AIBU to think wearing shoes indoors is a bit odd?

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For thinking it’s weird to wear shoes inside the house?! Had a couple over last week for lunch and they never took shoes off- even if it’s not bad weather the bottom of shoes are filthy!! So would they go round their house all day in shoes? So weird to me!!
now I’m cleaning my floors as they are so dirty!

I am not sure you understand the meaning of "objectively" 😂

You could say that carpets are horribly unhygienic and that's it's so gross to have them downstairs, let alone in the house.

Everyone can have an opinion

Mostly we take our outdoor shoes off, but in a rush sometimes leave them on. I don’t like the idea of walking on floors at home with shoes that have been on pavements where there is chewing gum, dog pee, litter etc. I always clean my stone floors before grandchildren visit (toddler and crawling baby).
I take my slippers if visiting other people’s houses, but then I’m old and like to be comfortable

Justveant yo again say, it's 1uite entertaining how it's about class in uk and how passionate the different sides are.

To someone from place where it doesn't matter, just do x no matter who you are

Don’t be silly — it’s clearly a 999 matter!

Are there no germs or bacteria in your house?

If I was house hunting I wouldn’t even view a house where I was expected to remove my shoes. It would bode very badly for the vendors’ behaviour throughout the transaction if they were so inflexible.

We do too but they’re basically old trainers and sliders by the back door for putting the washing out and kids playing!! I thought this was normal too! We all end up wearing each others 🤣

Can't get my head around the 'shoes on' brigade actively encouraging guests to keep them on. Why would you be happy to have traces of dog, cat, bird, human faecal matter,vomit, urine and saliva, trod all over your floors? Where I live (Greater London) the pavements are filthy, as are the floors of trains and buses. A quick wipe on a doormat won't get rid of those pathogens. It's basic hygiene to not wear outdoor shoes inside. And I'm a bit of a slattern when it comes to housework and cleaning. Friends I know with dogs wipe their paws well after walks for the reasons above and are shoes off inside too.

You should see what happened when a netball group did some cool-down exercises involving lying on the sports hall floor. When they stood up, there were body-shaped patches of sweat! And of course, this was the same floor that they had been running all over in their foul faeces-infected netball trainers. The horror!

Another one who can’t get their head round people being different to them. Wtf is the matter with you all?

My dogs are in and out of the garden all day long, wiping their paws would be a full time job.

One thing I find puzzling is when the banished shoes are outside the front door: surely this compromises the aesthetics of a well-kept house, and leaves them vulnerable to theft? Back in the 90s, trainers could be so valuable that they were sometimes stolen from teenagers’ feet.

Like most people, we just take them off when coming indoors, keep all the shoes in the hallway on a rack. They're not banished, just not walked all over the floors in

what on earth do you do on your floor that you are so anxious about them?

Do you also disinfect bags, coats, luggage and anything that has been in contact with the outside world? Good luck with school bags

Licking. The dementedly shoes-off posters are secret floor-lickers.

A much older dear friend of mine did this. She gave me a pair of heeled turkish slippers to wear when I visited with my new baby.

I removed my shoes when I entered the house and I was in socks but I was wondering why are they giving me slippers for , do they think my feet are dirty or something or just gave me to be hospitable. ....

I clean my floors, but also just try really hard not to eat off it or allow any mucus membranes to touch it, so no putting my bare eyeballs on the tiles etc.

Not most people

What no floor licking?

Agree about school bags which are slung everywhere! Absolutely germ ridden

I can get on board with shoes off households EXCEPT when they’re having a party. Shoes are part of the outfit and evening wear looks silly with bare feet unless it’s 5 am and you’re still dancing at the May Ball at Oxford
Most people don’t teeter to your party in high heels over boggy terrain… most come in a car or taxi and if they’ve used public transport, it’s likely they’ll change into their kitten heels outside your house.

My house is a minging tip. Hard floors downstairs where anyone is welcome in any footwear. I wear one shoe (one leg shorter 🤷‍♀️). I do sometimes roll my eyes at my spaniel when he goes out for a pee, lifts a leg, pees, then stands in the puddle as he comes back to the door. Fortunately I don’t lick my floor or eat my food off it (apart from the 5 second rule obvs) so no harm done.

Yep I'm a proper floor-licker, me. Only after I've bleached it to oblivion. We even eat off it, who needs plates or dining tables. Us shoe-offers do things differently

Not faeces and urine on my floors or elsewhere, no. Germs and bacteria: I clean regularly but no sense adding more from outside 'when I don't even have to'.

Well, one of us doesn't.

We managed to sell our house in a week, people had the option of shoes off or shoe covers.