Earlier this year we embraced putting our house on Airbnb and living a more nomadic lifestyles from May till now, moving in and out of the house and spending 5 full weeks in Europe. I’ve been keeping stats and so far this year we visited 8 countries, stayed in 12 different Airbnbs and spent about 83 days away.
It’s been very hard at times but we’ve learned so much. And this is what I keep coming back to, the learnings. Each time I don’t want to move out and want to stay in the comfort of my own home, there is something that happens and I learn a lot of from it. Or if I was in a bit of a funk before going, it resets the energy and it’s like a fresh start. It also allows us to just have a good time, there is no housework, no things to organise and we just enjoy ourselves.
The bookings we get aren’t always rosy and we have now decided to stop accepting adult only bookings because no matter how much they plan a “quiet weekend away”, alcohol gets involved and problems happen. So from now on we are only allowing intergenerational families, the grandparents, with two siblings and their families. Those are the perfect bookings. Those people are homeowners themselves and respect our home too. I was starting to doubt I wanted to carry on with this until I realised it was the types of bookings we were getting. The multi family bookings feel so good, adult only piss up weekends - not so much.
Last night the kids and I started to look over old photos from when we were about a year into living in this house. It looked so cosy and lived in and it made us feel a bit sad we are living in this bare house inbetween bookings but it is so easy to look over your life and romanticise about how great it was. I bet one day we will be looking over this time saying how boring life is and wasn’t it great when we had all those adventures. Funny how we always what the opposite of what we have. Anyway, I am winning the Omaze house draw tonight so I can have both worlds :)
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