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I normally take my shoes off when I enter our house. I will occasionally wear shoes inside if for example I forgot something in the house and I'm in a hurry to get it. I never wear shoes in carpeted areas of the house, but I'm being stupid and ridiculous because our dogs walllow in mud from time to time and she'd like crazy, so it's not as though my tiny amounts of shoe-dirt would make a difference.

But yeah, our family generally takes shoes off in the house.

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07-18-2017 , 10:49 PM

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Howard Treesong

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Alobar, did you take your shoes off in your cell

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07-18-2017 , 11:06 PM

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He was barefoot, they took his laces away ldo

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07-18-2017 , 11:34 PM

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I usually take them off when I get home but often it's just due to getting out of work clothes etc and putting on something I am not going to freak out on if my medium-large dog decides for the umpteenth time that he is indeed a lap dog. My dogs traipse in dirt/mud so it's just mop the floors everyday and never get carpet. I couldn't care less if my friends take their shoes off or leave them on, as long as they are comfortable.

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Sometimes.

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07-19-2017 , 01:39 AM

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WateryBoil

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i dont know anyone that would be that dirty. i insta assume redneck or trash of X kind if they allow/are wearing shoes inside their home....

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07-19-2017 , 01:56 AM

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grunching,

I/Us wear shoes in our home and our carpet areas suffer. I kinda wish we were a sock family.

Obscure reference: I went to a semi-friend's house to conduct some professional business in my 20's, but was dressed casually and had on boat-ish shoes and no socks and my feet were surely stanking. He welcomes me at the door and says take my shoes off and I'm like uhhhh I'll tell you what I'm just going to leave them on, trust me.

I then walked around their house for an hour in my shoes and soon after I learned what I had done through related friends:

Spoiler:

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07-19-2017 , 02:17 AM

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Maybe we could change from 'shoes' to 'pants' and actually hope for a split in the polling results.

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07-19-2017 , 02:18 AM

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Originally Posted by WateryBoil

i dont know anyone that would be that dirty. i insta assume redneck or trash of X kind if they allow/are wearing shoes inside their home....

I find this a really strange statement, possibly it's a cultural difference. I have known people who wear shoes in the house who would be considered upper echelon society. People have got some serious germphobia happening imo. 90% of the time I am shoeless in my house does that mean I'm trash 10% of the time? Lol.

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07-19-2017 , 02:22 AM

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Originally Posted by 27offsuit

grunching,

I/Us wear shoes in our home and our carpet areas suffer. I kinda wish we were a sock family.

Obscure reference: I went to a semi-friend's house to conduct some professional business in my 20's, but was dressed casually and had on boat-ish shoes and no socks and my feet were surely stanking. He welcomes me at the door and says take my shoes off and I'm like uhhhh I'll tell you what I'm just going to leave them on, trust me.

I then walked around their house for an hour in my shoes and soon after I learned what I had done through related friends:

Spoiler:

This is also an issue for many people regardless of how vigilant they are with foot hygiene and I'm not going to embarrass a guest just to keep my house that bit cleaner.

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07-19-2017 , 02:27 AM

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econ,

In retrospect, a better poll question would have been "Are you a no shoes inside household?"

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07-19-2017 , 02:44 AM

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Lastly, sorry for the multiple posts, if I had carpet I might reconsider my ruling but as I never will due to having inside dogs this is a moot point. Fwiw the majority of people who visit choose to take their shoes off but I have zero issues if someone prefers to keep them on, unless they're caked in mud or something but that's just common sense. I also have no issues going shoeless at someone else's house, thankfully I don't have grotesque feet as that would probably be a little embarrassing.

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07-19-2017 , 03:43 AM

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froegg

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You ****ing liars.

I've been in, like, 3 houses in my life where people left their shoes by the door.

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07-19-2017 , 07:14 AM

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I think that says more about you than the rest of us.

