Do you allow shoes in your house.. - Spin off

TANNER'S MOM wrote: We do not. I have a shoe stand at my back door and everyone takes shoes off and deposits them. Sometimes that gets unmanagable..and even I have to admit I leave them there instead of carrying into the bedroom. But I have the worse green carpet in the house, it collects and shows everything. So off with the shoes.
Please we dont' really need COUNTRY stuff in the floors. I am the shoe nazi..

I did print a cute sign that says.. I journey of a lifetime starts with one small step..to put above my shoe tree..lol

Am I the only one?

moped replied: I allow shoes - basically anything to make anyone feel confortable I am good for!

We are all about people feeling happy and confy in our home!

I am not at all saying you don't, but we allow just about anything!

And we are wall to wall hardwood, so that's all good!

Calimama replied: No shoes in my house. Anyone has a problem they are more than welcome to stand outside. Seriously Bella licked the kitchen floor this morning!!! I had just mopped them luckily but still!!

ETA: I do bend the rule, I swear I'm not a no-shoe nazi.

grapfruit replied:
First, LoL! Gross, but funny!


We don't really wear them in the house. I'm not strict about it, but I'd rather not. Tim is totally not allowed to go onto the carpet w/his boots though. That I'm strict about.

jcc64 replied: Dh grew up in Korea, and it's very bad form to wear outdoor shoes in the house, so we don't.

gr33n3y3z replied: When the new remodled house is done we will have all wood flooring and tile except in a few bedrooms not sure what our plans are for shoe free house or not prolly not unless you have beach sand in your shoes bc thats a bugger to get cleaned up

MoonMama replied:
Ditto!

Braedin will chew on his toes after being all over the floor! NO SHOES!

MyBrownEyedBoy replied:
Oh sweetie, she's gonna lick much worse things. I promise.

I do allow shoes in my house.

Calimama replied:
Oh no, I don't think I want to know.

Hillbilly Housewife replied: Uh, NO.

I have a carpet in my front door area... with a shelf for shoes... NOBODY gets off the carpet with shoes. And even so, I find myself sweeping several times a day, just from the sand and other crap that was tracked in with NO SHOES. I can just imagine WITH.

BUT - when we have company over or whatever, then I don't care so much...because then I don't have to watch other people's kids, whom i'm paid to supervise, crawl and eat off the dirty floor.

moped replied: I can't be the only one to allow shoes in the house

luvmykids replied:
You aren't!

I do too. I always say I'm going to make a no shoe rule but I'm way too lazy to enforce it

We're all in and out way too much during the day to take them off all the time, plus I get lazy if I take my shoes off.

mysweetpeasWil&Wes replied: Us too Mel...No shoes. Most of my friend's homes are the same, no shoes. So we're all used to it when we have each other over. DH made a shoe rack in the garage, so they all go there when we are coming in from the garage. My carpet is beige and it shows everything, plus Wesley is crawling on all fours now, so it grosses me out to have him touching what people bring into the house if they had shoes on.

gr33n3y3z replied:
Oh yeah just wait hun

redplaydoh replied:
Trust me on this.... Bryan ate Lucas' poop out of his diaper and is still alive. Let her lick the kitchen floor.... it WILL get worse.


No shoes in our house! But it also seems to be a Swiss thing. Most all guests I've seen offer to take their shoes off when entering a house.

I had these signs up when I lived in the US. I would rotate them out as I got tired of them. I just printed them on my computer and taped it to my front door.

Life is full of choices: Remove your shoes or Scrub the floor

Please be a dear, and leave your shoes here.

Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring
Please take off your shoes
And come on in!

Please remove shoes, but feel free to take better ones on your way out!

MotherForever2043 replied: We allow shoes in the house right now since we hardwood floors throughout the house. But, when Jordan starts to crawl, I will no longer accept shoes in the house.

Maddie&EthansMom replied:
Same here and we are about to be carpet free.

