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What was before vacuum cleaner?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Before vacuum cleaners, floors needed to be swept with brooms to remain clean. Most often, instead of carpet installed in the home, people would buy rugs which could easily be taken outside to shake out dust, or clean with water. Wooden and tile flooring was also much more common.

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