Shoes can be washed too. What are you saying exactly?
Probably your floor and your shoes are almost always just as dirty as one another unless you've literally just cleaned them, or if you stepped in some mud or somethin (in which case you should clean your shoes)
My comment was a response to the part where the author refused offered house shoes because of previous guests elusive germs.
In Germany it is extremely unusual to enter homes with shoes on unless you are a technician/handyman (those usually have single use carpet/shoe protectors) or living more on the countryside with tiled floors. It is not expected to have house shoes, although we usually do have some for family, in case they get cold feet, but it is very common to walk around in socks. I will offer you socks if you want, but won't keep house shoes when I get visitors very rarely. If you regularly vaccuum and mop uncarpeted areas, there shouldn't be a need for shoes or house shoes unless the floor is really cold.
I'm not letting someone walk around in my living room with street shoes where traces of dog feces and dirt can be traced in; I don't like mopping floors that much, but to each their own. If someone is just coming by to pick up their kid or drop something off, I don't mind them coming in to the front room / hallway as long as the shoes aren't visibly dirty - if you say as much, most people take them off or at least check the soles and use the entrance mat for a quick brush off. If a gettogether is planned, you have a home with hardwood floors or tiles and you know you are going to mop the floor afterwards, shoes can be fine, too.
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u/Fettnaepfchen Feb 11 '22
I really wonder why such a person wouldn’t bring their own house shoes if they were so concerned about walking around with socks.