Do you remove your shoes when you enter the house?

Shoe removal is a ritual here. Everyone removes shoes when entering a house. Some public buildings let people keep their shoes, but in a private home removing is a must. I don’t need to say anything, the guests know they have to remove their shoes.

I may run out without shoes, but never run in with shoes.

Yes
No
No

I remove my shoes at the door, and if it’s been a wild night the pants might follow.

No
no
no

Usually not until bed.

No. In fact, I’m wearing them now as I sit at my desk and browse Fluther. I don’t always wear them around the house, though. I think I’ll take them off though now that I think about it…

I routinely take off my shoes because I find it more comfortable to pad around in socks, but I never ask my guests to do so.

I do it like @Pachy does it – because it’s more comfortable to walk around in socks or barefoot. Partly for cleanliness. I don’t request that my guests do. If I’m running in quickly, I don’t remove my shoes (usually because if I’m running in quickly, I’m in a big hurry).

Short answer: It’s complicated.

Long answer:
Do you take your shoes off when you enter your home? Having grown up in a culture where removing shoes before entering a house was never required, I don’t do it unless I’ve been gardening. When staying with the SO, I do because we walk everywhere (no car) and there is a good chance that one of us stepped in something unsavory.

Do you request that your guests do? No. Some do and some don’t.

What if you are just running in quickly because you forgot something, and then running right back out? If I’ve been in the yard, then yes, they come off, especially when I owned a dog. If in the garage, sidewalk or driveway, then no.

Funny story: When my American niece started dating a Korean man, he eventually took her to meet his parents. The four of them, plus a few siblings, went out to dinner. On the ride home, the niece started feeling sick to her stomach and asked that they pull over. She and her boyfriend walked the rest of the way back. Once she entered the house, she was sick to her stomach. The boyfriend attempted to catch the volcanic explosion in cupped hands, but a fair amount landed in the family’s shoes just inside the door.

Fortunately, everyone eventually got over it, and the niece and her now husband have been happily married for 10 years.

Well, I take off my shoes just because I don’t wear shoes in the house. I don’t wear shoes anywhere, unless I have to.

I have a friend who has everyone take their shoes off before coming in. She has a meticulously clean house.

Yes. shoes off at whatever door I come into. Keeps the floors cleaner to wear socks only plus it is more comfortable. Not required for guests.

I change shoes when I enter. I don’t much mind if guests keep their shoes on. I have hardwood floors, not carpets (carpets… shudder), so it really doesn’t matter.

I just came upon this question from 2011 -

http://www.fluther.com/128031/why-dont-people-remove-their-shoes-when-they-come-into-the/#quip2152511

I don’t. My Roommate does. And we mock the shit out of him for his shoe obsession.

Not in my own house. We know folks in whose homes it’s the practice. We comply without thinking about it.

We keep our shoes on on the ground floor because don’t have carpets. On the ground floor we have tile and bamboo floors.

The stairs and upper floors have carpet and tile and we take our shoes off for going up stairs.

Yes
No but most people ask, seeing the shoes by the door, and then I say sure, please.
No

I live in a city and I get grossed out thinking about where my shoes have been.

When I lived alone, I kept my shoes outdoors and my place was immaculate. Now that I rent rooms out to people, there’s just no point. The tenants created their own slum.

Yes, immediately at the door. I expect guests to do the same when entering my house. We keep a shoe cady by the door. Take the hint people.

I’ve usually taken my shoes off when I got in my car, so it’s rare I’m wearing shoes when I arrive at my front door. If I am wearing shoes, I wouldn’t take them off at the door but would soon after entering the house.

At other people’s homes, I’d be guided by their preference. If they take off their shoes, I’ll take off mine.

Uh yeah, for most peoples houses,although we have some relatives that are not the best at keeping their house very clean,so when there I leave my shoes on.

My shoes stay on most of the day, in or out of my house. I come and go a lot, I have dogs, people come and go. I have furniture, and dishware, so no one has to sit on or eat off of my floors

@Adirondackwannabe Lol, I’m coming over. :D

I remove my shoes, it’s automatic, unless I’m told to keep them on.

95% of the time I remove my shoes. My garage is down a side hall that leads right to my bedroom, so even if I keep my shoes on I’m almost never wearing my shoes in the main part of my house. My preference is no shoes through the house, but I’m
not upset if that isn’t adhered to unless it’s ruining the carpet. Where I live now that isn’t a big concern. I’m in FL, almost no concern of mud, and carpet only in the bedrooms.

I like that no shoes in the house reduces the germs in the floor, but as I said, I’m not preoccupied about it.

When people come over I don’t ask them to remove their shoes. Some people take them
off, some don’t. Usually people staying with me overnight do. My husbands parents are never barefoot in the house, not even their own. They wear shoes or some sort of house shoe.

I work at my boss’ home office and they don’t allow shoes past the office in the front of the house, so I’m without shoes all day long at work, because if I let myself in the garage I have to leave my shoes in the garage. If I go from the office to the bathroom I need to remove my shoes.

I remove my shoes when having a piss, cuban heels give me a nose bleed if I look down.

@Symbeline Just as long as you follow the rules, laughs.

When I get dressed of a morning, I put on shoes. When I get undressed of an evening, I put on sweats and sandals until bed.
Up until very recently I wore nothing but white socks, and I was meticulous about them – they had to be as white on the bottom as on the top. I have been to people’s houses where they requested I remove my shoes and it kind of ticked me off as my socks were cleaner than their house.

First world problems!

@Dutchess_III Is that comment directed to @ibstubro or the collective in general?

At first I was thinking @ibstubro, then I looked back over the thread and decided it applied to all of us!

Similar to @gondwanalon, downstairs is optional because we have hardwood floors. Shoes off before going upstairs because there’s carpet.

I feel weird wearing shoes on carpet even when people tell me it’s okay. It just feels wrong to me.

@Dutchess_III Trivial problem, maybe. But not necessarily a first world problem. Lots of third world countries have this custom.

Good point about the carpet. When I used to live in a room with carpet, I remember I’d always take my shoes off. However, I also lived in a room with those really thin carpets that seem more like a soft floor, and I had no problem keeping my shoes on for that.

If I’m in for the day, yes. In and out, no.

If I’m in and not going out again o take my shoes off because that’s how I’m most comfortable. If I’m dashing in to get something and then going back out I keep them on.

I don’t care if other peoe take their shoes off or not.