Moving Back Home? Here are 5 Tips to Help

It happens. After being away from home for work, university or maybe just a gap year in another country, it’s time to move back into your parent’s house. While you may not be excited to go back to living with mom and dad, they may feel the exact same way, so here are some things you should keep in mind.

How to Move Back Home

It’s a Privilege

Don’t take moving back in with your parents for granted. It’s important to realize that your family is doing you a favour, and you should be grateful for them taking you back in without charging you (hopefully).

Have an Exit Strategy

One way to show your parents this is just a temporary situation is to have an exit strategy. If you are not employed, you should begin looking for a job immediately and assure your parents that you are doing your best to try and move out so they can have their privacy back.

Help Out

Just because you’re classified as an adult now doesn’t mean you don’t have any obligations to help out at home. The chores you had to do when you were 17 might still apply when you’re 24 and if they don’t, you should make an effort to help around the house.

Be Respectful

The shoes you used to carelessly kick off at the door, the dishes you used to leave in the sink and the areas you left a mess after using; those are a thing of the past. Respecting your parent’s home is key to having a good relationship with your folks when moving back home.

Only Bring So Much

Your old house probably has a lot of things still around that you grew up with. When moving back home, it’s important to realize you can’t bring a truckload of your things and take up a ton of space. Part of being respectful is to realize your parents likely made adjustments after you left home and like the way everything is set up. You don’t need to bring your whole living room set and put it in the guest bedroom. Throw anything big in your garage if you have one or a storage facility for the mean time so you don’t overwhelm your new roommates.

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Mike Olsen

18:58 16 Oct 19

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Dave Shirlaw

01:54 10 Jun 19

Have to phone to have buildings unlocked. Annoying.

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23:06 21 May 19

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01:04 25 Sep 18

Prices are 1/2 the price of other storage units but it shuts down (locked gates) from 10 am - 6 pm except if you have the enormous ground level outside facing units. Those hours are impossible. The technology getting items up to the second story is an actual forklift thats made stationary. You balance your items up the forklift (and you raise the wooden pallet up yourself) Then you must walk up stairs and hope their is a dolly available to wind precariously around tiny turning hallways. Budget carpentry and ancient carpet in the units. The trolleys sound and feel like their from 1980's and are either coached to disobey or they keep their own counsel. They say its secure but I had a neighbor pick something up and they weren't even asked for permission. I explicitly stated only I was to have access. They said they do not let it happen. The locks are your own, but the flip closure is attached by 3/4 wood screws easily and possibly quite quietly could be opened and emptied with no one batting an eye. A kid could detach it with anything. They have "24 hour security" which means a guy lives on site. Does he/she have CCTV access? Probably not, nor would you want that job. Are there motion sensors? Not likely as sometimes the lights won't turn on and finding a switch in the straggly wandering corridors is impossible. They do not offer insurance. You have to sign forms saying all the things you will and won't do, but they are not liable if anything happens: theft, fire, water, vandals, pests etcSo despite all those complaints, its still 4/5 only because of the prices.