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?

And I have had to walk barefoot in friends houses and went home with dirty feet.

so people need to change their homes around your fashion sense? if you want to wear sandals, your feet will get dirty. My feet get dirty without taking my sandals off.

presumably you have a tub.

Nope, my feet don't get dirty wearing sandals. Why would they?

dirt while walking? dirt from the street/pathway? they are not covered. they will get dirty.

also, so what? feet get a little dirty.

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

Katie Fox writes:
"well-intentioned gifts can pose a problem for the class-conscious English. I was once given some pretty wooden coasters and, not having any tables worth protecting from drink-stains, nor, I must admit, wishing to be suspected of the bourgeois instinct to do so - I use them to prop open my dodgy windows."

Seems to me she thinks anything to do with trying too hard is common.

Of course they don't get dirty from walking down a paved pathway. If you are walking over dirt, then yes. Maybe if you wear sandals that are very very open they get dirty. But my feet have never got dirty from wearing sandals.

There's always sand and gravel and dust getting on my feet if I wear sandals.

My feet have never got dirty from wearing sandals either. In the summer round at a friends BBQ in the garden or whatever, I would be wearing some lovely flat jewelled sandals (I'm a summer shoe person) and no way would I be taking them off if I had to go indoors to help carry out food, go to the loo etc.

Surely with kids going in and out continually bringing in bits of the garden, sand from the sandpit, grass etc.. one pair of pedicured feet with a lovely thonged sandal on is not a problem? i do think some people are very inflexible. I'm flexible taking off muddy shoes when necessary and it works both ways.

I havnt read the entire thread as its huge, but has different cultures been mentioned?

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I'm confused by the idea that feet don't get dirty in sandals but shoes are too dirty to be worn past the door step. Obviously the underside will be the dirtiest part of the shoe but not the only part dirt reaches.

Mitzy

Oops mitzy, thanks

My feet get filthy in sandals! But then again, I live in them in the summer and wear them for work, I work outside. I work near a lake though so dip them in there a few times a day to clean :)

I wear sandals round the house, in the garden and to and from the car. Sometimes a stroll to the local shops. I wear trainers if I am actually doing any walking during the summer. So no, my feet never get dirty.

I havnt read the entire thread as its huge, but has different cultures been mentioned?

Mitzy 20,000 times.

Arf!

Saw guest slippers in the shop today and thought of all you grossed out shoes on people. Was almost tempted to buy some