An introduction to international house sitting If you’ve been house sitting locally, you might now be keen to broaden your horizons, but perhaps aren’t quite sure how to get started in the international house sitting scene (international in as much…

Over the past four years of full-time house sitting, we are asked repeatedly by home owners and new house sitters, which house sitting websites we recommend. With more and more house sitting sites popping up all the time, how exactly…

A Fair Exchange – House Sitting Holidays House sitting offers a travel alternative, not only for full-time nomads and retirees, but also for those wanting to experience a different kind of vacation – a more immersive break, where you give…

Have you wondered about options for volunteering in Chiang Mai, Thailand? Whether you are house sitting in Chiang Mai or planning to travel there soon, you’ll discover many ways to fill your time on, or between your house sits. International…

What’s it really like to be a traveling house sitter? Having been full-time traveling house sitters for almost 4 years, and part-time for even longer, we can genuinely claim to have experienced a wide variety of house sits, in different…

We’ve been noticing that more and more people are asking us questions about getting started as a house sitter, or how to use sitters to care for their homes and pets. But for sitters specifically, the conversation often includes worries…

What do we mean by the word “trust”? And why does it matter so much online and especially in house sitting? As a the owner of the house sitting platform, HouseSitMatch.com, I feel bound to facilitate the growth of trust…

Breaking away from the rat race takes courage. It takes the same courage that it took to break into it in the first place. Think back to your childhood when life was one big adventure. In our early years, most…

What would you give to be happy and free? What does that even mean? Well, for us it meant freedom from the hum-drum routine of running a business, going to work, maintaining a home and living a materialistic life, full…

When winter holiday travel is at stake, airports and air travel often receive most of the attention. However, the truth is that most people who travel during winter, simply pack up their luggage in cars and drive to their desired…