes but I refuse to wear other people's slippers-however well they are washed. That really is dire. Luckily no one has ever done it to me.

Tsk Exotic - they were spanking new slippers, still in their wrappers and disposed of after every wear. They were not re-used!

I also linked to a place where you could get 1,000 packs at 48 pence each so it's not an expensive practice

they were also entirely fictional slippers

In that case I would wear them-but it is hardly environmentally friendly!

It's lucky for the environment they were totally made up :)

I think the very word "expect" in the title of this thread says a lot.

YABU

unless you supply clean slippers for all your guests

Just went to a "shoes off" party, was gross having to stare at people's wash greyed socks, and when we left we had already said our goodbyes but then spent an awkward half an hour searching for our shoes in the mountain by the front door. then stumbling around in the hallway trying to get them on whilst taking it in turns to hold a grizzly baby. Then had to say goodbye all over again, but of course not allowing our contaminated shoed feet to cross the threshold! good job we didn't forget anything and have to nip back in.

Oh yes, that delightful and elegant "putting my shoes on and falling over" dance!

We have a "pizza carpet", you could put a pizza down and lose the bloody thing the pattern is that garish. You spill something, I'll clean it up, no stain! You leave your shoes on and I'll hoover. No biggie, trusty Dyson solves it all. My mother has cream carpets, insists on shoes off, DP's black socks leave fluff and she sighs and hoovers. DS does not drink coloured drinks there either. She's a sucker for punishment.

Thinking, I have actually took my own slippers to a friends house and dc's when on a playdate thing as feet always got cold.