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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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![/quote]

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.

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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![/quote]

You’re not pooping on your bathroom floor, are you?[/quote]

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.[/quote]

I have a feeling some of these people have house slippers, and then separate bathroom slippers to put on before they enter the loo.  Regardless, I'm certain none of them have pets, which is really the saddest thing about this entire thread.  [/quote]

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