House cleaning thoughts

The Never-ending Story isn't a child's fairy tale....it's house cleaning. With 2 kids, 2 dogs, 3 cats and an Ol' Man, it just doesn't end. Laundry, dusting, vacuuming, dishes, shopping, cooking....I wonder what it was like back in the day when you had dirt floors. No vacuuming there...and I wonder if they worried about dust? I should imagine a 1 or 2 room house didn't have a whole lot of shelve space to collect dust. I did a tour through a colonial house one time, and they showed the table set with the dishes upside down. The explained that there wasn't any shelf space to put dishes away, and they turned them upside down on the table to keep the dust out. Sounds good to me.