Shoes off house rule

[BettyBi0]

So we have a shoes off rule in our house. Mainly because of the grubby London streets and dog poo everywhere locally plus a floor licking toddler.

Every time my parents visit I have to ask them to take their shoes off. EVERY Fing TIME! They act like its such a massive imposition.

AIBU or would you just shut up and put up?

In the country I live in, nobody wears shoes indoors. Once you've done a few viewings of flats to rent and left your shoes at the door every time, it becomes second nature. Same rule applies to delivery drivers, repair people, my financial adviser - probably the queen if she popped by. Nobody asks, you just do it.

I hate feet and everything about them, but shoes on in the house just seems strange to me now.

I have a no shoes policy and people always look at ne like wtf. I have a light coloured carpet so one would think it is common sense can you imagine how dirty it would be if i let people use shoes.
Basic hygiene especially if you have carpet

i have spare new flip flops, (we often call them slippers) kept for guests.

someone said you can get a disease using slippers in others houses? but really what disease can you get from wearing someone elses slippers, i actually mean flip flops usually not slippers more air to the feet this way. i don't have verruca's neither does anyone else in the family. so supposing they used mine by accident what disease could they get?

i duno ive done this since i can remember ive never got a verruca or fungal infection on my foot and i grew up with 6 other siblings. i did get a verruca once, as a primary kid doing swimming.

comeonsummernot in my house jimmychoos, louboutins,or asda's George they're coming off ;)

You can get shoe covers they only cost a quid in wilkos but for parents get them their own slippers

I take my shoes off and wear slippers at home. I wouldn't ask me guests to (they offer if they have been on a muddy walk!) because we have tile and wooden floors which are a) cold and b) slippy if you're just wearing socks. My DH slipped and fell all the way down our steep stairs when wearing only socks on his feet. He got away with bruising and a sprained wrist but I feel it's an accident waiting to happen and would feel terrible if a guest slipped!

I wear laced up shoes with orthotic inserts from getting up to going to bed. However, I rarely walk further than to the car, so can't get my own shoes that mucky. I prefer people to keep their shoes on in my house, in case they step on any pins (quiltaholic) unless they are muddy. When I go to certain friends' houses I change to slip on shoes before going, and take slippers to wear there - I can't easily take off or put on my shoes. I don't mind, it keeps my friends' carpets clean, and keeps my friends happy. I do wish shoes' -off people would provide seating, tho!

Yanbu, just simple good manners to take shoes off. I would never go into a house and dream of not doing so!

Oh gosh I see the removal man comment ruffled a few feathers! He had no plastic overshoes with him - I would have been fine with those. His mistake so yes he had to keep putting his shoes on and off - hence Mexican stand off. His stinky feet were unfortunate but I just lit candles and Febrezed when he had gone.

DH is from Iran where wearing shoes indoors is pretty much on the same social level as spitting or wiping your arse in public. So we provide slippers. I hate the idea of outdoor shoes indoors from a hygiene point of view so DH gives me a good excuse. Plus our carpets are probably one of the most valuable items in the house so why would we lets people with dirty shoes traipse all over?

Maryz I think I had better not show this thread to DH as he would love the idea of making guests change into pj's! He already strips down to his underpants in the lobby after work (glass, so the neighbors are probably pissing themselves) and puts his clothes straight in the wash because he doesn't want germs from the hospital in our house....yes it's a tad anally retentive but we very rarely get sick!!

And I wouldn't wear someone else's slippers either - I just buy a job lot of fluffies from the pound shop and then bin them after one use.

I think it's very rude to wear shoes indoors. And disgusting too, you're transferring all that street bacteria to the carpets and floors!

We offer guests slippers. We have a basket of washable guest slippers by door and I'm very firm about shoes off!

YANBU. Cannot abide shoes in my house and wouldn't allow it.

I live that it's common sense to remove shoes to protect a light carpet, when surely it is also common sense to not buy a light coloured carpet. Or such an expense one that it is, as someone said, the most valuable thing in my house! And it is not (sigh) just good manners to remove shoes, when as we have seen over and over there are people who find it rude when visitors come in and remove shoes! It is a question of taste more than manners. I feel there is a PhD study in here somewhere, it's hard to see where such entrenched views come from (including myself in this!)

I agree it's nuts to have expensive carpet Iggi but unfortunately my Persian in-laws don't.... They LOVE fucking silk carpets They are beautiful but it's a pain in the arse to roll them up before I trust myself to open the red wine!

And yes it's interesting how this issue is divisive huh? There are a few inflammatory topics and they are never the ones you expect...bus/pram combos, reserving airplane seats and shoes in the house. We're a rum lot!

I see it as so rude and inhospitable to ask guests to do this. Like you care more about your cream carpets than their comfort.

Seriously, why buy cream carpets?

It's different if shoes are seriously muddy obviously. But assuming you live in an urban area and have a mat for guests to wipe their feet i think it's rude to ask for more.

We don't wear shoes in the house. If we have visitors, I don't ask but if they ask about shoes off then I'll say yes if they don't mind. There are a few people who don't ask and keep their shoes on but it doesn't bother me. When DC2 was a crawler, I did usually ask because he had an immune deficiency and other problems so we really kept on top of cleaning the floor and could do without extra work but we had less visitors then.

Oh my God - guest slippers really do seem to be the holy grail for the shoes-off lot.

Why? They're grim!

Again, we don't wear them at home and I take them off at other people's - but I do not expect guests to make themselves uncomfortable for the sake of my floors.

Shoes off is fine. I used to go somewhere with a shoes off rule and always took slippers because the house was freezing and the floor was scuzzy. That's not fine.

If the Queen came a-calling you wouldn't ask her to take her shoes off.

Ergo you shouldn't ask anyone else to, it's bad manners.

This has really surprised me, when I clicked on this tread I thought it would be a landslide response to of course you take your shoes off....I always take my shoes off it doesn't even occur to me that I would leave my shoes on and if the occupant says oh don't worry leave them on I usually just say oh they're half off now anyway and take them off...I've never had to tell friends or relatives to take them off either they just do it automatically..the exception being my DH Aunt and Uncle who treaded mud all over our carpet before christmas when they popped in...to me that was rude and quite unexpected as like i say i figure it goes without saying...

Very rude to insist on people removing footwear.

This obsession with not wearing shoes on carpets, designated floor covering, seems peculiar to this generation; perhaps they will go full circle and start hanging carpets on walls to be admired, not used, and put rushes down on the floor instead.

Invest in stiff doormats.

I can't stand people that just waltz into my house with their shoes on. I think it's rude. I had vaxed my carpet and got a new rug the other week, had someone professional come, my dd said at the door you need to take your shoes off we have a new rug, she was blanked! The person strolled in and sat on the sofa, oh the house looks nice she says, yes I say I've cleaned the carpets etc so erm shoes.. Oh I'll just sit here she proceeded to put he big dirty clodhoppers on my new rug! I was fuming at that point. Couldn't even talk to her. Conversation got back onto how nice my new decor looked, yes so shoes, she said it's really going to bother you isn't it? Erm yes take the fuckers off then! Eventually she did cheeky fucker. I think it's disrespectful walking dirty shoes onto someone's carpet especially when I have a baby rolling around the floor. Anyone that thinks it's ok for people to wear shoes in their house is a tramp as far as I'm concerned.

Anyone that thinks it's ok for people to wear shoes in their house is a tramp as far as I'm concerned.

I'll inform her majesty forthwith. My mum used to say only common people made you take your shoes off, as it happens.

Paragraphs don't work on phone just to clarify I meant a professional came into my home think children's worker type thing.

Silk carpets!