“I don't care that much about the hygiene aspect so much as the comfort aspect. Do you all sit upright on your sofas with your feet primly on the floor?”
I wondered as well. I don’t wear uncomfortable shoes, but I still find slippers much more comfortable than shoes in the house. Everyone I know wears slippers or just socks indoors.
“Shoes off people - what do you do about going in and out to bins etc?”
I just keep a pair of slip on shoes by the back door.
“so if we didn't leave shoes by the door there's be muck traipsed in all the time. Don't other people have an issue like that?”
We live in an area where we get a lot of rain, and even wiping shoes on the door mat doesn’t get them clean enough to walk through our house. Shoes on people must live in towns where it never rains. We live rurally and there is a lot of mud.
“Exactly stroppy it's not so much germs for me as that I don't want mud and grit etc traipsed into my house. Do some people just not mind this?”
I wondered about that as well. Last winter the amount of salt and grit in our hallway was ridiculous. The salt can’t be good for the carpets either. These shoes on people must live in places where it never snows.
“I figured it's a working class Northern thing!”
I am neither working class nor born and bred in the North. Although the weather isn’t as good so you may have a point there, but it would be to do with practicality rather than a Northern working class culture
“I can only think that people who wear their shoes inside never walk anywhere. We've had 2 days of solid rain here and my shoes are just caked in crap, no way I'd traipse round the house in the them.”
Exactly thatmustbenigelwiththebrie