# Setting Up Home - what do I need? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 14, 2004, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/setting-up-home-what-do-i-need/274755 "2004-11-14T20:32:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/setting-up-home-what-do-i-need/274755/21 "2004-11-15T21:09:08Z")
> [@BoringDad](#): > > Help an American… What is a powerboard? > > And a house isn’t a home if you don’t have a sledgehammer! What do you need it for? Well, you just never know when something will need smashing. I’m not **Kayeby** , but (in Australia at least) a powerboard is a electrical adaptor that lets you plus four or more electrical devices into one household power socket. ---
**Author:** ![Kakofonous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9a140/32.png) [@Kakofonous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kakofonous)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/setting-up-home-what-do-i-need/274755/22 "2004-11-15T21:57:11Z")
> [@mnemosyne](#): > > Shower curtain! Nothing worse than moving in all the boxes, unpacking, going to wash up at the end of the day and discovering you can’t take a shower without hosing down the washroom! And shower curtain rings. Shelf liner / contact paper can be useful when moving into slightly-dodgy-but-perfectly-adequate apartments. A box of baking soda for the fridge, too. ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/setting-up-home-what-do-i-need/274755/23 "2004-11-15T22:11:50Z")
If you can find a free evening before you move, and you are moving into a neighborhood you haven’t lived in before, try and find the grocerystore, the gas station, the bus lines, maybe a good restaurant… It can make that first could of weeks easier if you know where to get milk and bread. ---
**Author:** ![Fanny\_May](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3be4f8/32.png) [@Fanny\_May](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fanny_May)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/setting-up-home-what-do-i-need/274755/24 "2004-11-15T22:27:54Z")
This is one of those “problems” that answers itself in the first day or two. Whatever you already own can carry you that long. (Just pretend you are in a hotel and you can do without anything.) After that a trip to the store does it. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/setting-up-home-what-do-i-need/274755/25 "2004-11-15T23:59:23Z")
Don’t move in on the weekend. If you move in on a weekday, it will be much easier to buy what you’ve forgotten. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/setting-up-home-what-do-i-need/274755/26 "2004-11-16T00:06:20Z")
Oh, oh, oh, the most important one, for which I’ve cursed myself every time I’ve moved: Somebody at some point in the move or the subsequent building-and-doing-things will slice a finger open. Have a few first aid things handy. It’s not amusing to be bleeding all over a rented carpet floor while somebody rummages through boxes for a few tissues… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/setting-up-home-what-do-i-need/274755.md?page=1)