I must ask the shoes on people: at what point in the house do the shoes get removed?
I’d expect that you wouldn’t want them in the bedroom or bathroom, getting gravel or dirt in bed. Is it that the main living room for entertaining guests is shoes on, and shoes off is for personal rooms? Or do you have a specific set of indoor shoes? Or do your outdoor shoes go everywhere?
Shoes on everywhere, just not on the bed. If your shoes are so dirty that they leave dirt everywhere, you take them off. In the morning and evening it’s usually slippers that don’t leave the house
Spaniard here. “Shoes-on” is mostly for when you have guests over. You’ll wake up in the morning and use slippers, only put on shoes to go to outside, and when you come back home you’ll remove the shoes typically in your bedroom (unless wet or dirty). But when you have guests over, everyone wears shoes typically, even hosts.
We have hard wood floor not carpets, have dogs so it’s never going to be some “you can eat off the floors” situation. We run a Roomba thrice daily, my shoes are kept in the bedroom so that’s where I put them on/take them off. So in general it’s the big open room with the kitchen/dining and living room and lounge area that are shoes on spaces, but I am not generally tracking gravel into the house. Y’all really ask everyone to take off their shoes at parties & all? Like a barefoot cocktail hour, barefoot dinner?
The Roomba vac makes an enormous difference, I CAN walk around barefoot without feeling grit on my feet. But it doesn’t bother me that the floor is not pristine, no. And cooking feels safer in shoes.
In other people’s houses I do whatever they want, obviously, but I would never tell someone to take off their shoes for my floor’s sake.
ETA: I asked my husband and he said “up north people take their shoes off at the door in a mudroom and put on house shoes or socks because they have wall to wall carpeting and it gets filthy so fast.” I don’t have a mudroom just a front door.
Up north person here, no carpets in my house (they’re often considered old-fashioned here nowadays), but dang if road salt isn’t a scourge upon interiors. We have a mat in our entrance, and leave our shoes on a tray to contain the salt and mud, and even living in an apartment where I walk in interiors for a bit before entering our home, there’s frequently enough salt to buildup and stain our floors white.
The salt is absolutely necessary to melt the ice outside, but we have to mop our entrance multiple times a week, it’s 100% the primary reason Canadians are shoes-off, I’d assume the northern states are the same.
Y’all really ask everyone to take off their shoes at parties & all? Like a barefoot cocktail hour, barefoot dinner?
Generally I plan it outside if I can but, true, that’s an exception. It’s just not worth trying to deal with that: clean before, clean after, and don’t worry about it.
Amusing story though …… new friends, kids in scouts, “pinewood derby” crafting day where we all got together to help the kids build. I automatically took my shoes off. In the workshop. sawdust, dirt and nails everywhere. Didn’t even think until someone noticed and looked at me like I was an idiot. Oh. I am an idiot
If your shoes are covered in mud (or full of gravel???) then you take them off. But if you’ve just gone outside to go to the shop and your shoes are still relatively clean, you wipe them on the doormat and go in, the amount of dirt you actually bring in is miniscule.
Then there are rules about not putting shoes on sofas or beds, so if you want to put your feet up you take your shoes off then.
My kin just have home shoes, usually slip ons, flip flops, or sandals. Not to say they can’t be worn outside just generally they aren’t at least not as much as proper boots.
I also always wonder if it correlates with wall to wall carpet. Carpeting makes dirt disappear, so there’s nothing wrong with wearing shoes around the house.
But once you realize how much dirt collects there, how disgusting it is …… I no longer believe in either inside shoes or wall to wall carpeting
I must ask the shoes on people: at what point in the house do the shoes get removed?
I’d expect that you wouldn’t want them in the bedroom or bathroom, getting gravel or dirt in bed. Is it that the main living room for entertaining guests is shoes on, and shoes off is for personal rooms? Or do you have a specific set of indoor shoes? Or do your outdoor shoes go everywhere?
Shoes on everywhere, just not on the bed. If your shoes are so dirty that they leave dirt everywhere, you take them off. In the morning and evening it’s usually slippers that don’t leave the house
Spaniard here. “Shoes-on” is mostly for when you have guests over. You’ll wake up in the morning and use slippers, only put on shoes to go to outside, and when you come back home you’ll remove the shoes typically in your bedroom (unless wet or dirty). But when you have guests over, everyone wears shoes typically, even hosts.
News flash, your shoes are always dirty and it’s because you wore them outside.
You wear shoes outside?
I’m aware, I personally use no shoes at home ever
We have hard wood floor not carpets, have dogs so it’s never going to be some “you can eat off the floors” situation. We run a Roomba thrice daily, my shoes are kept in the bedroom so that’s where I put them on/take them off. So in general it’s the big open room with the kitchen/dining and living room and lounge area that are shoes on spaces, but I am not generally tracking gravel into the house. Y’all really ask everyone to take off their shoes at parties & all? Like a barefoot cocktail hour, barefoot dinner?
The Roomba vac makes an enormous difference, I CAN walk around barefoot without feeling grit on my feet. But it doesn’t bother me that the floor is not pristine, no. And cooking feels safer in shoes.
In other people’s houses I do whatever they want, obviously, but I would never tell someone to take off their shoes for my floor’s sake.
ETA: I asked my husband and he said “up north people take their shoes off at the door in a mudroom and put on house shoes or socks because they have wall to wall carpeting and it gets filthy so fast.” I don’t have a mudroom just a front door.
Up north person here, no carpets in my house (they’re often considered old-fashioned here nowadays), but dang if road salt isn’t a scourge upon interiors. We have a mat in our entrance, and leave our shoes on a tray to contain the salt and mud, and even living in an apartment where I walk in interiors for a bit before entering our home, there’s frequently enough salt to buildup and stain our floors white.
The salt is absolutely necessary to melt the ice outside, but we have to mop our entrance multiple times a week, it’s 100% the primary reason Canadians are shoes-off, I’d assume the northern states are the same.
Generally I plan it outside if I can but, true, that’s an exception. It’s just not worth trying to deal with that: clean before, clean after, and don’t worry about it.
Amusing story though …… new friends, kids in scouts, “pinewood derby” crafting day where we all got together to help the kids build. I automatically took my shoes off. In the workshop. sawdust, dirt and nails everywhere. Didn’t even think until someone noticed and looked at me like I was an idiot. Oh. I am an idiot
If your shoes are covered in mud (or full of gravel???) then you take them off. But if you’ve just gone outside to go to the shop and your shoes are still relatively clean, you wipe them on the doormat and go in, the amount of dirt you actually bring in is miniscule.
Then there are rules about not putting shoes on sofas or beds, so if you want to put your feet up you take your shoes off then.
My kin just have home shoes, usually slip ons, flip flops, or sandals. Not to say they can’t be worn outside just generally they aren’t at least not as much as proper boots.
I also always wonder if it correlates with wall to wall carpet. Carpeting makes dirt disappear, so there’s nothing wrong with wearing shoes around the house.
But once you realize how much dirt collects there, how disgusting it is …… I no longer believe in either inside shoes or wall to wall carpeting