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.

Blue shoe covers

Not generally, but if there's a basket of guest slippers available, those are clearly up for sharing...so why wouldn't you assume it's being done hygienically? If the hosts are perfectly clean and normal regarding everything else?

It's true that most people don't seem to do it, but if they do, I'd assume they were washing them, same as I assume they wash sheets and towels. I got the idea a few years ago when I visited someone's house and they had guest slippers and slipper socks. Never occurred to me that they weren't washing them.

I really do want to hear from one of the ‘take them off or you can’t come in’ people.

Someone - let’s say your friend’s new love interest - turns up at the door.

”You can leave your shoes in the porch,”
you say.

”Oh. Um….you’d like me to take them off?”

”It’s that or fuck off, petal. Suit yourself.”

I wouldn’t know what to say if someone told me to put those blue shoe covers on. Do you keep the plastic on your armchairs too?

@Pythonese Same here. Country house, same philosophy. I'd add a series of graded doormats going through metal, rubber, and finally coir. Porch, outer hall, inner hall. I take my shoes off for my Chinese, Indian and Philippino friends because it's a cultural thing. Muddy wellies or gardening boots go round to the back door, but they tend not to be guests, and, anyway, we'd change back into proper shoes, not slippers or socks. No-one else in my wide circle of friends and acquaintances has a shoes off house. Or ever has other than the ones mentioned above.

Yes…but those things are routinely washed straight after. Slippers aren’t, normally. Not every time they’re worn. We still have a pair of our FIL’s slippers by the front door and he died in Jan 2019.

I’m fine if they’ve been washed, though.

I don't want to see or smell your socks and I particularly find your naked feet offensive.

You will keep your shoes on in my house.

If I'm at your house I will keep my shoes on. It is a rare moment when I take my shoes off. Only if I'm asked to. ( I rarely re-visit this person's house.)

No, most people won't wash their own slippers every time they wear them...but guest slippers? Of course!

Well you just say “would you mind taking your shoes off”? and I’ve always been met with “of course not”.
We have very light carpets, almost white how comfortable would you be if you left dirty shoe marks? Would you not mind dirtying someone’s home?

The roads are full of piss, shit, vomit (how many dog shot threads do we have on here) but you all don’t mind trotting microscopic particles of shit in your house.

No plastic arm covers here, I presume your hands don’t have shit /mud/ whatever on them ?

My mum won’t even let me come in the house unless the shoes are off.

Wait for it…she expects us to take off one shoe and hold it in our hand as we hop around until our socked foot hits the doormat, then attempt to take off our other shoe while holding the first one. No shoe to go on the floor, there’s a special area under the stairs, on bare concrete, where they can go.

Nuts. She also yelled at our removal men when we were moving into our house eight years ago, telling them that they needed to take their shoes off at the door every time they brought something in until we firmly overrode her, given it was our house. She then argued with us about it. She’s not invited to our next house move in a fortnight 😂

Then that’s fine! I’d just have to be VERY sure that was the case before putting my feet in there (I mean what if the last person had athlete’s foot…or a fungal nail infection? 😱).

I think what I’ve learned about myself tonight is that I definitely do NOT have a foot fetish 😂

Well you just say “would you mind taking your shoes off”? and I’ve always been met with “of course not”.

What if you’re not?

”I’m really not comfortable doing that…”

You really are coming across as a patronising, condescending arsehole you know.

I didn’t say that wearing jeans is filthy. I said that when I come home I change in to loungewear because when I’m about an about I sit on public transport or a park bench etc and obviously they aren’t clean. I remember an alcoholic who used to piss on the bus seats. Do you want to bring that in to your home? Because I do not.

Bed sheets are washed . Cutlery is usually dishwashered or at least washed.
Slippers or sliders, provided by guests aren't usually washed.

I visit a friend, who cares regularly for a grandchild. Her home is the only one where I have to take my shoes off for.

I now have a verruca. I'm 58 and I don't go to gyms or swimming pools. I never take my shoes off anywhere else.

Howa y different sized slippers should you keep in stock for visitors?

Do you bring your own shoe covers then? I don’t mind outside shoes in my kitchen but not on the carpet and never upstairs. The gas check man put his own covers on automatically.

Was that the one where the poster made a point of saying that the guest slippers were artisan-made? And got her arsenal ripped open

OP are you my mother?

I have a leather sofa and I give it a quick wipe after guests have left.
We don’t wear shoes in the house.
Wash hands as soon as we come home.
We change in loungewear so no dirty jeans etc

This is beyond nuts.

Mine doesn't get shoes clean enough for carpets, in those weather conditions especially. It would be wet and have mud on it from my own boots. It's just there to get the worst off.

Slippers or sliders, provided by guests aren't usually washed.

Yes they are.

I suppose it depends on who your guests usually are, but I've got six pairs - two large, two medium and two small - and it's always been fine so far. I don't know exactly what shoe sizes they cover, but men usually take the large and women the medium or small. They're a unisex design though. A kind of Chinese pattern.

Most of my frequent guests bring their own and the in laws keep some here. They've got shoeless houses too.

My friends would piss themselves laughing if I rocked up at their house with my slippers of an evening 😂

Also I’m sorry but handing out shoe covers is WEIRD