{"id":10547,"date":"2020-03-10T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apexstorageutah.com\/?p=10547"},"modified":"2020-03-02T02:02:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T02:02:22","slug":"merging-two-homes-into-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apexstorageutah.com\/merging-two-homes-into-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Merging Two Homes into One"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Two Households, Organized in Dignity: Merging Homes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, after many months of planning\u2014and plenty of false starts, false hopes, and anxiously applied false eyelashes\u2014the wedding bells (or the dizzying number of comment \u201cnotifications\u201d on Facebook after you\u2019ve finally made your relationship status official) have at last finished ringing. You\u2019ve finally stopped picking stray grains of rice from out of your hair, you\u2019ve recycled all the cans that your best man left clattering behind your car, and you\u2019ve unpacked all of your wedding gifts. You\u2019ve gotten hitched with nary a hitch, and you\u2019re ready for some well-earned peace, quiet, and relative-free serenity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The honeymoon\u2019s over, and you and your partner are now headed home. After all of the hard work and preparation, the \u201cthank you\u201d cards and the fittings, you\u2019re both prepared to complete your relationship pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance: moving in together. But\u2014as the two of you move into your new place\u2014which of your combined household <em>items<\/em> should be moving out? Read on for some tips that\u2019ll keep the integration of your two households from unraveling like the bloody end of a Shakespearean tragedy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To Thine Own Selves Be True<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Review your \u201cshared\u201d items before you move in together, and donate or ditch the rest. Look, do you really need two toasters? Two waffle makers? Four different French Presses or instant coffee makers? No, because no one does. Think of the move as an opportunity to not only consolidate your items but as a chance to reorganize and prioritize your lives. Don\u2019t think of it as \u201closing\u201d a toaster; think of it as \u201cgaining\u201d some space on your countertop.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Look at how much space you\u2019re going to need as you move in. Prioritize harmony over items. That neon sign in the living room might\u2019ve fit in well at your bachelor pad, but aesthetics change when we start living in a shared space. You don\u2019t necessarily have to give away an item that you love, but it might be more convenient to keep in a storage unit until you upgrade to a bigger space with a den.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Overall, let your current space be the deciding factor on what stays and what goes; don\u2019t let your choices get too emotional or heated. Start off on the right foot, and let what fits, sit. It\u2019s not that you don\u2019t love their&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>If you\u2019re merging your pet family, too, make sure that your pets have had plenty of play-dates before the big move. Don\u2019t let your partner\u2019s dog turn your cat into just a \u201cmemory.\u201d&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All\u2019s Well That Ends Well<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember that investing in self-storage does <em>not<\/em> mean that you\u2019re saving items \u201cin case something doesn\u2019t work out.\u201d Clarify with each other that you respect each other enough to care about the items that are important to both of you. You\u2019re prioritizing your new shared living space to make room for one another, and still safely securing the items that are meaningful to the both of you.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Households, Organized in Dignity: Merging Homes So, after many months of planning\u2014and plenty of false starts, false hopes, and anxiously applied false eyelashes\u2014the wedding bells (or the dizzying number of comment \u201cnotifications\u201d on Facebook after you\u2019ve finally made your relationship status official) have at last finished ringing. You\u2019ve finally stopped picking stray grains of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexstorageutah.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexstorageutah.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexstorageutah.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexstorageutah.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexstorageutah.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apexstorageutah.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexstorageutah.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexstorageutah.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexstorageutah.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexstorageutah.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}