Removing shoes indoors

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Am interested to know how many people actually have the rule of no shoes indoors.
We've had this rule from when I was young and have carried it on when I moved out. I think it makes sense not to walk all over the house with shoes that have been worn outdoors, who knows what you've stood on and then bringing all that in to your home.
I have shoe covers that I provide to workers.
Especially with young children I think it's even more important not to wear outdoor shoes indoor, carpets/rug will harbour all that dirt no matter how much you Hoover up.

My actual aibu is, if someone came to my house as a guest would it be U for me to ask them to remove their shoes? Obviously in a polite manner.
I feel quite embarrassed having to ask when these people already know.
My current house is all flooring with large rugs everywhere, the main living room is carpet.
I've noticed certain extended family members get annoyed at my request but the way I see it, it's my house, if I don't walk with shoes, why should you when you've chosen to come to my house.

Just say, "just put your shoes there" they will cotton on. In my husbands culture it is very disrespectful to walk about in outside shoes, when inside. You have seperate flip flops/slippers for that.So he doesn't have any filter when telling people, but most realise when they see the big shoe rack with everyone's shoes on it. I have always just taken mine off when I have walked through the door, I automatically do it at everyone's house.

I have reynauds and have cold feet all the time, for 6-7 months of winter they are frequently painfully cold.
Consequently I wear shoes all the time, I never go barefoot.
I would leave rather than go barefoot/around in my socks and I would be extremely passed off you hadn't pre warned me that you have barefoot un the house policy because I would never have agreed to visit if I knew.

Unless you have it you have no comprehension how cold & painful reynard makes your feet & hands.

No one's getting in my house with shoes on. End of. Shoes aren't protect your feet from outside. They aren't for indoors.

I don't wear shoes indoors. Find it odd when people do but wouldnt ask a guest to remove them unless they were very obviously caked in mud. I might be more likely to linger over coffee in the kitchen (tiled floor) instead of moving into the sitting room though.

I've found that regular visitors usually pick up that we aren't wearing our shoes - I've noticed FiL now brings his own slippers to wear but MiL is not that type and continues to wear shoes, however her shoes are always clean so its not a huge issue.

MiL is the type who would never not wear shoes.

We don't wear shoes inside but I don't usually ask people to take them off unless it is obvious that they are very dirty. If people ask if I would prefer they take their shoes off I always say yes. Visiting family always take their shoes off as a matter of course. I don't care about seeing people's feet or socks, better than getting my rugs dirty!

We are asian and I find non asian guests always ask and I'm grateful for that. What annoys me is when family members don't take theirs off because I have wooden floors in the kitchen and dining room, living room and hallways have rugs and runners respectively. My sil is an annoyance for this yet their kitchen is tiled and they expect us to take ours off. I especially didn't like it when my son was crawling and pointed put the double standard to mil and sil.

Most guests who see me taking my shoes off take theirs off, never been an issue

Have you been thinking about this for 10 months?

I'd be very interested to know if you had someone I'll in the house needing district nurses and GPs to call would you really expect them to take their shoes off?
I have never been asked to take my shoes off going into anyone's house apart from once by a OCD acquaintance in Surrey and find the idea very strange and quite rude.
I've recently had GPs, District nurses ( more than one at a time) and paramedics in the house and, as a retired nurse myself, I'd have been pretty taken aback if asked to remove shoes. Imagine doing that every house on your rounds!

I find anyone who thinks they should have the right to tread dirt through an ill person's home (who is therefore less likely to be well enough to clean up the mess) to be the one who is rude.

I never have to ask people to take off their shoes, they all seem to do it automatically - whether it's a friend or a tradesperson, they walk in and 'shall I take my shoes off?' is the first thing they ask. Not sure why. Also DSs friends all seem to be reaised to take shoes off at the door as they do it on arrival too.

YAWN. Zombie!

Nurses, paramedics etc are required to wear protective footwear at work. When going into a home they might encounter broken glass
, needles, vomit, urine, faeces or whatever on the floor. They have to be prepared for any conditions.You can't expect them to remove shoes and they wouldn't.

I don't ask people to remove shoes. I find generally everyone does except my in laws! We do take shoes off at theirs though.... mildly irritating but if iwas that bothered I should just ask them to take shoes off right? We have carpets in hallway and living room and live in a new build so had nice new carpets at one point (we've been there 5 yrs now so not so new anymore)

If I don't have something more than socks on my feet, they end up extremely cold - and that applies for most of the summer. I usually try and remember to stick slippers or slipper socks in my bag, but if I've forgotten, I'm very relieved if I'm not expected to remove my shoes. (Obviously if they are wet/muddy I would do so.)
When DD was small, there was a pram coming in and out of the hall, so shoes off didn't make a lot of sense.