oh and i dont ask people in my house to take them off. NOt even my own parents.
If people see i remove mine and they choose not to that is fine (i just clean up after they go home lol!).
Sunshine I am a non shoes in the house wearer too...
I agree with all your reasons & I certainly find it rude when people don't take off their shoes.
To me it's also about the energy of what is collected on shoes. As you say: dog poo, cat wee, spit, etc etc. You are walking that "crap" into a home & it's actually not a good energy as well as not clean. A home is a santurary and a haven - to bring inside it this type of energy isn't a good thing IMO... I might sound wierd to some...
I have spent a lot of time studying Buddhism & shoes are routinely removed before entering a home or a Gompa. This is because largely of the pathogens that shoes collect - but also out of respect. Respect for the "cleanness" of a home or a place of worship (which a home is).
My (ex) parents in law refused to remove their shoes and I found this confronting... I find it amazing that people can just disrespect a moray in someone's home! If people ask me I say we don't wear our shoes inside. If not I don't say anything unless they are a close friend - and of course they don't wear them inside anyway as they know it's not my thing.
I never wear shoes in the house, it is discusting, all the dirt that people bring in from their shoes is just grose. We have wooden floors throughout the house, and when people walk inside with their shoes on, they seem to make a trail of dirt that I can see! Most people know that we dont like people to have their shoes on when they are in our house, but it does not stop them. I think it is also my FIL that is the worst, he is a council worker and wears bloodstones all the time, he will never take them off and they leave scuff marks all over the floor. arg!! he just doesnt care, but when he is at his home, he will always have them off. I dont get that. Our sign out the front is quite clear, people are just rude imo when they leave them on.
We also don't wear our shoes inside. It really does annoy me and DH if people come here and wear shoes inside especially since we had DS and you can clearly see a pile of shoes near our front and back door.
My mum is a perfect example of someone who disrespects this rule in our home. She walked in just after we moved here and I politely told her we don't wear our shoes inside so would she be able to leave hers at the front door too. She gave me the worst look and took them off but has NEVER taken them off since She even had the hide to tell me that its better for the carpet if you wear shoes inside than going barefoot due to the oil that comes out of your feet. Um hello who told you this information?? A carpet cleaning company lol. Obviously they want you to wear shoes inside so they have people calling all the time cos their carpet needs cleaning after all the dirt that comes in off the soles of your shoes
Ok I'm finished my rant lol...so NO we don't wear shoes in our home
I don't wear shoes inside the house for no particular reason.
DH puts his shoes on as soon as he gets dressed.
I'm thinking about enforcing a no shoes rule though seeing as we now have DS & new carpet. I too hate people stepping on his blankies with their shoes on, but have no idea how to "tell them off"!!
yeah I don't wear shoes inside, it was the way I was brought up - my Mum was very strict on it and now with my own home I fully understand why. DH will still wear his shoes inside even though I tell him all the time, he takes them off but then gets into bad habits again. DD takes hers off.
People who blatantly turn round and disrespect your house rules - whatever they may be - are in my opinion downright rude and obnoxious....grr to them ....and as for walking on a baby rug - no offence, but puhleese, what are they thinking???
Floors get dirty on their own without having all the crap from outside walked in - and it is a pita to constantly be cleaning it....
Do you have a sign at all on your front door??? Maybe it's time....
I NEVER wear shoes inside.. I think of peoples house and clenliness and they wear and tear on their flooring.. i think if everyone didnt wear shoes.. how clean there house would be and floor wise.
Yes, Inanna, you are right, even in Germany we take our shoes off. Especially in winter when we are wearing heavy boots. I don't think people think about the reasons so much but it would be a huge problem if we didn't take our shoes off in winter. when it snows, small stones are being scattered all over the footpaths so people don't slip. These stones stay around for months, even when there is no snow. Of course, they get stuck in your shoes. So if you wore your shoes inside, you would certainly ruin people's floors. Add to that all the snow which would make such a mess.
When I was living in Sydney most people took their shoes off inside, too. So it's definitely not just a warm climate thing.
But I agree, Marydean, it is much easier not to wear your shoes in the house when you only have to slide in and out of thongs. So, when I'm only wearing thongs, I always kick them off, even if I only have to run in quickly to get my wallet. But when I wear lace-ups or somthing a little more difficult, I might be guilty of not always taking the off if I just need to run in quickly.
Talking about under floor heating in Germany: it is very rare. My parents who built their house about 20 years ago had it in one of their bathrooms but nowhere else. It is now broken and they won't bother fixing it. Most modern houses are well insulated and have good centralheating so it never gets as cold as say in Sydney. But we also have lots of buildings that are a few hundred years old with very high ceilings that get freezing cold. some people with colder houses provide washable guest slippers so their guests have toastie feet.
Someone mentioned about feeling underdressed at parties with no shoes. At parties we usually leave them on, just wipe them well when entering the house. I guess you have to clean afterwards anyway. Shoes are only taken off at informal occasions.
By the way, I really am no clean freak. Which is why my IL's seem to think I'm being a big hypocrite. I do believe germs are good and let DD play in the dirt. I have taken antibiotics twice in my whole life and none of my kids ever have. But I do think it's different for a tiny baby, who by the way, I would not lat play on the bare concrete or grass. But that is probably more because I'd be worried about green ants in the grass and abrasions from the concrete.
Someone mentioned that they don't know how to tell people not to walk on the baby rug with shoes on. I'd just be really polite and say something along the lines: "I'd prefer if you didn't walk over the baby rug with your shoes on. I just washed it" or pretend you think it was an accident and say "Ooops, you just stepped on baby's rug"
By the way, My in-laws do now take their shoes off when coming in. But they always make a big fuss over it and have a giggle cause I'm so weird. They almost make it out to be a bad habit. They did however do it without flinching when they were staying at my mum and dad's house. For my house, they now even bought some slippers for winter as they prefer not to be in socks. Which is fine by me.
Most people seem to not wear their shoes inside, judging by all your posts. Those who do would usually take them off at someone else's house if that's what is the done thing. So maybe I'm not so weird after all...
We never wear shoes inside, we built our house last year and all the carpet is new etc, I find it really rude when people come over and don't take their shoes off because they will be doing a tour of the house and they will be walking on the carpet. Even if it wasn't new why would they want to dirty our clean tiles and carpet Soooo I ask them to take them off before they come in!
Nope, no shoes inside. In winter I wear slippers inside to keep my feet warm.
I have a friend who supplies bathroom slippers - there are a couple of pairs of $2 rubber slippers at the bathroom door to wear into the bathroom so that you don't track anything from the floor of the bathroom around the house. I'm not sure why she bothers, you could operate in her bathroom, maybe it's a habit left-over from living in places with grottier bathrooms.
dp does this and drives me nuts mum allways had a rule slippers and house shoes in the house only thongs work boots runners ect stay outside on shoe rack
dp allways has metal fileling ect on his boots that he stomps into our carpet grrr and im allways vacuming i allways wear my house socks inside and murray wears slippers my mates no my no shoe rule but u do get some ppl who wont and im pretty sure its cause they dont vacume or dont care about the fact that stuff goes on the carpet or floor and a bub or child could injest it
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She even had the hide to tell me that its better for the carpet if you wear shoes inside than going barefoot due to the oil that comes out of your feet. Um hello who told you this information?? A carpet cleaning company lol. Obviously they want you to wear shoes inside so they have people calling all the time cos their carpet needs cleaning after all the dirt that comes in off the soles of your shoes
Soooo I ask them to take them off before they come in!
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