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

onalongsabbatical

If it seriously upsets you, do what the whole Japanese nation does and supply indoor slippers.

I vote you do this. I had friends who had basket of slippers for guests to wear. As far as I know everyone was happy to comply. They had very nice soft carpets and their house always smelt nice too.

I was utterly apalled when I saw that the Duchess of Cambridge did not insist on Michelle Obama taking off her shoes when they visited them, she must have been at it with the Vax as soon as she left......

*PuppyMonkey

I do sometimes wonder how some MNers survive everyday experiences like walking outside and doing a poo*

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Get some hotel style disposable slippers

A basket of artisanal slippers is the only solution

Ah, Mumsnet

Oh I do love a MN Shoes-off-in-the-house thread! They are second only to the How-often-do-you-wash-your-sheets/towels/bras/self threads for bringing out the batshit hyper-hygiene freakishness.

I don't wear socks with shoes so have bare feet all year round. Personally I'd enjoy the discomfort you get from seeing my disgusting bare feet in your pristine house (it's not a home).

I have always felt the point of a carpet was to be walked on. I'd rather have sweaty feet than doo poo shoes soles though. If you're worried offer them some socks at the door, from a beautifully decorated basket and witter on about embracing your Japanese lifestyle experience or something along those lines.

RachelsTeeth I find myself wildly jealous of your cleansing regime. I could live a clean quiet life if I incorporated that rather exciting pulley system of NakedAvenger's plus some gender neutral guest sacks ala EggnCress. I suspect my (few, terrified) guests would look like sunburnt, shellshocked Teletubbies so that would also take care of the entertainment angle.

Imagine Kate and Wills letting Michelle and Barack come into their home and keep their shoes on. They have young children!! I hope the carpets were ripped out and burned. Poor Kate probably had to take to her bed for a week.
Anybody on here who has had carpets walked on, talk to your GP.

A footbath, like in a swimming pool?

Encourage your guests to wear socks with sandals. That way you preserve your beautiful carpet whilst helping your guests look stylish, too.

Do what you like because I'd never come to your house.
I have reynauds and therefore permanently cold feet, I am never without shoes on and won't visit someone who expects me to walk around in my socks in their house - I will be in pain and no one is worth it.

'even though the slippers were clean and frequently washed.'

If they're not washed after every use, they're not clean.

I've not read the full thread. Sorry if my opinion is no longer valid!
I'm a shoes of household which I know is strange (on MN) I don't like the thought of dog poo and mud and general crap trod into my carpet that my son plays on, when I visit friends/family in the summer with bare feet (very rare) I'll carry socks in my bag. As for people visiting me, we don't really get any as we like our own space and are grumpy sods!

If they're not washed after every use, they're not clean.

The ones that are used by one time guests/guests that do not come all that often are washed before anyone else uses them. Family and friends always have the same slippers and are solely for their use and even then are still frequently washed. Friends/family whose feet are less pleasant (yes I do know whose feet are nice and not so nice, as one, I know them and how they are, second I can usually smell the evidence when they are here).

I was apprehensive of admitting this here, as no doubt that would be a whole other bunfight on how putting a wash on is single handedly destroying the planet. Everyone knows washing your PJs more than once a month, sheets once every 6 and towels once every year is the single biggest cause of global warming. Usually professed by someone who takes unneeded car journeys, uses planes regularly and will bin more clothing/objects in a year than I would in 10 “because it was cheap and I may as well buy new”

Freudianslurp

Genius! I bet you've also got a basket of designer ferrules, for anyone using a walking aid!

Why not just ban feet of any description from entering your house? It is surely the only sensible solution.

I have two dogs who plod around my downstairs area.

Slippers? I have a pair. Can't remember when I last washed them though .

Yes, you are BU.

It's rude to ask someone to take off their shoes and it's just as rude to get twitchy about bare feet. If I have to take my shoes off - which pisses me right off and I actively avoid the sort of uptight Hyacinth types that insist on this - I'm damn well not carrying around socks for your convenience.

Either get over yourself or don't have guests. Then you can admire your carpet alone and in peace.

I do sometimes wonder how some MNers survive everyday experiences like walking outside and doing a poo.

I thought most people that had carpets also had indoor plumbing facilities.

I hate carpets, dusty, germy dirt collecting, bug ridden things. Only have to worry now about stupid stiletto heels making holes in the wood floor. I had a basket of cheap washable slippers by the door before, must remember to get some more.

Some countries and cultures seem to take shoes off indoors, I like that.

Personally I don't want kicked off shoes cluttering my hall up. I tell people to keep them on when they try to remove them. But then we've got a home, not a show case.

You could wash your guests' feet to make them feel welcome.

Toad in Thailand it's shoes off and definitely Japan, where they provide slippers and maybe Burma too.

I can't read 'artisanal' any more without seeing it as artis anal