How do people do it?

I just don't understand how people do it.  How do they get things done and not have their homes fall apart?  The only way I can see it as a possibility is if I clean to the exclusion of all other activities.  That is the only way that I can see getting all my household chores done.  When I stop to do something else such as eat, shop, sleep, the house starts to fall apart.  Animal hair reproduces itself in the corners and under the furniture.  The toys migrate from their cubbies.  Dishes spontaneously generate in the sink.  The clothing goes out without bodies to fill them, that they may soil themselves.   I am not making this up.