I want someone to overlay the map of countries that still use TP instead if water. Then we will know the real barbarians. \s

Where do slippers fall on this? I'm a shoes off person, but in the winter I've started wearing slippers inside.

Shoes ok downstairs, but usually off except for if I'm about to go out and roaming about finding things. Guests do what they prefer and I usually mention it's fine to leave them if they prefer. I think the fact that I have dogs is important. My floor normally has paw prints and hair so I wouldn't expect a person to take off their shoes downstairs, it's pretty much like the dogs leave their shoes on spoiling it for everyone.

Shoes stay at the door and showers are taken at night!

Yeah this shocked me coming to the Netherlands. Thing is, when everybody else is wearing shoes, you don't wanna walk around in socks or barefoot cuz the floor gets nasty. It's a vicious cycle

I feel like the US is very split on this.

Personally I have all hard floors and don't care if someone has shoes on, but personally shoes in the house feels weird to me.

chanclas ftw

Slippers don't count as shoes.

How the hell did Canada become a shoes off country when it's not only surrounded by shoes on but also both of its major contributing cultural influences (UK and France) are supposedly shoes on?

In my society people usually don't get their shoes off at home. We did this thing of using specific shoes at home as a compromise. Works pretty well, it's not that I wouldn't like a shoes off policy, but it can get too cold to stand on uncarpeted floors.

We wear shoes/slippers in the house. For 2 reasons

I have never been able to teach any of the dogs I've had to take their shoes off when they come in the house. So the floor is getting dirty anyway even as we speak. Sweeping and vacuuming happens more than once a week.

When you live in a place where the temperatures are below freezing for 6 months out of the year, your house cold soaks. So the floor is most likely going to feel uncomfortably cooler than people who live in a more temperate climate experience. And it doesn't matter how well insulated or sealed your house is, it will cold soak. Slippers/shoes for the win.

I mean, if you live in the north it's pretty much a given that you want the snowy, soon to be water dripping, winter boots off when you come in from the freezing blizzard.