Party requesting guests to take shoes off

Anonymous
You should just be prepared to wash your floors after the party. It's that simple. The people who won't take their shoes off exist and may show up. If one person wears their shoes in your house, you'd need to clean the floors anyway.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I think we’re all missing the much more important point that a school is asking all of the families to host a large gathering at home??? That’s insane to me! I assume it’s fake, right?


Gotta be.

Please please let this be fake
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP if you asked guests to take off shoes, I would comply, but would be totally grossed out. That’s like asking your guests to walk around barefoot in a locker room! Your floors may have been clean at the start of the party, but in a large group someone is bound to have something funky and contagious on their feet - soooo gross!

I also don’t get this idea that there’s fecal matter on the bottoms of everyone’s shoes - in the suburbs, our sidewalks, cars, and grocery store floors generally do not have poop all over them. Just mop your floors regularly and all will be ok - there is no reason that floors need to be sterile enough for someone to lick them!


Just wear socks. Easy answer. Anyway, these shoe threads always go off the rails, so I'm not going to weigh in on OP, but re fecal matter:

The fecal matter was found when swabbing shoes. In other words, your suburban shoes can be swabbed, and fecal matter is likely to be found on them. Do what you want with the info, but know that it's not just a theory.


Um what do you think swabs would pick up on your bathroom floor? No matter what you’re wearing into the bathroom (outside shoes / inside shoes / socks / bare feet) - that will also get tracked around your house!
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think we’re all missing the much more important point that a school is asking all of the families to host a large gathering at home??? That’s insane to me! I assume it’s fake, right?


Gotta be.

Please please let this be fake


Maybe some very expensive and small preschool only attended by rich people?
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I have a medical issue where I need to wear a brace that sits in my shoe. I literally can’t walk without it. When I am asked to remove my shoes at someone’s house I explain to the host and keep my shoes on. It has lead to some awkwardness as I have my shoes on as everyone else has to take them off. I did have one neighbor who said that taking shoes off wasn’t optional, so I apologized and left the party.


Just being shoe covers.


You’ll be shocked to learn that someone who needs a brace to walk doesn’t do well with the extra fall hazard of sliding paper over my shoes.

I left with no hard feelings when I couldn’t wear shoes. If people prioritize a shoe free house over accommodation for my issue, I’m fine with it. Truly, I am. I’m not saying that to be snarky. But that it really the situation I find myself in when people have shoe free events.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP if you asked guests to take off shoes, I would comply, but would be totally grossed out. That’s like asking your guests to walk around barefoot in a locker room! Your floors may have been clean at the start of the party, but in a large group someone is bound to have something funky and contagious on their feet - soooo gross!

I also don’t get this idea that there’s fecal matter on the bottoms of everyone’s shoes - in the suburbs, our sidewalks, cars, and grocery store floors generally do not have poop all over them. Just mop your floors regularly and all will be ok - there is no reason that floors need to be sterile enough for someone to lick them!


Just wear socks. Easy answer. Anyway, these shoe threads always go off the rails, so I'm not going to weigh in on OP, but re fecal matter:

The fecal matter was found when swabbing shoes. In other words, your suburban shoes can be swabbed, and fecal matter is likely to be found on them. Do what you want with the info, but know that it's not just a theory.


Um what do you think swabs would pick up on your bathroom floor? No matter what you’re wearing into the bathroom (outside shoes / inside shoes / socks / bare feet) - that will also get tracked around your house!


You’re not pooping on your bathroom floor, are you?
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Host it in your backyard and offer shoe covers for those that need to come inside to use the restroom or whatever. Get cleaners to come the next day anyway bc there will be folks who wear their shoes inside the house anyway.


Outside in August in DC will be lovely. Yes, do this.


You have to be kidding, right? August is the worst month to be outside!
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP if you asked guests to take off shoes, I would comply, but would be totally grossed out. That’s like asking your guests to walk around barefoot in a locker room! Your floors may have been clean at the start of the party, but in a large group someone is bound to have something funky and contagious on their feet - soooo gross!

I also don’t get this idea that there’s fecal matter on the bottoms of everyone’s shoes - in the suburbs, our sidewalks, cars, and grocery store floors generally do not have poop all over them. Just mop your floors regularly and all will be ok - there is no reason that floors need to be sterile enough for someone to lick them!


Just wear socks. Easy answer. Anyway, these shoe threads always go off the rails, so I'm not going to weigh in on OP, but re fecal matter:

The fecal matter was found when swabbing shoes. In other words, your suburban shoes can be swabbed, and fecal matter is likely to be found on them. Do what you want with the info, but know that it's not just a theory.


Um what do you think swabs would pick up on your bathroom floor? No matter what you’re wearing into the bathroom (outside shoes / inside shoes / socks / bare feet) - that will also get tracked around your house!


