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.

…this is a joke post, yes?

Yep, YABU, sorry. Can’t imagine wearing other people’s footwear, socks are fine

Long thread so maybe someone has already said this - if I get dressed up, choose my shoes, I HATE to take them off. It ruins my outfit, makes me look like a dumpy (lol 😁) shortarse and my feet are cold.
Why can’t a host have a long runner in the hall for guests to wipe their feet on? And put down a few strategically placed big, cheap rugs?

I have the same visceral reaction to putting on other people's footwear, that others have to outdoor shoes being worn on the house. So no, I'll wear my socks thanks.

I'd also rather that guests had outdoor shoes on in my house, than walk around it in bare feet.

Sounds disgusting 🤢

Sandals in summer. Unless you're a fan of the Sandals and socks look like my 75 year old dad!

Erm, what have I just read?! YABU!! What's wrong with bare feet or socks? Most people don't wear shoes in their houses because it's gross, you're BVVU!! I always take off my shoes when going into someone's home and would never expect someone to provide me with slippers, how ridiculous.

I always take off my shoes when going into someone's home

Surely the polite thing to do is ask. You’d be asked to put them back on in my house.

I can't believe this thread is still going, and at 22 pages at that 🤣

I have a friend that never wears socks, even with boots. I'd rather she kept her shoes on in my house 😆

The OP seems to have fucked off, but I think it's fine just to wear socks.

I'm starting to think some of you must eat your meals off the carpet 🫤 it's on the floor, it's entire purpose in life is to be walked on, why on earth it has to be bacteria free is beyond me!

Exactly. Why assume that the rules you have in your home are the same as someone else’s?

If someone started to take their shoes off in my home and they’re not leaving our ground floor (there is a loo on the ground floor so no reason for a guest to go up ), I would tell them no need and to please keep them on. If someone found that rude, I have no issue with them not coming again. I’m happier meeting people in public places instead of in our homes.

I never go a second time to a house where the resident puts soft furnishings as a priority over guest comfort. My shoes are ON.

You probably wouldn't be invited back anyway if you don't respect your host environment.

In a shoes off household where everyone is padding about in their socks, what happens if they need to use your toilet? Are they expected to go into your toilet in their socks? Or do they have to take their shoes to the toilet door, put them on and take them off again when they exit? 🤣

There is no way I'd want to be walking about a toilet room in someone elses house in my socks. ewww...

NOOOOOO. 🤮

Who would want to share slippers with anyone else. Yuch.

I don't see why the toilet floor is any different? People don't wee or poo on the floor and if there's ever been an accident, surely you can assume it's been cleaned up, and that it's cleaned as regularly as any other floor.

But if it makes you uncomfortable, in my house you're very welcome to use guest slippers if you want to.

I'm starting to think that some people are just looking for things to complain about now. There's no need. If you like to keep your shoes on in your house, that's up to you and you don't have to change your actual preference. But if you accept an invitation to someone else's house, you respect their home environment. When in Rome and all that.

Reading this thread with interest. I am going to visit a friend this afternoon and she has a shoes off house. Normally I just walk around in socks but as she has her thermostat lower than mine I anticipate having cold feet. I hadn’t thought of taking slippers, I do have a pair I bought for a hospital stay but never wear them. Problem solved! 😁

Why would the bathroom be so disgusting you can't possibly walk in it? Do you not clean your bathroom floors?

In fact, aren't you very likely to be barefoot at some point in a room with a toilet and bath/shower in it? I've never heard of anyone being revolted at being shoeless/barefoot in a shower or bath that has a toilet nearby.

Honestly, it's fine not to like being shoeless, but stop coming up with sillier and sillier excuses.

Of course I do and I know what's going on in my home. I have no idea what is going on in other peoples (especially where they have kids, or if there are a few men with bad aims guests using the toilet that evening) and I'd rather not be walking about in someone elses toilet in my socks. 🤮

Unless you clean after after use during a dinner party 🤣

Are you planning on sucking your socks afterwards 🫤

As likely as someone is to lick their carpet after I have walked on it with shoes.

Well my toddler runs/lays/crawls/plays on our carpet.

It is cultural tradition for us to sit down on the floor and eat our meals.

We also pray on the floor.

So yes I'd rather shoes worn to god knows where not be worn on my carpet.

There are plenty of reasons.

But I always provide disposable slippers/foot coverings.
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