Walking aroud the house in your mucky boots

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Ok hands up, who walks around the house in their dirty riding boots?

Who is committing this serious crime, breaking their own rules?, admittedly you'd be the first to jump down your OH's throat and beat him with your rolling pin if he so much as stepped through that front door in his mucky stinky oil ridden rigger boots yet we happen to just forget something and while the he's out, you sneakily look around to check their not in...knowing full well there not
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and tip toe back upstairs leaving a trail of the contents of last nights stable on your nice cream carpet, some how because your tip toeing you seem to think your 3 stone lighter and that you won't mark the carpet becuase your walking on air!

The dog/partner/kids could do this and you'd play hell but because its well...horse related and your too lazy unzip/buckle and retuck, then its forgivable sin
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....just wondered if I'm the only one thats all.
 
Have you been watching me?! Cos that's exactly what I do, and of course I tiptoe so I am 3 stone lighter and hardly leave any marks at all, other than the mud, woodchips and bits of hay
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But woe betide teenage daughter if she stomps upstairs in her muddy boots and chaps - but then again, she doesn't do the hoovering!
 
Looking round my house, I think the horses come in as well
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Funny, I always change into my slippers, even though the house is hardly immaculate, but then I go to the log shed and across the yard to the stables in my slippers so they are just as mucky as my boots!
 
As I'm sitting typing this in my wellies have to put my hand up
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. But no OH and its me who clears up the mess so what the heck. And with 2 muddy GSDs in the house I probably need my wellies on
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Yeah but if you do mange to do it with actually leaving any marks, then that feeling of acheivement is..well its like you had a double clear
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its a proud moment!
 
OMG that is so me, and the cream carpet (which I will NEVER buy again) I try to tip toe too but it doesnt work so i remove one boot, rub sock over carpet to disperse mud, and boot goes back on, no wonder my hoover looks like it as competed at blenheim, and my carpet has to be vaxed twice a year!! eek!
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I come and go in my wellies but as I live on the yard/farm and have two stinky mutts we come and go through the back door which goes straight into the boot/utility room and into the kitchen which is all lino - so easy to clean!!
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No need to go past the kitchen as only ever pop in for a cuppa or hot water to wash said neds!!
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Im soooo quilty of this, just dont tell my OH, i blame the cats
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cats?! now you really are scraping the bottom of the barrel...cats? what type of cats are they, tigers or something!
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I'm a bit of a clean freak. LOL
I have to keep my house clean. It's my one sanctuary. I wont even get in my car in mucky boots. The thing I hate most is seeing people whose trousers are dragging through sloppy mud on the yard, and even worse is when they walk up the muck heap and their trousers drag along. It makes my skin crawl.
 
Ditto papafrita.

All shoes/boots come off at the door, and just inside the door lives my pair of crocs (blue however, not pink) ready to take over and save what's left of my threadbare carpet.
 
I did once.
I left a trail of poo on our new wooden floor, up the cream carpet on the stairs, into my room (also cream carpet) and back down the stairs.
My mother was stood there, looking ferociously angered as I looked at bit of straw and poo littered up the stairs, my eyes finally settling on a big trodden in patch of shite.
In that instance, I was deafened, and I didn't get to see the ponies for a week
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My boots are now cleaned at the back door, and I haven't done it since.
Well, once, but I made sure I knew where the carpet cleaner was first!
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hmmm are you horses on shavings?

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No wood pellets and one is on flax.
We all got into the habit of doing it after I was always moaning about mud all over the laminate or carpets!
Bad enough cleaning up after 4 cats and 2 dogs in the house with muddy paws!
Our soil is clay so the mud here really is horrid sticky mud!
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Right so its fair to say we have a pretty even divide so far, those of us who just have a dustpan and brush under the sink cupboard and those of us that have a sh*t shovel and a yard brush hanging from the coat rail
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This is why I love being in a rented house (with old dark carpets!) at uni...back home muddy boots stay in a bucket in the back garden, and stable clothes come straight off in the kitchen thanks to my OCD mum
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No I always had to take my boots off at the front door. But I got new boots that I cleaned before I got picked up so walked straight through, we have laminate flooring aswell so if in doubt I can just quickly clean it before mum sees lol. Upstairs is a defo no no, cream carpets not a good mix.
 
I wander into the the house with muddy boots. My husband is the one who carefully changes into his slippers, crosses the the room (one step) to the table, steps back, then changes back into his wellies to go outside again. It irritates the heck out of me, we have no carpets because I can't ever feel they're properly clean but my stone floors are so easy to get clean - if I want to get them muddy then hell, I'll get them muddy.
 
No boots or shoes allowed past the kitchen with its tiled floor. Or murder will be committed. I sweep like mad and wash the bottom of slippers to make sure no bits pass through onto the carpets. I had the whole house re-done last November and am still very possessive of my floors.
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