To walk barefoot in someone else’s home?

[Sheerdetermination]

My parents think my DP is wrong (ie. rude) to pad around their house barefoot when we are visiting. He does this when he’s wearing sandals outside. As they don’t like this, he now puts socks on when he takes his shoes off at the door.
But what if he/I were dropping in on a friend for a cuppa while wearing sandals? Should we have a spare pair of socks/slippers with us? I don’t think so! AIBU to think it’s ok to be barefoot on someone else’s carpets?

'Lots of people don't pee in other peoples houses'. Really? I honestly sometimes feel that on Mumsnet I'm living in a parallel universe.

I'm a woman in my 50s. I use a toilet whenever there's one available 😂

It's like half the MNetters are living at Balmoral 🤔😂

It's fucking hilarious.

@WorraLiberty

Imagine all the visiting bare bums on your toilet seats! 😱

And visiting lips on your tea cups! 😱

No wonder so many MNetters were reluctant when lockdown lifted. All those visiting people doing peopley things in their homes.

Barefoot wouldn't bother me. I do think people wearing their shoes inside is very dirty.

I have known my best friend since I was two. She’s like a sister to me. She gets handed a pair of socks if she wants to take her shoes off in summer. I don’t need other people’s feet in my life.

People Take socks with them!!
If someone doesn’t want my bare feet, they have to put up with my sandals. Often I carry nothing other than keys and phone in a pocket

Do these foot averse people feint at the thought of a bare arse touching their toilet seat?
No one is using my toilets, the guest loo works very well for non-family members.

Bacteria infested mouths using utensils?
How often do your guests go and lick the utensils in your kitchen?

So weird. Perhaps if the British took better care of their feet they wouldn't be so manky and therefore so horrifying when naked and without socks to hide their shame.

@JaninaDuszejko

No it just makes you laugh at all the people who are apparently constantly pearl-clutching, taking terrible offence or retching or shuddering at the most minor of things!

Yeah, like those who worry about miniscule particles of dog piss that get transported into your house by shoes. My favourite was the poster who insisted everyone took off shoes at the front door then had special slippers for people to wear in the toilet so any pee on the toilet floor couldn't be transferred out to the rest of the house.

Pretty much everyone in Japan has toilet slippers. It would be the height of bad manners to take your feet into the toilet then return them to the rest of the house.

If you have to borrow someones socks so they don’t have to deal with your feet.
Do the hosts then wash them on a full load, 90 degrees. With zoflora. Then tumbled dried at 90 as well. Just incase GERMS

People think Japan is ok. Yeah. All kinds of fucked up. Have you seen manga porn.

You can't laugh at people who disagree with guests walking bare-feet, but expect people to take their shows off in your house...

Either you are open-minded and not bothered about anything and genuinely do not care, or you are just as bad

Outdoor shoes indoors is the real dirty baddie. But then I'm from Scandinavia.
Friends' or strangers' bare feet? Couldn't give two hoots.

How strange to think that bare feet are rude

Agree.
I'd rather bare feet than mucky shoes on my carpets.

Personally I'd rather somebody be barefoot in my house as I like my floors to be kept clean from dirt on shoes/shoe prints/mud and I've got cream carpets upstairs.

I kick my shoes/sandals/flip flops off at friends houses ( I do shower every day and my feet are pedicured LOL) and nobody has ever said anything to me and my friends and family do the same if they pop over.

Sooo weird!!!!!

Why would people stay in the kitchen? Lots of people wear sandals in summer. If they call round to someone’s house, what are they meant to say and do if they’re invited in?

Don't people use the kitchen during the day? Everybody I know does. Unless the kitchen is tiny with no table or chairs. I would neither ask nor expect anyone to take their footwear off in my kitchen. Nobody expects me to take footwear off in their kitchen. Nobody I know, that is. If it was someone I didn't know, unlikely they would ask me in randomly for a cup of tea. 🤷

I'd rather bare feet than shoes in the house (not so bothered about downstairs as all lino but definitely for upstairs) but I wouldn't get my own feet out personally cos I hate them. For this reason I always wear socks (unless on beach etc.)

I would normally sit in friends’ living rooms, and friends would come sit in mine, so the issue of footwear in a kitchen wouldn’t come up. But bare feet wouldn’t bother me anyway

@MadMadMadamMim

I think you should LTB for wearing sandals, frankly.

This!

@Bubblespider

How strange to think that bare feet are rude.

Me too. I'm really confused by the world now.

Mumsnet is the weirdest. How the hell is it rude to be barefoot in someone's house?!

I must admit I don't like other people's naked feet in my house but I didn't realise that it was an etiquette to put on socks! Thought it was an irrational bugbear of mine.

I wouldn't walk around someone else's house barefoot but I'm always in socks anyway.

I guess I wouldn't like anyone's feet touching me, so wouldn't want them padding around my home either.

It's rude not to follow your host preferences or customs.

Imposing naked feet in somebody else's house because you don't like to wear your own shoes? Very rude.

In 50 odd years it's never occurred to me😂

On consideration, as I don't have any carpets downstairs and it's a mixture of flags, wood and tiles, I think a little bit of my brain has a worry that they'll stand on something - like a shard of glass or something from a breakage. I don't often break stuff but those little microscopic bastards hang around forever, just waiting to be stood on from the right angle no matter how much you mop and sweep.