Wearing shoes inside the house?

[alexwgoody]

I'm a big slippers and robe fan. I don't mind wearing my shoes inside my house, but I prefer to just come in and put on one of my many robes, and my 50's Brooks Bros. leather slippers.

 

[unjung]

Originally Posted by Valeriek

I always take my shoes off because I love being barefoot. But, my mom always told me to leave them on. She said that the oil in your feet collects in the carpet and causes it to collect dirt.

This is a good thread. In Canada, barefooting is very very standard. I will happily barefoot even if it's my first time visiting someone and I don't expect to be back.

 

[Doctor]

I always wear shoes. I don't like the feeling of being bare foot. I have a pair of sneakers which I wear around the house, but it's never been a policy in our family to remove shoes. We never ask guests to do it and 99% of the time they don't. If I go to someone elses house and am asked, however, of course I'll take them off. Or if there's others there and they all have removed their shoes, I'll do the same. In my circle of friends it's really no big deal though. I only know of one family that insist on it and they're pretty uptight at the best of times

 

[SField]

Originally Posted by Doctor

I always wear shoes. I don't like the feeling of being bare foot. I have a pair of sneakers which I wear around the house, but it's never been a policy in our family to remove shoes. We never ask guests to do it and 99% of the time they don't.

If I go to someone elses house and am asked, however, of course I'll take them off. Or if there's others there and they all have removed their shoes, I'll do the same.

In my circle of friends it's really no big deal though. I only know of one family that insist on it and they're pretty uptight at the best of times

So you have no problem with people who just came off the sidewalk that has piss/****/***/and vomit walking through your house where at midnight you sometimes walk around barefoot, or occasionally lie/sit on the floor to play with a dog or kids?

 

[jet]

Ok so wait let me get this straight, it's not ok to wear shoes in the house but it's ok to have a ******* animal that pisses and ***** everywhere inside the house where you walk barefoot?

Makes perfect sense.

 

[binge]

I piss and *********** house. Barefoot or no.

 

[SField]

Originally Posted by jet

Ok so wait let me get this straight, it's not ok to wear shoes in the house but it's ok to have a ******* animal that pisses and ***** everywhere inside the house where you walk barefoot? Makes perfect sense.
I don't have a dog, but living in a city, the thought of wearing outside shoes in the house when I know there's every manner of vileness on the soles of them is just horrifying because I do walk barefoot in the mornings and at night. No you aren't going to rule out contaminants totally but I think walking through the house in shoes is kind of filthy and I certainly respect most of the Asian continent that absolute deplores that practice. People who do the whole shoes indoors thing tend to not have the cleanest homes.

 

[jet]

My experience has been the opposite.

 

[SField]

Originally Posted by jet

My experience has been the opposite.
How does it logically follow that a person who walks all around their house in the same shoes that they wear outside would have a CLEANER home than someone who walks in their socks or barefoot, leaving their outside shoes at the door? I mean you have literally come up with something that is against the very laws of physics. At the absolute very best - in a spectacularly remarkable achievement of cleanliness that no doubt involves levitation and forcefields - would give you a house that is AS clean as a home where they take their shoes off (assuming cleaning practices in two identical homes are the exact same). Do you understand that what you are proposing is impossible?

 

[Flambeur]

This is getting good.

Street shoes inside the house = definitely a big time UGH. If you have house shoes/slippers - fine, that's cool. I prefer barefoot.

But if I run through the house once in my shoes, or have a guest who does, I won't have a heart attack.

 

[SField]

Originally Posted by Flambeur

This is getting good. Street shoes inside the house = definitely a big time UGH. If you have house shoes/slippers - fine, that's cool. I prefer barefoot. But if I run through the house once in my shoes, or have a guest who does, I won't have a heart attack.
O it won't bother me either, and a few times I've had to run back in for a bit and didn't bother to take my shoes off. I don't propose living in some anticeptic hell, but always walking around in street shoes in your house? That's abominable.

 

[jet]

Originally Posted by SField

How does it logically follow that a person who walks all around their house in the same shoes that they wear outside would have a CLEANER home than someone who walks in their socks or barefoot, leaving their outside shoes at the door?

I mean you have literally come up with something that is against the very laws of physics. At the absolute very best - in a spectacularly remarkable achievement of cleanliness that no doubt involves levitation and forcefields - would give you a house that is AS clean as a home where they take their shoes off (assuming cleaning practices in two identical homes are the exact same).

Do you understand that what you are proposing is impossible?

Hold the **** up, do you understand what you're proposing is an experiment and not real world analysis?

Like I said, the homes I've visited with the no shoes policy have been far filthier than homes without can you grasp that? Has to do with your ceteris paribus assumption not hard, shoes off at the door = tacky as ****.

 

[DesignerValet]

Keeping your shoes on is standard in my house, and I would feel very awkward demanding that guests take their shoes off immediately upon entering my home.

That said, I have no issue taking my shoes off in someone else's house if that's the norm, though I personally would be more irritated with a pile of shoes around my front door than any microscopic bacteria that may collect on the floor.

As far as providing replacement footwear, I have NEVER been offered a house slipper inside a "no-shoes" home.

 

[SField]

Originally Posted by jet

Hold the **** up, do you understand what you're proposing is an experiment and not real world analysis?

Like I said, the homes I've visited with the no shoes policy have been far filthier than homes without can you grasp that? Has to do with your ceteris paribus assumption not hard, shoes off at the door = tacky as ****.

I'm sorry I just don't see how it's possible to have a cleaner home in a house where the sidewalk is smeared all over the floor.

And haven't you heard of closets?

 

[svelten]

Originally Posted by jet

Hold the **** up, do you understand what you're proposing is an experiment and not real world analysis?

Like I said, the homes I've visited with the no shoes policy have been far filthier than homes without can you grasp that? Has to do with your ceteris paribus assumption not hard, shoes off at the door = tacky as ****.


LoL you're marsupialed, you're using a couple of sample of homes to validate your claim. It's akin to me saying "hay guyz, my grandma and her pal smoked and lived up to 85, while I know non-smokers who died before retirement! Hence smoking = better for your health"

A home should be a comfortable and clean place. Shoes off, always. There is a ridiculous amount of **** that aggregates under the soles of your shoes and so, unless you drive absolutely everywhere and hardly walk on the streets, it's absolutely repulsive to live and sleep amongst bird/dog feces, urine, chemical spills, food stains, spit and gum, cigarette ash, soil etc. Unless you want to live like farm animals.

Still I won't judge others for their shoes-on practices as long as they respect mine when they come to my house. It's probably to do with culture and geography, as I've never seen any house in Vancouver that allows it.