What does 'wear slippers in the house' mean to you?

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I've had the carpets professionally cleaned and bought everyone new slippers so they don't get dirty as quickly.

Would you think that means.

1. walk into porch, change into slippers and go into house
2. walk through porch, into house, into living room and put slippers on sitting on settee

There's a disagreement in my house atm

You're not disagreeing on the meaning of the rule, you're disagreeing on the point of the rule. Resolve the actual difference - ie is your desire for a slightly cleaner carpet worth imposing the extra cost (in terms of having to break learnt habits) of the rest of the family.

Obviously for me, you're the person who wants the positives, yet you're outsourcing all the negatives, so that's not particularly fair, so you would need to convince the rest of the family of the benefits of a slightly cleaner carpet.

Regardless though, stop disagreeing about what particular rules mean, and agree on what you all as a family need to do.

Let me think and get back to you.

A porch is more of an outside area than in. You are not "in" the house so to be made to hop around suddenly having to take footwear off (esp guests) while you block the door and loom over them seems pretty inhospitable and unwelcoming.

Presumably you don't have guests coming and going like Piccadilly Circus, and they are all grown adults/have sufficient intelligence to spot if they were about to trample thick dogshit across the floor?

If you are that anal about shoes off, please make sure you have a solid bench for people to sit down, as well as a ledge or coat rack for them to hang their coats and bags on. They may not want to leave them on your possibly grotty floors after all (cuts both ways)

My PILs, with whom we're currently living, have a similar system (cream carpets) and they have a 'no outdoor shoes past the bottom of the hall stairs' rule, so slippers generally live there and we change from/into shoes or boots there. We don't have to wear slippers, stockinged feet are fine, but no outdoor shoes.

Obviously 1 in your scenario, since 2 defeats the point somewhat!

Nobody has carpets here, everyone has stone or tiled floors throughout, most (sadly not us) with underfloor heating. Wearing shoes in the house around here is like riding your bike into the house, or bringing your muddy dog in uninvited, it's just something nobody does.

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My children are hardwired to remove theirs at the door. Now they are teenagers with big feet and lots of big friends, it means I can barely get through the front door at times :-D

Yep this is our house too! All size 11+ and me with my little size 6!!

Bold fail!!!

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I have a set of shoe drawers right at the back door, and a mat right beside it. Every family member has their own drawer. They both helped me build the set of drawers and picked their own drawer. They both see me take my shoes off on the mat and exchange for my slippers. They both hear me saying “shoes off” everytime we enter the house. And yet, they both saunter right on through the house with their shoes on as if none of the above ever happened. I’m thinking of buying a cattle prod to enforce my message.

Remove at door for this very reason especially if supervising adult doesn't have mummyvision for dogshit

1 - I've worked in two countries where you didn't even wear your outside shoes in the gym, and all children at schools change their shoes when entering the school building.

@Lethaldrizzle spilling stuff and inside mess is different from bringing dogs, fox and/or cats poo inside.

I don't even have carpets but I don't want people bringing in crap from the street into my home. Grim.

I have hard floors downstairs and anyone would think my lot lived on a flippin farm

3. Daddy pays to have carpets professionally cleaned again.

He's being wilfully thick. Change the rule to 'Shoes off and into shoe rack.' He can decide if he wants to go slippered or socked around the house.

Dog muck on the carpet today because they followed daddy

He needs to organise and pay for a bit more carpet-cleaning then, doesn't he?

Shoes off at the door here and we have laminate. I can't stand shoes in the house, it's rank.

I keep my slippers in the bedroom, so it's shoes off at the door, walk through to the bedroom, put slippers on.

DH sometimes puts the bins out /goes into the garden in his slippers, at which point they go into the washing machine or he has new ones as they've then become outdoor shoes.

I really wish I lived in a country where shoes off inside was expected. No-one here would even dream of offering to take their shoes off so I can’t ask guests to. My mum would tell me where to go if I asked her to take her shoes off (she lives on a farm)

Mumsnet introduced me to a whole new level of uptight I didn't know existed.

You've got the rule wrong that's all. No shoes in the house please no shoes past this point please - notice on the inner porch door. Slippers on or off are irrelevant and asking for them to be on in the house is a matter preference and what is causing the confusion!

I really wish I lived in a country where shoes off inside was expected.

It certainly isn't a universal expectation.

Different rules for family here. Visitors can do what they like but family kick footwear off at the door. We don’t have slippers or even matching socks apparently

It's not uptight, it's just clean.

Why walk all that dirt and worse through your house when you can leave it at the door?

In our house sometimes 2, unless shoes muddy, because we have laminate floors downstirs. No one wears shoes upstairs, even childrens friends.!
if had carpet downstairs then just inside the door because no porch.

Enclosed porch or open ie do you go through outer door to get to it ? We have an open porch that shelters you from weather whilst fishing for keys etc but it’s not somewhere to be changing shoes. If enclosed then yes, there because otherwise the street dirt will have been dragged in anyway into the hallway and living room by the time you get to the sofa !