Comments on: Ps&Qs: Shoes On or Off?

By: erin ensign

erin ensign — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:28:23 +0000

shoes off in my own house, but i don’t ask others to unless i just mopped (which is, sadly, rare … it’s my most dreaded chore). and i take them off when i enter others’ homes. but i have a friend who is adamantly against asking others to do so. he says, ‘do you think princess di would have asked a guest to remove their shoes?’. no, i suppose she wouldn’t.

By: Matthew C

Matthew C — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:55:20 +0000

Having a shoes-off policy makes so much sense. I have no problem asking anybody who visits my apartment to remove their shoes. It keeps the place a lot cleaner. I have an whole blog about removing shoes in homes: Shoes Off at the Door, Please You might like to take a look.

By: bam

bam — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:27:16 +0000

i don’t have a policy, just a practice. which is: i kick mine off, and love when my kids do too. HA. i have one friend is very rigid about it, which is no fun. if you wanna take em off at my house, bless your heart. we have wide-plank pine (read super soft wood) in our old kitchen, and i do wince when someone in stilettos marches in, because till the end of time i can point to everywhere she walked, for there are divots all over the place…..as the fellow who sold me the planks told me: it adds to the storyline of the floor. it does indeed…..