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.

I'm a non-outdoor shoe household (Muslim), and we all have indoor slippers in a basket in the entrance that we wear as soon we walk in and take off our shoes.

I have a separate basket full of slippers for guests to wear when they come over.

I wash all our slippers regularly. even though we don't wear outdoor shoes at all in the house it's surprising how dirty our floors can get even though I steam mop the floors a lot.

Its fine that people have their own opinions about shoes in their own home, but to disrespect/damage another persons home because you cant be bothered to take your muddy shoes off is incredibly rude.

Also, who are all these people with horrible feet? Bath/shower every day, fresh socks, stick trainers in the washing machine every so often and you shouldn’t have a problem (unless you’ve run a marathon in smelly old trainers before visiting a friend). Im not offended by someones sock or foot being out in my house 😂 Im offended by them trashing my carpet though!

My carpets aren’t trashed. Strangely they were actually designed to be walked on - with shoes.

I shouldn’t have to point this out 🙈😂 but we have carpets so it feels soft and warm underfoot. If your in shoes, why dont you have tiled/wood floors???

Courteous possibly, but in most cases terrible for the environment.

I don't like the shared slippers thing. I've only encountered it in one house. I'm a private tutor so I go from house to house. They asked me to take my shoes off, fine. They offered me slippers, I said "no thanks". The next time I took my shoes off and they had already picked out a pair of slippers in my size and gave them to me, so I had to wear them. For some reason it made me really uncomfortable! But I got over it obviously.

I’ve already explained that I live in a 400 year old draughty house. Carpets make it warmer. Tiles/wood would be intolerable in the winter.

Omg the idea of wearing communal slippers is just grim. Just wipe your shoes on the door mat as you come in. As for disposable plastic covers, wrong on so many levels!

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…”

Plastic booties it is!

Or don’t come in. 🤔I’m not bothered….

😂 😂 😂 You’re kidding right? Are they supposed to have a never ending supply? Just bring a pair of your own in case. Otherwise you might get asked to wear a communal pair 🤮 🤮

If I'm at your house I will keep my shoes on.

You really will not.

I don’t care. 😂

Know what else is rank? Bowling shoes.

I remember my Nan being horrified when I asked her to take shoes off "you want me to walk in my stockinged feet" not sure if it's an age thing too?

Having walked down our high street at 8am and seen the puddles of wee from drunks or homeless (not sure which to be honest prob a bit of both) there is no way I am wearing shoes inside.

I can't imagine asking an old lady to bend down and scrabble around removing her shoes in the hallway. How undignified.

That's the thing. I find the muck people drag in from outside on their shoes like spit and poo and e-coli and God knows what else even grosser than what could be on bare feet!

Our road is a former stream, it carries rainwater from the woods at the top of the road so is regularly wet, muddy and strewn with runoff debris and floods in heavy rain. We live in an AONB so guests tend to want to go walking.

Despite a wire boot scraper, outside coir & rubber mat and inside door mat, we get mud and debris everywhere if people keep their shoes on. It’s not just rainwater!

We tell guests in advance to bring slippers. It’s only my mother in law who moans because her heeled pumps are surgically attached to her feet, but she’s also constitutionally incapable of using a doormat or bringing appropriate footwear for her walks. We have a bench in the hallway with a shoe horn.

Or don’t come in. 🤔I’m not bothered…

Yeah, that’s the attitude that concerns me.

Exactly - poor Nan. It’s not an age thing it’s bad manners to ask people to remove shoes.

We’ve probably just lost the message about manners as the years have gone by and now it’s all about your carpets rather than your guest’s comfort. In certain homes.

Unfortunately, I've never found a biodegradable alternative, so wipe and reuse them where I can. It's better than asking visitors to share communal slippers, which quite frankly is disgusting!

It's good manners to enter someone's home and be disrespectful to it?

Do you think Muslim people, or those from shoes-off cultures, are bad mannered?

As before, if there's a medical reason to need your shoes on, we'll deal with it.

Oh god I went to a party once and everyone had to remove their shoes in the house. I have a foot condition which means my feet are a very odd shape, not kidding - I've had reactions like 'oh my god what's wrong with your feet?!' luckily I was wearing tights but I was still mortified and spent the whole time standing on one leg with one foot on top of the other trying to hide them.

I'm so self conscious about them especially I was mercilessly teased all my childhood.

If I'd been bare legged I would have turned round and gone home and I don't know how I would have explained this.

I really think they should have warned people before the party!

I once went to a house where the lovely host crocheted slippers so you were given a pair to wear there and then got to take them home with you

So true! Creating new plastic things is always an improvement on sharing something reusable! When the end-times floodwaters come, no one’s setting foot in my house with their welly boots on without a disposable slipcover.

No it’s fine in different cultures. As it’s part of their culture. It’s not part of ours. We have different customs.

I would always offer to take mine off. So I take them off in MILs and my parents. So no disrespecting! It’s rude to ask people to take them off though - and thrust manky slippers at them. Bad hosting and makes people feel uncomfortable. You just have to hope people will offer really if that’s what you want.