Please can you take your shoes off

faerie~spangles

I've giggled my way through this thread.
We carpeted our place in 'grown up' cream berber :eek:

Most people who turn up at the door offer to remove their shoes. I always say no. I should say yes please tho' because nine times out of ten they then spend a minute or two wiping their feet on the outside doormat.

I do wipe the dog's feet before he comes indoors. Did consider buying him wellies but thought that was a step too far.

Oh and I'm a shoe kicker off-er, can't bear to wear shoes indoors.

Errata

I wear shoes indoors because I don't want to wake up one morning to discover my feet have spread out to be the size of dinner plates, which is what happens to people who spend most of their lives in slippers.

gok59

I find it very rude when someone has invited me to their home then asks me to to stand and try to balance while I take my shoes off at their front door, it makes me feel very uncomfortable especially if I have odd socks or bare feet and I find that quite often the shoes I am wearing are a part of my outfit - the effect is not really the same with socks.

Bronnie

lilrahi wrote: »

I have a shoe rack by the door and if someone doesn't I try and make a joke of it (depending on how well I know the person), like 'Oooh, someone forgot to take their shoes off' etc. But I have no problems if they still wear their shoes in the front room but insist when they come into the living room.

My 15-month old still crawls around and I would prefer the floor be clean as possible.

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Don't worry too much about that aspect tbh!

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lostinrates

adouglasmhor wrote: »

We don't have a shoes policy in our house but we do in the Dojo and Yoga Centre I sometimes teach at. Whether I am teaching or not anyone come into a class I am taking part in with shoes on (other than indoor shoes which I do not expect to see them wearing outside but have) gets asked to go back outside to the landing and remove their shoes.

If you had ever put your hand on a bit of road grit or worse while doing a downward facing dog in yoga or a breakfall at Ninjutsu you would understand why. It's traditional in many martial arts and in yoga anyway.

Despite this I do get people who protest about it or ignore it and I have even refused to teach someone who continually broke the rule. As a beginner I trained in totes toasties for the first couple of months as I had circulation problems at the time and found my feet got to cold going barefoot.

I think this is a good example of wear its the expected culture even in uk, to adopt the culture of no shoes. Feiw, I used to practise yoga when able in my shoes allowed but option house and never had a problem, nor doing yoga or my very basic level tai chi in the garden.....by far my preferred place come to think of it.

RandomDan

What an enlightening thread, I had no idea people actually gave this a thought! It would not occur to me to take my shoes off when visiting someones home. I will wipe my feet always but if I was asked to remove shoes I would comply but would think it very strange.

For me, feet should be protected, so I wear shoes almost all the time. I only take my shoes off when I know I am settled and I'm not going out again. Very often I am wearing shoes in my own home all evening. Tread on something? No worries! Stub your toe? No worries!

The whole outdoor germ / dirt factor does not enter the equation for me. Floors are for feet. I wouldn't touch a floor usually with anything but feet. If I had a crawling child I understand this would be different. Floors can be cleaned and as I am an urban guy I don't often traipse through muddy fields so for me it's not a problem.

andygb

We have some relations who like you to remove your shoes as soon as you come in. The only problem is, that they have an old dog (I know not a nice way to talk about the MIL:D) who wanders in and out of doors with dirty feet, and there are hairs all around. So, the last time I just left my shoes on, and we ended up having a little discussion - so to speak;)

Person_one

TITEASCRAMP wrote: »

Why would you have dirty socks?

Because people keep making me take me shoes off...;)

Bogof_Babe

Have only read the first few pages of this thread, but searched on the word "seat" and it found nothing, so I'm assuming the following point has not yet been made...?

I am not able to untie or tie shoe laces these days without sitting down, so I have a small folding stool in my hallway. I do believe that anyone who wishes their visitors to de-shoe should at least provide such a facility! It's quite hard to balance on one foot while removing a shoe from the other one, even when you're young and fit.

I do like the idea raised earlier of having a spare pair of socks in your bag, so that you can put them over the socks you are wearing, as I hate walking around in socks that are going to be put in my shoes. So thanks for that suggestion, I'm deciding on which socks to put in my bag now! :T

Edit: Lol I've just realised I didn't actually use the word "seat" myself (except in the first line) so possibly my point has already been covered using other terms.

Torry_Quine

Bogof_Babe wrote: »

Have only read the first few pages of this thread, but searched on the word "seat" and it found nothing, so I'm assuming the following point has not yet been made...?

I am not able to untie or tie shoe laces these days without sitting down, so I have a small folding stool in my hallway. I do believe that anyone who wishes their visitors to de-shoe should at least provide such a facility! It's quite hard to balance on one foot while removing a shoe from the other one, even when you're young and fit.

I do like the idea raised earlier of having a spare pair of socks in your bag, so that you can put them over the socks you are wearing, as I hate walking around in socks that are going to be put in my shoes. So thanks for that suggestion, I'm deciding on which socks to put in my back now! :T

Edit: Lol I've just realised I didn't actually use the word "seat" myself (except in the first line) so possibly my point has already been covered using other terms.

A very good point which has been alluded to before. Like you I need to sit down so would end up on the floor and find it hard to believe that a friend would have me do that rather than let me keep my shoes on!;)