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[On It]

I need suggestions for how to organize a no shoes in the house policy. Do you remove shoes and carry them to the closet? Leave them in the garage?

Since COVID I have gone outside my home only a few times after being fully vaccinated. I have one pair of shoes I have worn on those few outings which I leave in the garage. Any advice would be appreciated.

[fthunt]

Coat closet is next to garage door - so slip off.... go-to-store shoes .....and put in closet.  I don't walk around the house with those shoes.  Slippers are handy by.

(This has nothing to do with Covid - I see (men) spit in parking lots - dogs being walked - even puddles where someone got sick  - in parking lots)

[ECBG]

I don't remove shoes.  My carpets are steam cleaned and my kitchen and bath floors mopped with lysol in the water.

COVID travels through the air, not on the ground.

Why don't you call your doctor and see if shoe removal is necessary.

[On It]

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@ECBG wrote:

I don't remove shoes.  My carpets are steam cleaned and my kitchen and bath floors mopped with lysol in the water.

COVID travels through the air, not on the ground.

Why don't you call your doctor and see if shoe removal is necessary.

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I am not doing this for COVID. Floors in grocery stores, sidewalks, big box stores, doctor's offices are teeming with germs. I have just decided to be more vigilant about tracking anything into my home. 

[LindaSal]

@On It  I have an LL Bean shoe rack outside the house door in my garage as that is the door we always use.  Not sure if they still carry them or not but frankly it is just a rectangular wooden box with a waterhog carpet in it to place our shoes in.   We have never worn our shoes in the house, mostly because we had very expensive maple wood floors in our home and teenagers!   We are not OCD about it with company or anything but it's just me and hubby now and as a rule we still do the same thing and are no longer in our larger home.  I find it does help a lot to keep the house clean and our shoes do carry alot of bacteria.

[Meowingkitty]

The only time I wear shoes in the house is if I'm expecting someone to come over. I'm usually barefoot in the house unless it's winter, then I will wear my Uggs. Otherwise I just leave them either upstairs or downstairs for the next time I go out and about which is usually about every day. I don't worry about germs on my shoes. I certainly don't wash my floors everyday. I have better things to think about.

[ECBG]

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@On It wrote:

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@ECBG wrote:

I don't remove shoes.  My carpets are steam cleaned and my kitchen and bath floors mopped with lysol in the water.

COVID travels through the air, not on the ground.

Why don't you call your doctor and see if shoe removal is necessary.

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I am not doing this for COVID. Floors in grocery stores, sidewalks, big box stores, doctor's offices are teeming with germs. I have just decided to be more vigilant about tracking anything into my home. 

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@On It 

I would still seek my doctor's advice.  I feel if the medical world felt we needed be more vigilant, we would be made aware.

[occasionalrain]

Sidewalks, streets, parking lots are rained on, snowed on, and then the sun heats and disinfects them. Swimming pools, where people are barefoot are a good place to acquire athletes foot. Not everyone has attractive feet, much less a recent pedicure.

Telling a guest to remove their shoes upon entering is no different from requiring them to wash their hands at the door, both presume the person unclean and is insulting,  impolite.

[tototwo]

One of the worst spankings -- a memorable one anyway --  I ever got from my mom was one day I forgot to take off my shoes at the door and actually wore my shoes into the living room.  I never did that again!  

Now, the only time I take off my shoes at my own house is when my shoes are muddy or covered with snow.  Then I'll leave them on the mat by the door.  

[SilleeMee]

My mom was Japanese so I was raised with a genkan ...that's a designated place for shoes which was usually near the front or back doors. Street shoes came off there and then house shoes, or slippers, were near by to put on. You can google genkan and see what I mean. Some Japanese houses have quite elaborate genkan areas. It's taken very seriously over there.