set up housekeeping
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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 • Oct. 9, 2022
It was also where Dennis Montgomery had set up housekeeping.
From Salon • Sep. 3, 2021
He continued: “And they set up housekeeping — Peter in his apartment on the seventh floor and Greta in her apartment on the ninth floor, to the lasting confusion of the fellow in between.”
From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2016
What’s turning small fires into raging infernos is a stew of ingredients that includes government fire-fighting policies and the continued push by millions of people to set up housekeeping on the edge of national forests.
From National Geographic • Aug. 9, 2015
But always two or three stayed and set up housekeeping in the doorway.
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
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