set up housekeeping

Idioms  

1. Move in together, as in Couples today often set up housekeeping long before they marry. [Mid-1800s]

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Example Sentences

Exactly who set up housekeeping there in the earliest days isn’t 100% clear, says historian David Buerge, author of “Chief Seattle and the Town that Took His Name.”

From Seattle Times

“Every negro woman wants to set up housekeeping,” wrote a disdainful white resident of upcountry Georgia.

From Seattle Times

It was also where Dennis Montgomery had set up housekeeping.

From Salon

Of the 22 adults among the pobladores, the first settlers, who set up housekeeping and created Los Angeles in 1781, 10 had African ancestry.

From Los Angeles Times

I got an early start, having set up housekeeping at 18, delving into the kitchen arts as a way of killing time during the cold winter months, when — in the East Coast resort town where I lived — winter work was scarce and bread bakeries nonexistent.

From Seattle Times