Unpopular Opinion

It's your house - you're welcome to do as you please.

Wash yo feet. Like Jesus.

I'm dubious how unpopular this opinion is, but it's still a great post!

Myself, I've been inside a lot of other people's houses. Lots of different footwear preferences, though I was largely exempt because I was there to do a job that requires stable and secure footing, and thus had to wear shoes.

You'd be amazed how many people just change shoes when coming in rather than taking them off. Not even to slippers, just a pair of house sneakers or whatever, for the exact reason you stated. They would generally prefer to stay in shoes until they could clean their feet from the rigors of the day.

Some would come home, change into house shoes, and have another pair for going back outside, and sometimes another pair for errands. The folks that were past retirement age still stayed in whatever habit they had before more often than not.

Hell, anyone that had a member of the household doing significant outdoors work, like construction, often had full on changing stations set up. One home, the son in law was foreman of a road crew. He'd come home, step out of his boots on a screened in porch, step into the mud room where he could then wash up a little and change clothes while sliding on comfy mocs to come inside the rest of the way, then go take an actual shower more at leisure, where he'd change into his lounging around clothes for the night.

I tend to go barefoot at home, but I don't work any more, so even when I go out in shoes, I'm not doing anything to get them sweaty. When I do, I tend to pull off the shoes and go to the bathroom in socks where I clean my feet.

I have a pair of house clogs for downstairs use like when i'm cooking or doing anything that puts my feet at risk.

Otherwise no shoes upstairs, and I don't wear shoes downstairs except see above.

Guests can wear shoes downstairs ... but if they get to go upstairs (not likely) they have to remove their shoes. Service folks and contractors get an exemption.

But do you.

And gosh I had never noticed how complicated my house rules are on shoes.

Your shoes presumably have been subjected to everything outside.

House shoes?

Unpopular opinion indeed but not outrageous since it's your home, congratulations have my upvote and both my approval and disapproval

Unpopular != Wrong

One thing I learned rather quickly after wearing sneakers without socks for a little while is how quickly they develop a 'shitty smell.'

Later, I learned that much of the culprits in such cases are some of the very same bacteria and micro-flora / fauna in our poop, eating our waste-products to their own heavenly ends...

Considered trying socks or slippers?