I leave my shoes at the door when I step inside. Friends do the same, I don’t even have to ask. I feel that wearing street shoes inside the house is the best way to dirty-up the floors and carpets.
If the insides of our homes had concrete or asphalt floors, patches of grass & dirt, or puddles then I could see the need for shoes.
My shoes come off when I enter somebody else’s home, too. I consider it a common courtesy - if I don’t, I feel like I’m tracking dirty footsteps throughout their home.
House shoes. House shoes! Must have a rubber sole and be soft whether worn with bare feet or socks. Go on the feet when I enter the mud room from the garage, stay on the feet until I retire. They make short trips to the deck, patio, yard, or garage to perform household chores if it is not raining or snowing. Appearance: like a supercomfy loafer. I go through a pair roughly every year. Our house has a lot of ceramic tile in main areas. I never feel it. Bare feet and/or socks freak me out, not so much because of the ceramic tiles, but because of the thought of transferring foot oils to carpet.
I would love to take my house shoes to other people’s homes. Haven’t yet, though.
I spent a week in my wifes aunts house (my aunt in-law?) where this LAW was practiced. It was an incredible pain in the ass! And most of their floors are tile not carpet.
What if they spill juice. Will that disrupt the sanctity of the house? Whynot send me outside to dring my juice incase it might get spilled? Where does it end? Plastic sofa covers, that’s where!
Shoes come off at the front door, mostly because we’re in an apartment and it wouldn’t be very nice to stomp around over our downstairs neighbors. I’ve always got slippers on, though. I can’t go barefoot because my feet get icy cold even in July.
In winter - yes. I don’t have any heating in the house, so it keeps my feet warm. And I can’t be bothered taking my shoes on and off every time I walk into/out of the house. I certainly wouldn’t ask any visitors to do so either.
That was a big no-no in our house. It even feels a bit weird to wear socks (but that isn’t really a rule so much as it is a preference). We lived in a very clean house…you should hear our toilet rules…
Lordie - the last time we had a thread on this topic, it went on for four or five pages.
I have learned that here on the Dope, indoor shoe policies and toilet-roll hanging preferences sometimes incite bigger debates than politics and religion.
Shoes come off asap… but as a matter of personal comfort preference. I’m barefoot almost all the time except at work. And I think I have comfortable shoes … as far as shoes go.
Bare nekkid feet. as og intended.
Visitors usually take off shoes too, but there is no “rule” about that. Never occured to me until just now that they may be picking up supposed clues from my preferences. Which is more closely aligned with: wear whatever you are comfortable with… as long as no scuff marks.
Yep, I’m all about the house shoes. A sort of slipper with a heavier sole for short treks outdoors if necessary. The main reason? We have cats, which means bits of litter tracked around, occasional stray turds, hairballs, kibble bits, etc.
I take off shoes if I can be bothered, and if I’m not going to be heading out again in the near future. The cleanliness of the floor isn’t a huge concern - it’s not like I go tracking ludicrous amounts of mud and crap in or anything - I usually don’t assume much in the way of sanitary conditions as far as the floor goes anyway, so I just keep my distance and all is well.
Also, I take my shoes off when I go into someone else’s house and see a big pile of shoes by the door. It can get kind of annoying, though.
I like to be barefoot, and put on socks when forced to by icy toes. Dangerdad just got me a pack of cuddly soft socks to wear, too. As a general thing, we don’t wear shoes in the house, but the sky won’t fall if we walk down the hall in our sneakers.
If I’m just hanging out around the house, I may be barefoot or in fippys. When I wear shoes, they are often high top work shoes with three eyelets which are a pita to take off when I come home, so they stay on. I clean everything around here anyway, so it makes no nevermind to me.
No shoes, usually. I wear them for the 12 feet from the front door to the place in my bedroom where I take them off, where they stay until I leave again. The only exception is when I’m carrying something (like groceries) that go somewhere else. I drop whatever that is off, put the shoes in the bedroom, and then go unpack and put away whatever it is I bought. This icy toes thing doesn’t happen around here, because even in the dead of winter with the heat off the house is usually in the high 60s. Rarely goes below 40 outside anymore, so they’re not really necessary inside.
If I could go everywhere barefoot or just socks and be socially accepted, I would. Wearing shoes in the house is just strange.
I usually kick them off as soon as I walk in the door, unless I’m going out again soon. If it’s cold (as it is tonight) I’ll put on my sheepskin slippers. Otherwise, I just get about with bare feet.
No. And I don’t wear them in friends houses either, unless there’s a risk of injury***** or frostbite******. My parents’ house is carpeted wall-to-wall throughout, it seems weird to me to stomp around in shoes with thick pile carpet underfoot, so no shoes for me.
***** One friend has a townhouse with bare unfinished floorboards, splinters and nails are among the non-cat related hazards. I keep a pair of chunky socks on there.
****** My sister doesn’t believe in central heating.
I usually take shoes off in the house and put on what pases for “house slippers.” Not for reasons of cleanliness or anything else - I used to go barefoot or socks-only in the house - but because since I busted my ankle, it doesn’t bend all the way and needs some support. The house slippers are really a nice, squishy, rubber-soled pair of slide sandals, though.
I wear Okibashi Sandals, & I recommend them as houseslippers to one & all.
Durable, comfortable, cleanable, & anti-microbial materials, they have little nubbins on them that massage the soles of your feet at the end of a long day.
Each pair lasts about a year, & they come out with new pairs in the summer.
