Do visitors have to take their shoes off in your home?

[Zebra]

this is different according to person and region.

How do you handle it?

 

[petro]

Yup.
Between snow, dirt and mud, take your filthy shoes off before coming into the house.

 

[Zebra]

Yup.
Between snow, dirt and mud, take your filthy shoes off before coming into the house.

Ok …. And in case the shoes are clean?

 

[petro]

Ok …. And in case the shoes are clean?

Out here, shoes are never clean.

 

[Oddball]

Yes...We live in soil that is nearly all sand...The wood floors would be ruined.

 

[Oddball]

Out here, shoes are never clean.

EVER!

 

[Mr Natural]

That's what Welcome mats are for!

 

[Godboy]

this is different according to person and region.

How do you handle it?

Why do you make these weird, pointless threads? Do you have ANYTHING interesting to say?

Hey everybody, which do you prefer, carrots or tomatoes? Whats better, white shoes or black shoes? Do you guys like candy? Is swimming fun? Do you make more right turns or left turns when you drive? Blah blah blah blah blah.

 

[Zebra]

That's what Welcome mats are for!

True!

 

[petro]

That's what Welcome mats are for!

Yup.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

What about a values only transaction tax.

 

[Cellblock2429]

this is different according to person and region.

How do you handle it?

/---/ For family and friends who know, yes, they do without asking. For strangers or contractors, no. We just clean up after they leave.

 

[petro]

/---/ For family and friends who know, yes, they do without asking. For strangers or contractors, no. We just clean up after they leave.

We do remodel work and always lay down protection for the floors and fully clean our mess every day.
When finishing the new construction builds, once the flooring is in, we lay protection over that and supply shoe covers for those doing work.
I have done finish work in my socks or bring a dedicated pair of indoor slippers.

 

[DudleySmith]

this is different according to person and region.

How do you handle it?

Yes. We have boot trays both outside on the porch and inside the house. It's a thing we picked up in Asia. Back then Chinese and other Asians spit all over the place, disgusting filthy habit, and they still to this day take their shoes off at home and wear sandals in the house, at least most of them do. I think some countries started arresting and fining people who spit in public back in the 1970's, and changed that practice. It's still a big problem even with fines and the like.

Anti-spitting Campaigns - The China Story

There have been numerous unsuccessful attempts to eliminate spitting in public (suidi tutan 随地吐痰) in the name of civilisation and modernity, and not only at the time of the New Life Movement in the 1930s. Anti-spitting campaigns proliferated in the 1950s. Deng Xiaoping again attacked ‘this...

www.thechinastory.org

Some places it's so bad you wish you brought a frigging haz mat suit. You threw your shoes away at the airport when you left for home.

 

[eagle1462010]

Yup.
Between snow, dirt and mud, take your filthy shoes off before coming into the house.

Ditto

 

[sparky]

You may leave your shoes on under my roof, as will i as well

~S~

 

[Zebra]

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after 44 minutes already

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Ditto

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This is why I replaced all my floors with vinyl plank -- indestructible. Mine have happily been through three Midwest winters and a couple of dogs.

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[Zebra]

How is it generally in the US … in your opinion?
or in other countries that you know?

 

[DudleySmith]

How is it generally in the US … in your opinion?
or in other countries that you know?

Didn't used to be, but now a lot more people do it, regardless of weather here.