Will you pass the white sock test?

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So my friend was telling me of someone’s house that sounded horrendous but one of the things was her socks got slightly dirty after a short visit. She’s coming here and I will definitely fail the dirty sock test 🤦‍♀️🙈

we do have a dog if that makes a difference. We hoover once or twice a day (robotic hoover), wash the wooden floors once a week, and kitchen and hallway once a day during the week. Now I have just given the kitchen floor a deep clean, with cleaning the tiles with the white magic sponge that remove the dirt and moped it a few times. Then I tested with a baby wipe and some places actually stayed clean! But in the end it did get dirty. I could have repeated the whole process but I had breakfast to prepare too and it’s getting late… plus I can’t do that in every room anyways!

do your floors really stay or get that clean that socks will not get marks??? Tell me how you do it! Should I get a steam cleaner?

Would seem a lot easier to just wear slippers

I will get slippers to hand out guests to stop their socks getting dirty 🙈

I don’t believe anyone who has wooden floors would “pass”

i can’t believe you wash your kitchen floor daily

Socks stay clean in our house, no pets, shoes off, sweep the kitchen if dirty (but not too often).

What is going onto your floor??

A dog who walks in the garden a few times a day!

I mop kitchen floor daily

If you have a dog you can’t be overly precious.
I have the robot hoover out most days and mop as and when, but it’s just part and parcel of having a dog that your floors will always be slightly grubby.
Washing machines were invented to wash socks, so………

I would love to pass the white sock test, but I think I should be cleaning my dogs feet every time she comes in and I just haven’t been bothered by the dirty socks before.

We have tile floors downstairs - they never seem to come clean! I think we have bad air pollution as we're 20 mins from an airport (luckily not on the flight path!).

Nope, we wouldn't pass either i dont think.
Although maybe a quest visit for an hour or so, not an overnight guest.

There is no way im cleaning my dogs feet everytime she comes in out of the garden, she is in and out like a yoyo some days playing with our DS.

I wouldn't pass the black sock test 😂

My floors are hoovered/swept regularly and any spills are spot cleaned but other than the bathrooms I hardly ever mop the floors. Why would I? We don't touch them or eat things we've dropped. Different if you have small kids obvs.

She sounds a nightmare. Judging someone for that. You have my sympathy.

I do have a carpet shampoo cleaner out once a week of that makes a difference

I don't own any white socks - problem solved.

And no, my floors are not that clean. I have two cats, a preschooler and a full time job.

I wash my floors every week & take my outdoor shoes off. However, my dogs trapse everything in the house - twigs, leaves, mud, my dad doesn't take his outdoor shoes off so by the next day, we'd fail the 'white sock test'
I despair 🤦🏼

Put socks on the dog when it goes out (or shoes), and make it go barefoot when it comes in.

hand her sone house slippers like they do in China

IME (of toddlers in socks) it's the carpets that make socks dirty. It's relatively easy to keep solid floors clean.

Get darker coloured socks. My house is clean, not sterile. Wood flooring throughout, people leave their shoes on sometimes, we have animals. I don’t lick my floors so who cares.

haha 😂

she‘s too clever though she would instantly take them off or refuse to walk if we found a way to keep them on.

We’ve got hardwood floor throughout and we’d pass the test I think. Downstairs gets hoovered and mopped every day. No pets so much easier to keep it clean. I think it’s inevitable to have mucky floors if you have dogs and cats.

good to know I am not alone at failing the sock test 😂

If you've deep cleaned your kitchen floor and a baby wipe is coming up dirty, you've not cleaned it.

Maybe I will find some slippers and tell her at entrance to wear them as we have a dog so don’t want her socks getting dirty!

so how do you clean your floor?

It stayed clean on the tile, but there was still dirt coming off in the grout and corners. I did clean the dirt of the grout with the sponge twice and I think if I had done it one more time it probably wouldn’t have gotten dirty anymore.