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07-19-2017 , 07:25 AM

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Originally Posted by econophile

i don't wear shoes in my home now. used to do this growing up, and i think it is fairly common in the south.

This. I forget when I transitioned, probably when I moved in with my now-wife. But we're definitely a no shoes in the house household.

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Originally Posted by econophile

for the non-shoe-wearing majority, do you ask shoe-wearing guests to remove their shoes?

Usually people just take them off without asking. If they don't ask, I don't request it, but I focus really hard and send them a mental message that they should take them off. Works about 50% of the time.

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How many steps do the shoe "non-shoe wearers" take inside the house with their shoes on, when getting ready in the morning or when coming home?

We keep shoes in the garage right outside the laundry room door, so steps. If we had a bigger laundry room/mud room, we'd keep them there.

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did spidercrab put you up to this so there is a more lopsided poll than his gift card line?

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07-19-2017 , 07:26 AM

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I think that says more about you than the rest of us.

Yeah, where else would you keep them? For everyday wear shoes that is surely the most logical place for them to be. I do keep most of my dress shoes in my closet or in storage in the basement.

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07-19-2017 , 07:32 AM

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Lol at having a "no shoe rule" in the house. I seriously can't believe there are people that would be invited into someone's home and not take their shoes off at the door.

I wouldn't ever insist, but strangely enough it has never come up because apparently I don't associate with savages.

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07-19-2017 , 07:51 AM

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We've had people not immediately take shoes off in the house. We have hard floor downstairs and carpet upstairs so I can see how people may assume.

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07-19-2017 , 07:58 AM

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Taking my shoes off in someone else's house and padding around in my socks would bespeak a kind of intimacy I find a little creepy and would rather avoid.

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07-19-2017 , 08:34 AM

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I still want to know where you people are walking that makes your shoes so unclean they are not to be allowed inside.

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07-19-2017 , 08:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Didace

I still want to know where you people are walking that makes your shoes so unclean they are not to be allowed inside.

My wife has mild OCD. If I had carpet dowstairs though any amount of outside dirt is going to be a pain to clean.

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07-19-2017 , 08:55 AM

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What about women wearing shoes with no socks? Do you *******s force them to walk around your house barefoot?

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07-19-2017 , 09:26 AM

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Foot fetish itt.

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07-19-2017 , 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by kioshk

Taking my shoes off in someone else's house and padding around in my socks would bespeak a kind of intimacy I find a little creepy and would rather avoid.

This is borderline crazy.

The debate as to whether you, as a guest in someone's home, should take off your shoes at the door is off topic for this anyhow. Yes, you should, but that's neither here nor there.

The question was whether you, in your own home, walk around living your routine home life wearing shoes or not. Like, do you come home, take your shoes off to change out of your work attire, and then throw back on a pair of sneakers to cook dinner in.

Seems incredibly obvious to me that doing so is bizarre, but apparently some people keep it laced up to cook dinner or watch tv on the couch.

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07-19-2017 , 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by amead

The question was whether you, in your own home, walk around living your routine home life wearing shoes or not. Like, do you come home, take your shoes off to change out of your work attire, and then throw back on a pair of sneakers to cook dinner in.

Of course not. If I go change clothes I usually put on a pair of house slippers.

Why does it have to be all or nothing? There are many times that I come home and don't change clothes and my shoes stay on. Other times I will go put on my slippers at some point but it doesn't need to be right away. Are there times I take off my shoes right away? Yes, like if I just mowed my lawn my work boots stay in the garage where they belong.

I find a compulsion to remove footwear the second you walk through a door to be strange.

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07-19-2017 , 11:11 AM

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Taking off my shoes at home has much more to do with comfort than cleanliness. With that said, shoes that tend to get dirtier, like sneakers, stay in the "mud room" inside our entryway, while business shoes stay in my bedroom closet. When people ask me if they should take their shoes off in my house I tell them I don't care. And I don't.

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