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

LTB -Locked in the porch until slippers are on feet and shoes on rack! grin

Yes! Install one of those delayed opening systems they have in banks where one door only opens after the other has closed, except this door only opens when slippers are on and shoes are in the rack!

So much fucking nastiness! Is it supposedly the in thing at the moment to show off about how dirty your carpet is? Weird.

If anyone thought I was rude for asking them to remove their shoes, I would just end that friendship straight away as my premature babies are so much more of a priority.
Plus... Yeah it's dirty. Your carpet is dirty if you wear your shoes.

Shoes off in porch.
Socks for a bit (let me get through the sort at least!)
Then slippers.

Probably put slippers on upstairs when i get changed ... makes more sense

Not an argument I’d have. People can remove their shoes if they want but I’d never expect it of them unless it was Wellington boots. It feels a little more than slightly hyacinth, to be honest.

It feels a little more than slightly hyacinth, to be honest

Why the need for these little barbed comments? Why not just say I don’t do it in my house, rather than insulting those who do?

@YeTalkShiteHen the nasty responses can only be because they are jealous maybe? Or embarrassed? Maybe because they know its dirty but are too lazy to stop walking round in their shoes. I don't really know, but the reactions are so over the top.

Please never invite me..............I cannot remove my son's wheelchair wheels. I see your point but it doesn't work in all homes!

Jackieyoulooknice I think it’s just a need to feel superior and put other people down tbh. It’s relentless, boring and a bit pathetic tbh.

sycamore children (and adults) sit and lie and play on the floors in homes, not in offices. Where I live children do change their shoes for indoor shoes (often crocs or Birkenstocks) at preschool and primary school, not at secondary where children no longer sit or play on the floor.

Even where no children are involved adults put shoes on furniture more often than most admit in their own home.

Wearing shoes in the house means you have to wear shoes in the house because if you walk barefoot your bare feet pick up street shit from your own floors.

Think where shoes go - public toilets, pavements dogs have used as toilets, potentially stepped on broken glass, fag ends, spilled alcohol...

Why walk it into your house where your children play on the floor or you walk barefoot on a lazy Sunday morning?

When did it suddenly start being dirty to wear shoes indoors? You were never asked to remove them for most of my life.

Cherry funny how the snobbery is all coming from shoes on advocates - keep your shoes on in the house for fear of being accused of being lower rather than upper middle class!

Who cares what the class markers are? Are people really ridiculous enough to walk all the shit on their street shoes all over their house to prove how U they are? Who do you think is watching?

It’s not dirty, it’s about respecting what other people want in their own homes.

Not sure why that’s so hard for people to comprehend?

So what did they do with their shoes once they had changed on the sofa? Put them back in the porch?
Maybe you need a chair in the porch.
Cleaning up the dog poo will help him remember where to change shoes.

1. Leave shoes in the coat cupboard shoe rack by front door. (no porch).

Yes, to a chair or bench in the porch.

Make him clean up the dog muck. Don't you dare do it yourself because he wont do it properly or something.

I actually tested this once, wiped the sole of my shoe with a clean tissue at the front door. Do you know what came off? Nothing, not a mark.

Totally feel for you op. Dh seems to think that as long as he’s wearing slippers he can come into the living room with them on his feet - even if he’s just put the rubbish out with them on. I’ve had to make it clear that slippers are just for the front room - they get taken off at the kitchen door and I’ve also had to put some shoes at the backdoor, just to emphasise the point.

When did it suddenly start being dirty to wear shoes indoors? You were never asked to remove them for most of my life.

Yep. I'm 50 and currently, shock horror, have my boots on in the house!

I'd like to ask those of you who insist on shoes off in the house -

If you're having a party or doing any kind of socialising at home when people will be dressed up - including shoes to go with their outfit - do you still insist they take their party shoes off at the door?

Or do people stand about, all dressed up, in stocking soles or slippers?

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I’m not sure what’s difficult about the question really - shoes on if you don’t mind E.Coli and C.Diff being traipsed into your house, shoes off if you do.

It has to be 1. If you walk in to the sitting room, you might as well keep your shoes on everywhere.

I actually tested this once, wiped the sole of my shoe with a clean tissue at the front door. Do you know what came off? Nothing, not a mark.

Um - you do know that most forms of bacteria are not visible to the naked eye, don’t you?

Thanks for the explanation, some of which makes some kind of sense k guess. But this part "Wearing shoes in the house means you have to wear shoes in the house because if you walk barefoot your bare feet pick up street shit from your own floors".

But then what? So what? I wash my feet regularly, at least once daily in the shower. I don't prepare food with my feet or ingest things from them. I suppose having grown up in a society where shoes are not required to be removed indoors, I just don't see the lurking danger. It seems exhausting in a household of people without specific health requirements (immune compromised, newborns etc) to think through every possible germ in this way.

So the soles of my feet are potentially a little dirty at times. Feet are supposed to be in contact with the ground and have evolved fairly thick protective skin to keep germs out even if you actually were walking through dung.

I'm also partly invested in this debate because shortly after we began the no-shoes thing to avoid the toddler's muddy boots, I whacked my unshod foot in the kitchen and broke a toe. So for me the health risks of no shoes were quite a bit more than shoes!

I’m extremely glad I don’t know anyone as stuck up and snotty as some of the posters on here in RL. Hopefully it’s a “hide behind the cloak of anonymity to be a knob” thing rather than people who actually speak like this in RL thing.

I have to remind DH pretty constantly about shoes off but there you go. Apart from one set of friends, all our other friends and family routinely ditch their shoes in the porch.

Personally I can't stand the thought of walking outside muck all over my clean house.