Taking off your shoes

[Roy]

Really? I would be pissed if someone walked into my apartment with shoes on. Especially if i just had cleaned it.

Well I could be also pissed but that is - some people find it awkward when asking somebody about doing this - anyone with dirty shoes should bear in mind about possible consequences beforehand to avert. Many ask before but people usually reply courteously: You don't need, chill out etc. So there begins traditional exchange of courtesies. No one really make a fuss from these situations (excluding some hardcore cases which may happen).

[Baldur]

Well I could be also pissed but that is - some people find it awkward when asking somebody about doing this - anyone with dirty shoes should bear in mind about possible consequences beforehand to avert. Many ask before but people usually reply courteously: You don't need, chill out etc. So there begins traditional exchange of courtesies. No one really make a fuss from these situations (excluding some hardcore cases which may happen).

Yeah i guess its another thing if you had to ask someone to please remove their shoes, only time i remember wearing shoes inside was at some formal parties.

[Rudel]

Here everyone takes the shoes off, as far as I can say. The only occurrences when it's expected to keep your shoes on are :
- When the person is not from the house and is just staying momentarily (usually in the entrance, as the doormat is usually inside)
- When the group of person in the house is invited for some party, diner etc.

Otherwise walking around the house with shoes on is a mark of disrespect and poor manners. In my own house you'd get called out for it.

[Maleficent]

It's not a 'regular American' thing to take off your shoes inside the house, but my mom made me growing up cause she's a neat freak in that sense. And of course my dad made me cause it's tradition in his culture.

[Mark]

I do it now as an adult, but I didn't grow up doing it.

[silver_surfer]

Yes I take off shoes when I enter house. If I'm in a hurry, I walk on my knees inside. Sometimes it hurts.

[Leo Iscariot]

At somebody else's house: If they ask me to.

At my house: If you don't take off your shoes, then I'm chopping your feet off.

[Stimpy]

Here in Sweden (and in the rest of Scandinavia, I think) you always take your shoes off without exception, if someone didn't I would think there was something wrong with them.

[aimar]

I was never asked to take my shoes off when entering anyone's home for all my life (just the thought of it seems ridiculous to me, and I think people would find it very weird if I took them off by my own iniciative), even in my own home I only take them off If I'm not leaving the house until bedtime.
People have carpets at the front door, we clean them and we enter.

For people that do take their shoes off, do you walk around barefoot, only socks, socks and slippers? what about your guests?

[sudonim]

We take our shoes off indoors, but not always at the door, and use indoor shoes. And usually guests don't have to take off their shoes.

However I lived in Korea and when I was there the shoes come off when going in to someone's house, going in to traditional style floor-seating restaurants (makes sense) and also some rooms in the university student union building were shoes-off rooms. I stopped wearing tight lace up shoes very quickly.