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shoes in the house POLL
I never walk aroud in my house with OUTSIDE shoes on. I have a pair of slippers that I wear.. my kids dont wear shoes in the house.. I really want to ask people to take off their shoes but it seems so rude... Just wanted to know how many are a shoe household and how many are not[Poll]
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Re: shoes in the house POLL
You didnt have an option for me.
We don't wear shoes in the house. No one around here does, aside from people who wear slippers sometimes. Around here you would never ever keep your shoes on - when i visited friends in the USA I was shocked at how they just walked inside with their flip flops or tennis shoes on....seemed so dirty to me coming from a place where we are always barefoot indoors.
My husband and I have decided that with our new apartment, we won't wear shoes in the house. However, we don't ask our guests to take theirs off. I do a lot of babysitting for families who go shoe-less and prefer their guests do as well. I've seen a lot of signs that, in a nice way, ask guests to remove their shoes. I like that because there are no awkward conversations about it and no questions.
ETA: There are a ton of signs on Etsy.
We don't, but i usually won't ask guests to take their shoes off. Most ask these days (especially since we have a crawler around here). I don't remember the last time a guest didn't ask to take shoes off.
If I am hostessing a party or get together or something, I would never ask people to take shoe off. And if people were polite enough to ask I'd tell them not to worry about it - people's shoes are part of their outfits when they are turning up to a soiree KWIM?
I just make sure to mop the floors as part of the party clean up.
We don't do shoes in the house either unless I'm in to grab something quick.
Where I live the shoes in the house has never been a big deal. Everyone takes them off. It's just expected/naturally done. But the weather here is usually wet/muddy/snowy so people are just used to it.
A few people (older family members) leave their shoes on...but whatever.
If I was throwing a major party I'd never expect anyone to take off their shoes either.
This isn't a battle I choose to fight/get uptight over. I picked easy clean flooring for a reason and a little dirt never harmed anyone.
I have better things to worry about.
I'm Russian, so we don't tend to wear shoes in the house and I have noticed that a lot of people in America would prefer people not to wear shoes in their house, but are afraid to sound rude or to impose if they come out and ask. I automatically take my shoes off when i come in to someone's house- unless it's a formal party and everyone has heels or shoes on.
I think taking your shoes off by the front door keeps your carpets and floors clean and looks like a sign of respect to the homeowners. I would NOT however have my elderly guests take their shoes off as it is a chore to put them back on.
In my old home, I didn't care. I always came from the idea that floors just get dirty.
Now I have a lot more floor so nobody in the family wears shoes.
I have never asked anyone to take their shoes off. 99% of the time, someone will come in, look at the floor (and the pile of our shoes in the corner) and automatically take off their shoes as well. If I'm having a playdate, I ask that shoes be taken off. Kid shoes are gross.
There is one neighbor who always leaves his shoes on and I just wipe up the floor after he leaves. It's annoying, but I would never demand anything that makes a guest uncomfortable. For adult parties, I would expect people to leave their shoes on. I would feel bad having everyone dig for their shoes at the end of the night. Makes me think of that Sex in The City episode where everyone had to take their shoes off and Carrie's Manolo's got stolen. LOL.
Not being snarky, but I am curious...for those of you who do not wear or allow shoes in your home but have pets, do you wash their paws before they come in or does that dirt not bother you?
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You could just instruct them where to put their shoes when you take their coat. I can't imagine that "Oh, let me hang up your coat. Your shoes can go right by the door" would sound terribly rude. For summer months, I don't know a nice way to ask, but agree with other posters that if I guest comes in with shoes on that it's no big deal.
As a guest in other people's homes though, I always just do whatever the host is doing, or ask. I think it's kind of rude not to.
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I am surprised at how many people don't wear shoes in the house! I chose "doesn't matter" -- I dislike going to someone's house and having to take my shoes off -- but if it's rainy/snowy, I take my shoes off to avoid getting anything in the house, and I always wipe my feet. In our house, I do whatever. I guess it' s not something I really think about.
And PP that brought up the SATC episode, I thought of that, too! And this is funny because there is another post about this on the BAH board.
This is how I feel, but I respect that it is not the norm in certain cultures and in areas with inclement weather.
We do remove our shoes when we are somewhere that it is obvious that they remove shoes, but we don't ask our guests to take their shoes off.
I grew up in AZ and live in SoCal....both places where people live an open door, indoor/outdoor, barefoot kind of lifestyle. It makes more sense to just clean the floors (hence the propensity of tile), than to make everyone wash their feet or take off their shoes before coming inside. My mom and my sister both live in AZ, and neither of them ever go barefoot (nor did my father), but my brother and I rarely have shoes on when we are in our own homes or my parents house...indoors or out.
This whole thread cracks me up. On Friday I was thinking that we were about due for this discussion, since it generally gets brought up a few times a year.
I'm from Canada. Wearing shoes in the house is just not done. It would never be an issue because a guest would never walk into some one's home with shoes on. It would be considered rude.
Our dog comes in through the mudroom and the area rug in there generally catches the bulk of dirt on her paws. Then I wipe up after her if she happens to track any prints in.
I will say this, I wash my floors once a week. The difference between how gross the water was when I had the "it doesn't matter" rule to the "no shoes" rule is night and day. When we allowed shoes in the house, the water came out significantly dirtier than it does now and I'm cleaning about double the floors in this home.
My home is a private space - we play on the floor and have children doing such. I'm not going to vacuum and disinfect floors every single day nor am I going to wait and let stuff ferment either. Best solution is no shoes. I don't want bacteria from the dog poop or pee you walked through earlier in the day on my floors or god knows what else your shoes have picked up
Im not a germophobe but I do respect myself and my home - therefore I do my best to respect other people and their homes.
I guess if a persons floors are gross then that is different.