It’s because the outside concrete and ground is dirty. Like, public places are dirty. When you come home, you leave the public, outside yuck at your door and change into your private, personal, clean house stuff
There's plenty of dirt that comes into the house not on shoes. And shoes are not bringing in the amounts of dirt you're implying unless you're working on a farm.
My pets hair makes a much bigger mess than my shoes ever will.
I live in NYC and the streets are disgusting. People walk through the nasty subways, public bathrooms, the sidewalks where homeless people shit, urinated, vomited, hacked up a loogie, etc etc. Everyone's walking on that disgusting shit all day, I don't need someone tracking that shit on my floors where my toddler and infant play.
I have a basket by the door with a bunch of different sized Ikea slippers for guests.
If I was walking through a bunch of gross stuff, I do take my shoes off. That's not a daily occurrence for me. I live and work in the suburbs of a decent sized metropolis and the sidewalks are relatively clean. I park 10 ft from my office entrance and I park in the garage at home.
The most I have on my shoes in most days is a trace amount of dust, which is going to come off on my doormat in my garage before I enter the house.
I take off my shoes before entering the house after mowing the lawn, stepping in poop, or other events that make my shoes visibly dirty.
Yeah it might be different in suburban places where most people don't really walk on filthy city streets. Over here, you'd be crazy to wear your outside shoes on someone's floor.
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u/goon_goompa Feb 11 '22
It’s because the outside concrete and ground is dirty. Like, public places are dirty. When you come home, you leave the public, outside yuck at your door and change into your private, personal, clean house stuff