Shoes and bags from outside coming in, am I weird?

[HelloDenise]

I don't allow people to walk around my house wearing shoes. When I get home I wipe the soles and edges of shoes clean before they get put away. I'd never go outside in slippers.

People spit, puke, wee and do God knows what else on the pavement not to mention what animals do and flick their leftover smoking paraphernalia on the floor.(Not animals for the last one)

I won't put bags on the ground at bus stops or train stations because of this either. I balance them on my knee and just hang on to them if waiting for public transport.

I'm told I'm odd, does anyone else do this? I don't want remnants of piss and puke, old pizzas and other stuff brought into the house.

does anyone else do this?
Cant speak for other but no i dont do this, this sounds excessive.

I don't allow people to walk around my house wearing shoes.
Do you offer guests an alternative? Or do you find that you dont have guests, that they dont return?

When I get home I wipe the soles and edges of shoes clean before they get put away.
I have never known anyone to do this. We have a shoe cupboard or the hallway, but shoes dont get cleaned as we take them off.

Do you find youre germ averse in other areas or just shoes?

I don't do this no.

Shoes aren't allowed in our house apart from in the kitchen which is where you come into the house and doesn't have carpet.

But I don't do any of the other things you mention no

You must live in a disgusting neighbourhood if you're constantly treading in piss, poo and puke.

I naturally take my shoes off when I enter anyone's house. But I don't require it of anyone. It's just natural to me.

Bags etc I don't think twice about. Life's too short for that kind of worry.

I think if you allow yourself to think too much about germs you go down a rabbithole of madness. Life is germy. Basic hygiene seems an adequate defence.

You are extremely OTT. I'd think you were really odd if you wiped your shoes in front of me.

Of course I don't and no it's not but the ground is filthy without actually treading in anything. I don't leave shoes on shoe racks or anything. They go back in the wardrobe. But not straight off the street they don't.

Bit OTT yeah.

I've managed 56 years of great health without doing any of those things or passing germ phobia onto my DC.

No, I don’t do this and I’ve never heard of anyone doing this. I would consider that to be very odd indeed.

What do you do in summer if a visitor has shoes/sandals and no socks/stockind/tights?

With the exception of my loved ones, I would rather visitors keep footwear on after wiping in door mat than walk around their bare feet.

Id say you have OCD

Do none of what you do.

How on earth did we all survive before we could clean rugs or disinfectants were readily available? I live in a fairly 'middle class'/well educated area and can count on one finger how many people take their shoes off. I don't disinfect my dogs paws either, and I've survived to retirement so far.

No guests have ever had a problem and I don't wear shoes in their house either. Tradespeople bring those weird covers anyway.

I can't stand muck at all.

I think you're being a bit disingenuous by asking if you're being weird.

Unless you know tonnes of other people who do this, you'll know it's not the norm.

So why ask?

no ones allowed to wear shoes in my home to apart from the hallway to put them on or take them off. I think it’s extremely dirty to wears shoes around the house. I don’t wear shoes in others homes too out of respect

Exposure to a few germs is good for you. Personally I don't go around licking the floor so I think I'm ok. I didn't grow up in a shoes off household so I'm happy either way. My kids tend to take theirs off but that was always a mud thing rather than a germ thing. My parents would never have thought of taking their shoes off in my house & I would never have asked them. In their own they wore slippers.

Are you particularly anxious about health issues, or just obsessive about cleanliness? It sounds a bit neurotic to worry about all this.

I think it’s a bit OTT, but so are the posters who’d happily let people walk in shoes in their home (which have been everywhere) but not their friends bare and probably clean feet.

I think cleaning shoes before putting away is too much.

We're a no shoes house too. They sit on shoe shelves by the door. I check for dog mess too I never really have visitors, maybe a couple a year and they do take their shoes off. I won't put my bags on the floor either. Loads of spit and poop in our town.

Well here's the thing. I wanted to know what everyone else thought. Most people seem to think it's weird, when I think it's weird not to do this. I don't want the outside muck in my house.

I get not wanting durtyvshoed on nice carpet but youre wsyy OTT with germs. I'm strongly in the a few germs are good for you camp and too much cleaning and disinfectant bad for you.

I have tiled floors so I don't insist on shoes off. No carpets, so why would I worry? (I don't mop through nearly as much as I should, maybe a couple of times a month or if it's really muddy). I can't insist on the dog changing her paws and I do NOT intend to go down the wormhole of spongeing off her feet whenever she comes in, so... no. There aren't as many transferrable germs on the floor as you might think, OP.

I get not wanting dirty shoes on nice carpet but you're way OTT with germs. I'm strongly in the a few germs are good for you camp and too much cleaning and disinfectant bad for you.

It's the remnants of pizzas that intrigue me. Is it a particularly pizza rich neighbourhood?.