Shoes on or off?

[crazykitten20]

Do you and your family take your shoes off before you go into your home?

Do you ask tradespeople/friends to take their shoes off too?

I have friends who do and friends who don't. What's your take on it?

We are a shoes off on carpet house. The ground floor is hard flooring so can easily be cleaned. The stairs, middle and top floors have a mix of floor coverings and we have a toddler so everyone takes their shoes off at the bottom of the stairs.

Shoes on for a brief visit. I hate the awkwardness of people having to take them off, then watching them put them back on before you can say goodbye.

No - shoes on. A lot of tradespeople take their work shoes off when they come in to quote or go upstairs when they've been mainly working downstairs I find. I would never ask visitors to remove their shoes - as host you don't want to make people feel uncomfortable.

We take our shoes off as do guests. Trades people etc I don't ask to take off their shoes as they're working and may be part of their ppe.
We mainly take our shoes off as the children are crawling around the floor and playing there, we don't know what's on our shoes.

We take our shoes off, but I'm not precious about it. I never ask guests to take theirs off and don't know anyone who does.

Don't care either way.

Door handles are dirtier than the floor, no one has a mittens on/mittens off rule.

Shoes off - almost without exception.

People who live here - shoes off, no ifs ands, or buts.
Visitors (frequent/family/friends) - off, they all do it as it is something we have always done.
Visitors (infrequent) - mostly do ask, depends on who it is/how awkward it would be to ask.
Tradesmen - they almost always offer, or put sheets down/or shoe protectors on. If they don't, depends on their shoes/weather at the time, if dirty shoes/bad weather, and they don't offer/or put anything down, I will put runners down as much as I can where they'll be working.

I sound a right knob.

Family who live in our house shoes off.

Never ever ask anyone else to take shoes off. The thought makes me absolutely cringe. So rude.

I'm shoes off and take slippers when visiting family and good friends. No one else in the family does and I wouldn't ask guests.

Off. There ain't nobody coming in my house with their shoes on!

In the areas of the house with carpet (everywhere except kitchen & bathroom which is downstairs) - off, always - with the exception of tradesmen & then I will likely lay towels out on their path through the hallway or wherever they're heading . My toddler will also come in & out if she's playing in the garden with shoes on. For everyone else, if they're going into a carpeted room/part of the house, I always ask them to remove shoes. I don't understand why it would make anyone cringe or embarrassed to ask visitors to remove their shoes? When I've spent a King's ransom on naice carpet & have two DC under 2 crawling about, I'm not going to apologise to anyone for wanting to keep it as clean & 'new' as possible! The thought of anyone traipsing upstairs with their shoes on makes me feel ill over dramatic but true. Even the toddler knows to remove her shoes before going upstairs

Off. My husband is Korean and it is just too weird for him to have shoes on inside.

We have slippers that people can wear if they want.