etiquette at family homes

fluffymuffy

I don't know anyone who would consider wearing shoes in a house. Is this a Cultural thing? I would be insulted if someone wore their shoes in my house. Actually they wouldn't get past the front door. It's not really a my-house-my-rules thing. It's just normal, polite behaviour.

Alpha58

paulineb wrote: »

I dont have any rules (well, I wouldnt want someone turning up snorting cocaine or anything like that),.

Gavin83 wrote: »

This wouldn't bother me. Smoking is my only no no.

Cool. Party at Gavin83's house it is!

fluffymuffy

Hermia wrote: »

Having seen the state of some of my friend's floors I'm not sure I'd want to walk around in socks!

I don't know anyone with a dirty house. I've seen such things on TV programs though. Is it common?

Person_one

fluffymuffy wrote: »

I don't know anyone who would consider wearing shoes in a house. Is this a Cultural thing? I would be insulted if someone wore their shoes in my house. Actually they wouldn't get past the front door. It's not really a my-house-my-rules thing. It's just normal, polite behaviour.

Certainly not to everybody! I consider it normal and polite to keep all my clothes on when I go to somebody's house!

Its hard to say if its a 'cultural thing' as you don't mention if you belong to any particular culture.

thorsoak

fluffymuffy wrote: »

I don't know anyone who would consider wearing shoes in a house. Is this a Cultural thing? I would be insulted if someone wore their shoes in my house. Actually they wouldn't get past the front door. It's not really a my-house-my-rules thing. It's just normal, polite behaviour.

I consider myself a normal, polite person, who has many guests and who is also invited to many a home - and I have never, ever, considered asking anyone to take their shoes off on entering my house - unless of course they are wearing wellies - and nor would I consider it polite to take my shoes off on entering another person's home - unless I'm wearing wellies or I'm in Japan or Hong Kong - to me it is not normal polite behaviour!

Probably is cultural thing - for my sins I'm a "nicely brought up middle class gel"!! from the 50s !

any_name_will_suffice

hmm, I do tend to encourage guests to keep their shoes on!!!

We have hard floors throughout and painted stairs (they're dangerous in socks!)

I hoover and mop thoroughly once a week, and sweep up every day. but the dog creates a ridiculous amount of hair, and you never know what else he's deposited on the floor. :eek:

I tend to take my shoes off at the door if they're particularly dirty, and I often change into flipflops or slippers shortly after I get in.

Gloomendoom

fluffymuffy wrote: »

I don't know anyone who would consider wearing shoes in a house. Is this a Cultural thing? I would be insulted if someone wore their shoes in my house. Actually they wouldn't get past the front door. It's not really a my-house-my-rules thing. It's just normal, polite behaviour.

What is your cultural background?

Mine is white Anglo Saxon and I don't know anyone who has a problem with shoes being worn in the house

Torry_Quine

fluffymuffy wrote: »

I don't know anyone who would consider wearing shoes in a house. Is this a Cultural thing? I would be insulted if someone wore their shoes in my house. Actually they wouldn't get past the front door. It's not really a my-house-my-rules thing. It's just normal, polite behaviour.

I don't know anyone who would take their shoes off and I would be insulted if asked. It's not normal behaviour in my circle.

peachyprice

pollypenny wrote: »

I think it's too familiar to be in stockinged feet, or bare feet, in someone else' s house.

Yes, I find it too familiar too, feet are a very personal part of the body.

lostinrates

herand wrote: »

Why would you keep outdoor shoes on whilst indoors? The idea of wearing shoes in the house just seems abnormal to me as growing uo we were always encouraged to go barefoot as much as possible.

Wearing shoes all day isn't the best for your foot health and you are trampling all the outside dirt indoors.

We go to quite formal parties etc in people's homes sometimes. There is little more ridiculous than a room full of men in evening suits and socks, Ad frankly, I chose my shoes with care to complement my outfits, often they are the 'main event'.

That's one example of where you might wear shoes,


Inversely at home I often am barefoot and wander in and out of my garden barefoot too. My dogs stay barefoot at all times, so I am under no illusion that no shoes in my house with such circumstances is cleaner!