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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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A couple of puppeteers and jugglers from Madrid dreaming “out of the box” to create a house sitting lifestyle. In 2011 we created the puppet and circus company Naranjarte, and performed around Spain and all over Europe for six years.…
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Our Workaway and House Sit Adventures in the UK My husband and I are academia dropouts. We retired from teaching at Tarleton State University in Texas in May 2017, sold our house and most of our stuff, put the remnants…
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What You Need To Know When House Sitting With Chickens Have you noticed how many people are keeping chickens these days? A house sit almost anywhere in the world could have 3 or 4 laying chickens that fall under your…
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We’ve been house sitting in Ireland for a few years now and have spent the past 3 Christmas seasons in Dublin, Donegal and Belfast. Celebrating Christmas in another country is a wonderful way to immerse yourself in another culture or…