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 do hope Mnet enlightens me as to why my response has been hidden. @MumsNet?

You didn’t happen to mention the forbidden canvas and rubber gym shoes, did you?

You do know there’s bacteria on absolutely everything including socks and bare feet? Probably more on bare feet as veruccas and athletes’ foot are highly contagious.

Haven't thru shown that it's lack of exposure to bacteria that is causing such a rise in allergies?

"they" not "thru"

Woohoo!!!!🎉 Another shoes off thread. You know that Mumsnet has been mentioned on the website TV Tropes for this, as being frequently and hotly debated, with both sides bitterly divided? https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MilitantShoesOffRule

Speaking of popular culture, here’s an interesting aversion from Cluedo in 1992, with Tom Baker as Professor Plum:
”I hotly dispute that the footprint was mine. I am a compulsive wiper of feet, in fact my shoes only last about six weeks. My wife says that she’s jealous of the doormat, she wishes that I would give her the same kind of attention.”

For the shoe haterz, do you know that one reason many elderly people “have a fall” at home is the combination of stairs, and loose slippers/flip flops?

And as for the arguments about dogs and cats not being to take their feet off, lots of Mumsnetters hate dogs and cats for all kinds of reasons, and think that nobody should have them.

No, I actually meant stockinged as in 'with their socks on'... 🤔

100% this! (re elderly/falls) My dad once fractured his shoulder slipping on the stairs due to slip-on slippers with no backs. He never wore that style of slipper again!

We’re shoes on but I was amazed on another post that very few people wash their hands on coming into the house having been out and about and on public transport. That’s the FIRST thing I do as I’d feel really grubby otherwise
Yet the majority of people on that thread thought it was weird to do so
It would be interesting to see whether they’re shoes on or shoes off.

I mean i normally take my shoes off when l come home. Would always ask in someone else's house, but unless you have a crawling baby nobody is licking the floor so what does it mater really?

I always laugh these people who are aghast that you would wear shoes indoors but happily go to cafes and restaurants and eat in these places wearing shoes! Of course shoes have to be clean and dry, but other than that I’m genuinely not sure what the big deal is? Does this mean if you sit on a park bench and come home you take your trousers off before you sit on the sofa? I actually get really annoyed being asked to take my shoes off in someone’s house - especially if it is for an evening occasion!

Shoes off and wash hands when coming inside here! They teach that in nursery in my country - when you arrive you take your shoes off and wash your hands.

In cafés and restaurants I'm sitting at tables, at home I'll often be on the floor to do stretches or things like that - I'm not getting down on the floor in a restaurant!

Most of the year wearing shoes inside brings in visible dirt where I am anyway, that I don't want to have to clean off the floors everyday - definitely don't have time to sweep and mop daily like they do in restaurant. In winter its snow and slush, I don't want wet floors, in spring and autumn is mud and gravel (which never all comes off on doormats because of deep treads for grip in shoes are necessary, especially in icy spring). Brief period in summer where your shoes don't bring in anything tangible or visible but then it's too hot to wear shoes anyway, you want to be barefoot as soon as you get home.

I am not sure what cafe has to do with this, but I change when I get home. I can't relax in "out" clothes. Not because bacteria, never really thought about that, but it's... Outside clothes...
We also changed to slippers all throughout school. It's deeply, deeply embedded here

Totally agree with you re the habd washing, and I'm Team Shoes Off.

I don’t wear shoes in the house, most of my visitors take their’s off too. But l wouldn’t be particularly worked up if an occasional visitor didn’t.

Yes, and children living on farms are often supposed to be the most resilient.

I’m pretty ancient now, and shoes-on doesn’t seem to have done me any harm, and I can say the same for 2 more generations of crawling babies and very young children who’ve been all over our shoes-on floors and carpets.

It's not comfortable walking around in socked feet? That is up there with one of the most bizarre things I have read on Mumsnet, and there's a lot of bizarre posts on MN .

I don’t find it comfortable. You’re also more likely to slip and fall on a hard floor without a hard sole.

Tbf to lots of us no shoes, we are not germaphobes usually.
I built my immunity by eating dirt in he garden while keeping the house clean😂 most of my friends were the same as kids. Also swimming in anything that was not duck green pond, eating unwashed fruit direct from garden etc.
I grew up in no shoes in country. We are not all with weak immune system

I’d never ask guests to remove their shoes. It’s so anal and unwelcoming. My snobby mum always said it was a marker of the lower classes. And who has carpet on their ground floor these days? I can’t think of anyone who does.

We once went to a Christmas party at our friends’ house. Everyone was dressed up in festive glam as per the invitation. Then they asked for shoes to be removed. Everyone looked faintly ridiculous and there was a lot of disgruntled muttering behind wine glasses.

And who has carpet on their ground floor these days?

I do. So do most of my friends. And all our adult children.

You have the class aspect backwards.

I apologise if someone has already pointed this out.

people used to have carpets on the walls, in the bathrooms and the toilets, I am sure I have seen mentions of a house or 2 having carpets in the kitchen 😂

Someone woke up one day and realised how gross it was.

Hopefully soon downstairs carpets will become a thing of the past too.