Take off your shoes, please. What is the rule at your house for guests ?

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jimintoronto

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Here in Canada in most homes, guests remove their outdoor footwear when they enter the house or apartment. What is your practice as a homeowner ? If My wife and I are going to visit friends we bring indoor slippers with us to wear at their house. Discuss amongst yourselves........JImB.
 

I prefer if people take their shoes off but I don't ask , but I insist on it if they come in from the wet or snow, ... I always ask workmen to remove their shows, but I have a box of overshoes in the foyer Cupboard, for them to wear if they need their shoes for protection ..

I always take my shoes off when visiting someone else's home.. unless they say not to..
 

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I do not like to remove my shoes; it's painful to walk around in my socks. That said, I will if asked to. I would never wear muddy or wet shoes into someone's house. When I know someone has a rule about shoes, I take a pair of slippers with me.

I won't ask guests to remove their shoes in my house. I have a vacuum cleaner, a mop and a carpet steamer and I can sanitize my floors any time I want.

Your house, your rules, I'll obey them. My house, my rules.
 

Take off your shoes, please. What is the rule at your house for guests ?​



jujube said:
I would never wear muddy or wet shoes into someone's house.
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jujube said:
I won't ask guests to remove their shoes in my house. I have a vacuum cleaner, a mop and a carpet steamer and I can sanitize my floors any time I want.
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We have that same stuff
Modern Technology is rather amazing
Capt Lightning said:
I don't think that people here are that fussy. Of course, If my shoes were muddy, I'd remove them.
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Common sense
Common curtesy

Gotta love it

Up at the cabin, you'd be laughed off the mountain if you asked someone to take off their shoes or boots before entering

Had this on the porch





boot brush.jpg
 
I will normally remove my shoes in anyone's home, unless they ask me not to, or I'm only staying a minute. I always take my own shoes off at home at the door, so it's routine for most of us around here. I will not ask for shoes to be removed, it's a courtesy my friends just do.
 
Out of habit, I always remove my shoes whenever I come in from outside ... my home or anyone else's..
Most guests will remove their shoes in my entry too, but I don't make a fuss about it if they don't.

And I keep a 'dog' towel hanging on a rack by my front door .... doggy gets his feet wiped every time he comes in from his walks.
He loves to jump up on my bed and nap after walking.
 
I don't go anywhere that I have to take off my shoes. At my apartment when a visitor comes in they have not just come from outside. My boyfriend will remove his and leave them outside my door (I have an area outside my apartment door that is private and he leaves them there) most of the time. Unless we are leaving soon.
 
jujube said:
I do not like to remove my shoes; it's painful to walk around in my socks. That said, I will if asked to. I would never wear muddy or wet shoes into someone's house. When I know someone has a rule about shoes, I take a pair of slippers with me.

I won't ask guests to remove their shoes in my house. I have a vacuum cleaner, a mop and a carpet steamer and I can sanitize my floors any time I want.

Your house, your rules, I'll obey them. My house, my rules.
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Same here. People here rarely remove their shoes when entering their own or other folks' houses (those of Asian descent excepted).
 
I remove my shoes when I come into my own home, I have a pair of slippers at the door. I don't ask others to remove theirs. However, I have no problem asking them to please wipe their feet. There is a mat outside and one inside each door. It's there for a reason. Wipe, please. :)
 
In my home I usually change into slippers soon after entering but I neither expect or request it of guests.
In Asian society, where removing one's shoes is customary, most people there wear easily removed footwear
such as slippers, etc. In many western countries lace-up shoes and even boots are the norm. It's a struggle, I
know from experience, to put some types of shoes back on once they've been removed.
 
jimintoronto said:
What is your practice as a homeowner ?
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Never remember asking anyone to remove shoes, but some have, mostly people with mud or something on the shoes.

And I almost never remove my shoes at homes of others. Not unless I see they are doing it and have a bunch of shoes near the front door. I always take muddy or dirty shoes off.

When I was in Canada fishing last summer, people were removing boots and shoes before going into the lodge. I did also. Just assumed that was because of the fish blood and guts on our shoes, but now I see it may have been local custom.
 
A neighbor I had chatted with frequently while in our yards recently came to my door and I invited her inside. She immediately slipped off her Croc shoes. First time I had this happen. Decided I must run with a different crowd. I was never one to go barefooted even as a child and not now because I feel unbalanced without the support of shoes. To each his own I suppose.
 
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