February 8, 2008
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MrZ and I respond to someone surprised we wear shoes inside. And I’m curious - how many of YOU have rules about shoes inside?
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I don’t have rules for wearing shoes inside the house, however several of my friends do, and they have us wear slippers when visiting.
We do. Sort of. It was stricter when we first moved in but I still stick to it for the most part and so does my husband. My son? Maybe, maybe not. Hence, we have piles of shoes by the front door and the door to the garage.
There are no shoes allowed in my apartment. I even make my mom take hers off…lol
We don’t generally wear our shoes inside the house. We’re NOT insistent about it with guests (sometimes people ask, and we say whatever makes them more comfortable - and we mean it!). I don’t have any illusions that because we take our shoes off that our home is any cleaner, but we’re just trying to reduce the visible dirt (our property is muddy) and wear and tear on the carpet. We have a routine coming into the house with the kids, “Hang up your coats and put your shoes in the basket!”. If we go over to friends’ houses(esp. those we know well), we will take our shoes off, too.
Shoes inside are fine with me. For one thing, it’s not my carpet. Plus there isn’t a lot of dirt around my building to track in.
Wear your nice socks when you visit! We don’t wear shoes in the house…
I do think it is weird that someone commented on your flickr about it….
My neighbors upstairs wear shoes in the house. I can tell because they wear heels on the hardwood floors at 5:30 in the morning. I practically don’t need an alarm clock any more.
Out of courtesy to our neighbors beneath us (who happen to be our landlords) we take our shoes off or wear slippers. Plus, it’s more comfy. But we let guests do as they please.
We do not wear shoes in the house. Partly because I live in Canada and don’t want to track snow through the house. Also because I wasn’t raised that way, and it makes me cringe when people walk on my floors in their shoes. When I lived in California, I made my in-laws take off their shoes at my house (something unheard of to them).
Oddly enough - we don’t usually wear shoes inside. Not as a policy, but just because we’re home and we want to be comfy. I don’t take my shoes off at my inlaws b/c they have hardwood floors and I’m scared I’ll fall. But - in general - I have no problem abiding by the rules at other homes, and I have a lot of cute socks to wear in case.
Also - I agree with you Aardvark, the weirdest thing was the first comment itself.
I HATE wearing shoes, so I never have shoes on until I am ready to walk out the door to go somewhere.
We never wear shoes on our new(ish) carpet. We like having ONE thing clean in our house.
Growing up, we never wore shoes in the house. I think it was more of a hillbilly thing than anything. My dad is a native Tennesseean. Tennessee-ite? He’s from Tennessee.
My sister gets up in the morning and gets dressed and puts her shoes on even when she has no place to go. That is just odd to me and I’ve decided she isn’t really related.
No shoes, generally, past the entry way (its laminate). Unless you’re laden down with bags like I was tonight, then its left directly to the kitchen (which is tile).
Try to avoid them on carpets. We both hate vacuuming and my cleaning service only comes once every three weeks.
We don’t wear shoes in the house because 1, I hate to vacuum, and 2, when I have a crawler crawling around, I don’t want anything tracked on the carpet, like pesticide, dirt, anything they might have picked up, etc.Yes, my son walks now, but he still is on the floor all the time, playing and such.
We try not to wear our shoes in the house. Or if we do, we take them off as soon as we can. But our downstairs is completely tiled/laminate flooring, so it’s not as big a deal if we wear shoes. Our upstairs is all carpet, so I just don’t like shoes up there. But we certainly don’t make guests take their shoes off. We share our house with 5 animals, too (only we have two dogs and three cats) and I vacuum pretty much every day downstairs. But if you do wear your shoes in the house, who cares? Not a big deal to me. I thought it was interesting that someone would make that comment!
No shoes, and I’ll take my shoes off whenever we go to someone elses house, even if they tell me it doesn’t matter. Although sometimes, like MrZ in that photo, I’ll leave my shoes on if I’m going out again soon
Or I’ll take them off halfway through the house *observes jandals sitting in the middle of the living room floor* oops.
Lord, it’s the great shoe debate of ‘08! Who know this was the internet’s next controversy? Seriously?
Guess I should weigh in for the Sunshine State by saying that since 99% of our shoe wardrobe usually goes flip or flop - it’s sort of a none issue. Shoes slide on and off as easily and without offense.
Next up you should post a picture of yourself standing in a bathing suit more than 10 feet from the edge of any body of water and see if you can rile the Southern don’t-you-dare-walk-from-here-to-there-in-a-bathing-suit-without-covering-up crowd.
No shoes in this house either. We have wood floor through the house, for one I don’t need to hear the sounds of the shoes all over the house, second no high heals are going to damage my floors.
Therefore we have loads of shoes next to the door toward the garage, and I have dozens of slippers ready for guests.
No rules here… I almost always wear shoes in the house, because it’s cold here and I don’t own slippers, but they tend to be fairly soft-soled ballet flats or something rather than my usual stilettos, so I’m not clomping around.
I also absolutely hate it when people make me remove my shoes to enter their house. It makes me feel so uncomfortable, and particularly in houses where the owners hand you a pair of slippers when you walk in - I have a “thing” about putting my feet in shoes that other people have been wearing, and I have small feet, so I almost always end up shuffling around feeling ridiculous in slipper like house boats.
I do think it’s weird that someone commented on your Flickr about it, though - who knew shoes were so controversial?!
For us it completely depends upon the season. During the snowy (slushy) winter, we take our shoes off at the door. During the rest of the year, providing that our shoes aren’t caked with mud or something, it’s pretty much wearer discression.
We tried to be strict about no shoes when we first moved into the house. Sometimes we both forget that we still have our shoes on if we have just come in from outside. My husbands dad and step mom provide slippers when we visit as they follow the Korean custom of no shoes inside.
We don’t have rules about it…but in the winter, when we come inside, we take off our shoes because no one wants the carpet wet all over the house from the snow. But, if you’ve put shoes on and haven’t gone out yet, that’s fine. Or in the summer, it’s ok. We have slippers to wear around the house and basement, or crocs. When guests come over, they can do as they please. Normally they see the shoes at the door and ask, but we say, “you don’t have to.” When we’ve had repairmen and installers here though, they just take their shoes off at the door, no questions asked. I guess they don’t want to be the ones making the light colored carpet all dirty.
It’s not a rule…just no one wants wet socks in the winter.
Wow. I agree with your husband on his comment on your flickr.
I kinda prefer when people wear their shoes in my house. For some reason I get all creeped out when they walk in and take them off. Like, are you MOVING IN or something? Do ya wanna change into pajamas as well? But, I don’t usually wear mine in the house, but not b/c of dirt, just comfort.
And I HATE going to someone’s house if they make you take your shoes off. I will try to not go back again. HATE IT.
We always had to wear shoes in the house growing up. My grandfather would not let my mom and her siblings walk around barefoot or in sock feet because he treated so many people with injuries that would have been prevented simply by keeping their shoes on. I hate cleaning my floors, so my shoes come off at the door as an adult, but I let my guests do whatever they want.