vitauta
Executive Chef
from now on, andy, we will irritate you only when it is absolutely necessary....
If I have guests around the 5 second rule applies. Otherwise, I go commando....no time limit.
from now on, andy, we will irritate you only when it is absolutely necessary....
Yes, I take off my shoes every time I enter the house. So does every other member of my family and every other person I know. No one wears their shoes in their house around here. That would be considered very rude. There have been rare occasions when my DH would forget something and run in and out with his shoes on, but he gets the gears when he does. I have shoe racks at each door, a deacon's bench to sit on to take off or put on your shoes and big doormats. I've recently had a LOT of workmen (furnace) through my house and they brought special booties to slip on over their workboots so they wouldn't have to take them off and put them on again every time they needed to go in and out. However, they were meticulous about booties on inside and off before they went out. Shoes in the house is a BIG faux pas around here.
Hope I haven't offended you folks who wear your shoes indoors, but that has never been part of my experience. I suspect it has something to do with the climates we live in. I'm certainly not going to traipse through my kitchen or any part of my house wearing my Sorels. Nope.
Just curious, Alix, if you had to make 5 trips to carry in supplies from the car, you would remove your shoes each time you re-entered the house and put your slippers on? Most people I know would just get the job done and then do a light mopping of the tracked area.
Clearly, the moral of your story is, "Don't go camping."
Why would I need to make 5 trips INTO the house? I have a large mat at each door. I bring all the groceries into the house and set them on the floor, making as many trips as needed, then I remove my shoes (I don't wear slippers, socks or bare feet are sufficient) and put things away. Why would I needlessly track dirt or snow into my house? Living in Florida perhaps it would be different, but here, if I walked through my house 5 times to put things away that would not be a SMALL mess. As I said Timothy, walking through someone's house with your shoes on is a major faux pas here. Clearly your culture is different.