Wearing shoes in the house?

Question

Do you wear shoes inside your home? Do you wear shoes in other peoples homes? Do you let guests wear shoes in your house?

Answer 1

We don't wear shoes inside. We encourage guests to remove their shoes.
We have a gravel/sand driveway, and cats mark their territory outside. I don't want either of those in my home.
I remove my shoes at other's homes.
Prevention is my motto.

Answer 2

I am living and working in Asia now for 20 years, removing shoes is a custom and sign of respect, at first I found it starnge, now it is a custom, and yes we take our shoes off, I even ask visitors to do it, however for my european friends that is not familiar with the custom we have a shoe rack outside the door that hold various sizes of slip slops (house slippers) with soft bottoms they can wear if the want, but after the second visit they normally don't bother and just leave the shoes off. We do not wear shoes when we at home or at other peoples homes.

Answer 3

no, I have house slippers that I only wear in the house not when I go out so I know they are clean. I don't wear shoes in other peoples homes unless they are wearing their shoes. Most guests in my home know to take their shoes off I have beige carpet.

Answer 4

I used to walk through my house in shoes and take them off in my bedroom shortly after arriving home. (I lived in Florida -- it is just too hot for shoes.) My guests did as they pleased. Then I lived in South Korea for three years -- everyone there takes their shoes off at the door -- guests and husbands included. :) Now I live in Spain. Here, people always wear their shoes inside. I haven't made the switch yet, but I'm working hard at it. When in Rome...

Answer 5

I've never worn shoes inside the house. That's the way it was as I was growing up. I take my shoes off at other peoples homes unless they have theirs on. I don't say anything to guests unless it's snowing.

Answer 6

I'll take off my shoes inside the door if they're muddy or gross, but otherwise I'd rather wear shoes! FlyLady pretty much got me into that habit - I get a lot more done when I'm wearing shoes. So yeah, I have no problem with people wearing shoes in my house... I want my house to be lived in, not a spotless museum!

Answer 7

asian experience:
1) do you wear shoes inside your home?
personally i wear shoes inside my home but take it off when i enter bedrooms. most asians do not bring footwear inside when they enter a house. as a chinese-filipino, both of my culture have this practice. malay, chinese and to the extreme some japanese companies requires you to take off your shoes and change to slippers as you enter office buildings. i think this is a cleanliness thing that became a cultural thing.
2) do you wear shoes in other peoples homes?
it depends on the culture of the homeowner. the moment i see a lot of shoes or slippers outside the door then i take off my shoes before entering.
3) do you let guests wear shoes in your house?
we just had a house blessing a few days ago and we consider it rude to ask guests to take their shoes off. but some guests do take their shoes off despite our repeated protestation.

Answer 8

We let guests wear shoes in our house.
Always feel weird when visiting people and they ask you to take off your shoes. Except once at my nieces house when she explained her baby crawls all around floor and she wanted him free from germs.

Answer 9

I don't wear shoes in my home and I am not offended when people ask me to take my shoes off in their home.

Answer 10

We don't, but we don't ask guests to take their shoes off. Most do because they see the pile by the door, but it's not mandatory.