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 my home country explaining shoes off as caring more about your floors than your guests would be laughed out loud at! It'd be exactly the same as to say that you wipe your bum because you are precious about your underpants! Of course not - it's basic hygiene.

Wiping your bum is a private matter and its exposure to everyone is a bit different to wearing shoes . Not comparable.

During the summer I wear sandals with no socks regularly. But would be expected to go barefoot?

What I don't understand is the snobbery either way.

Those who wear shoes inside aren't dirty and those who do t aren't lower class wannabes.

What surprises me is that some see feet as almost private parts and going barefoot as exposing yourself somehow.

Yes I do. Horrible to have bare feet in public. It feels like wearing a bikini in someone's house.

Aren't sandals as bad then? Or is that different.

Hard floors are definitely the way to go then nobody needs to worry about correct shoe etiquette.

Where do people stand on coasters?

coasters are pointless clutter

That's a whole other thread Pyjama but from other threads about coasters they are 'common' apparently.

You should not want or need to protect your furniture from marks and tea stains etc. i can't remember why.

Where do people stand on coasters?

I only allow people to stand on coasters in the kitchen. With their shoes off, of course.

Natsku, bare feet on your coasters, how common.

Ah. But are they artisan coasters?

Natsku

"What surprises me is that some see feet as almost private parts and going barefoot as exposing yourself somehow."

It's not that they're private exactly...I don't look at other people with no shoes on and go OMG, they're naked!!! Rofl.

I just feel a bit, undressed, being somewhere other than my house with no shoes on, a bit like if I'd gone somewhere in pyjamas I suppose.

Of course they're artisanal coasters, I wouldn't have any other kind.

I feel more comfortable everywhere if I have my shoes off tabulahrasa I tend to take them off anywhere I can.

"I don't look at other people with no shoes on and go shock OMG, they're naked!!!"

Me neither, but I am shocked at people wearing small sandals to work or exposing large parts of their feet without socks or tights. I have all sorts of bits of dry skin sticking out of my feet and being made to expose them would be horrific. Having said that my feet are too cold to go without socks most of the time so it would only happen in extreme circumstances.

"from other threads about coasters they are 'common' apparently."

I learnt that for the first time reading Watching the English by Kate Fox. She was arguing that they are bad gifts (too late for me!).

I am glad I didn't dream it Gwen can you remember why they were deemed common? I can't.

a bit like if I'd gone somewhere in pyjamas I suppose.

But do you not do the school run in your pyjamas? Apparently people think that is fine.

"But do you not do the school run in your pyjamas?"

No I do not, I occasionally put the bins out in them and feel exposed then...they're not exactly skimpy either, lol

I have a fine collection of coasters sent by charities who appear to think this will guilt me into setting up a DD with them. I don't, as only moving stopped WWF from nagging me after I set up a DD with them. Coasters are always useful for wedging wonky furniture.

Or throwing vaguely in the direction (note; not at) of cats knocking things off the sideboard glares at Roger.

No one who is shoes off seems to care if people have to walk around bare foot in their house?

socks? if the weather is cold?

During the summer I wear sandals with no socks regularly. But would be expected to go barefoot?

yes. if it's a no shoes house, hopefully the floor is clean.

Socks with sandals!
And I have had to walk barefoot in friends houses and went home with dirty feet. I think this is horrible.