Do you wear shoes inside

[Glamourcide]

I don't wear shoes inside, either. Except for my thongs when I'm cleaning and don't want my feet getting all slippery on the wet floors.
And yes, it bugs me that nobody else takes their shoes off when they come inside, even DH tromps around in his Chuck Taylors or *eeek!* work boots all day and it's like, 'Umm, the baby is crawling through that big pile of dried mud you just tracked indoors... thanks!'.

[Sterla]

I don't wear shoes inside, never have.

[Cupcake]

Nope no shoes inside out house most people take their shoes off at the door too, we dont ask them to they just do it..

[*charmalea*]

i ALWAYS wear shoes inside . then again i always wear thongs in other peoples showers too lol !!

i wear them as walking on hard floors hurts my back nad makes the back pain worse . I have 3 pairs of shoes called fit flops . they are great for my back pain , so i wear them inside all day . I never wear them on carpet though . i take them off before i enter one of the bedrooms .

my mum does it too , so i guess i copied her . i also hate dirty feet , i have shiny tiles but DS spilt a silicone ceramic stove top protecter on the tiles and now they get grubby really quickly as i cant get rid of the waxy film , i hate seeing the soles of my feet dirty from the tiles so i wear the thongs inside . very rarely do i wear my inside thongs out side or to the shops , so i know my fit flops are clean . no one else wears shoes inside . but i hate the feeling of particles of food or dirt on bare skin. DH thinks its strange . but then he has strange habits too , so i guess were even .

[Snowy Love]

I don't wear shoes inside - my feet like to be free! Dh says its 'cause I'm a Queenslander, he's been up here 10 years, he should adapt to the custom if that's the case.

[sunshine_sieben]

Ammaki, I don't usually ask people either. Most people do it automatically. Maybe because they see us do it or because they do it themselves. I did ask my in-laws as they come over regularly and we're family. I would not ask someone I didn't know too well. Even with my in-laws it took me 8 years. Basically, walking over the baby playrug with outside shoes was the last straw. I mean, why do you reckon I bother with the rug, not to protect the carpet, but to give my baby a clean surface.

Charmalea, house-shoes (slippers) are different. So if you have a pair for indoors, I would not classify that as wearing your shoes indoors iykwim. I have carpet in the loungeroom (one of these days I will have enough money to get floorboards).

I also don't like the feeling of thigs sticking to my bare feet. hence why I don't like people dragging in dirt from outside. I vaccum the loungeroom and kitchen and around the dining table at least every 2 days, the rest of the house a little bit less. This way I keep crumbs and other bits to a minimum.

Sasa

[sunshine_sieben]

Snowylove, it has nothing to do with being a queenslander. As I said, I'm German and still don't feel like I'm at home until I have kicked off my shoes.

For me there is an added thing: My dermatologist actually ordered me to go barefoot as much as possible as I have pustular psoriasis on the soles of my feet. During a flare-up and when it's cold she wants me to wear socks to keep my feet clean, but not shoes.
I was doing the flylady thing for a very short time a while ago and the shoe mantra really bugged me.

Sasa

[Lisa]

We don't mind if people wear shoes in our uncarpeted areas of the house as we mop the floors every evening, but we don't wear our shoes in the house at all. They're taken off in either the garage or laundry.

[Queen]

Nope, but if I do not have to put on shoes I don't.....

[Mrs Jak]

My neighbour is from Austria and I have noticed she is very particular about not wearing shoes in her house.

I don't really wear them in the house, but sometimes on my way out the door I have them on. I take them off before entering other people's houses, but couldn't care less if people wear them in our house.

Shoes have the same 'germs' on them that the concrete and grass, dirt and tiles have on them and kids and babies play on those surfaces. (obviously not newborns though)

My floors are kept quite clean too.

[fionas]

I wear shoes inside the house and really don't like padding around in bare feet/socks in other people's houses.

My dad had very smelly feet so I'm sure mum preferred he kept his shoes ON, hence we were a shoe-wearing house.

I guess I'm from the germs are good school of thought . Works for us - we rarely get sick. I've never had antibiotics in my adult life, DD hasn't had them yet.

[Curly]

I never wear shoes inside...never have. I like being barefoot. And yes, I lived in Melbourne for 7 years...I just wore socks in winter then!

However I wouldn't ask someone to take their shoes off when they come into my house in case for some reason they would be embarrassed (holes in socks, smelly feet, cracked heels). And I would feel rude asking them to do so.

I also feel strange taking my shoes off in someone's house and would prefer not to.

[AnyDream]

I guess it does make it harder MD if it's cold with boots etc... But Sunshine Sieben is German & it is customary over there?

I wonder how many of those German homes have underfloor heating .

Naw, in my earlier post I was making the observation that it seems to be the customary practice in some areas of Oz more than others...I actually wonder if this has more to do with diff standards of dress and ideas about formality/informality - eg the dress standard in general in warmer areas tends to be less formal day-to-day than in the colder climates...taking your shoes off is a more informal act.

But it is nice to air your toesies out in the tropics