When I come home, I'll take them off when I'm upstairs in my room... I don't like wearing sneakers in my house, I'll put slippers on, much more comfy. My mom and dad on the other hand, wear their shoes inside and won't take them off while they're cooking dinner or just watching TV-- I'm always like, don't you want to take them off? But it doesn't bother them, they just do it for some reason.

I just bought a condo and the carpeting is pale beige and the area is new construction. My mom and I got into it on moving day cause it was raining and I was making everyone take off their shoes between trips outside. She told me to calm down and thats when my brother tracked red mud throughout half the house. I could have killed him (and claimed insanity I was so mad). Shoes are off at the door. I have relaxed on my parents/ grandmother though (as long as its not raining)

HOME: if the weather is nice, then i really don't think about it unless i'm getting comfortable, or it's summer and i'm probably barefoot anyway. but if the weather is bad then i take them off at the door and carry them to my room because the shoe pile at the door is just NOT attractive.

OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES: they stay on no matter what, unless they're covered in mud or the host says something.

USFstudent...thats when my brother tracked red mud throughout half the house. I could have killed him

OH NO!!! Sounds like red clay!!! How did you ever get it out?
Even regular clay destroys things around here, but I found Orange Clean Paste even got the dog's vomit stain out!
Gross, I know.
edited-the stain was there for over three years.

When I saw the title of this thread I had to post! I have always worn my shoes inside my house as well as everyone else I know, but when I went to visit my friend in France those couple of times I couldn't and she thought it was so weird that I wore my shoes inside my house. The thought of wearing shoes in the house almost made her sick! She said shoes were dirty and filthy and that's why French people have those little racks outside their doors (usually in the garage, by the door leading inside the house) to put their shoes on when they came in. I remember her asking me one day if it was really true what she saw in American movies, if Americans really would consider lying down on their beds with their--gasp!--shoes on. I thought it was really funny, because I do that without thinking.

Fortunately, I had attacked him in the garage and wiped 99% of the mud off his shoes first (thus starting several family jokes about biblical references and me cleaning his feet.....:rolleyes: ) So I guess I missed a glob on the far side of one shoe, the linolium (sp?) got the most of it, and by the time he was on carpeting it was pretty faint. I got most of it up, and can still see it. :mad: :mad: :mad:

Yeah my husband has tried to break me of the shoes in the house habit! He gave up :D
But in other folx house that don't wear shoes, I do take them off

shoes are ALWAYS off in my apt. i had my shoes on yesterday and was barely on the carpet and my roommate was like "umm...shoes" we just laughed about it. from what i remember i have always taken my shoes off since i moved out (alomst 2 yrs ago). my roommate/best friend grew up in Iceland and he has always taken his shoes off. he mom insists that i dont need to take mine off when i go over there but i always do cause i know it bothers her....i just thought it was natural to take your shoes off...they are dirty!!

am i weird?!?!? :confused: :confused:

***dances a :confused: dance***

I don't like shoes and I wear them as little as possible. If I could, I walk around barefoot all day. I usually take my shoes off in the car on my way home, though, because I enjoy driving barefoot. I end up just walking my shoes back to my closet when I get home.

Considering how many globs of spit, mucous and snot loogies that I see on the sidewalk, I would NEVER wear shoes inside the house. My shoes are removed once I get inside the door.
And yes, I would politely ask guests to remove their shoes also.