Rugs? What rugs? Nothin but smooth, almost glassy, cement or ceramic tiles on the floor. Cucarachas are bad enough without supplying them with something else to hide in. Nope, you gotta make them suckers skate! Here in Michigan,though, I would hate not having a vacuum cleaner, but I would hate it even worse to have to wash my clothes in the Kalamazoo River in the dead of winter.