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The house I grew up in had a no-shoes policy for a couple reasons: keeping the house clean AND very white carpeting upstairs. So at the very least we could never wear shoes upstairs. After moving out of that house, I've never had a shoes-off policy and never thought I would.

But -- the place I live in now has hardwood floors and it just seems to get so dirty with shoes on -- shoes on the floor, carpets, on furniture, etc. Now that I'm expecting a baby in a month, I think I'm ok with the shoes-off thing since the baby will be crawling around on the floor and I don't want to have to worry about germs that might be on the bottom of shoes. For guests (since we don't have many), I think it will be ok for them to leave their shoes on since the baby probably won't be crawling around when guests are here.