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 • 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

I got up from bed ready to set up housekeeping at Mama’s.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez