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For example, I'm a white Jewish guy but I've adopted the Japanese practice of keeping dedicated house slippers at the front door.

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[-] JoeClu@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

I would LOVE the house slipper bit. I've suggested it so many times. Wife and kids just won't go for it. Wife says it's rude to ask a guest to take off their shoes. I disagree but she just can't see my point or view. If you want to enter my house, show respect and take off your shoes to keep my house clean.

[-] gzrrt@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago

What's rude is bringing disgusting bacteria (E Coli, etc) and potentially-toxic chemicals into somebody else's house by not taking your shoes off. There's just an objectively-right and wrong answer to this one.

[-] stratoscaster@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 year ago

I just don't get it lol. Whenever I enter someone's house for the first time I ask "would you like me to take my shoes off?".

It's not that hard, and especially obvious if they have light colored carpet

[-] Open@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I have multiple guests slippers at the door with internal shoe cleaner also to hand, but that's mostly for show as we clean them anyway. Regular guests eventually get to choose there slippers and we'll get what ever they want.

[-] Buddhist1961@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry, what do you mean by "internal shoe cleaner"? My wife and I have "inside shoes" (not really slippers) with a small shoe rack / bench next to the door, but we're trying also to get slippers for the guests because so many of them usually ask if they should remove their shoes when they see us doing it. I'm having issues choosing the right slippers because I don't want that using a slipper that many other people have used becomes a hygiene issue. I know that in most cases it's not, but I don't want guest to "feel" like it may be. How do you deal with that?

[-] Open@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Anti bacterial shoe shoe spray, like they use in ice rinks or bowling alleys.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

My wife is from a shoes off in the home culture so our home is like that. Before I met her I could go either way on it.

One time when she was away I put my shoes on our bed and sent her a picture of it just to tease her. Hehe

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