re: Controversial topic: do you wear shoes inside your home or do you leave them outside?

Usually put them on while sitting on the bay window and leave them next to where I sit when taking them off. Always a transition from flip flops I wear around the house (only go barefoot in the upper tri-level/bedrooms.) If I'm coming in wearing boots it's in the sun room which is where we enter from the garage.

I roll my eyes at people who get all worked up over taking 1 step (even with relativity clean tennis shoes) into a living room. My maternal grandma was that way and it drove me nuts.

If your shoes are obviously muddy, dirty, or wet. It makes sense to take your shoes off at the door. But taking your shoes off at the door otherwise just because is entirely pointless to me.