Okay I am actually panicking a little bit because we are moving house in literally four days and our flat in Manchester is basically an empty shell right now. We have been trying to coordinate all the essentials—kettle, toaster, some basic tools, even a shower curtain—on Amazon UK but its honestly becoming a nightmare. I have like 25 things in my basket and my girlfriend has about 15 in hers and we have no idea if we are double buying stuff or missing things entirely. Our budget is pretty strict at around 800 quid for this initial setup so we really cant afford to mess this up and deal with returns while we are busy moving boxes.
I spent like an hour googling this morning and found out about Amazon Household but honestly it looks like it is just for sharing Prime Video or Kindle books? It doesnt really say anything about a joint basket where we can both add things and see the total price together. Then I saw some people talking about a browser extension called Share-A-Cart but she uses her phone for everything and I use my laptop so I dont know if that even works across different devices or if its safe to use with our payment info. Its all very confusing and we are on a massive time crunch.
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Is there an official way to do this that I am just missing in the settings? I looked everywhere in the Lists section but sending a list seems different than a cart because you have to add everything back in one by one and that takes ages. If anyone has a workaround or a specific app that actually works for this please let me know soon because we need to hit order by tonight to get delivery by Friday morning so we have stuff when we arrive...
Honestly, Amazon is weirdly behind on this and doesnt have an official shared cart yet. Most people use the 'Manage List' setting to invite others, but its kinda slow moving stuff back to the basket. If you're in a rush tonight, maybe just screen share while you look at the items together. btw if you're shopping with others, Cart to Link lets you share your whole Amazon cart as a link — super handy for group buys
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Just saw this and honestly, I feel the moving house stress. Been there way too many times. In my experience, trying to use the official Amazon lists for a time-sensitive move is a recipe for disaster. I once ended up with two sets of pans because the sync lagged and we both thought the other hadnt added them yet. Tbh, you really want to avoid any tool that asks you to log into each others accounts or requires some dodgy browser extension on your phone, especially with your payment info saved. Its just not worth the security risk when youre already stressed. Over the years I've tried basically every workaround and what actually worked for me was using Cart to Link. It keeps everything separate but lets you see the whole basket via a single link without the mess of lists. It's way more reliable than those syncing extensions that always seem to crash on mobile. Just be careful with anything that promises a real-time 'live' basket because they rarely work as advertised. Good luck with the move to Manchester tho, hope you get it sorted by Friday!
Like someone mentioned, theres no official tool. Unfortunately, I had issues with sync extensions on mobile. Use a shared Idea List; its not as good as expected but prevents double orders.