Our Lil' Family replied: Once I get my house with a mudroom then shoes will have to be left in there...for now, they are ok, unless they are too dirty.

Boo&BugsMom replied: I NEVER allow shoes. I am such a germ freak, but with shoes it's more or less thinking about how much more I will have to clean floors, and I hate dirty floors. I have a rug by my back door and a sign on the door as well. I even clean Tanner's feet when they are dirty. And make Troy wash his is they are dirty as well. I'm anal like that.

Sam & Abby's Mom replied: As a rule, We (me, dh, Sammy and Abby) dont wear shoes in the house, but I allow guests to wear them. Some guests (my Mom, my sister in law-- will take them off, but I dont ask them to do so). Sam and Abby have a shoe basket in the mud room, I have an over the door shoe rack on the door of the mud room and DH leaves his shoes in the garage.

Do you remember that Sex and the City episode when Carrie had to take her shoes off at a friend's house and someone stole them ?

mom21kid2dogs replied:
Nope! We "allow" shoes, too. Although we rarely wear them unless we're going somewhere, I could care less what someone wears on their feet in the house.(sans wet/snowy boots or shoes)

Personally, I generally wear my shoes at someone else's house unless I am asked to remove them or they are wet/snowy. Exception would be family members (like my sister's or parents house)~they come off at the door, there!

hoosier momma replied: I allow shoes in the house so long as they aren't wet or muddy. I just never wear them because I hate shoes.

lisar replied: We use the back door of my house which goes into the kitchen and you cant get to a bathroom without ever hitting the carpet. So yes shoes are allowed there. However on the carpet and where I live NO WAY!!! The carpet is like an off white. (I hate it) so I make everyone take off thier shoes for that. I live in the woods and the mud.

MommyToAshley replied: DH, Ashley and I always take our shoes off at the front door.

But, I would never ask a guest to remove their shoes. I guess there is nothing wrong with asking, but I would just feel weird about it. When I go to someone's house, if I notice they have a shoe rack or they have all removed their shoes, then I will do the same. Otherwise, I just wipe my feet at the door and keep them on.

coasterqueen replied: We have the no-shoe rule in our home too.

Boo&BugsMom replied:
I wish other people were this observant, then I wouldn't have to ask.

gr33n3y3z replied:
this will prolly be us also

jcc64 replied: I don't ask guests to remove their shoes. It's simply a rule that we as a family observe. Some people pick up on it and automatically remove their shoes, but if they don't, I certainly don't say anything.

coasterqueen replied:
Same here unless it's family or close friends then I have no qualms about asking them. I do ask ANYONE to remove them if I just had the carpets cleaned, though.

A&A'smommy replied: we do allow shoes but I guess once we have another baby I will have a no shoe rule since he/she will be crawling around on carpet and I wont have time to steam clean the floor every day (its WAY too heavy anyway!!)

redchief replied: Lisa already weighed in on what we'll likely do. Just wanted to let you know that some insurance companies frown upon employees taking shoes off inside a house due to potential for injury. Our city is one of them. If you're scheduled for a fire inspection and you refuse to allow us in with our shoes on, you will receive a notice of violation. That's the law. Your utility or service company may have similar rules. Just an FYI.

Boo&BugsMom replied:
That is how it is here too. A lot of companies now though (around here) provide little "footies" for employees to wear over their boots/shoes. I have to admit, the thought of someone's wet dirty work boot dragging stuff all over my floors does not appeal to me. If they do not have footies, I put down old sheets and blankets on the floor and ask them to stay on them.

holley79 replied: Well since our carpet is crap now I don't care if you wear your shoes in the house. Now when we have the new carpet installed no shoes will be allowed.

Growing up everyone in my family had a mud room that shoes came off. It was bad luck to wear shoes in the house according to my Swedish great great granny and that stayed with me. I take mine off at the door as a habit but I don't enforce it.

coasterqueen replied:
Oh I never make people like that take their shoes off UNLESS they have mudd or some type of crud all over them.