Thinking about encouraging a shoes off policy - where do I buy the slippers for guests.

[theITgirl]

We are just finishing off laying the new floor in the dining room / living room. It looks beautiful and we are wary of the floor getting damaged (example my sister and her stilettos). So I would like to buy some slippers for guests if they want to use them.
I want something I can throw in the washing machine & tumble drier so they don't get manky between guests. Does anyine know where I can buy them, nice & cheaply.

Thanks
Debbie

how's about some of those elasticated plastic bags that you get in swimming pools.

FWIW I don't ask dinner guests to remove theirs, as mostly they have only walked from the car/taxi to the door - not been traipsing round the garden/fields/chicken run etc like most other guests to the house.

This is why I don't have any guests

Yes, I think the drawer full of clean guest socks route is the way to go.
Wearing slippers that someone else has worn is very off putting. But socks are perfectly acceptable.
We have new fluffy socks by our door for guests.

We live in a city and we have a shoes off policy in our home also.

I did not think the last thread about asking visitors to take off their shoes was conclusive in any way you describe BloodandMutts

Besides this OP is not wondering whether it's rude or not to wear shoes in her home on her lovely new floor - she has decided that guests will be asked to remove shoes in her home, and is wondering whether she should offer slippers or not, and where she could source these slippers. Her thread is nothing like that previous thread you mention.

To the OP, I would buy some very cheap fluffy socks for your guests. Enjoy your floor!

Unless it's laminate (haven't actually read OP) or your guests'll be sueing you for the imminent accident they'll be having involving slippage of socks and that large glass cabinet...

I'm sorry but if I turned up at your door and you offered me slippers I would turn and flee. People don't tend to walk into other people's houses with shit on their shoes.

My parents and most of my family live on the continent, and it seems to be much more normal practice there than here, given the reactions so far!
I think it is a nice ideato offer slippers especially as the weather is getting chilly.. as long as they are don't pong.
I guess you need backless ones so size isn't an issue.
these are sweet but not sure how washable

stretchy so ok for diff sizes?

machine washable and cheap

or this lot are more like spa-type slippers

No, I am NOT going to ask guests to remove their shoes. But wooden floors are cold and most of my friends already take their shoes off. I am trying to stop them getting cold toes.
I can also wash/wipe these floors, the only person I will actually ask to remove their shoes is my sister, who will be staying for a long weekend and wears stilettos all day every day.

Quality Seconds have lovely fluffy socks with non-slip bits on the bottom in at the moment. Only £1 a pair.

jangly - but you can't skate with those ones can you?

I haven't tried skating with em on. They're lovely and warm though.

As Spink mentioned, it is not unusual here on the continent to ask guests to take off their shoes. I don't ask guests (though I might if they were wearing stilettos) but do hand out ABS socks if the guests voluntarily take their shoes off.

Some folk have a set of slippers like this

i would rather go barefoot or leave than wear some fusty slippers provided by a so-called host.

i wouldn't want to visit someone who was so uptight about their floor they were monitoring what their guests' feet were doing.

This isn't the bloody Continent. people also eat dog in some other places, shall we start selling it here?

Blood freezing in this country. Can't imagine asking guests to take off their shoes.

Cod's not here, so I'll say it for her : fraek.

But DIL and his dog-poo shoes, expat! Surely you'd have to admit - you wouldn't want it in your house.

I know you are not on the continent, but we civilised folk do have some products available that you heathens do not.

And I have not eaten dog in years

where is all this mythical dog poo on shoes?

ffs, we live in the sticks.

no dog poo all over the place.

and if the floor is wooden, and you're that precious about them, how about mopping after the guests leave?

I never ask guests to remove footwear, but it's great when they do off their own bat.

I'd feel uncomfortable asking, even though we as a family don't wear shoes around the house.

Tnog I would take mine off for you. I'd get new socks too.

Are you angling for an invite?

Never

I tell you what, wotz [!]

we could slide up and down the hall in our socks

I would never ask.

I do have family and friends though who are japanese/ have lived in japan and for them it's totally normal to ask, and they provide towelling mule type slippers for guests.

We have american black walnut flooring.
It is staggering beautiful and very expensive. I do not have toddlers who will wreck it, so feel I am allowed to have it (previously we had amtico and the children could do as they pleased)

I am a very gracious host,
But anyone with stilleto's is asked to take them off.

Providing slippers seems excessive, and a potential health hazard.

If their feet are cold, by all means provide socks.

But a simple as you invite them "BTW you do know I'm totally anal about my floor, sorry thats just me (quirk)" should be sufficient.