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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

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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.
 
Their house. You're a guest. Get over it.
 
is it acceptable to require people to take off their shoes to enter your house?

Yes, absolutely.
 
I voted yes.

Personally, I do not require people to take off their shoes when entering my home, but if they track mud on my carpet they will either clean it or pay me to have it cleaned before they leave. I don't have to worry about that though. All of my other excessively anal and tyrannically fascist rules of home entryship all but guarantee the exclusion of any muddy shoed riff raff.
 
Absolutely. Even though I am not a big fan of having that particular rule(I prefer guest comfort) some people want their homes to not have tracked in dirt, some people can't stand the clop of soles hitting the floor, and some cultures insist on shoes being off while in a domicile. So there are plenty of respectable reasons for that rule, and, whoever owns the place sets the rules.
 
Since my name is on the deed, I dictate what is and isn't acceptable in my home. Wearing your dirty-ass shoes in it and tracking in whatever it was you stepped in all over my hard-wood floors is one of those things that isn't acceptable.

And if your feet stink, buy foot powder. Problem solved.
 
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. No, this the world, get used to it.
3)I wear boots all the time and it takes me 20 minutes to take them off. 20 minutes - and you accept this?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.Yours may, mine do, as does Tim Allen's....Should we accept this as law??
We have a ton of work ahead of us to catch up to the East.
My floor is not clean.
The typical Japanese floor probably is.
If we would learn to wash our feet and address the problem, then our feet would not smell.
BTW, I do not hold with "tradition", but with the best(IMO) ways of doing things.
Tolerance is my friend.
 
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.
it's my house. so, yes.
 
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.

Are you telling me that when you are at a dinner party and either the other guests have already taken their shoes off, or the host actually asks you to, then you say "no."

In many houses, people are confident their floors are clean simply because they don't wear shoes inside. But bottom line, as someone said above, you are the guest, not the host.

Also, read my signature.
 
I hate it when people require me to take off my shoes to enter their houses.

poor baby.




1)What makes you so confident that your floor is that clean?

How do you know the effort they put into having their floors cleaned?

2)This is the West, not the East.

Irrelevant. Those people are not trying to be a weeaboo. It is probably because they do not want your boots stomping all over their house and getting dirt everywhere.

3)I wear boots all the time and it takes me 20 minutes to take them off.
I think you need to learn how to take your boots on and off faster or by a better pair of boots that fit you a lot better.

The reason the Japanese started that stupid tradition is because they wore sandals back in they day, not laced shoes or boots.

As far as I know they wear laced shoes and boots and they still take their shoes off before going into the rest of the house.At least that is what their movies and cartoons depict.

4)Peoples feet smell.

Use foot powder.
 
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While I don't require people to do it, mostly because I've got nice carpets over my antique hardwoods in most areas of the house that anyone is likely to ever walk in, if that's what I wanted, people could either do it or not come into the house. My house, my rules, don't like it, tough noogies.
 
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.

Their property, their rules.
 
While I don't require people to do it, mostly because I've got nice carpets over my antique hardwoods in most areas of the house...
I do it -because- I have very nice carpets over my antique hardwoods in most areas of the house...
 
Their property, their rules.
Indeed.
Its no different than me requiring you to not bring your gun into my house.
 
Totally unacceptable.
 
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.

Tough crap. Get over yourself. It's MY house. And you'd damned well better take your shoes off before tracking all the mud and muck from outside, inside. Around here, it's beyond rude NOT to take your shoes off at the front door.
 

It's their house. If taking your shoes off is inconvenient, don't visit. Invite them to your house or to a public place.

 
Indeed.
Its no different than me requiring you to not bring your gun into my house.

What if I just stand outside your house firing randomly into the air?
 
What if I just stand outside your house firing randomly into the air?
Then the police can arrest you for creating chaos in the neighborhood.
 
Maybe the op is self-concious about having ugly feet?
 
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.

You can't come to my house then. No take off shoes, no come inside :mrgreen:
 
What I hate, is when people come inside my Shop, and then wipe their feet on my carpet.--what are they thinking? :shock:
 
My floors are clean because I sweep and mop them. It's people who come into my home with their shoes on that make it dirty again.

Their house, their rules. If you don't like it, don't go to their house.
 
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