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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
It's not a weird rule actually. Is this such a big deal?

The one thing is, I really think the host should provide a variety of slippers for guests.

I have friends that provide slippers and one that makes you wear fuzzy slipper socks. :2razz:
 
Why not wear those blue bootie slippers over your steel toed shoes?

If the homeowner has them and asks me to put them on, I would.

In fact I would be much happier putting those on in any home then taking my boots off. Smelly feet are embarrassing. I care more about being embarrassed then keeping your floor spotless.
 
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I have hard wood floors threw out my house ...when you come in and you have dirt,****,snow all over your beloved boots then i have to clean up the mess. It wasn't about there Japanese sandals its a sign of respect
 
I'm not only a libertarian, I'm also a hypocrite.

If you invite me to your house, you have to inform me about your weird rules upfront.

Why should I do that? There is NOTHING wierd about requireing people to take off their dirty shoes before entering the home. My home -- my rules ... it's the libertarian way...
 
Am I the only one who's noticed people pulling the "I'm the boss" card, as though that makes them factually accurate?

We're not talking about if it's your rules, in fact the question already assumes that it is your house and they are your rules. Set aside your insecurity and dare to defend your rules.

The question is not rather you have the authority to do what you want, the question is rather or not what you choose to do is acceptable.

Of course it is acceptable.

1. It IS my home and I have the right to decide who may come into my home and under what conditions.
2. It IS customary in many communities, even in the United States. When I lived in the US, I required of people entering my home. NO ONE EVER complained about it -- and when they saw how clean my carpet was, they then understood WHY we had the rule.
3. It helped to keep our carpet very clean. I don't want to have to clean up after your mess. THAT is rude.
 
Shoes are generally dirty and some people like to keep their floors clean and nice looking.

I keep my floors clean and nice - regardless of company wearing shoes indoors occasionaly. Maintaining a clean home can be a family effort and doesn't take much time to do. A broom and a deep cleaner - it's simple.

I've, also, never had much of a mess to clean up when company comes over - We have a sidewalk to the door from the driveway and two mud-mats on the porch that people can use which is more helpful, I think, without invading comfort and privacy for the sake of me not picking up a broom.

I insist the kids go without shoes - they have slippers that they wear in the house, we all do. But I'd never ask the same from company.
 
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Seriously?

I hope no one lets you into their home.
 
Seriously?

I hope no one lets you into their home.

Who, me?

Why would i want to go to someone else's home when they're just going to make me uncomfortable?

Like I said in my previous post - I do not go and visit people who have such rules because I don't like it. I'm not missing much, though, because there aren't many people I'll ever visit, anyways, who care that much.

I keep my house clean *FOR* my company to come, visit, and be comfortable - I clean it before they come and I clean it after they come, as well.

My floors aren't that big of a deal - cleaning isn't a big deal - sweep sweep, vacuum vacuum. tada - as if nothing ever happened.

Maybe when I'm old and stingy and my kids are all out of the house I'll think differently but so far the messes I've had to haggle and break my back to clean up are things caused by my own children: permanent marker on the floor, mud, vomit, poo, all those wonderful children things.

Yet I still keep my home very clean - gee, however do I manage with all these people coming in an out with their boots on :roll:

Obviously it's just not that big of a deal for me - if company makes a mess I enjoy their presence enough to clean it up without putting them out.
 
If Miss Manners doesn't approve of asking guests to remove their shoes then that really settles it for me.

Being rude means making people feel uncomfortable. The fact that it is your house and your rules does not change that.
 
I had made that argument pages ago -- of course, you ignored it.

You must have quoted someone else when you made it, then. If you were quoting someone else, yeah, I probably skipped right over your post.
 
Who, me?

Why would i want to go to someone else's home when they're just going to make me uncomfortable?

Like I said in my previous post - I do not go and visit people who have such rules because I don't like it. I'm not missing much, though, because there aren't many people I'll ever visit, anyways, who care that much.

I keep my house clean *FOR* my company to come, visit, and be comfortable - I clean it before they come and I clean it after they come, as well.

My floors aren't that big of a deal - cleaning isn't a big deal - sweep sweep, vacuum vacuum. tada - as if nothing ever happened.

Maybe when I'm old and stingy and my kids are all out of the house I'll think differently but so far the messes I've had to haggle and break my back to clean up are things caused by my own children: permanent marker on the floor, mud, vomit, poo, all those wonderful children things.

Yet I still keep my home very clean - gee, however do I manage with all these people coming in an out with their boots on :roll:

Obviously it's just not that big of a deal for me - if company makes a mess I enjoy their presence enough to clean it up without putting them out.

No lol. The original poster. I didn't even see what you said when I posted. :mrgreen:
 
You must have quoted someone else when you made it, then. If you were quoting someone else, yeah, I probably skipped right over your post.

What bull****. Numerous people have mentioned not wanting crap tracked into their houses. *I* made the same argument and your response was snotty, assholish insults.

Hypocrite. Liar.
 
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What bull****. Numerous people have mentioned not wanting crap tracked into their houses. *I* made the same argument and your response was snotty, assholish insults.

Hypocrite. Liar.

You're effectively tracking mud into this forum :2wave:

Yes, I will often skip over posts who are specifically quoting someone other than myself. Sometimes I read everything, fishing for something to respond to, sometimes I focus on a specific line of conversation, often I will pass over posts by certain members regardless of the topic....sometimes I don't. It all depends on what I feel like doing in a given moment.

Apparently I didn't see ludahai's post. So what?
 
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Moderator's Warning:
If people can't discuss the topic civilly, I'll show them the door in this thread, with or without shoes on.
 
I will often skip over posts who are specifically quoting someone other than myself. Sometimes I read everything, fishing for something to respond to, sometimes I focus on a specific line of conversation, often I will pass over posts by certain members regardless of the topic....sometimes I don't. It all depends on what I feel like doing in a given moment.

Apparently I didn't see ludahai's post. So what?

:spin: Apparently you didn't read 90% of the posts in this thread. :spin:
 
The shoe throwing has started, I feel like Bush at a Bagdad news conference.
 
Moderator's Warning:
If people can't discuss the topic civilly, I'll show them the door in this thread, with or without shoes on.

You clever bastard.:lol:
 
I find it humorous, the arguments people get in, about "good manners" :mrgreen:
 
If Miss Manners doesn't approve of asking guests to remove their shoes then that really settles it for me.

Being rude means making people feel uncomfortable. The fact that it is your house and your rules does not change that.

Miss Manners needs to go to a Keg party or something! :rofl
 
Depends on the house rules, when in Rome do as the Romans do.
 
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