Becoming a shoes-off household

Have him keep a pair of slippers inside the door until he gets used to it, if he likes something on his feet? I don't allow shoes in here past the entryway either and especially not now with the Covid.

Just make it a rule, no reason he can't go "cold turkey".

We do a hybrid here at home. We have “house” shoes, that are only worn in the house. We keep them in a basket near the front door when we leave the house.

When we enter the house, we take off our “outside” shoes and replace with our “house” shoes. This keeps the floors clear of sweaty footprints and cleaner than if we wore our “outside” shoes indoors.

No I am always in slippers or bare feet and my dad isn’t dressed unless he has shoes on. I don’t allow shoes downstairs but he used to got to the wine room in shoes. I’ll get over it.

I bet once he gets used to it, he'll actually really like it. We don't have a no shoes "policy" as such, but we all take our shoes off inside anyway. But that's more to do with comfort rather than cleanliness. I don't find it comfortable sitting around with shoes on. In summer I have bare feet, and in winter I will wear nice fluffy socks around the house. I don't make visitors take their shoes off, although a lot do anyway.

I understand you wanting to go shoe-free with a new baby who will be crawling around on the floor before you know it!

And how is that glorious baby of yours? Shocking how quickly she's growing eh?

I insist on shoes in the house for reasons I won't go into here. Since the covid "thing", I have indoor shoes and outdoor shoes. All of our shoes are in a giant eyesore of a pile by the door. Since we don't have visitors right now anyway, I'm a little "Who cares?" about it all.

just do it.... your baby will be crawling around on that floor, putting hands in the mouth and toys off the floor in the mouth.

the sooner he gets used to it, the sooner it will become the new normal. maybe a little sign by the door when he comes in, til he gets used to it? like real estate agents use for open houses....

i am canadian too and i can't say i know anyone that just walks thru their house with their shoes on. and if you go into someone else's house - you would get a <<blink blink>> if you didn't take them off. i am not obsessed with germs - don't use antibacterial soap or clean my house with bleach or lysol but people spit and hork out their nose on the sidewalk - that does it for me.

there are hallway storage options that can reduce the clutter if you don't have foyer or a boot room at your main entranceway. maybe having a new piece of furniture to put away the shoes when he walks in would be a good prompt?

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We have always worn shoes in the house (except ds - his shoes explode off of his feet as soon as he hits indoors). When we replaced our carpet with wood laminate, we started taking them off. Now that we are working from home, we tend to wear shoes. I haven't noticed any difference in the cleanliness of the house.

We are not a shoes off home. Me and DS are, but DH gets dressed in the morning and stays dressed (including shoes) until he changes into pjs. We also don’t have space at either door to store shoes. If I’m in and out a lot I do not remove shoes each time I come in. If I’m working in the yard, I’m wearing laced shoes and no way am I playing that game.

I can enforce no shoes with DD and myself, but DH still would wear his shoes in the house and I gave up the fight long ago. We have wood floors so it wasn't as much of an issue as before when we had light colored carpet so I stopped trying to enforce it.

Since COVID19, I have INSISTED no more shoes in the house. I set up a designated spot in our garage (we enter through the garage) with a chair on a mat so now DH removes his shoes before he comes in and puts his shoes on when he leaves. Everything is nice and organized and neat so he hasn't complained a peep. I'm hopeful that when this is all over we'll just continue. I love the thought that my floors aren't walked on with outside shoes anymore.

my DH is like this-  he cannot stand the feeling of the carpet on his bare feet.  It's just a tactile thing he can't get over; he's always had a few quirks like this.  The feeling of bare feet on carpeting creeps him out.  I'm barefoot on and off all day long, but he always wears house slippers.  I'd get house slippers for your DH, at least for a transition period, or for good, if he really does not like being barefoot inside. 


I do wear my shoes outside and then wear the same shoes inside the house sometimes, though...  perhaps I should change this habit to help keep down on the dust level.  

We are a no shoes household and most of the people I know are as well. The sidewalks in our city are filthy and we try to avoid tracking all that nastiness into house. We have a shoe rack near the front entry so shoes are left there before coming through the door. Those that don’t usually leave their shoes in their hall closet or have a rack or basket by the door.  I don’t really know of a good way to transition and would simply go cold turkey. 

I would like to be a shoe free household, but we have 5 doors, all of which we use for coming and going, and keeping track of indoor and outdoor shoes would become such an ordeal, I just haven't pushed it.

I put my shoes by the door every night as part of my getting ready for the next day routine.

This is one of the reasons I think pets are gross.