To feel a little grossed out by shoes off rule in summer

[Highhorse1981]

Just had beautiful new carpet laid

Usual rule of shoes off when coming in from outside applies

However at this time of year that often involves bare feet and it makes me twitchy seeing sweaty mucky feet from wearing sandals on my beautiful carpet

I would never Say anything to an adult but am I alone in hating bare feet in my home but then also not wanting sandals to be kept on

Basically I’m being a difficult bugger

profpoopsnagle

My MiL has this issue even with wooden floors. Her solution is indeed ballerina socks, but then I go and do something beyond the pale like chase the DC out the backdoor without bothering to put my shoes on and come back in with manky socks.

I've only just got elquinto's joke. Brilliant

'Primark sell flip-flops for 90p a pair. I'd buy about ten pairs and put them in a basket by the door. Replace as necessary.'

Yeah, throw them out and fuck up the environment even more for the sake of your fucking floors. Ask your guests to wear flip flops someone else's feet have been, that's the way to go .

If it seriously upsets you, do what the whole Japanese nation does and supply indoor slippers. Tell people that you saw it in Japan and liked it. Honestly, you are simply expressing something that a nation of 127 million people would almost to the last one agree with, so who cares if other people judge you for it? You have a Japanese soul, OP. ありがとうございました Arigatōgozaimashita. Buy them on Amazon, in bulk, hotel slippers - www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_14?sprefix=hotel+slippers%2Caps%2C434&crid=2OLDOBBJV9AHH&tag=mumsnetforum-21&url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=hotel+slippers

'Annette "Footsie or ballerina Slipper Socks, doesn’t everyone have a pair in their handbag just in case?" '

Why not, it's never occurred to my husband to keep a pair of fucking slipper socks in his handbag. And I'd never in my life by a pair of £19 slipper socks.

Flip flops can be recycled.

'Flip flops can be recycled.'

Depending on where you are. And it's reduce, reuse, recycle. You reduce usage of such products first. But hey, your floor is far more important.

'so who cares if other people judge you for it? '

Yeah, fuck 'em. You invited them over, tell 'em to sheep dip their feet. Go the whole hog.

expat my DH, not unlike most men surely (?), has yucky feet so he never takes his socks off. His DM only has bother with me and his sisters, not her pfb DS.

Having carpets is always going to be gross. Wooden floors or tiles.

You need artisan house slippers obviously. My opinion is that people who are this precious about their carpet have a screw loose. Don't have carpets downstairs if it's that important to you.

A basket of artisanal slippers is the only solution.

As soon as I get a house I am getting wood floors that can be mopped. for now we are stuck with a flat and carpets are mandatory apart from kitchen and bathroom.

flip flops can be washed. thus reducing use, and reducing hte need to replace the carpet.

High fives Hedgehog

I only have carpet in bedrooms. Wood or stone everywhere else. Problem solved. Tbh I’m thinking of getting rid of carpet in the bedrooms too.

I would never live in a house with carpets, at the very least downstairs, and it annoys me so much when visitors insist on removing their shoes, especially when they are barefeet. It's so gross and so rude!

If your own choice is to have carpets, I can only suggest staying in the garden!
If I must, I would take my shoes off, but I don't like being barefeet in somebody's home either.

Life is really fucking short. How can you be bothered to care about this? Nobody ever died from foot germs on their carpet.

Oh, I think that 'life is short' is hardly a game changer when we are all on MN on a sunny Friday evening.

I'd wash the flip flops.

We can't afford new flooring, so it's carpets for now and I want them clean.

I would refuse to wear flips flops if they had the toe thingy in.

How the flip are bare feet any worse than outdoor shoes? I’d rather have people’s bare feet on my carpets than their shoes, although if people want to keep their shoes on in my house that’s fine too. I feel like I must be a right slob to have never worried about my feet on other people’s carpets or my carpet with everyone else’s feet.

No she wants people to take off their shoes but not have bare feet, a bit like soft play.

Just inside the front door, have one of those deep footbaths plumbed in, you know, like at chiropodists. Add dettol. Then air dry their feet with a Dyson blade set horizontally. Should do it.