Off. It’s an old courtesy, from when working class people entered homes and didn’t want to trek in the mud, dirt, and crap from the nasty streets and fields.
How come I track dirt into the house, but don’t track any out?
On. My dogs track in more from the outside than I do. And I have tile floors. But mostly, when growing up, no one we knew would ever take shoes off when entering a home. After all, most of us owned cars and lived in neighborhoods with sidewalks.
“Off. It’s an old courtesy, from when working class people entered homes and didn’t want to trek in the mud, dirt, and crap from the nasty streets and fields.”
And plastic covers on the furniture.
And, today it is an affectation of the social climbers and noses-in-the-air bunch. Rich folk don’t care if you bring in dirt, they can get it cleaned. Poor and middle class don’t care since they are not obsessed with sterility and know how to deal with dirt.
It is only the ones who hate what they are and think if they pretend they are better someone might be stupid enough to agree with them.
I do not revisit a house (not a home, house) that makes me undress to enter.