Parties: Shoes or no shoes?

[Caliga]

We normally don't remove our shoes when going over to a friend/relative's house and never ask nor expect people to do so when visiting us.  I will note, however, that our friend from Switzerland insisted on removing her shoes the last time she came over.

[Tonitrus]

Perhaps, interestingly, I'd wager that 100% of the people (me included) who demand that visitors don't wear shoes on inside their homes don't think twice walking around carpeted hotel rooms with their dirty shoes on. 

Fuck hotel corporations? 

[Razgovory]

I wear very dirty socks, thus thwarting efforts to protect a carpet.

[Ideologue]

Perhaps, interestingly, I'd wager that 100% of the people (me included) who demand that visitors don't wear shoes on inside their homes don't think twice walking around carpeted hotel rooms with their dirty shoes on. 

Fuck hotel corporations? 

If you charged people to come into your house, I think they could justifiably feel entitled to wear whatever they wanted to.

[Eddie Teach]

If you charged people to come into your house, I think they could justifiably feel entitled to wear whatever they wanted to.

No shirt, no shoes, no service.

[Ideologue]

If you charged people to come into your house, I think they could justifiably feel entitled to wear whatever they wanted to.

No shirt, no shoes, no service.

You go to some pretty strict hotels.

[Eddie Teach]

Actually thinking of my grandmother's condo. But they have rules about just about everything.

[Martinus]

No matter how much you wipe your feet, you can never get rid of all the grime and dust or snow.

By the same token why don't you serve your food on paper plates and in plastic cups. After all, during a larger party someone is bound to break something and you have to clean up afterwards anyway. 

[Pedrito]

Removing shoes is for peons.

Gentlemen will reach party places by limousine, thus their shoes remain perfectly clean.

L.

[MadImmortalMan]

Reno.

Yes, I get plenty of snow here.

Really? I didn't know that.

You are weird then.

This is Languish. Were all weird. 

[Grey Fox]

Reno.

Yes, I get plenty of snow here.

Really? I didn't know that.

You are weird then.

This is Languish. Were all weird. 

or, alternatively, Yi.

[Sheilbh]

Reno.

Yes, I get plenty of snow here.

Really? I didn't know that.

You are weird then.

This is Languish. Were all weird. 

or, alternatively, Yi.

I don't think it's mutually exclusive.

[Ideologue]

No matter how much you wipe your feet, you can never get rid of all the grime and dust or snow.

By the same token why don't you serve your food on paper plates and in plastic cups. After all, during a larger party someone is bound to break something and you have to clean up afterwards anyway. 

Carbon footprint.

[Ed Anger]

I've served food on paper plates(good strong ones, not the thin plop your food in your lap ones) before. I ain't breaking the fancy shit out for the plebs.

[Josquius]

I wouldn't have to tell the VP (or government equivalent) to take his shoes off - he'd just automatically do it.

This is obviously a northern / southern divide.  Look if I lived in Italy or Spain, where it never snowed, and you consequently have tile floors, then I'd have no problem with shoes in my house.  But living in Canada, with the amount of snow and mud outside right now (and with our carpet floors) there's no way you're wearing your shoes in my house.

I have heard of it being a northern/southern divide before. I do recall in Sweden people seemed to be really strict about it. In the UK though...we tend towards taking shoes off but it isn't as huge a deal with many families not caring at all.

I also recall hearing there's something of a rural/urban divide at play too with folk from more rural places/cultures tending towards taking shoes off.