My bathroom floor is frequently washed. The sidewalks, stores, roads, grass/fields, trails and driveways I also frequent not so much.
Anonymous
i wear orthotics. my feet hurt without them. i woukd find it very weird to do this and if i knew it in advance would find an excuse not to attend
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP if you asked guests to take off shoes, I would comply, but would be totally grossed out. That’s like asking your guests to walk around barefoot in a locker room! Your floors may have been clean at the start of the party, but in a large group someone is bound to have something funky and contagious on their feet - soooo gross!

I also don’t get this idea that there’s fecal matter on the bottoms of everyone’s shoes - in the suburbs, our sidewalks, cars, and grocery store floors generally do not have poop all over them. Just mop your floors regularly and all will be ok - there is no reason that floors need to be sterile enough for someone to lick them!


Just wear socks. Easy answer. Anyway, these shoe threads always go off the rails, so I'm not going to weigh in on OP, but re fecal matter:

The fecal matter was found when swabbing shoes. In other words, your suburban shoes can be swabbed, and fecal matter is likely to be found on them. Do what you want with the info, but know that it's not just a theory.


Um what do you think swabs would pick up on your bathroom floor? No matter what you’re wearing into the bathroom (outside shoes / inside shoes / socks / bare feet) - that will also get tracked around your house!


You’re not pooping on your bathroom floor, are you?


When a toilet is flushed, microscopic fecal matter is flung around the bathroom. It’s the same logic as the idea that you pick up fecal matter walking on a sidewalk - you’re not actually stepping in poop.

I’m just saying there’s no reason to get so hung up on this idea of microscopic matter being a risk. If you walk in and out of a bathroom, you’re tracking it around your house anyways. Just clean the floors regularly and all is good.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I have a medical issue where I need to wear a brace that sits in my shoe. I literally can’t walk without it. When I am asked to remove my shoes at someone’s house I explain to the host and keep my shoes on. It has lead to some awkwardness as I have my shoes on as everyone else has to take them off. I did have one neighbor who said that taking shoes off wasn’t optional, so I apologized and left the party.


Just being shoe covers.


You’ll be shocked to learn that someone who needs a brace to walk doesn’t do well with the extra fall hazard of sliding paper over my shoes.

I left with no hard feelings when I couldn’t wear shoes. If people prioritize a shoe free house over accommodation for my issue, I’m fine with it. Truly, I am. I’m not saying that to be snarky. But that it really the situation I find myself in when people have shoe free events.


My BFF has a similar need to wear shoes. She brings indoor shoes when she goes out, or if she is in a position to not change shoes, she wears shoe covers on her indoor shoes to the door and then removes those.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP if you asked guests to take off shoes, I would comply, but would be totally grossed out. That’s like asking your guests to walk around barefoot in a locker room! Your floors may have been clean at the start of the party, but in a large group someone is bound to have something funky and contagious on their feet - soooo gross!

I also don’t get this idea that there’s fecal matter on the bottoms of everyone’s shoes - in the suburbs, our sidewalks, cars, and grocery store floors generally do not have poop all over them. Just mop your floors regularly and all will be ok - there is no reason that floors need to be sterile enough for someone to lick them!


Just wear socks. Easy answer. Anyway, these shoe threads always go off the rails, so I'm not going to weigh in on OP, but re fecal matter:

The fecal matter was found when swabbing shoes. In other words, your suburban shoes can be swabbed, and fecal matter is likely to be found on them. Do what you want with the info, but know that it's not just a theory.


Um what do you think swabs would pick up on your bathroom floor? No matter what you’re wearing into the bathroom (outside shoes / inside shoes / socks / bare feet) - that will also get tracked around your house!


You’re not pooping on your bathroom floor, are you?


When a toilet is flushed, microscopic fecal matter is flung around the bathroom. It’s the same logic as the idea that you pick up fecal matter walking on a sidewalk - you’re not actually stepping in poop.

I’m just saying there’s no reason to get so hung up on this idea of microscopic matter being a risk. If you walk in and out of a bathroom, you’re tracking it around your house anyways. Just clean the floors regularly and all is good.


Sure you’re stepping in poop on a sidewalk. Dogs, birds, rodents… not to mention all the other yuck that ends up on sidewalks like spilled food, vomit, and all the general dirt.
Anonymous
Don't host! I would not take off my shoes. And I would be staying as it is a school networking event. You would have to ask me to leave and I promise that you will be very embarrassed by your behavior when I explain to all the guests why I must leave my shoes on. So rude! Don't invite Americans to your home and expect them to undress as a requirement to enter your house.
Anonymous
of course it's fine--who tromps around the house in dirty shoes? maybe for a cocktail party where people are wearing heels yes, but not for a party involving kids. anyone who has ever met Asians, knows this is a nogo for many of them.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:In Japan nobody walks around barefoot. In temples you wear socks or temple slippers over your socks.
In houses people get slippers in the entry.
BTW there are bathroom slippers separate from regular indoor slippers and you change.

Only in America do you think shoe free means show me your toenail fungus.


Yes so weird.
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