My Home, My Rules...

It’s very common where I live for people to take off their shoes in the homes of others. Most people ask or do it automatically.

After reading Timoc’s, I’ll add that rule too.
 

Definitely no smoking tobacco or any other drug legal or illegal...

People ask when they come in if they should take their shoes off... sometimes I say yes depending on the circumstances.. but I have cream sheepskin rugs in the foyer.. ...I do have overshoes in the cupboard in the hall for any workmen to save them having to untie work boots...
 
If I'm letting someone in, then I have chosen to have them enter my home. As such I don't barrage them with rules. Would I prefer they not smoke? Sure. Would I turn them out if they did? No. I think having someone come to your home means you should be gracious, welcoming, and do what you can to make them comfortable. I don't live in a hermetically sealed nirvana.

And yes, I have a dog. So if that's a problem for someone, there isn't a lot I can do about it. Mind, I wouldn't take my dog when visiting someone else.
 
My only rule was no smoking indoors, but I don’t know anyone who smokes anymore.

I guess my only rule, if I made one, would be no cellphones out while we eat. Stow those damned things.
 
I don't like people in the place I live. It's me and the cats.

We had to remove our shoes in the house. Interestingly, I still do so. I wear them to bring things in like shopping bags, but I put the items down and the shoes come off. If I need to go out again, I put on the flipflops.
 
I'm not sure that everyone realizes that "rules" work both ways.

Everyone has the right to put their pets first. I like animals, love meeting them, and respect people's rules about their pets. However, if I'm really uncomfortable about someone's unruly dog that jumps on me, knocks me down, slobbers all over my clean clothes, or just won't leave me alone, I have a rule, too.....I won't be coming over.

On the other side, if I don't want pets in my house (refer back to the forementioned ill-behaved dogs) who pee, poop, scratch the furniture, or bark constantly, don't get huffy when I say "no" to the question, "Is it OK if I bring Rover?"

I had a cousin who would be asked not to bring the dogs but would show up with them every time because "I just couldn't leave them at home!" She also would not agree to putting them in the garage, in the fenced yard or tethered on the porch. She did agree, once, to put the dog in a bedroom at my sister's house where the dog proceeded to pee, poop, scratch the heck out of the door and claw a hole in the carpet.

So, my home, my rules. Some dogs are allowed over. Most aren't.
 
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