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[quote=Anonymous]My (Korean) neighbors have a cute little sign near the front door (I think it's in a picture frame or something) that says "shoes off please" and no one ever wears shoes in their house.

I have tried to institute a no-shoes rule in my house for years.  My husband refuses.  He insists he is not going to be forced to take his shoes off inside his own house.  Even when his shoes are really dirty, he forgets to take them off and leaves tracks all over the house.  He has literally tracked muddy footprints right up the beige carpets on our stairs and into our bedroom.

He also won't support me enforcing this rule with the kids.  Hence, our floors are filthy, DH and the kids track in all kinds of crap on a daily basis, and I have given up.  I'd have to clean the floors several times a day just to keep up with it.  DH won't clean them.  If he wants to walk around on filthy floors and stained carpets and have ugly hardwood floors with the finish sanded off by dirt, I apparently can't stop him.

I have cubbies in the laundry room for the kids' shoes and I make them take their shoes off if they're with me, but since it's not a house rule and DH doesn't enforce it, they often walk right in the house with shoes on.  I've also tried having "inside shoes" or slippers kept in the laundry room, so when you come in from outside, you take off your shoes and can put on your "indoor shoes" that are only worn in the house and hence not as dirty, but that hasn't worked either.  [/quote]

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