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  • Housesitting

    Discount Code for Trusted Housesitters: Get 25% Off

    February 21, 2025 /

    Use JESS25 as the discount code for Trusted Housesitters to get 25% the annual membership price! Trusted Housesitters is my go to site for finding housesitting gigs! I’ve used it since 2022 and have done over 25 sits in 5 different countries since. Housesitting is where you essentially move into someone’s home to take care of the house and any pets whilst they are away. Typically the housesits listed on Trusted Housesitters include pets and your primary responsibility is to look after them. The process is as easy as joining the site, picking and paying for the membership you want and then you can start applying for housesits. Memberships range…

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    Three Years of Housesitting and These Are My Top 6!

    February 20, 2025 /

    I will forever be grateful for the random youtube advert I saw years ago about Trusted Housesitters! Housesitting is hands down my favourite budget travel hack and one of the best ways to visit a new place. Not only do you get “free” accommodation and get to play with super cute pets but you get a true local experience of a place. An all round win! I have been housesitting since September 2022 and since then I’ve done 25+ sits in 5 different countries. Truly putting my £149 membership fee to good use. {Disclaimer: This post may contain affiliate links which means I may earn a small commission if you…

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  • Housesitting,  Travel Spending Diaries

    Travel Spending Diary: House Sitting in NYC for 10 Days

    November 9, 2024 /

    This summer I landed my dream housesit – 10 days house sitting in NYC! I’ve literally been looking (and hoping) for this sort of sit since I started housesitting in 2022. And in September 2024 it came true. {Disclaimer – this post includes affiliate links which means I may earn a commission if you follow a link and make a purchase. This comes at no extra cost to you} I was browsing Trusted Housesitters one afternoon at camp out of boredom more than anything else. And I saw this sit in Queens, NY. The dates worked perfectly into my 30-day visa grace period so I thought, “what do I have…

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    How Does Trusted Housesitters Work? – The Entire Process

    September 19, 2023 /

    Trusted Housesitters is a site I found by chance one day whilst watching a random youtube vlog. It was so long ago that I can’t for the life of me even remember which or whose vlog it was. But I am SO thankful that I found it!! So how does Trusted Housesitters work? This post will explain the process from start to finish! After verifying that the site was legit, I stalked it for a couple years before investing in a membership. This was mostly down to one of the requirements being that you must be 21 and I wasn’t at the time, plus I was still at uni so…

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  • Travel Spending Diaries

    How Much I Spent Travelling the USA for 3 Months

    February 7, 2023 /

    After years and years of dreaming about travelling the USA, I finally went and did it!! I just spent almost three months following housesits across the country and pretending to live in a bunch of different cities. It was amazing!! Disclaimer – This post contains affiliate links which means I may earn an commission if you follow them. This is at no extra cost to you <3 Where did I go, you ask? Whilst in the planning phase for this trip, I made the decision to follow wherever the housesits took me. This meant I would get free accommodation for most of the trip but it didn’t leave me a…

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  • Travel Spending Diaries

    How Much I Spent Travelling The UK For 2 Months

    January 28, 2023 /

    I took the first 72 days of my gap year slowly and spent half my time housesitting across my home country and the rest spending quality time with friends and family. My schedule was so jam packed throughout my entire last year of uni so this was a perfect way to slow down. It was also a great way to begin travelling as I never more than 3 hours away from my base incase something went wrong plus I’d never been on an extended solo trip so I wanted to do a test run in a country I am very familiar with. Housesitting in the UK took me to places…

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    Complete Guide To Housesitting

    January 25, 2023 /

    I have been housesitting almost full time for the last four months and whenever I mention it I always get a tonne of questions. Trust me, I was exactly the same when I first heard about it. Like, you can stay in someones house while their away for free? Crazy!! Disclaimer: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links meaning if you go through them to make a purchase I may earn a commission. This comes at no extra cost to you <3 In the past four months I have spent a week in Chicago, a month in Seattle, two 5-day stays in Portland, a week in Cambridge…

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    £5k Budget Breakdown – October 2022

    November 8, 2022 /

    Well, October has been a spenny month! Only two months into my year-long gap year and I have already spent over 20% of my £5k budget. Just writing that percentage down is a little panic inducing BUT surprisingly my projections have me still in budget! New here? Let me give you a little context... I have just graduated from uni and have chosen to take a gap year before deciding what to do next, career wise. I will be spending the entire year travelling and have set myself a strict £5k budget which needs to cover all costs and last the entire year! Seem a little tight? Check out this…

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  • Housesitting

    Tips To Secure Sits on Trusted Housesitters

    July 26, 2022 /

    In the 50 days since I joined Trusted Housesitters, I have applied for 33 sits, had 4 zoom calls, been rejected 12 times, been ghosted more times than I can count, withdrew 7 applications and finally I have secured my first international housesit! I’ve actually got two 🎉 Disclaimer – This post contains some affiliate links meaning that I may receive a commission if you use them. This comes at no extra cost to you <3 Words cannot describe how excited I am that my plans are finally coming together – one piece of the puzzle at a time.  Whilst, I have only just secured my first international sit, I’ve already…

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Hi I’m Jess, the one woman show behind The Frugal Explorer!

I am obsessed with finding the weird and wonderful ways to make money online, stretching that money as far as it’ll go and travelling on a budget.

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