How do you guys feel about wearing shoes inside the house? Obviously, wet/muddy/dirty shoes are bad but what about normal dry shoes?
I personally feel that it is completely appropriate and I do it all the time and I never ask guests to take theirs off. Hard wood floors probably play a part--I prefer them but they are colder to walk on and they will get your socks dirtier than carpet. I prefer my feet to not get cold and I prefer to use a broom or a mop to clean the floor rather than the bottom of my sock. Also, I have always been taught that you should wear shoes when cooking or working with tools (wouldn't want to drop a knife on your toe) and I woudl find it odd to have to go find a pair of shoes to chop an onion.
Obviously if I am somewhere else and they ask me to, I will remove them. If it is a party or something though...I would really prefer to keep them on. People spill stuff, people step on you...I've had to throw away socks that came back incurably disgusting after I had to take them off at a party (in an apartment with no carpeting)...went to a party this weekend (so shoes were kind of wet but 3 flights of carpeted stairs and some door mats probably took care of most of it) and everyone was leaving theirs in the giant pile of shoes outside the door. I walked in, realized that the floor was especially cold (the place was probably 65 at the warmest...), saw the future potential for spillage, and immediately wished I had kept my shoes. Luckily, I looked around and noticed that a few of the host's close friends still had their shoes so I went for it (and it seemed like a whole troupe of people quickly got the same idea).
I try to buy comfortable shoes...so it seems like I should get to wear them comfortably in my home...
I personally feel that it is completely appropriate and I do it all the time and I never ask guests to take theirs off. Hard wood floors probably play a part--I prefer them but they are colder to walk on and they will get your socks dirtier than carpet. I prefer my feet to not get cold and I prefer to use a broom or a mop to clean the floor rather than the bottom of my sock. Also, I have always been taught that you should wear shoes when cooking or working with tools (wouldn't want to drop a knife on your toe) and I woudl find it odd to have to go find a pair of shoes to chop an onion.
Obviously if I am somewhere else and they ask me to, I will remove them. If it is a party or something though...I would really prefer to keep them on. People spill stuff, people step on you...I've had to throw away socks that came back incurably disgusting after I had to take them off at a party (in an apartment with no carpeting)...went to a party this weekend (so shoes were kind of wet but 3 flights of carpeted stairs and some door mats probably took care of most of it) and everyone was leaving theirs in the giant pile of shoes outside the door. I walked in, realized that the floor was especially cold (the place was probably 65 at the warmest...), saw the future potential for spillage, and immediately wished I had kept my shoes. Luckily, I looked around and noticed that a few of the host's close friends still had their shoes so I went for it (and it seemed like a whole troupe of people quickly got the same idea).
I try to buy comfortable shoes...so it seems like I should get to wear them comfortably in my home...
