Take your shoes off

We always take our shoes off at the door. Our kids do too when they visit. Not only is it more comfortable for me, but it keeps the floor cleaner and I don't have to clean as much. If we have visitors who don't come very often, we don't ask. But if it's family, we do. Having some kind of mat or rug by the door also helps to keep the dirt from getting on your carpet or floor.

well wether i have carpet or not, i would like to remove my shoes before entering the house [my or others] and i would also request guests to remove shoes at the door... because of fact that, shoes are always having some dust and garbage particles... which can turn your room into a dust bin. the only option, if u want to wear shoes in home,u have to get another pair of Sleepers or shoes which you will wear only in home. and wont use them out of home.

Here in Finland it's very common for people to take off their shoes when they come into someone else's house as there are carpets in the house. However, when I still lived in Indo, it wasn't common to do it as people there don't normally have carpets inside their houses. If I live in Indonesia, I won't ask people to remove their shoes before coming inside my house, but here in Finland I'll do that...well, I think even if I don't ask, they'll take off their shoes anyway he he he...

i agree with your brother, visitors and guests need to take their shoes off before entering the house for sanitary purposes. you see, if we had been outside the house for a long time, we came to step with different trashes on the streets that carries millions of germs and diseases. so, it is just practical to take the shoes off, after all, an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure.

I would like people to remove their shoes before entering the house too. but I don't keep carpet in my house because it's not easy to clean, We leave the floor uncovered and clean it every day. We prepared many slippers in our shoes closet, after our guests enter the house they remove their shoes and change into slippers to enter house. It can help to keep clean inside the house.

It is a nice habit to keep your house or carpet clean by removing your shoes. Here at Japan you dont have to tell your visitor to remove their shoes, Its actually their culture to remove their shoes before entering their houses or somebodies houses. so we have prepared extra slippers for our visitors. But not only at the houses, but also at some restaurants and school. And it really keeps the facilities clean.

where i grew up, it was common knowledge to take your shoes off before entering a persons home. it was out of courtesy ans respect. my grandma would have a big area for people to put their shoes, when we were little we used to run outside without any shoes on and she'd get mad and make us wash out feet before we enter the house. even though now i live somewhere else, i still take my shoes off at the door before going on the carpet, although my husband still walks across the carpet because he wants to sit down before he takes his shoes off, but my carpet is pretty bad anyway..lol i always want others to take of their shoes before walking onto the carpet, but i do understand those who did grow up like that. BUT if i had a nice house, i'd have a sign by the door that asks you to remove your shoes. its just better that way.

I don't mind people wearing shoes in my house. It annoys me so much when I go to visit a house and the people are rude about asking people to take off their shoes. It just bugs the heck out of me. I think forcing people to take off their shoes goes against the comfort factor and just doesn't make people comfortable to be in your home.

I almost always take off my shoes when I go into someones house unless I am going to be walking right back out. Same goes with at home. I take mine off and leave them by the door. I do not care if people take their shoes off when they come through the door as long as their shoes are not really dirty.

I don't make anyone take their shoes off in my house because I just don't care. We just get our carpets cleaned every couple years or so that is fine with me. Besides, my dog drools a lot so, he makes more of a mess than anyone's shoes would and, if people walk around in my house with bare feet, they will step in my dog's drool and no one wants that. Trust me. Stepping in dog drool is gross and disgusting and I would never subject my guests to that.

yes thats a good habbit.shoes picks lots of germs.in germany others dont care but it depends the person habbit.

I don't mind either way, leave them on or take them off. I've always had a houseful of kids and let me tell you it's impossible to keep the carpets clean. The kids knew they could come to our home, were welcome and safe. We removed a lot of the carpet because it got so worn and dirty in certain areas. Most people that visit find our home to be comfortable, and I think that means more to me than clean carpets.

Yes, i mind do this. In my country (Malaysia) we have this habit that we always remove our shoes automatically when we are entering someone house, cause this a respect to the host, and the host will welcome you next time also. If overseas i don't know whether the citizen is having this habit also, i don't know but if the host is asking to remove my shoes i will because it is a respect to him/her.

Actually I read that removing shoes is a tradition from a country side, because a hsot didn't want to get too much... leavings or mud on the floor. I also read, and I foudn it rather interesting, that removing shoes is like an insult, because you're threating a master of the house as a poor villiger! I'm always removing shoes when I'm at home and ask my friends to do it. But when my sister do something more fancy than "drink as much as you can then go to sleep" her friend stay in their shoes - to match dresses or whatever ^^"

I don't think so. I really don't mind people messing with their shoes on inside my place.

Here in our house, we don't quite mind if their take off the shoes or not when entering our house since the floor wasn't carpeted. They can take it off like the usual before entering or they can wear it. But usually, people who came in our house, remove their shoes kinda out of courtesy. But there are also people who just enter the house without removing their shoes. But I think if our floor get carpeted especially if it is new and clean, we will also ask them to remove their shoes before entering our house.

I carpeted the whole place of mine also but I cannot tell my visitors to removed their shoes before entering the place of mine for that I just clean it aside from brushing with soap and then I will put a sanitizer and downy....

I ask my friend to move his shoes all the time when he visits me. I think that I would have trouble requesting this of other visitors though. I know it's my home and I have the right to ask someone to remove their shoes but all the same, this would be a difficult area for me. Would this stop you from receiving visitors if word got around that you were the one that was always asking people to remove their shoes? This is definitely one of those uncomfortable areas and it relates to your personal choice. Yes, the carpet is very important and you want to look after it as much as possible. However, does a waiter in a nice carpeted restaurant ask visitors to remove their shoes? That restaurant is like the owner's home when he is not at home! This is a bad analogy I know but I think it represents the same idea! Andrew

I wouldnt ask anyone to take there shoes off,but I would more so rely on tha tperson/visitor knowing if it was a bad thing to wear his shoes into my house lol if the shoes were really dirty and were likely to mark my flooring then I would hope that they had the sense to take them off,but if they dont then im not going to ask them myself,I will just have to clean up after .

i think it's basic, my family do that so I'm gona do that as well i feel that this is good hygience