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is it acceptable to require people to take off their shoes to enter your house

Is it acceptable to require people to take off their shoes to enter your house

  • Yes

    Votes: 88 93.6%

  • No

    Votes: 6 6.4%
  • Total voters
    94
I suppose the thing which irritates me the most about people who don't want shoes worn in their house, is when I don't know about the rule before hand.

If you tell me before inviting me over, then I can either choose not to come over out of respect for your rule, or I can change my socks and put on my slip-on shoes.

Waiting until I'm standing in your front doorway to tell me I have to take my boots off and stink up the place is just rude.
 
Jerry said:
I suppose the thing which irritates me the most about people who don't want shoes worn in their house, is when I don't know about the rule before hand.

If you tell me before inviting me over, then I can either choose not to come over out of respect for your rule, or I can change my socks and put on my slip-on shoes.

Waiting until I'm standing in your front doorway to tell me I have to take my boots off and stink up the place is just rude.
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I would understand if someone wants to keep the crap on my shoes off their carpet.
Maybe you could put plastic bags over your shoes but maybe it would be better to wash your feet and change your socks.
 
Around here it would be considered rude not to offer to remove your shoes when entering someones home, especially on a wet / snowy day. On a nice dry day I make no such requests of people but in the middle of the winter I'll be damned if you're going to drag all that crap across my 75 yr old oak floors.
 
As a general rule, yes! There are always exceptions. But the alternative to those exceptions is to put down plastic.
 
I can't even believe that people *have* to be asked to remove their dirty shoes before tracking crap all over someone's floors. That is the height of rudeness, IMO - to knowingly, willingly track dirt all over your host's floors. ****ing. Rude. And insulting. How little respect someone must have for me and my home to want to dirty it in such a manner.
 
Joe Blow said:
Around here it would be considered rude not to offer to remove your shoes when entering someones home, especially on a wet / snowy day. On a nice dry day I make no such requests of people but in the middle of the winter I'll be damned if you're going to drag all that crap across my 75 yr old oak floors.
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True. It is not just an East thing. Have had something like 30 Canadien boys live with us while playing hockey over the years and everyone removes his shoes without question. They may be a slob everywhere else in the house but they always remove their shoes.
 
It's your house. You make the rules.

The same applies to making smoking rules in restaurants. The OWNERS, NOT the government.
 
ronpaulvoter said:
It's your house. You make the rules.

The same applies to making smoking rules in restaurants. The OWNERS, NOT the government.
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I didn't realize that the governemnt tried to pass legislation banning/mandatorizing footwear in residential environments. The bastards!
 
If they have mud or dog crap on their shoes, I would make them take off the shoes.
 
Your house your rules.
 
In my house, you take off your shoes in the hallway. If you don't know beforehand, I will just remind you when you try to walk in with shoes. Similar, you don't walk in with a jacket on. Remember, you are the guest and then you abide by their rules.

I have experienced weird norms in some houses, but it's their house, their rules.
 
new coup for you said:
I hate it when people require me to take off my shoes to enter their houses.

It's bull**** for several reasons:

1)What makes you so confident that your floor is that clean?
2)This is the West, not the East.
3)I wear boots all the time and it takes me 20 minutes to take them off. The reason the Japanese started that stupid tradition is because they wore sandals back in they day, not laced shoes or boots.
4)Peoples feet smell.
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But why not wear elastic sided work boots? We have them here. "Blundstones"

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I have to watch all the guys removing their work boots to go through airport security - one thing that all the increased security did was to teach some men that socks do not have to stick to the walls before being changed:p
 
Strangers are allowed to wear shoes, and only shoes in my house, if they dont like it the can **** off.

Pswe have very few friends
 
Camlon said:
In my house, you take off your shoes in the hallway. If you don't know beforehand, I will just remind you when you try to walk in with shoes. Similar, you don't walk in with a jacket on. Remember, you are the guest and then you abide by their rules.

I have experienced weird norms in some houses, but it's their house, their rules.
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Never heard of the jacket thing before.

The only other one that grates my nerves is wearing a hat inside. I don't mind it so much inside the house, but when you sit down to eat, the hat needs to come off. It's just rude and shows lack of respect. Much like wearing a ball cap or hoodie inside a school is....
 
I saw an ad for a new product that people step into like a box and come out with a foot cover. No more dirt in the house and no need to take off their shoes.
 
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