As you probably imagine this blog (surprise, surprise) will be offering insights, information and support for anybody who is, or is thinking of, house-sitting in Australia. Although, I imagine that most of the things covered here (other than the Aussie trivia) would probably be relevant to house-sitting almost anywhere.
I’ve currently been house-sitting in and around Perth, Western Australia for almost two and a half years. We, Steve (my husband) and I, had the idea suggested to us shortly after the children left home and I’d given up work. So, after limited research (which included looking up what house-sitting was), we sold our home and almost everything we owned and became full-time house-sitters.
Our biggest concern then was where would we sleep if we didn’t have a sit, thankfully our total days of couch-surfing has been six. That’s right six nights out of two and a half years, not bad huh? Much less than I’d expected.
When we started out we travelled by car, but a year ago we thought ‘What the heck!’, sold the car and bought ourselves a couple of electric bikes and downsized once again, this time to four panniers each.
So as you can tell our life is far from predictable, or even conventional. House-sitting has allowed us a freedom and variation we’d never have had if we’d said ‘no’ to the original idea, and although we’ve come across a few challenges they are definitely outweighed by the positives. Plus, of course, we’ve been able to help out numerous families along the way. All part of the fun of it!
I’ve already started putting some articles up on the House-sitting in Australia website, and even made a couple of online courses to help, but if you’re interested in more ongoing information, please sign up and stay tuned.
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