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

Yes, I do know you can't see bacteria. I also know that I visit my GP less than anyone I know. So, no visible dirt and clearly no ill effects from sitting on my allegedly filthy but strangely spotless cream carpets.

Of course it's 1! There's no point in 2, as outside muck is then tracked onto nice carpets. But I would allow socks and bare feet (women's only).

not RTFT but is there a reason for having to sit down to change his shoes and if so is there a chair in the porch?

All of our downstairs floors are now tile or laminate to avoid people getting confused between 1 and 2 especially DM who deliberately did number 2 in a very PA way

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

Try a wet wipe.

Wearing shoes in the house is weird and gross.

But my carpets aren't wet ...

I think there are knobs on boths sides of this story really. Knobs calling non-shoe removers disgusting dog-poo eating sloths and knobs calling shoe taker-offers uptight pretensions germ-o-phobes.

And now I'm the knob that's probably pissed of everyone :D

PopGoesTheWeaz nah, I’m with you

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especially DM who deliberately did number 2 in a very PA way

if you read this quickly it reads as something quite different!

But my carpets aren't wet

Oh I thought you were trying to say there was nothing on your shoe, rather than that nothing would transfer to your carpet.

But I would allow socks and bare feet (women's only)

why only women?! DH showers every morning and evening (after the gym), his feet are as clean as mine!

No, you didn't, Sister.

I'm a fan of 1.5 - shoes off at the first available seat when walking through the front door which leaves the entry way clear for other people.

I have a small enclosed porch with just enough room to get inside and houses our shoe rack. Unfortunately the porch isn't big enough to house a chair/stool too and there is no room for more than one person to be in the porch at the same time.

This means I will kick off slip on heels, sandals, flip flops etc as I walk into the porch and put them straight on the rack as it takes seconds and doesn't leave other people standing outside waiting for me to move. However, if I'm wearing shoes that require more effort to remove - boots/lace ups/shoes with tight buckles etc - then I will wear them into the hall so that I can drop anything I am carrying to free up my hands, allow other people to get into the house after me and where we have a sofa and chair I can sit on to comfortably remove my shoes rather than trying to manage it standing in the porch.

umm. Ok.

Houses are for living in

We have wooden floor boards downstairs, but a bench and coat rack in the hall, I'd expect most people to sit there and take their shoes off. I would never have a fully carpeted ground floor though.

2old I work in an assisted living facility - we all (residents and workers) change or just remove our shoes when we come in, but not wheelchair wheels.

One of our wheelchair users doesn't like being in her chair although she can't walk unaided. She likes to get out of her wheelchair and crawl at great speed and to sit on the floor playing or dancing in her own home, so we keep the floors as clean as we can for her but we have two other wheelchair users who want and need to use their chairs indoors all day long. It's easy to change shoes but not wheelchair wheels as you say, people can be flexible!

1 otherwise it defeats the purpose of wearing slippers.

It's like going to the toilet shake everybody else's hands and then wash ones hands. You wash before and you put slippers before spreading dirt and germs around.

Number one.

In our flat, we have a big wooden storage box to keep all of mine and DD's shoes in. It's in the hallway. We have a one in, one out rule. Shoes in - slippers out. Slippers in - shoes out. Slippers are always worn inside and shoes are only ever put on as we're heading out the door. If shoes are wet/muddy, they get taken off before coming through the front door and left on the outside mat. They either stay there until dry enough to bring in or get brought to the sink to clean.

There is basically a 3 meter section of hallway between the box and the front door that we can walk on in shoes. I'm a bit anal about it, but only because the entire flat is carpeted, with the exception of the kitchen and bathroom. We're a first floor flat and not allowed 'hard' flooring down due to possible noise issues for neighbours. I have thought about getting a lino installed in the hallway, one that looks like a wood floor, but the carpet is so warm on our feet in the mornings!

I have a similar issue, although we have wooden flooring my 9 month old dd picks up everything from the floor, we ask everyone to take shoes off as I feel it's being dirt from out side inside then going on her hands as she's crawling fil insists that he has to sit down to take his shoes off so In he walks sits on the sofa and takes them off and puts them down next to him, he doesn't walk anywhere in the house so may as well just leave them on it's pointless!! I agree number 1 defo although I wouldn't say visitors had to wear slippers xx

My sofa is in better condition than my carpet. Visitors can keep their shoes on in my house, but they must remove their pants if they want to sit on my sofa.

Visitors can keep their shoes on in my house, but they must remove their pants if they want to sit on my sofa

Do you provide a bidet in the porch?

Visitors can keep their shoes on in my house, but they must remove their pants if they want to sit on my sofa

We have a ‘no bare bottoms on sofas’ rule (for the benefit of my 4 and 3 year olds!)