Do you remove your shoes?

[nickle730]

Ok, just read someone else's vent and it got me wondering...

If you visit someone's home, do you take your shoes off at the front door?

I don't and I don't expect people to take their shoes off in my home. To be honest I don't even consider it unless there is a pile of shoes at the front door and then I will ask 'would you like me to take my shoes off?'. I don't think anyone has ever said 'yes, please!'.

But maybe they're just being polite and I am being really rude??!! What do you do?

[Trillian]

I'm like you, if there are shoes outside the door then I take them off, but if not then I wear them in.

[~*Niadalla*~]

I always do. We don't wear shoes in our house, so it's just habit. I don't ask people to take their shoes off here though. I don't really notice.

[~TT40~]

I do. But I only ever wear thongs, so i can do it when i'm walking, doesnt even slow me down at all.

[Charlotte91]

I nearly always do.
Mainly because of where we live there's a weed called bindi-eye (or jacks, whatever you want to call them) and they are nasty nasty little buggers. If you stand on them they're so sharp they can make you bleed and they hurt soooo bad.
No-one wants them in the house.

[human bean]

I always ask at the door of their house if they want me to take my shoes off, whether there's a pile or not. We don't expect it at our house but I think alot of folks think we do as DH always leaves his just inside the front door. I usually let people know they don't have to if they go to remove their shoes.

[Sopdet]

New place, I either take my shoes off or ask. If I know the place well, then I go with what they want.

I need to start carrying socks/slipper type shoes with me now that it is frelling freezing and I'd rather not wander around with no shoes on.

[misty]

I will take my shoes off IF the host asks, or it is obvious that that is what everyone does in that household, or if my shoes are in anyway dirty. Otherwise, 'no' I just leave them on.

[Tinks]

I always ask whether they want me to take my shoes off or not.

[hj1981]

i always take my shoes off!

I know how much time and energy goes into cleaning and keeping my floors clean so i would hate wear shoes inside someone elses house on their clean floors!
and i dare say alot of people wouldn't say anything as i know i don't so i kinda do what i would like people to do for me!

[Miss.September]

I tend to look at the host's feet! If they're wearing shoes, then I figure I can leave mine on. If I see shoes at the door, I automatically take mine off. We always get asked at our place, mixture of seeing the (fake) floorboards on entry and DH's shoes sitting at the door (not because he takes his shoes off when he comes home, but because he's lazy!). I've found that when people ask and I say their shoes are fine, they still take them off at the door.

But if they're dirty, no questions asked - my shoes are off.

[Floweryfields]

I'm like you, if there are shoes outside the door then I take them off, but if not then I wear them in.

Yeah that's what I do to. I wear my shoes inside at home - I do have dirty outside shoes that don't come in and viceversa. I personally get embarassed if I forget I will have to take my shoes off and wear ones that give me stinky feet and then I have to go inside with stinky feet!!

[raffy]

I always do. We don't wear shoes in our house, so it's just habit. I don't ask people to take their shoes off here though. I don't really notice.

I'm exactly the same

[Artechim]

I always take my shoes off at other peoples houses, even if they say it is alright to leave them on. My children also remove their shoes. Every visitor we have ever had has offered or already has their shoes off by the time I get to the door. I don't usually wear shoes inside at home, but have been lately because Miss almost 2 thinks it is her duty to deliver my shoes to me if she finds them not on my feet (hers too).

I wonder if the high rate of shoe removal in NZ is to do with the removal of shoes when you enter the wharenui on a Marae? Perhaps the custom has seeped into our everyday culture.

[Cherished]

I take my shoes off and I also want people to take their shoes off, if they don't then I ask them to as they are about to walk in the door. We built this house and i want the carpet to stay clean and the floor need mopping enough without dirty shoes making them dirty right after it's been mopped.

[Samcougar]

I always take my shoes off even if they tell me not to

[Phteven]

I usually do unless I know that it is a shoes on home.

[Tinsel]

I have a friend who has a strict no shoes in the house rule and that is fine but I don't tend to take them off at other houses unless there is a pile of shoes at the door and I ask. My SIL has a no shoe rule as well and her floors are cold (no carpet) so we make sure we have socks in winter. We don't wear shoes in our house usually but I don't expect anyone else to take theirs off. Actually it's probably best they keep them on so they don't get crap all over their feet from all the stuff my DD's drop all over the floor