# Wearing shoes inside a house...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wearing-shoes-inside-a-house/186130>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 3, 2003, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wearing-shoes-inside-a-house/186130 "2003-07-03T22:48:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wearing-shoes-inside-a-house/186130/81 "2003-07-05T18:09:34Z")

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I still don’t get you indoor-shoe-wearers. Shoes go outside. They get dirty. They come inside and make my floor dirty. Ergo, they are removed. Simple, no?

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**Author:** ![jennalynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a698b9/32.png) [@jennalynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jennalynn)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wearing-shoes-inside-a-house/186130/82 "2003-07-05T18:23:11Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Trigonal Planar \*  
> \*\*I still don’t get you indoor-shoe-wearers. Shoes go outside. They get dirty. They come inside and make my floor dirty. Ergo, they are removed. Simple, no? \*\*

Do y’all no-shoe-folk have pets?

- Gulp. \*  
Are they “removed” if they go outside and get dirty, too?  
😛

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**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wearing-shoes-inside-a-house/186130/83 "2003-07-05T18:32:11Z")

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No, when our dog comes in from outside she stands on a towel and we clean her feet & brush her off.

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wearing-shoes-inside-a-house/186130/84 "2003-07-05T19:52:37Z")

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This is asked and answered as much as it’s going to be.

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