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.

Just wear socks. If you're wearing shoes without socks and this is a major issue, keep some socks in your glove box.

If it means that much to you, take your own.

My friend does.

The norm is definately shoes off. I find it very discomforting to keep my shoes on in a house (especially on carpeted floors). It makes me feel very unsettled.

I offer to take my shoes off to be polite (albeit I think it’s a bit ridiculous to be that strict about shoes off in your house), but no way would I wear communal slippers. I’d be really surprised to even be offered them.

YABU, people are so weird about shoes, some of you wouldn’t accept an invitation again if you had to take your shoes off? Wow. I don’t have that many people in and out of my house but I’m kind of glad. It’s just not worth all the judgement if this is what people think.

I always take shoes off in my home, as do my dc and most visitors, without prompting so it surprises me how many people don't! Outdoor shoes are dirty and I don't want that dirt and bacteria trodden around my floors. I hoover and steam my floors regularly so they are not dirty and I want to keep it that way.
Likewise, I always take my shoes off at other people's homes, unless they tell me to leave them on. I can't say I regularly go to people's homes whose floors are that bad I wouldn't want to take them off though.

Lol. It's optional. Socks or barefoot is also fine. The slippers are washed after each use.
What's gross is outside shoes where my baby crawls.

I hate houses where you have to remove your shoes, especially where you’ve gone for dinner and made an effort. We have wooden floors and rugs downstairs which we mop/ hoover regularly. No one has died to date. If you are going to make me take my shoes off then at least warn me so I can bring my own slippers- I wouldn’t wear a communal slipper either (an absolute recipe for a fungal infection if you ask me).

Likewise, over the past few weeks, we've had a Sky installer, a British Gas service, a new suite delivered, and a joiner to put up a TV bracket. All came with their own shoecovers. It's definitely becoming the norm.

An hour or so without shoes is fine. Family and friends who are staying for any length of time I suggest they bring their slippers and make themselves at home.

I have a shoeless house and a box of slippers on various sizes. Someone on here told me I was "fucking weird" and someone else used the vomiting emoji to show how much she refused to believe that it's possible to wash them between guests.

It really is, I promise. If I like you, I'll wash the sheets and the cutlery too.

I like when these threads get to the class chat.

Lol. It's optional. Socks or barefoot is also fine. The slippers are washed after each use.
What's gross is outside shoes where my baby crawls

Fair enough, I would opt out though. I cannot imagine walking through anyone's house barefoot.

I'm glad he was all right and you were able to catch him. You'd think they would have said something in advance fgs. I'm disabled with arthritis and I need slippers with a grip because falling over is a bit of a nightmare.

People just naturally seem to take their shoes off when they arrive. I don't specifically ask them but as a family we don't wear shoes indoors.
I always take my shoes off when visiting people. If I'm expecting to be there a long time and it's winter I may take some slippers/slipper socks but would never expect to be provided with them.

We tell people to take them with them and use elsewhere. Sometimes when people come again, they bring their own with them, so yes they are reused.

As if I'm going to have a basket of communal shoes hanging around for guests. If you're going somewhere where you might have to take your shoes off (which should be anyone's house IMO) take you slippers if you don't want to walk around in socks.

Why haven’t we got to the class part yet?

It is actually rude to ask people to take their shoes off. I offer and would take them off if necessary ( but none of my friends are that rude either). But we all have wooden floors. (And manners).

I’ve never heard anything so ridiculous as asking people to take their shoes off if you are hosting a garden party. Then offering indoor and outdoor slippers to switch between during the night. What fresh hell is this? Come to an outdoor party and wear some garden slippers?

Like I said, I always offer so I’d never trample my outdoor shoes in to anyone’s cream carpets. But I have no idea why anyone would have cream carpets…

There we go - Mumsnet bingo!

This is why I don't go to people's houses or invite them to mine! No one in my family (except in laws) would take off their shoes so its weird to me. I have hard stone floors that I don't mop often enough and I'm mortified when people take off their reasonably clean shoes at my front door. The kids and I wear socks in the house for comfort reasons. Visiting kids take their shoes off because they are in the play room and up and down the stairs.

People walking around inside with outdoor shoes on in the UK is one the greatest mysteries of the world.

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I live in a shoes off country. It becomes second nature. I make sure to wear socks that don't have holes in them when I know I'm going to someone's house, and if I'm staying overnight I pack my own slippers.

My god this is soooo weird. You don’t ever think about weird things like this and how many times people use loo brushes and stuff and then MN opens your eyes up to all the odd stuff other people do.

Yes, I totally agree. My floors inside are very clean. Why would it be OK to bring in the filth from the pavements (dog poo, wee, spit etc)?

We have guest slippers. It’s very normal here, every house has them. We have 6 pairs, in 3 sizes (m, l, xl). They cover eu sizes 36-45 roughly. Ours are from uniqlo, and washable. If a guest borrows a pair, they just get washed after, clean ready for the next person.

People are welcome to wear own socks or bring own slippers.
It’s snowing, wet and muddy outside now, I’m not having outdoor shoes worn beyond the hallway