To expect no-outdoor-shoe households to provide slippers?

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Just that - slides, or foot covers of some kind. Of course, if you know in advance it's different, but when you turn up for the first time at someone's house to be told "please take off outdoor shoes" at the door (which is reasonable, we all get to decide what happens in our own homes), surely something should be provided rather than expect visitors to pad about in bare feet, or socks.

YANBU

What’s wrong with walking around in socks? Bare feet sure, but I can’t see the issue with socks. Better that than communal guest slippers.

Are you German? They have a word for these shoes/slippers for guests.

Never ever ever occurred to me to slipper my house guests, to my German friends horror.

What is wrong with just wearing socks indoors? I would not expect to be provided with slippers and actually wouldn't like it personally. Who knows who has worn them before?

I'd rather just wear my socks than some slippers that had been worn by god knows how many people before me. Yuck.

Surely you'd be wearing socks anyway if you were wearing shoes? YABU.

Depends how warm the house is I suppose, but my feet don't stay warm enough in regular socks during winter.

Communal slippers. Gross.

Oh, I'm so annoyed. I've gotta go out a minute. This is going to be a cracking thread. The shoes on, shoes off threads are always brilliant fun. I'm going to 'watch the thread' and have a look when I am home at a bit later. LOL.

I think providing shared slippers is odd. No shoes means wander round in socks!

Eww no thanks, I'll just wear my socks.

Nope never seem this. I did not wear socks and shoes people will just have to put up with my bare feet (I would put some on if I knew they were shoes off, but in my experience that usually refers to children who may be muddy).

What size guest slippers would you need to get? What if you had visitors with small feet, some with large feet etc?
What if you invited people round and they had the same size feet?

Would shoe covers be acceptable? Might they be a bit slippery if you needed to go upstairs to the loo or something?

I wouldn't want to wear someone else's slippers. We are no shoes in the house (big old muddy farmyard outside, definitely don't want that inside), but I do have friends/family who bring their own sometimes and I am very happy to put up the heating when guests are here in case they aren't so used to cold old farmhouses and their slate floors.

I'm from the country where you offer slippers to guests, and honestly, I hate them. I'd rather be barefoot, than wear shoes that many people wore before me. I always bring my own slippers when I know I'm going to stay somewhere overnight. Otherwise I'm not bothered.

People should know in advance.
I choose footwear depending on what I'm wearing.
My posture and overall mood changes with this shoes-off policy.
Walking around in socks is horrible.
I wouldn't accept a second invitation.

I bought about slippers - but ruled out because I too thought most people wouldn’t want to wear slippers someone else had already worn. Socks is fine albeit a bit of a slip hazard sometimes

what I hate though is bare feet in someone else’s house . I don’t want their athletes foot or what ever on my floors and some peoples feet are gross 🤮- and I quite like feet

I wonder sometimes if. Should get some washable slipper socks for the bare feet brigade - at least then I could say they’re fresh and clean

I will stay on the doorstep thanks rather than take my shoes off and walk around your home either barefoot or in socks or wear your manky communal slippers.

This brings to mind a thread a while ago where someone referred to a “Slipper Basket” and a lot of people wanted one!

I provide a choice of plastic or material covers . Some people still refuse so they get asked to leave

what I hate though is bare feet in someone else’s house . I don’t want their athletes foot or what ever on my floors and some peoples feet are gross 🤮- and I quite like feet

Socks won't stop people spreading athletes foot about

I should have added I have child who has immune system issues so I am very anxious about shoe germs

I say this on all these threads - other peoples floors are disgusting. I do not want to tread sock footed on your discarded Lego, cats fur, baby food cast from the highchair and used syringes. To be honest I don't fancy communal slippers either. I go into lots of people's homes for work. Fortunately we are no longer allowed to take our shoes off, even if asked. Nor are we allowed to wear the ridiculous polyethylene shoe covers some people try to give us. Thank God.

I never ask people to take them off but I would hope the shoe rack in the hall would prompt them. For the few that don't offer I don't ask unless it's muddy outside (we love rurally). I shampoo the carpet regularly.

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